February 22, 2018
MY CORNER by Boyd Cathey
The School Shooting “Publicity Fraud” and Gun-Banning Ideology:
Establishment Conservatism’s AWOL Attitude
Friends,
Two
seemingly unrelated stories intersect this morning:
First,
there is the very curious role of a student at that high school in Broward
County, Florida, where the recent tragic shootings took place: one David Hogg.
If you viewed any television after the massacre, you would have seen Hogg,
eloquently describing the situation and appealing for strict gun control…and on
CNN, bashing President Trump and staunchly defending the FBI for its handling
of the Nikolas Cruz case.
But
that wasn’t all. Come to find out that there was video footage of Hogg, prior
to his on camera appearances on CNN and elsewhere, practicing his lines—and not
just trying to remember what he was going to say (that many of us would do),
but repeating exact wording and
phrases, as if he had been instructed
on what to repeat. As I watched that short video clip, instantly I thought: “He’s
been coached—he’s acting. Look at his movements, the way he holds his head, how
he practices placing emphasis on certain words and phrases…It’s like he’s
preparing to go on stage in some theatrical production.”
The
right wing Internet site Gateway Pundit thought so as well, and on Monday they
placed the video clip online, and it “went viral,” as the current descriptive
term is applied.
And
then, all Hell broke loose.
Gateway
Pundit, like other right wing and conservative organizations, had been
scheduled to have a presence at the national meeting of CPAC, the Conservative
Political Action Conference, currently happening in the Washington DC area. But
on Wednesday, Gateway Pundit’s head, Jim Hoft, received news that his
organization was “disinvited” to CPAC.
Here
is his account [http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/02/case-missed-exposed-school-shooting-survivor-turned-activist-david-hoggs-father-fbi-appears-coached-anti-trump-lines-video/]:
Chelsea Clinton disapproved of
the post. And on Wednesday I learned that I was kicked out of CPAC [Conservative
Political Conference, which is having its national meeting this week] because
my writer Lucian Wintrich posted this article.
I must clear something up though. I actually know about the earlier
discussions that were going on at CPAC. I know they did not want Gateway Pundit
to participate in any panel at the conference. They believed some awful lies
from GOP elites (and the liberal media) that The Gateway Pundit was a hate site
that supported racism and white supremacism. I spoke directly with the person
today who was helping to spread that lie.
I do think it is
important to note once again, since the CPAC organizers have NO IDEA who we
are, that the during election The Gateway Pundit was the fourth most influential conservative
news source in America.
Following the 2016
election Harvard and Columbia Journalism Review funded
research (with money from the Soros Open Society) to find out what happened to
their dear Hillary. They discovered that our website packed a punch.
Since that time The Gateway Pundit has been shadow-banned, blocked,
smeared, sued and abused by liberals
as well as GOP elites. And our audience continues to grow despite the constant
attacks. I was willing to share my story to CPAC panel but they did not want me
to attend their annual convention.”
But
by no means was that the end of it. The video was still “out there,” and the
incriminating video evidence that might raise questions had been viewed by over
200,00o viewers on YouTube. Something had to be done…and, sure enough, the
operators of YouTube (one more adjunct of the Deep State, no less) decided to
pull the video and ban it [I am listing the Web site, but it may not be
available now]. No need to raise uncomfortable questions and divert attention
from the ongoing narrative that “guns must be banned” and “Trump is the devil
incarnate.”
Here is how the Far Left AOL and The New York Daily News recounted this
process of “protecting us” from information that might raise even the slightest
questions or doubts about David Hogg or the spinning gun-control narrative [https://www.aol.com/article/news/2018/02/21/youtube-removes-video-saying-parkland-shooting-survivor-is-actor/23367870/]:
“A top trending video on YouTube suggesting an
outspoken survivor of the Parkland school shooting is actually a “crisis actor”
has been taken off the video platform. “This video has been removed for
violating YouTube’s policy on harassment
and bullying,” a note replacing the clip read Wednesday afternoon. In the days after suspected gunman Nikolas
Cruz opened fire in the halls of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School,
David Hogg has demanded government officials consider stricter gun laws. The
17-year-old student’s candid critiques of the U.S. gun violence epidemic landed
him at the center of a smear campaign, sparked in part by a YouTube video
titled, “DAVID HOGG THE ACTOR”…. Still, conspiracy theorists held up the interview as well as clips of
Hogg practicing lines for a television appearance to suggest the teen is a
“crisis actor” — or a person who follows tragedies and high-profile situations
as they happen.”
