“News” from outside the bubble
The BBC’s program, Document, of July 23, 2007, as listed on the BBC website, with links to listen to the show, lists the following content. Note the reference to Prescott Bush:
The White House Coup
Document uncovers details of a planned coup in the USA in 1933 by right-wing American businessmen…The coup was aimed at toppling President Franklin D Roosevelt with the help of half-a-million war veterans. The plotters, who were alleged to involve some of the most famous families in America, (owners of Heinz, Birds Eye, Goodtea, Maxwell House & George Bush’s Grandfather, Prescott) believed that their country should adopt the policies of Hitler and Mussolini to beat the great depression.
Mike Thomson investigates why so little is known about this biggest ever peacetime threat to American democracy.
We’ve listened to the program, and it is a ball of cotton candy. There’s next to no substance to it, which is why you have never heard about this “biggest peacetime threat to American democracy” previously. The BBC report struggles mightily to work in George Bush’s grandfather, but the closest the BBC could get was the allegation of his having some role with some nefarious activities of the Hamburg America shipping company that had nothing to do with the main BBC story. One of the most amusing bits of the show is the allegation that the reason there are almost no documents in the National Archive about this great American fascist plot is that they have all been secretly removed.
In any event, it was apparently important to work the Bush connection into the program, however, because the punchline of the broadcast was that now, just like in the 1930’s, there are nefarious forces at work among the rich and powerful to snooker America and the West to sacrifice freedom for an empty promise of security. Quite a lot of work to make such a tired point. HT: Rick Moran
July 27th, 2007 at 4:47 pm
Does BDS know no bounds?