Being Wrong (Has Never Stopped Whites From Lying)

Bill O'Reilly: "So where am I going wrong here, Tavis?" 

Tavis Smiley: "A few places. Not enough time to go into all the places you are wrong,..."

I've been saying, ever since Ann Althouse's insane ebola post, that she is now a conspiracy theory nutcase.

But The Atlantic is also reminding me that's not a hinderance to career success for white people:

”When Conspiracy Theories Don't Fit the Media Narrative”

White people don't care about being right - or doing wrong.

They just want their way.

And their way is to control the narrative.

Notice, Bill O'Reilly is totally wrong, but he - not someone who knows what he's talking about - gets to be the big shot on TV.

Ann Althouse's ebola scaremongering?

It's just brought her closer to the neanderthals.

She doesn't care how it looks - or is.

Few whites do, because ethics and intelligence aren't respected.

That's why a quack, like Dr. Oz, still has a TV show - but a well-respected doctor can't and doesn't. 

America's a nation of snake oil salesmen, relying on a shitty education system to ply their trade.

What did Ann's fellow blogging law professor, Glenn Reynolds, say?

The best thing about being a law professor is they get to just say shit, without caring if it's correct.

Those two must teach the most fascinating classes,...

Bill O'Reilly Tells The Truth: Republicans Are Cowards Who Are Playing Politics With Black America's Lives

“I think [Republicans are] more intimidated than uncaring. I think they’re afraid… I think they’re afraid of, uh, black people,...

...The white Republican power structure is afraid of black Americans. They don’t know how to treat them; they don’t know how to speak to them… They don’t know anything about the culture, and they don’t want to be called a racist bigot, so they stay away. That’s just my opinion.

[The Republicans] feel it’s not worth the trouble, the few votes they might siphon off, to get involved with it. That’s how they feel. I know that for a fact.”

So Bill O'Reilly's racial education continues - good for him. He's beating most of white America in, at least, trying to get real.

This is an interesting admission for several reasons, starting with white's interest in not being called racists. Who is engaged in American politics - who can seriously call themselves a patriot - when they're merely trying to look, or not look, a certain way? 

And how do the the results of white's psychology translate into them not being uncaring? Isn't hurting blacks the results of their actions, no matter their reasons, or how they frame them? Aren't Americans - black Americans - getting hurt? Look at the facts on the ground and try to argue "no" - you can't. It can't be done. But whites will try. For image. For nothing.

O'Reilly is saying whites are participating in a charade, and blacks must pay a price for it, because whites are so confused by their own self-imposed dread. Whatever fear drives whites to do is what whites will do - no matter who it hurts, no matter whether they're right or wrong, or the disastrous implications for America or individuals. It's all imagery, and a noxious self-fulfilling prophecy.

Another thing that interests me is how whites try to project their fear onto blacks. They pretend their anxiety is shared by us, or is our failing, when blacks know better - here's Obama on the subject:

"The question, once again, is going to be whether hope overcomes fear. Essentially, what the other side has decided is that they are going to try to ride fear and anxiety all the way to the ballot box,..."

That seems pretty clear, and exactly what O'Reilly is saying, but it's rejected by whites because - just like the desire not to look like racists - whites also don't want to look like (or admit) they're a bunch of flag-waving, but completely unpatriotic, cowards. 

Unfortunately, until they come to grips with themselves - not as individuals but as Americans - there's not much they can do:

Besides continuing to sully their names and international image, losing whatever little respect they had, and destroying the country from within,...

Tavis Smiley: There's A Price To Be Paid For Telling The Truth In White America And That Price Is Death

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On Loving Blackness: Dick Gregory Holds Court, 2008

This is the type of oratory that makes it impossible to take white speakers seriously,...

Proudly Being A Witch Never Made Much Sense To Me

MS. LOUISE HAY (Self-Help Movement Founder):

"Happiness is choosing thoughts that make you feel good. It's really very simple."

I understand I'm probably not getting the most out of life right now, being exposed to those who don't take seriously the harm NewAge does to me and others, but - until they do - I can't think of much that's more important to pursue. To me, real people are getting hurt badly, right under our noses, when it could be stopped. Horrible crimes. But few others want to stop them, and - if nothing else - that fact's fascinating to me.

"It was an hour into the self-help session when the girl began sobbing uncontrollably. For Ali Campbell, the celebrity life coach, it was just another example of the potency of his ‘being true to yourself’ workshops. 

