Gee, If I Didn't Know Better

Gee, if I didn't know better, I'd almost think this was an orchestrated event. You know, okay, everyone be sure and write a headline with Sarah Palin and "John Birch," or "Bircher" in it.

Problem is, it's already been debunked. That was quick.

Comments

[Fred Beloit]

Cripes they'll try anything won't they?. This is one scary piece up at Pajamas Media.
http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/justice-department-vs-republicans/
If this is accurate, it looks like more DOJ lawyers need to be fired by Bush immediately.

[JLawson]

Decades ago I had a subscription to Soldier of Fortune magazine.

Guess that should mean I'm a gung-ho mercenary type, looking to slaughter people wholesale, eh?

Also had a subscription to Mother Jones - so I'm a sprout-eating, Birkenstock wearing progressive type, right?

Folks read way too much into trivia like this.

[seekeronos]

The JBS'ers (John Birchers) really ain't that radical.

That is, unless you consider ideas like us maintaining our national sovereignty, or keeping the government on a very short financial leash, or keeping our feet on the throats of leftist, socialist operatives "radical".

They just want the federal government to reside in its proper sphere, be kept small and well within budget, and looking after the interests of the American public as opposed to globalist interests.

And the knock with this article in the _American Opinion_ (the predecessor to _New American_ magazine) is that it actually argued *against* convening a "Con-Con" (Constitutional Convention). Even for amending the Constitution for a Federal Balanced Budget Amendment, which would be quite welcomed in this era of $4 TRILLION dollar bailouts, and $4 TRILLION dollar internationalist wars.

Unbelievable how in the space of a week, we've nearly increased our national debt by half again.

[Gringo]

I read the American Opinion, the Bircher magazine, at the local university library, until funding cuts resulted in the library's canceling the subscription, in order to be exposed to a wide variety of views. I also read Nation and Monthly Review, at the other end of the spectrum.

[Jason]

Palin is a ridiculous joke foisted on the American people by a political organization whose leadership should be in jail for criminal malfeasance in office, abrogating the rights of Americans unilaterally, and sexually abusing children. That said, having a Birch mag laying around the office or home doesn't make anyone a Bircher/Extremist anymore than having Sports Illustrated in your home or office makes you an athlete. Birchers used to send their propaganda to the dean of students' office at my college.

[seekeronos]

Jason, you sound like quite the lefty disciple.

Welcome to RWV, from Kos-ville or where you hail from.

...Oh, and that whole screed about "criminal malfeasance in office, abrogating rights, etc. etc. ?

Here's a helpful hint: On any given issue, a certain number of the Democrats went along with the show, and from 2006, they've been the ringleaders in both corruption and malfeasance.

And as a "Bircher" myself, I hardly think that our ideas are hardly "extremist". We want to preserve this constitutional, representative republic... not replace it with a socialist regime as some of you O-bots do.

[seekeronos]

EDIT: Oops. Strike one of those "hardly's" from my last sentence.

[Bel Aire]

Damn, Jason. It's your party that has enshrined bribery and obstruction of justice as no big deal for a President to engage in. And you fancy yourself the law and order party?

[Bandit]

Jason - get back to your Psych 101 studies. Oh and call Rep. Rangel and ask his to resign.