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"W. Freind" <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 30 Jan 1998 07:03:26 -0800
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On Thu, 29 Jan 1998, Daniel Pearlman wrote:
 
> When you say that Robertson's paraphrase of Mullins' and
> Webster's rot is a "devastating analysis," I'm not sure
> what you mean.  Could you clarify?  ==Dan P
 
Oops -- pronoun slippage. "It" was supposed to refer to Lind, not
Robertson. My point was that Lind clearly demonstrates that Robertson was
simply tarting up the same old anti-Semitic conspiracy theories.
 
Bill Freind
 
>
> At 11:23 AM 1/29/98 -0800, you wrote:
> >A few days ago, someone (sorry, forgot who) mentioned Michael Lind's book
> >_Up from Conservatism_, which suggests Pound financed some of Mullins'
> >work. I was surprised it wasn't mentioned *why* Lind talks about Mullins.
> >
> >Briefly, Lind is showing the sources for televangelist and erstwhile
> >presidential candidate Pat Robertson's book _The New World Order_.
> >Robertson used *extremely* close paraphrases of both Mullins and Webster
> >to develop theory of a global conspiracy of Masons and bankers that goes
> >back to the 18th Century and financed the French and Russian Revolutions,
> >both world wars and the cold wars.
> >
> >About the only substantial change Robertson makes to his sources is
> >switching "Jewish bankers" to "European bankers." It's an
> >interesting and devastating analysis which he first presented in the NY
> >Review of Books a few years back.
> >
> >_New World Order_ was a bestseller, by the way. Some conspiracy theories
> >never go out of style.
> >
> >Bill Freind
> >
> Dan Pearlman
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