But for Michael Le Vell, it was the beginning of two years that threatened to rob him of his career, his family and his sanity. 

Today, The Mail on Sunday can reveal the moment that led to  the Coronation Street actor being falsely accused of raping a child – and to the life coach being questioned by police. 

It took place at the so-called ‘Glastonbury of the self-help world’, an annual conference called I Can Do It! A two-day festival of self-development, it was set up by Louise Hay, an 86-year-old American whose controversial brand of positive thinking has earned her millions of followers around the world."

Part of the issue is, today, there's no escaping it. Another - watching where the money goes - is such a potent symbol of why we've so quickly become a basket case of a country. 

Here's where a huge chunk of our change goes:

"Though you may not know it, you live in Louise Hay’s world. Are you a black man who thinks psychics are nonsense but reads the affirmations of Tavis Smiley? Hay House has a special imprint just for Smiley. Are you a TV-loathing snob who occasionally condescends to watch PBS? The pledge-drive specials that Hay House has produced for Wayne (“Inspiration: Your Ultimate Calling”) Dyer have helped raise more than $100 million for public television — they are one of PBS’s most-successful fund-raising tools."

Real people in the way, of this juggernaut of chaos, hardly stand a chance - because we're almost always alone and blind-sided:

"For Michael Le Vell, it was the beginning of two years that threatened to rob him of his career, his family and his sanity."

Meanwhile, the Boomers, etc., chant the NewAge phrase, "move on" to unburden themselves.

But also as a necessary rear-guard action.

What's done is done - and everybody will know them for who they are and what they've done.

It only follows, you know, they're expecting a reply,...

 

Whoopi Goldberg Takes Her Idiocy Seriously

Ed Driscoll has the "slightly racist" story, including other stuff I've covered about Whoopi. Tavis Smiley's even in there - he of Louise Hay's NewAge clique - and isn't it amazing how I, the internet's anti-cult crusader, always already have stuff on the very people who pop up saying crazy shit? How DOES that happen? Just lucky I guess,...

Anyway, after reading Ed's piece, hit the tags for the various fruitloops, below, if you want "the view" of these numbskulls to become clearer.

Louise Hay: The Queen Of The NewAge & NPR

Looking for more information about the fall of NPR, I ran across this question in The New Yorker:

The focus of many conversations has been on how to free NPR of federal funding, so it can avoid this kind of circus in the future. But to serve the public, a news organization must be insulated from the will of its donors—individuals, foundations, corporations. Seeing this video of Ron Schiller disturbs me, but maybe not as much as imagining other meals with other prospective donors. What do they think they’re getting for their contributions?

That's easy to answer since, long ago, I did a few posts on Louise Hay - the so-called "Queen of the NewAge".

Hay is one of The Secret's crew of "Law of Attraction" phonies (collected by Rhonda Byrne and promoted by Oprah) along with this now-infamous "sweat lodge" favorite:

By the way, now that a light's on him, James Arthur Ray is looking more like this these days:

Which is what all NewAge cons look like when you truly "see" them.

Anyway, the first post I did on Hay reminded us:

"Though you may not know it, you live in Louise Hay’s world. Are you a black man who thinks psychics are nonsense but reads the affirmations of Tavis Smiley? Hay House has a special imprint just for Smiley. Are you a TV-loathing snob who occasionally condescends to watch PBS? The pledge-drive specials that Hay House has produced for Wayne (“Inspiration: Your Ultimate Calling”) Dyer have helped raise more than $100 million for public television — they are one of PBS’s most-successful fund-raising tools."

NPR's Muslim Brotherhood connection becomes more understandable when you see the second post we did on Hay, because this producer for PBS programming admitted to thinking the Jews brought the Holocaust on themselves, and it was also revealed her publishing arm, Hay House, "was not, in the beginning, very well run, the staff was a cult,..."

I knew, one day, that was going to come back to bite her and PBS (why it didn't when it was first revealed will have to be left for another day,...)

Now, of course, I can hear you saying, "But Crack (and then thinking, "Butt Crack") that's PBS and this sting is on NPR."

I'll remind you that, as you can see in the first example (with Smiley above) something else Louise Hay got for her donations and participation with PBS was influence over what they covered - resulting in a three-night program like "PBS Tackles Happiness In 'This Emotional Life'" - as well as insertion in those programs, and their promotional spots, on NPR. Think about that:

An acknowledged NewAge cult leader getting airtime on government paid-for broadcasting.

