There was a (anti-Semitic ) publication, in the pre-internet days, The Spotlight, which had a pretty decent amount of readers in conservative country.
It made a big deal about some strange, but important, issues, apparently.
One was the (still ) confusing issue of the (long rumored to be Israeli ) bombing of the US Liberty ship.
President Johnson was rumored to have said "I want that damn ship sinking " on a three way phone call with military officers ( all during the attack ).
I never paid much attention to the issue for some reason.
But I was watching a documentary, Terrorstorm, by Alex Jones, a decade ago. He has talked to the generals involved ( including those on the phone with President Johnson ), and the strangest thing is that Johnson did order the stand down and seemed to have ordered (?) the self inflicted attack.
The Israeli pilot, who did the attack, has come out too. He refused orders 3 times to engage the American vessel, but gave in when threatened with court martial.
Nobody knows why this was done, but it did happen in a way much like the conspiracy theories indicated.
ALSO
A candidate for the Democratic Presidential Primary got 496,000 votes (out of around 9 million cast ) against Clinton in 1996, but was blacked out by the media.
Big media stars in the 2004 Democratic presidential Primary, Howard Dean and General Wesley Clark got 894,000 and 536,000 respectively. They were the front runner candidates for the last 6 months of 2003 just before the 2004 voting saw Kerry and Edwards shoot ahead. The primary had a much higher vote total too. 16 million in the 2004 primary verses 9 million in 1996.
Dean got just under 5.5% got a little more than 3% of the vote. (Kerry got 61%)
The blacked out 1996 candidate got 5.47% against Clinton (88.98%)
The blacked out candidate ran against Gore and Bradley in 2000.
He got 11% in Oregon (Gore got 85%)
He got 22% in Arkansas (Gore 78%)
8.24% in Idaho ( Gore 75.72%)
5.85% in Oklahoma ( Gore 68% Bradley 25%)
5.55% in Alabama (Gore 77%)
5.11% in New Jersey (Gore 94.89%)
4.53% in Pennsylvania (Gore 74% Bradley 21%)
Got 4.1% in Washington DC (Gore 95.9%)
Got 3.42% in Texas (Gore 80.24% Bradley 16.34%)
A total blackout that caused most Democratic voters to not have a clue that this individual ever existed. And that was the actual election day circumstance!
We wonder why Americans are so ignorant on the one hand THEN ( a different group of Americans ) so conspiracy filled in the head on the other.
I don't wonder.
I accept global warming and evolution, but understand why people think every institution is dishonest. Think about it for a while. The public has a self righteous media constantly in its face, lecturing people about endless moral issues ( including campaign finance issues ), while the word has mostly (?) gotten around what a bunch of liars the news organizations have been and are.
Enough people know that the media is extremely dishonest and it has contributed monumentally to the BAD GOVERNMENT we are always living under.
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