theDoctor said...
^^^ I think you would find that you are wrong
I think I find I am not:
Address before the American Newspaper Publishers Association (27 April 1961)
I appreciate very much your generous invitation to be here tonight. You bear heavy responsibilities these days and an article I read some time ago reminded me of how particularly heavily the burdens of present day events bear upon your profession. You may remember that in 1851 the New York Herald Tribune under the sponsorship and publishing of Horace Greeley, employed as its London correspondent an obscure journalist by the name of Karl Marx.
I want to talk about our common responsibilities in the face of a common danger. The events of recent weeks may have helped to illuminate that challenge for some; but the dimensions of its threat have loomed large on the horizon for many years.
(snip)
Its preparations are concealed, not published. Its mistakes are buried, not headlined. Its dissenters are silenced not praised. No expenditure is questioned, no rumor is printed, no secret is revealed. It conducts the Cold War, in short, with a war-time discipline no democracy would ever hope or wish to match. ...
This delivered just a couple of weeks after the Bay of Pigs. My underlining.
So no, of course he wasn't talking about communism, he was obviously talking about an army of giant alien ants burrowing in subterranean nests below the continental US and the need to distribute foil hats with the newspapers.
Keep the conspiracy crap to to the conspiracy threads, you lot are boring me st!tless with it. I don't think I'm alone in that.
