Sometime last spring I started noticing anti-McCain rhetoric from militia/patriot/constitutionalist types on websites and e-lists I monitor. If folks are interested, I'll send off list, the stuff I've found. Esp. a great graphic with McCain pix with a red slash through it, and the he's a Manchurian Candidate tag underneath. I missed the campaign appearence on CSPAN, etc. where Dubya Bush had the "fringe veteran" (as John called him at the Larry King debate last week) in South Carolina who has that line. Am I being an optimist to think that the GOP wings are doing what Democrats used to love to do- i.e. the circular firing squad routine?
Michael Pugliese
P.S. Charles and other conspiracy theory buffs should like this press release I just got on George Bush and George de Mohrenschildt. It follows the Washington Post story. And Tom Edsell has some great work, btw, check out his book, "The Rising Politics of Inequality, " he also ran a few pieces on Trent Lott's links to the Council of Conservative Citizens. Betcha those neo-Confederate yahoos in suits are in high dudgeon now. Their South Carolina chapters are quite active. Remind me never to go to Palmetto. .................................................................
Yanking His McChain Web Site Posits That Candidate Is a Southeast Asia Pawn
By Michael Powell and Tom Edsall Washington Post Staff Writers Wednesday, February 16, 2000; Page C01
Et tu, Khmer Rouge?
That John McCain has roiled the Republican establishment is well known. Each day its howitzers fire new rounds: liar, hypocrite, and--God save his soul--closet liberal.
Now Paul Weyrich, a sachem of modern social conservatism, discerns a novel bat in the attic. McCain, he suggests, could be a Manchurian candidate, arguably the first Republican presidential candidate sponsored by Hanoi.
As to his source?
"The Cambodian Khmer Rouge has claimed that 'McCain is a Vietnamese agent,' for what it's worth," Weyrich writes in a widely circulated e-mail column for his Free Congress Foundation.
Weyrich briefly forswore electoral politics last year before taking up the cudgel for the recently expired candidacy of Steve Forbes. His column is sparse on additional proof. He cites a POW-MIA Web site, though an examination of it suggests it's a tad longer on saliva than facts. And he notes, ominously, that there are families of POWs and MIAs who "accuse [McCain] of being a traitor."
Weyrich, who did not return several calls seeking comment, adds helpfully in his e-mail column that it is "hard to know who is telling the truth in all of this. . . . There must be some basis for the emotions expressed by otherwise rational people."
All of this does not set McCain to quaking. (And, really, couldn't that be just a sign of his programming?!)
Riding the bus from downtown Detroit to Warren, Mich., recently, McCain and his consultant, Mike Murphy, had a bit of fun with the Manchurian candidate theory. They crafted a fictitious counter-strategy known as "Operation Banjo," in which they would trick George W. Bush into believing the charge and acting on it.
The imaginary plan goes like this: Get a reporter to convince Bush that McCain is a commie agent and that a key word--banjo--would set him off. Then Bush would stalk into the next debate armed for an expose, and, in this shared fantasy, use his opening statement to declare:
"All my conservative compassion goes out to the young, single mother on the outskirts of poverty whose fine, young Hispanic son needs support so he can learn his wonderful gift for the banjo."
At which point Bush would turn to watch McCain quiver and shake. Or not.
"Remember, this was the period when I was crazy," McCain says of the time two months back when several newspaper stories explored charges that time in Vietnamese prisons had damaged his pysche to the point that he could not control his temper.
"McNuts, McWacko, Crazy Times Demand Crazy Candidate," Murphy says in a parody of the headlines at that time.
There is, to all of this silliness, a serious undercurrent. McCain was an early advocate of normalizing relations with Vietnam, and has not displayed great patience for those who claim that the Southeast Asian nation is holding on to prisoners 25 years after the fall of Saigon. So some vets have been unhappy with him for years and the whispers date back to the '80s. A few retired military types have written letters to the Navy, urging officials to revoke McCain's medals for his time as a prisoner.
