I'm hoping Jeff Ballabon will be the rightwing Dan Rather. Remember when Dan Rather's poor factchecking over George W. Bush's National Guard service ended up elevating rightwing sites like Little Green Footballs, which had showed that some of the paperwork was fraudulent? (As if Bush had not dodged serving in Vietnam as a preamble to launching the next Vietnam.) Well, Ballabon is the rightwing Zionist who was lately named to be the senior vice president for communications at CBS and who has supported extremist settlers of the West Bank and who believes that the peace process is rightly a shell game because Palestinians are "not ready" to govern themselves. Maybe in another 60 years?
Jeff Blankfort speculates:
While Bob Simon's "60 Minutes"piece was a pleasant surprise, the appointment of Jeff Ballabon isn't and seems to be a way of placating CBS's Jewish chauvinist critics. It is likely that the relatively independent 60 Minutes did that program without the knowledge or approval of CBS's President and Chief Executive Officer Leslie Moonves who was born in 1948 and just happens to be the great nephew of Ben-Gurion. It was curious his name was not mentioned in the story.
I would be interested to know when "conspiracy theory" term became such a term of abuse and who were the people who pushed for vilification of those who questioned official narratives, showed un-acknowledged benefits and omitted links between participants.
Would make a good project for media studies student.
I think the earliest uses of "conspiracy theory" I remember seeing referred to people who developed theories about the JFK assassination inconsistent with the Warren Report story.
Who was right on that one, the "conspiracy theorists" or the orthodox?
There's laws against conspiracy, the federal RICO statutes, and the individual states' "little RICO" statutes just few. If conspiracy never happens, why are those laws on the books, and why have they been used
as much as they have?
Suzanne calls Phil and his supporters here "the klan."
Shall we call Suzanne and her amen corner here, "the cabal?"