Unfortunately, except for name recognition and promotion, it didn't seem to do her much good in certain quarters. Here's a conversation between Daniel Gilbert, the host of PBS' "This Emotional Life", and NPR host Madeleine Brand:

BRAND: You also delve into the multibillion-dollar self-help industry, and you interview a woman who is the - I guess the dean of it. Her name is Louise Hay, and this is what she says is the secret to happiness.

Ms. LOUISE HAY (Self-help movement founder): Happiness is choosing thoughts that make you feel good. It's really very simple.

BRAND: What is your response to that?

Mr. GILBERT: Well, I agree with her that happiness has something to do with choosing thoughts that make you feel good. I don't agree it's very simple. Long before Louise Hay, this is the basis of cognitive behavioral therapy, the most widely practiced kind of psychotherapy, that if we can change our thoughts, change our cognition, then we can also change the way we feel about the world.

I had to part company with Louise Hay, though, because she has more extreme beliefs than I do. She believes, for example, that we can cure illnesses like cancer, AIDS, leprosy, simply by changing the thoughts we think. And I don't see any evidence whatsoever for that. When I asked her about how she felt about the scientific evidence, she said she didn't think that much of science. So we have to part ways there, too.

BRAND: Um-hum.

Um-hum. But that, plus a background in NewAge cultism - and the stench of death from all the AIDS patients she gave wrong-headed information to - was never enough for PBS, or NPR, to get away from Hay. A cult leader. A NewAge fruitcake. She blames the Jews for being murdered. She oversaw the deaths of AIDS and cancer patients as she gave them bogus information. She doesn't "think that much of science".

Oh, what an important void PBS and NPR filled for the American public with this woman's input, huh?

Well, once they lose public funding, they're going to need her more than ever.

The Name "Smiley" Was A Hint Something's Off

This is great:

NewsBusters got all bent out of shape to hear Tavis Smiley say he "would take a bullet" for disgraced socialist, 9/11 truther, and former Obama administration "Environmental Czar" Van Jones:

"On his self-titled PBS show on Thursday night, Tavis Smiley declared his love for radical 9-11 truther/Obama adviser Van Jones: 'I believe in supporting friends and you know I love you, would do anything - would take a bullet for Van Jones.' He concluded the interview by oozing 'Van Jones is among the best our community has ever produced.'"

Now I know most people hearing the word "community" would think Smiley's talking about the black community, but most people don't know he's signed to Louise Hay's NewAge imprint, Hay House.

Why does that matter?

Because that connects him (along with the accused murderer, James Arthur Ray) to The Secret's crazy "Law of Attraction" crowd with Oprah.

As The New York Times' Mark Oppenheimer told us in his 2008 article on Hay, "The Queen of the New Age":

"Though you may not know it, you live in Louise Hay’s world. Are you a black man who thinks psychics are nonsense but reads the affirmations of Tavis Smiley? Hay House has a special imprint just for Smiley."

"You live in Louise Hay’s world." This is what frustrates me about journalism today, namely that there's so little investigation - beyond the obvious political dimension - a la the man who brought down Van Jones, Glenn Beck.

If there was, NewsBusters wouldn't be surprised by the insane things certain people say, because they'd know they're kooky NewAgers and would be able to categorize their statements accordingly.

Like, would Smiley's defense of Jones seem bizarre to NewsBusters if they knew Smiley's publisher also carries Montel Williams' favorite "psychic", Silvia Browne, and not only thinks the Jews brought the Holocaust down upon themselves but also that they "deserved what they got because of their behavior in past lives"?

I sincerely doubt it.

NewsBusters whines:

"Smiley attacked the Obama White House for not fighting the 'absolute lies' that sunk Jones – without ever bringing specifics."

But Oppenheimer made it very clear that "Hay House has a complicated relationship with,...what most of us would call truth." And, as TMR's friends at Scotteriolgy made clear, fudging on specifics is a trait of NewAge culture.

And once you add in the NewAge "community" - which is the same one that elected Obama - you can then connect the dots to a lot of odd behavior out there.

Unfortunately, for all of us, conservatives are leaving it up to rappers to play connect-the-dots from politics to Leftist spirituality.