More broadly, Marshall Wittmann, a McCain supporter and former legislative director for the Christian Coalition, sees a Republican K Street elite and the social conservative establishment facing the same conundrum: their growing irrelevance. For years, Republican candidates kowtowed to them. Now the Republican mainstream is edging toward the center and the shock troops of the conservative movement have scattered. The Christian Coalition is in decline and Bush, the establishment's anointed prince, is scrambling to preserve his crown.
"You have the conservatives in a deep panic pulling out the most grotesque and obscene tactics," Wittmann says. "The K Street establishment and the conservative establishment are united in fearing someone who they can't control."
Yeah, well. Just what you'd expect a Manchurian candidate's supporter to say, right? Ted Sampley, former Special Forces sergeant and the Web site author whom Weyrich cites, sees right through it. The Vietnamese, Sampley says, "know exactly what makes John McCain flinch, what makes him laugh. They know his personality because they owned him for 5 1/2 years."
McCain's bus pulls into Warren. The candidate has already warned reporters that caffeine sets him off, activating those radio waves coming from God knows where in the Vietnamese foothills, where graying former Viet Cong operatives study South Carolina voting patterns and relay instructions for media buys.
Suddenly he's sticking out his tongue, shaking his head back and forth. "Stop those voices," he says. "Stop those voices."
Then he looks at the reporters and cracks up--laughing.
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Burning Bush and Their Origin to JFK's demise
On Jan 21-22, 2000 Russ Tarby senior editor,
Syracuse Times, wrote:
"...California...historian Bruce Campbell Adamson
published a ten-volume biography of the late
CIA-connected Dallas petro-geologist George de
Mohrenschildt.
Adamson argues strongly that a relationship
existed between the senior Bush and the shady
international playboy De Mohrenschildt, who was
widely regarded as Lee Harvey Oswald's best
friend in Dallas during 1962 and 63.
"Former President George Bush has admitted to
me that he had known George de Mohrenschildt
since 1942, Adamson said, and their relationship
continued into the mid-1970s. And Dimitri Von
Mohrenschildt has written to me that Bush had
employed George de Mohrenschildt during the
1950s in the oil industry."
On November 22nd, 1963 George Bush called the
FBI office in Houston and said "James Parrott" had
been talking about killing Kennedy when he came to
Houston. Years later Parrott worked on George Bush Sr.s
campaign against Clinton.
On May 20, 1963 Oswald's friend, CIA agent
George de Mohrenschildt received a $300,000 line
of credit from grandpa Prescott Bush's banking
firm. This was three days before de Mohrenschildt
would meet again with LBJ.
Adamson feels that he can prove that Bush Sr.'s
Zapata Oil/Off Shore Company was a CIA-front and
that the Bay of Pigs invasion was really papa
Bush's baby.
On November 23, 1963 "CIA agent George Bush,"
was briefed about the JFK assassination by FBI
Director, J.E. Hoover.
In 1976 GEORGE BUSH JR. employed Billy Joe
Lord at Bush Exploration oil company in Midland,
Texas. Lord was Lee Oswald's roommate on the
ship in 1959 when Oswald defected to the Soviet
Union.
In 1976-77 Lord filed an affidavit with the FBI
against Edward Jay Epstein. Epstein's writers threaten
Lord that if he didn't cooperate they would go to his boss Bush Jr..
At the same time Bush Sr. was CIA Director and
corresponding with deMohrenschildt. The
Bush/deMohrenschildt letters are missing from the
CIA records as are 200 other Top Secret
Documents while Bush was CIA Director.
Lord had no way of knowing that Epstein would be
the last person to interview de Mohrenschildt on
March 20, 1977 an hour before de Mohrenschildt
cleared his conscience with a shotgun in his
mouth. Unlike the Bible it's the Lord who has
condemned the Bush's. Visit my website at http://ciajfk.com for a great time.
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