Here is a fine example of Conservative morality. It's ok to lie to the media. It's ok to lie. Sounds familar doesn't it. Sounds like the moral values of Dr. Goebbels. "If you tell a lie, tell a big one."
In this case outspoken American rightwhingnut Paul Weyrich admits he lied to , lied not misled, a Canadian reporter during the election, about the American Right wing involvement with Harper and the Conservatives, according to the Globe and Mail.
And he is rather proud of himself for it too. So if you lie, then why should we believe anything you say.
Mr. Weyrich acknowledges in the commentary that he evaded questions last week from
Canadian journalists who called asking him about an e-mail he wrote to fellow conservatives urging them to stay mum if they were asked to comment on the coming Canadian vote.
In the e-mail, copies of which were obtained by The Globe and Mail and The Canadian Press, Mr. Weyrich said that voters in Canada had been led to believe that U.S. conservatives were "scary" so it would be best if right-wing leaders kept their mouths shut before crowing about a likely Tory win.
Last week, Mr. Weyrich declined to confirm that he wrote the e-mail and said he did not know Gerard Chipeur, the Calgary lawyer and Harper supporter who had asked Mr. Weyrich to get the no-interview message across to other U.S. conservatives.
But in this week's commentary, Mr. Weyrich recounted the story with some gloating. He explained how Mr. Chipeur had contacted him "out of concern for what the left-wing Canadian media could do to obtain from some unsuspecting United States conservative an off-the-charts quote which could be hung around Prime Minister-elect Stephen Harper's neck."
Mr. Weyrich described how he had asked his associate, Bob Thompson, to write up the e-mail seeking to muzzle his fellow conservatives until after the election, only to discover that the message had soon been leaked to the press.
"After speaking with two Canadian reporters, I chose not to return such telephone calls. In the end, there just wasn't enough there to make a fuss, although there was potential to blow this sky high. Conservatives did not conduct interviews. Small victory."
And he accuses Canada of being cultural Marxists, there's that shade of Dr. Goebbels again hovering in the rhetoric of the American right.
The essence of propaganda consists in winning people over to an idea so sincerely, so vitally, that in the end they succumb to it utterly and can never again escape from it. Goebbels.
Poor American rightwhingnuts can't tell the difference between social democracy, socialism and Marxism. But what the hell do you expect from cultural conservatives who take the bible literally and think dinosaurs lived with men.
Here is another ironic comparison between Dr. Goebbels and Mr. Weyrich;
both of them suffered from disabilities.Perhaps their outrageous views are a compensation factor, or it could just be a coincidence of history.
And yet because of his disability Weyrich supports public ownership of rail and transit, by right wing standards that would be a form of National Socialism.
Who is Paul Weyrich and why should you care? Read this; Harper: Free advice from Weyrich, godfather of the right
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