Who's That Asking "What Are You Afraid Of?" Again?

"It's time to panic"

Willed amnesia is interesting. Deliberately forgetting what was said and done. And even who was there at the time:

Beginning with “birtherism,” there’s been a long campaign from the far right to delegitimize Barack Obama as president of the United States. Important examples are Donald Trump’s short-lived rise to political fame on the claim that Obama was hiding his “long form” birth certificate, and the film 2016: Obama’s America—a project of conservative provocateur Dinesh D’Souza—which portrayed the president as an anti-Colonial Manchurian candidate bent on crippling America and redeeming his father’s legacy. (It wasn’t very good, but it was awfully popular.)

These arguments weren’t embraced by Republican candidates in the 2012 elections, but they weren’t disavowed either. (The noted exception being Newt Gingrich, who asked: “What if [Obama] is so outside our comprehension that only if you understand Kenyan, anti-Colonial behavior can you begin to piece together [his actions]? That is the most accurate, predictive model for his behavior.”) Mitt Romney embraced Trump during the GOP primaries, even as the latter pushed the idea that Obama was inherently suspect.

And, let's not forget - if it went down exactly like that - it was Obama's fault.

Didn't nobody else do anybody nothin',...

Captain Obvious Wins Magic Decoder Ring

"Since his arrival on the national stage, Obama has been blessed with adversaries who overplay their hand claiming he is a 'Manchurian candidate' out to destroy America from inside.

Obama won last year's historic election by rising above that nonsense.

His casting aspersions on the very genius of the American government because he can't get his way is cause for alarm."

-- Charles Hurt, getting hurt by Mr. Charley - I mean, Mr. President - which has to mean a nutjob like me must be looking, more and more, like a direct portal into the mind of any one of those high velocity multi-pronged motivational Life Coach types these days, huh? Huh? At least to slow thinkers, like, at The New York Post?

Getting these "we were wrong" moments out of individual liberals ain't easy, and it can be truly heartbreaking, but in the end - hey - that's the only way known to snap 'em,...

Brain-Dead Ed

"Now I feel that Senator Obama is the most wonderful person ever to have lived in the United States of America. The smartest, most sensitive most decent and honorable man. Now I understand what you guys have been feeling for the last six months."

-- Ed Rendell, "Pennsylvania Gov. and ardent Clinton supporter," after he "got a note from an Obama supporter attached to a can of Kool-Aid telling him to drink up" - which he did - according to “Renegade, The Making of a President,” by former Newsweek reporter Richard Wolffe, profiled on Politico.

All Together Now: "Barack Obama Is The Kindest, Bravest, Warmest, Most Wonderful Human Being We've Ever Known In Our Lives."

"I know Obama is a Manchurian candidate, I just can't figure out what for."

-- Michael Goodwin, relaying the thoughts of a fellow journalist - who, clearly, doesn't understand NewAge - or The Daily News.

And don't forget this other juicy bite from the movie:

"Hope tastes good - like a cigarette should!"

Classic.

Hay, Smiley - Draw The FRONTLINE At Sesame St. Before You Get Big Bird (Or Somebody) Hurt

"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."

-- Mark Oppenheimer, writing about Louise Hay ("The Queen of the New Age") in the New York Times.

I've said it a million times: the reach of NewAge is so complete that, unless you understand the landscape, there's just no way to avoid it's influence. That's why so many write to me and say I'm kooky: they've already been sucked in.

They watch FRONTLINE and think they're watching objective journalism. They plop their kids in front of Sesame Street or whatever, without a clue who's behind it. They watch Oprah (and support Barack Obama) or, yes, read the New York Times, having no clue of the forces at work on their opinions and values. Meanwhile, they're all worried about FOX News, which (whether you agree with it or not) is about as open about it's position as possible. Suckers.

Sure, they understand Democrats and Republicans. They'll even nod at the Sunni and the Shia. Easily understandable. But the spiritual battle between NewAge and Christianity? NewAge and Science? NewAge and Medicine? NewAge and on and on and on - against everybody? No, that can't be happening, because NewAgers are so flakey, right? Who'd take them seriously as a threat to society?

Well, I do. In a very short time I've had reason to investigate the entire matrix of the NewAge and they don't fool me for a second. Look at that quote (above) again: they're even telling you they're fooling you! "Are you a black man who thinks psychics are nonsense but reads the affirmations of Tavis Smiley?" See? They're saying, even if you think you're unaffected, they're telling you - to your face - that they've got you.



Makes all those calls to de-fund PBS sound a bit more rational, doesn't it? I mean, if they've proven - and I'd say that quote above is pretty good proof - they're not actually working in the public interest (but as a mouth-piece for NewAge beliefs) then why should we be paying for it? I say, like in The Manchurian Candidate, we need to rip out all the wires, expose all the Red Queens, and start all over again with that whole little enterprise: they're playing dirty pool with the American mind.

And, after this shit, how much more open about it can they be?