Tuesday, August 14, 2018

David Brock is a public danger

THE HUNTING OF A PRESIDENT.  Anybody remember that?  We were appalled by what was done to Bill Clinton.  Mostly, we were appalled – and still are – by the fact that there was an organized plan to take down a sitting president.    An organized plan – aka a conspiracy.
 
Though the BBC can report on the efforts – the conspiracy -- to take down FDR, the American press has largely played dumb all these years.  (It is playing, right?)  One exception?  NPR.
 

 
 
 
GUY RAZ, HOST:
It's WEEKENDS on ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News. I'm Guy Raz. In 1933, Senator Henry D. Hatfield, a Republican from West Virginia, wrote a letter to a friend complaining about President Franklin Roosevelt.
SALLY DENTON: (Reading) This is despotism, this is tyranny, this is the annihilation of liberty. The ordinary American is thus reduced to the status of a robot. The president has not merely signed the death warrant of capitalism but has ordained the mutilation of the Constitution, unless the friends of liberty, regardless of party, band themselves together to regain their lost freedom.
RAZ: When Sally Denton came across that letter, it sounded amazingly contemporary. So she dug further and came across a whole series of attacks and even plots against FDR. She's written about it in a new book called "The Plots Against the President," and the story begins just weeks before Roosevelt's inauguration in 1933. It was one of the darkest moments of the Depression and many people in America were calling for a dictator to get the country back on track.
DENTON: Unemployment is skyrocketing. The country is rocking precariously economically in all ways. And it's hard for us today to realize that in 1933 the country was reeling. There were suggestions that capitalism was not working, that democracy was not working. Various intellectuals, and I mean not crackpots, were really considering the possibility of fascism, of communism, of socialism, of Nazism. The whole country was in play.
RAZ: We often hear about the times just before President Kennedy was killed and how he was really vilified by his opponents. And some people suggest that that is what led to his assassination, that climate. You describe an almost similar climate in the early 1930s, 1933, that surrounded Roosevelt. Talk about some of the people who were sort of vitriolically opposed to him and what they said about him.
DENTON: As I was writing this book, sometimes I felt like I could close my eyes and just transpose, you know, modern day vitriol to what was happening. There was a sense that Roosevelt was radically changing the relationship between the government and the governed, and there was great fear about that in many quarters, both the right and the left.
So you had these enemies like Father Coughlin on the right who was concerned that he was becoming a communist, a tool of Jewish monied interests, then Huey Long on the left who felt that he wasn't going far enough to redistribute the wealth. And then you had, you know, right wing reactionary veteran's organizations. You had Wall Street interests.
RAZ: It's interesting because there was really genuinely a conspiracy at a certain point to overthrow the Roosevelt administration, to replace it with a kind of a crypto-fascist movement, and this was - the people behind it were mostly financiers, bankers, part of a group called The American Liberty League. Who were they?
DENTON: Well, they were some of the wealthiest people in America. I think the handful of people that were really behind the Liberty League controlled assets worth more than $40 billion.
RAZ: They thought he was a socialist or even worse.
DENTON: They thought he was a socialist, I don't know. A lot of times, it was unclear whether or not they were able to even distinguish between what a socialist was or a communist or - there was just this sense that he was upsetting the status quo.
RAZ: These bankers were behind something that became known as the Wall Street Putsch. What was their plan?
DENTON: They thought that they could convince Roosevelt - because he was of their class, the patrician class, they thought that they could convince Roosevelt to relinquish power to basically a fascist, military-type government. It was a cockamamie concept. And the fact that it even got as far as it did is pretty shocking.
RAZ: How far did it get?
DENTON: It got far enough so that they had at least $3 million invested and claimed to have up to $300 million at the ready. They appealed to a general, a retired general, to lead it. And had he been a different kind of person, it might have gone a lot further. But he saw it as treason and reported it to Congress.
 
 
 
That was a conspiracy.  It was also the t-word.  We don’t like to toss the word around lightly.  It’s a serious term and, if found guilty of treason, you can be put to death.  The organized efforts to take down Bill Clinton strike us the same way.

Flowers
 
Which brings us today.  Zack Haller has linked to a document by MEDIA MATTERS.  This is a document which, whether they realized it or not, documents an organized conspiracy to take down Donald Trump.
 
Let’s clarify terms here.  Reporters pursuing a story?  Not a conspiracy.  That’s true of, for example, Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward pursuing the Watergate story.  Yes, Richard Nixon felt like it was they’re-out-to-get-me.  But the reality is that they were covering a story and investigating it.  Yes, it could damage him.  But that’s too damn bad.  His actions were being investigated.  His actions.  What he elected to do.  As for what happens, the chips fall where they may.
 
Reporters investigating a lead are not committing treason even if the results could oust a president.
 
Most of the time.
 
See, we’re coming back to what was done to Bill Clinton.  Anyone acting independently or on behalf of their news organization has nothing to worry about.
 
But there was ‘reporter’ (piece of human filth) David Brock.
 
He was not a reporter.  He was part of a conspiracy working to unseat Bill Clinton.  He was a well known liar (who should rot in hell for the way he lied about Anita Hill).  He should have been prosecuted along with the other media ‘elves’ who were part of a conspiracy to take down Bill Clinton.  


Instead, he's been allowed to bring his trashy ways over to the left.
 
And we’ve been the worse for it -- and day after day, he makes us even worse.
 
He was supposedly going to teach us how to fight.
 
We didn’t need the ridiculous David Brock to know how to fight.
 
All he’s taught is destructive deception.  He’s taught how to lie and how to cheat.  He plays dirty because he’s nothing but s**t.  He oozes around the left and we all get a little more disgusting and a little more dirty just by interacting with him.
 
 That document Zach Haller’s linked to?
 
It’s a plan to destroy a sitting president.
 
Now there is no reason for anyone – pro or anti-war – to support someone’s war.  There’s no reason to support someone’s EPA policy or whatever. 
 
But there’s a world of difference between that and what the document outlines.
 
It is a plan for every day to destroy a sitting president, every day to create an outrage.  It is a plan for those who are on the George Soros payroll – THE NATION, MOTHER JONES, etc – to gin up outrage day after damn day.
 
The document declares of one section (American Bridge): “American Bridge is the Democratic epicenter of opposition research and rapid response in presidential and Senate elections.  In the Trump era, there must be no ‘off years.’ American Bridge will sustain a nonstop campaign against Trump, his administration, and Republicans who enable him.”
 

"A nonstop campaign against" a sitting president.

Getting why we're bothered?  Getting why David Brock's actions cause us to raise our eyebrows?

This isn't journalism.


It is a conspiracy and it is prosectuable.



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