Conspiracy Theorists?

By Atom Bergstrom

Atom’s Blog

It’s “the pot calling the kettle black.”

“He who is without sin, cast the first stone.”

“First take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your neighbor’s eye.”

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“The advance agents of the communist conspiracy loudly promise the peoples of these countries a better way of life. We know that communism cannot deliver on these promises. We know that the way of freedom actually can and will provide a better life for people everywhere. But only through such action as the Point IV program can we demonstrate that fact in concrete and practical terms.” — Harry S. Truman

DID YOU KNOW HARRY S. TRUMAN WAS A CRACKPOT CONSPIRACY THEORIST? HOW DID THIS LUNATIC BECOME 33RD PRESIDENT OF THE U.S.?

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“The new law which I am signing today includes one of the many recommendations made by this Administration to support existing statutes in defeating the Communist conspiracy in this country. Administratively, we have in the past 19 months stepped up enforcement of laws against subversives. As a result, 41 top Communist leaders have been convicted, 35 more are indicted and scheduled for trial, and 105 subversive aliens have been deported.” — Dwight D. Eisenhower

DID YOU KNOW DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER WAS A CRACKPOT CONSPIRACY THEORIST? HOW DID THIS LUNATIC BECOME 34TH PRESIDENT OF THE U.S.?

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Michael O’Brien (John F. Kennedy: A Biography, 1900) wrote, “He (JFK) warned of ‘the Communist conspiracy,’ ‘the Communist tide,’ ‘Communist efforts,’ and ‘the Communist advance.’ The United States must ‘bear the burden … of helping freedom defend itself’ in South Vietnam. Kennedy’s key advisers agreed.”

DID YOU KNOW THE 35TH PRESIDENT OF THE U.S., JOHN F. KENNEDY, AND HIS ADVISERS WERE CRACKPOT CONSPIRACY THEORISTS? WHAT WERE THESE FOGGY BOTTOM LUNATICS SMOKING? OR WAS IT CRACK COCAINE?

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“When [Lyndon] Johnson took office, he affirmed the Kennedy administration’s commitments. He quickly approved NSAM 273, a national security agency memorandum, on November 26, 1963, which directed the U.S. government ‘to assist the people and Government of South Vietnam to win their contest against the externally directed and supported Communist conspiracy.'”

DID YOU KNOW THE 36TH PRESIDENT OF THE U.S., LYNDON JOHNSON, WAS A CRACKPOT CONSPIRACY THEORIST? ARE TEXAS BLUEBONNETS TOXIC TO HUMANS AS WELL AS CATTLE?

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“I intend in a later statement to discuss the tactics and vulnerabilities of the Communist conspiracy and how we can best fashion a strategy for victory.” — Richard Nixon (during the 1960 Presidential campaign)

DID YOU KNOW RICHARD NIXON WAS A CRACKPOT CONSPIRACY THEORIST? HOW DID THIS LUNATIC (EVENTUALLY) BECOME 37TH PRESIDENT OF THE U.S.?

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Marjorie Hunter (“Special to The New York Times,” Aug. 9, 1974) wrote, “A onetime isolationist, as suspicious of a worldwide Communist conspiracy as Mr. Nixon once was, Mr. [Gerald] Ford took his first steps toward becoming an internationalist under the tutelage of an old family friend, the late Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg, Republican of Michigan.”

OMG! GERALD FORD, 38TH PRESIDENT OF THE U.S. WAS A CRACKPOT CONSPIRACY THEORIST TOO? THEY DIDN’T HAVE PSYCHIATRIC COUNSELING FOR THAT SORT OF BRAIN DAMAGE IN THE SEVENTIES? DANG! WE’VE GOT LOTS OF STATUES AND MONUMENTS TO TEAR DOWN!

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Anthony Lewis (The New York Times, Oct. 24, 1983) wrote, “The theme of Communist conspiracy has also been a Reagan constant. In a 1978 radio broadcast he said that ‘known members of terrorist organizations and even Communist Party members cannot only become civil servants in government but can rise to the most sensitive government positions.’ In another broadcast he spoke of people opposed to nuclear power. It was a ‘fact,’ he said, ‘that behind the scenes they are being manipulated by forces sympathetic to the Soviet Union.'”

DID YOU KNOW RONALD REAGAN WAS A CRACKPOT CONSPIRACY THEORIST? HOW DID THIS LUNATIC BECOME PRESIDENT OF THE U.S.? DID ALL THOSE JELLY BEANS DRIVE THIS GUY BONKERS?

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