John Birch Society, Impeaching Warren again
Talkin’ John Birch Paranoid Blues
In 2004, the magazine for the John Birch Society, The New American, published a review for the Michael Moore movie Fahrenheit 911. It was positive, thumbs up. It is interesting to note that the New American is indexed into google news (and not to be confused with a newspaper of the same name that publishes for recent immigrants — which seems an altogether different readership than the Birchers.)
The next time the Birchers pierced their way into enough public consciousness for me to notice, The Nation was pegging them as a source for the “Nafta Superhighway” structure — a highway being built that would take things from Mexico into Canada without stopping in the USA. “NO!” yelled some usual suspects — by which I mean Alex Jones and the entire state of Oklahoma.
In the 2008 election, a photograph surfaced of Wasilla council woman Sarah Palin sitting at her desk, with a John Birch Society pamphlet. It is interesting to note that various bloggers and news sources were tied up all over themselves picking the source of this publication, when really a simple call and check over to the John Birch Society would have solved the question of what she had on her desk. Whatever the Birchers are, you’re not going to be catching cooties from them. All the stranger, as the Society had their heart in Ron Paul — who when asked brushed it off with roughly my “cooties” comment.
I don’t know what it means that CPAC is being sponsored by the John Birch Society. I gather most people dropped the group from their conciousness round about when Barry Goldwater was being urged to disassociate them from them, before proudly standing foresquare behind Extremism.
But hey. We were all a bit nuts back then, contemplating some matters. Time change.