[pissant]

Well, Barney, I must say that the JBS was and is far more patriotic, self reliant, intelligent, and useful to society than you liberals and the commie frauds you saddled this country with now.

And just so you know, you little twit, Bill Ayers wrote Obama's book for him. Yes, that Bill Ayers - the one you stinking liberals call "a respected member of the education community" and the one Birchers and all other red blooded Americans believe should be hanged from a lamp post for treason.

[Ghost of Philip Marlowe]

What did the JBS warn us about that has NOT come to pass or that is NOT about to come to pass?

[ken21]

h was a liberal.

[freedomfiter2]

“The Paranoid Style in American Politics,” a work that seems to grow more relevant by the day.

The thing is, what the so called paranoids used to say was coming is now here.

[Zionist Conspirator]

I don't want to get in a fight with you, but I was a member of the JBS and don't share your positive view of them. And they advocate a solidly Paulestinian foreign policy.

That being said, I notice the 9/11 "truthers" seem to escape condemnation as conspiracy mongers (or did I miss something?).

[SierraWasp]

Excellent summation, ant person!!!

[ckilmer]

Consider, by contrast, the widespread belief that President Barack Obama’s birth certificate was forged
.............
This guy is a forgery.

We havn’t seen the Obama’s birth certificate. So we wouldn’t know whether it was a forgery or not.

[DTogo]

From ACORN to White House.

From Union to Townhall enforcers.

From Communist to Green Job Czar (ho ho ho).

From Mao-lover to Communications Director.

From Mao-lover to Manufacturing Czar.

From ObamaCare to single-payer system, right Banking Queen?

[Frantzie]

Thomas Frank is the resident lib on the WSJ op-ed and he is a moron. I cancelled the WSJ because it is worthless now and Taranto attacked birther plus I was sick of Peggy Noonan’s RINO Manhattan Kennedy Catholic whining.

[DBrow]

“The essential element of this mindset, Hofstadter explained, was its predilection for conspiracy theory—for understanding history as a theater in which sinister figures control the flow of events from behind the scenes, nudging us constantly and secretly in the direction of communism.”

Yup, we are drifting into Communism because the forces of history make it inevitable, not because there are groups of people who wish it so.

It’s all so clear!

[Sherman Logan]

There is an old saying that seems appropriate here.

Just because you’re a paranoid schizophrenic, it doesn’t mean they aren’t really out to get you.

[Zhang Fei]

From Wikipedia:

Frank comes from a leftist political perspective and is highly critical of Republican governance, especially the presidency of George W. Bush. However, he has also criticized the Democratic Party for "swearing off economic 'liberalism'"[1]. He is unique among writers on the American Left both for his political outlook, which revives the discourses of the American Populist Movement of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, [2] and for his polemical style, which has been said to update that of the muckrakers of the same historical era [3].

[ModelBreaker]

I find it funny that a guy who hangs with Alinsyites and truthers and male prostitutes finds paranoia to be an odd or curious thing.

[RightInEastLansing]

Consider, by contrast, the widespread belief that President Barack Obama's birth certificate was forged. What could have been his parents' motives for committing such a bizarre deed, or his home state's motive for colluding in it, or the courts' motives for overlooking it?

A canard. He has never publicly revealed his birth certificate therefore no one is claiming it is forged. The certification of live birth that was presented as proof of birth is worthless because one could be obtained even if born outside the USA. Is the author willfully ignorant, or just one more lying Odumbo sycophant?

[Sherman Logan]

Consider, by contrast, the widespread belief that President Barack Obama's birth certificate was forged.

Actually, I believe the claim is that we haven't yet seen his "real" birth certificate.

What could have been his parents' motives for committing such a bizarre deed, or his home state's motive for colluding

50 years ago, no logical motive. Last year, very obvious motives for anyone supporting him.

Personally I lean towards the president having been born in HI and therefore a natural born citizen. But he sure seems oddly resistant to coughing up the actual documentation to prove it.

[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

The old JBS underestimated the conspiracy.
Even they never predicted that the socialists would make
school children worship the leader as a false messiah with absurd and ridiculous songs of praise.

Tailgunner Joe also underestimated the problem.
Can you imagine the howling of liberals if Joe McCarthy
had claimed Eisenhower had had a science czar who talked
about putting anti-fertility and sterilization drugs in the water supply???!!!

But sending butch Maoists out to speak and recruit at high school
commencements seems like an SNL parody. Worthy of Sterling Hayden and Dr. Strangelove.
The Alinskyites in the Obama White House are a parody
of Bircher conspiracy theories. So who needs theories?

[SWAMPSNIPER]

Everything the John Birch Society predicted has happened, or is happening now!!

[marron]

I guess he missed the punchline about Joe McCarthy, where in the aftermath of the cold war we found out that he was right.

And he isn’t at all suspicious of the fact that, ok, I get it, its crazy to think the O’s birth certificate is a forgery, which is why he won’t produce it, and the entire press establishment agrees that its crazy to even bring the subject up. And its crazy to ask to see his college records, and his passport records. You’d have to be a conspiracy nut to even think of it.

[Cringing Negativism Network]

It’s hip to be square. :)

[Stepan12]

ARe the birthers really all that nutty? Orly Taitz for example? excerpts from the link:

"It so happens that 5 years ago the prestigious publication AP knew that Mr. Barack Hussein Obama, II was in fact born in Kenya and therefore not eligible to occupy the Office of the President."
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"Obama Born In Kenya According To 2004 News Article

Apparently OBAMA supporters now have a lot of explaining to do to Judge Carter, Orly Taitz ( which is presenting it to him as we write ), and the rest of the AMERICAN PEOPLE...."

As for the John Birch Society, I don't think everything can be explained by a conspiracy, but I have at in on their meetings and they seem like patriotic Americans to me. Also, they knew I was Jewish and I pace "Little Green Footballs," I detected no racism with them. In fact, they had a black policeman as a member* (I spoke with him about the purposly hidden, racist mumerings of Karl Marx).

*Blacks in the John Birch Society don't call themselves black, but, instead, they use the better term, negroe.

While I agree with them, there are some things I cannot get away with calling people despite my attempts to avoid PC language.

[RichInOC]

Mr. Frank, a good number of the left still think that 9/11 was an inside job. And a widely respected writer for one of the nation’s oldest literary magazines still believes the immediate past Republican vice-presidential candidate’s infant son...wasn’t her son. The paranoid style, it would appear, has at the very least gone bipartisan.