Liberty Lobby
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Despite their name and their office near Capitol Hill in [[Washington, D.C.]] they did little if any actual lobbying. They did play a possible role in [[Lyndon LaRouche]]'s abandonment of [[Marxism]] for his own unique brand of wingnuttery when Liberty Lobby began promoting LaRouche writings to their right-wing audience starting in 1976. | Despite their name and their office near Capitol Hill in [[Washington, D.C.]] they did little if any actual lobbying. They did play a possible role in [[Lyndon LaRouche]]'s abandonment of [[Marxism]] for his own unique brand of wingnuttery when Liberty Lobby began promoting LaRouche writings to their right-wing audience starting in 1976. | ||
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Their biggest influence came about because of their newspaper. From 1975 to 2001 they published the weekly newspaper ''The Spotlight'' which was a notable source of [[New World Order]] conspiracy theories, [[Satanic Panic]] hysteria, [[John F. Kennedy]] assassination conspiracy theories, promotion of [[quack]] alternative health remedies from [[Laetrile]] to [[shark cartilage]] to [[chelation therapy]], slanted reporting on Middle East affairs that critics charged was [[anti-Semitism|anti-Semitic]], obsessive reporting on fringe presidential candidates "ignored by the controlled media" like David Duke and Lyndon LaRouche, "history" pieces on [[World War II]] arguing that the [[Axis]] was really just an innocent coalition against [[Communism]] and [[Hitler]] really wasn't such a bad guy, articles defending [[Scientology]] against its critics, articles defending third world dictators like Ferdinand Marcos of the Phillipines and [[Manuel Noriega]] of [[Panama]], and conspiracy-laden reporting on the [[Bilderberg]] group and the [[Trilateral Commission]]. They also took a special interest in investigative reporting on political and corporate scandals involving people who for some reason were almost all [[Jewish]]. | Their biggest influence came about because of their newspaper. From 1975 to 2001 they published the weekly newspaper ''The Spotlight'' which was a notable source of [[New World Order]] conspiracy theories, [[Satanic Panic]] hysteria, [[John F. Kennedy]] assassination conspiracy theories, promotion of [[quack]] alternative health remedies from [[Laetrile]] to [[shark cartilage]] to [[chelation therapy]], slanted reporting on Middle East affairs that critics charged was [[anti-Semitism|anti-Semitic]], obsessive reporting on fringe presidential candidates "ignored by the controlled media" like David Duke and Lyndon LaRouche, "history" pieces on [[World War II]] arguing that the [[Axis]] was really just an innocent coalition against [[Communism]] and [[Hitler]] really wasn't such a bad guy, articles defending [[Scientology]] against its critics, articles defending third world dictators like Ferdinand Marcos of the Phillipines and [[Manuel Noriega]] of [[Panama]], and conspiracy-laden reporting on the [[Bilderberg]] group and the [[Trilateral Commission]]. They also took a special interest in investigative reporting on political and corporate scandals involving people who for some reason were almost all [[Jewish]]. | ||
Revision as of 11:56, 12 March 2008
Liberty Lobby was a right-wing U.S. group founded c. 1955 by Willis Carto, and defunct as of 2001 due to a lawsuit brought against them by the Holocaust denial group the "Institute for Historical Review" (also founded by Willis Carto). Liberty Lobby functioned as a smaller, sort of "bad boy" alternative on the hard right to the John Birch Society, openly courting anti-Semites and promoting "controversial issues" which the Birchers kept at arms length, read: every imaginable crank issue in the book. If it was lunatic fringe, Liberty Lobby believed it or at least wanted you, the open-minded, intelligent American who doesn't believe the Establishment and their controlled media the sucker lacking in critical thinking skills, to believe in it even if deep inside they really didn't.
Despite their name and their office near Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. they did little if any actual lobbying. They did play a possible role in Lyndon LaRouche's abandonment of Marxism for his own unique brand of wingnuttery when Liberty Lobby began promoting LaRouche writings to their right-wing audience starting in 1976.
The Weekly World News of the Right
Their biggest influence came about because of their newspaper. From 1975 to 2001 they published the weekly newspaper The Spotlight which was a notable source of New World Order conspiracy theories, Satanic Panic hysteria, John F. Kennedy assassination conspiracy theories, promotion of quack alternative health remedies from Laetrile to shark cartilage to chelation therapy, slanted reporting on Middle East affairs that critics charged was anti-Semitic, obsessive reporting on fringe presidential candidates "ignored by the controlled media" like David Duke and Lyndon LaRouche, "history" pieces on World War II arguing that the Axis was really just an innocent coalition against Communism and Hitler really wasn't such a bad guy, articles defending Scientology against its critics, articles defending third world dictators like Ferdinand Marcos of the Phillipines and Manuel Noriega of Panama, and conspiracy-laden reporting on the Bilderberg group and the Trilateral Commission. They also took a special interest in investigative reporting on political and corporate scandals involving people who for some reason were almost all Jewish.
The talk radio show "Radio Free America" during the 1990s, hosted by Tom Valentine, was sponsored by The Spotlight and covered those same issues, with the added bonus of gallons of pseudoscience and science woo which Valentine (author of such books as The Great Pyramid: Man's Monument To Man) is a fan of.
American Free Press
The weekly American Free Press which is a significant source of 9/11 conspiracy theories and cited as a source by the 9/11 conspiracy film Loose Change is a successor newspaper to The Spotlight founded in 2001 by former staffers. Their staffers include Eustace Mullins.