the Lyndon LaRouche Card
Did you hear the one about Prescott Bush helping finance the Nazis?
… which was fairly common for American industrialists to do pre-WWII, and there was a decent amount of pro-Nazi and anti-Communist sentiment in the throngs of “isolationist” mindset, so so what?
… Did you hear the one about Prescott Bush helping finance the Nazis after it was illegal to do so?
True? I don’t know. It pops up in the mainstream press from time to time (and yes, even past the liberal “Guardian” newspaper), and is the topic of conspiracy theorists throughout the world ever since the name “Bush” became synanomous with “the Establishment” of our government. (“New World Order” indeedy.)
So, um… apparently because the founder of Air America Radio buys into the concept and because it is shared and brought forward by Lyndon LaRouche, the founder of Air America is a Lyndon LaRouche Sympathizer?
Actually, the reason given here is that Sheldon Drobny cited a Lyndon LaRouche sympathizer for an editorial he once wrote. Which, I guess, would make Sheldon Drobny a Lyndon LaRouche sympathizer sympathizer. May the buyer bewar.
There’s a short book he wrote entitled Road to Air America, and he devotes space to this little controversy, and tosses in a couple of mainstream news articles about the “Prescott Bush” phenomenom. More interestingly than a supposed (and false) admiration for Mr. LaRouche is the historical political figure that Drobny is an admirer of: Henry Wallace (and, yes, Drobny provides a “conspiracy theory” on how the political bosses thumped the Democratic Party masses from nominating Wallace for vice president instead of their pick, Harry Truman, at the 1944 nominating convention). This piece from Henry Wallace is found in the appendix, and I guess you can admire the gusto and political hyperbole of Henry Wallace…
… and at least smile that the founder of the pre-eminent liberal radio network isn’t simply a straight center-liberal Democrat… a good thing for the purpose of providing falling into “our team”-itis.