But in defending Hogg AOL and The Daily News were also
forced to admit that this was not the first time that Hogg had been involved in
“newsworthy publicity” events. There was an earlier situation when Hogg was
interviewed after an incident on a California beach, a confrontation between a
lifeguard and beachgoers. “We felt threatened,” Hogg said of their encounter
with the lifeguard. “He seemed unpredictable.” And then, “The Eagle Eye [his high school newspaper] contains several
mentions of the teen, who interviewed Rep. Ted Deutsch last month in his
quest to become a professional journalist. He and [Emma] Gonzalez [who
always seems to appear with him!] are also mentioned in an article from last
December about a weather balloon project and both students have also served as
leaders in several capacities at the Parkland school.”
And additionally, we find that Hogg’s father is…an FBI
agent!
Here is how Gateway Pundit unraveled the account:
“Immediately, these students-turned-activists threw up some red
flags.
In
what was initially as an incredibly odd move for a high school student,
Hogg vehemently defended the FBI and placed the blame squarely on the
President’s shoulders…. before admitting that his
father was in the FBI.
Two
survivors of the Florida school shooting slam politicians' responses to the
massacre, calling them "disgusting" and "pathetic" http://cnn.it/2EEsZGQ
“I think it’s disgusting, personally. My
father’s a retired FBI agent and the FBI are some of the
hardest working individuals I have ever seen in my life,” proclaimed David Hogg
to CNN. “It’s wrong that the president is blaming them for this.”
David Hogg, one of the acting
students recruited by the same minds behind the anti-Trump Women's March, is
having trouble reciting his lines: pic.twitter.com/D6dolHEJVT
— Lucian B. Wintrich (@lucianwintrich) February 21, 2018
Continuing, Hogg demonstrated his complete lack of
American civics knowledge. A clueless Hogg appeared unaware of the
fact that the President is not ‘in control’
of each department and branch of government, but must
work and negotiate with them. Regardless, Hogg pushed the notion that
Trump is in charge of the FBI.
“He
can’t put that off on them. He is in charge of them and these people,
what they love to do is push this off on bureaucracy and say it’s not them,” he
said. “He is in charge of the FBI … the executive
branch is supposed to enforce laws and as such, President Trump is in charge of
that and the FBI.”
Anyone
who has been following the news could tell you that many in the FBI
have been working against the president from the
start, with the most notable case involving collusion between the FBI, Obama
Administration, and the Clinton campaign to push the false ‘verification’ of the junk Steele Dossier. It has also been widely reported that the FBI received tips well in advance of the Florida school
shooting and decided, for whatever reason, not to act.
The fault for this tragedy lies squarely on the
shoulders of the FBI, who could have prevented this back in January.
Adding to the “credibility” of Hogg, in a
recently uncovered early cut from one of his interviews it appears he was
heavily coached on lines and is merely reciting a script. Frequently seen in
the footage mouthing the lines he should be reciting. Hogg becomes flustered
multiple times, is seen apologizing, and asking for re-takes.
Why would the child of an FBI agent be used as a pawn for
anti-Trump rhetoric and anti-gun legislation? Because the FBI is only looking
to curb YOUR Constitutional rights and INCREASE their power. We’ve seen similar
moves by them many times over. This is just another disgusting example of it.”
And this is where our second item
intersects with this first story. For although CPAC’s organizers have disinvited
Gateway Pundit from attending—due to the unleashed insanity over “gun violence”
and the frantic desire to “do something,” with thousands of traumatized and
brain-corrupted (by their teachers and parental neglect or malfeasance) students
marching in the streets, they did invite to the conference this year Nigel Farage,
leader of the BREXIT effort in Great Britain (and former leader of the UK
Independence Party) and Marion-Marechal Le Pen, niece of Marine Le Pen, who
heads the anti-immigrant, anti-EU National Front Party in France.
Well, this was the
proverbial straw that broke the camel’s back for the Neoconservative National Review, in particular the
pot-smoking, pot-bellied Jonah Goldberg, who thundered his disapproval in a
series of messages to CPAC organizer, Matt Schlapp [http://therightscoop.com/jonah-goldberg-goes-at-it-with-cpacs-matt-schlapp-over-marion-le-pen/
].
And Goldberg was joined by others of the Establishment, “respectable” “conservative
movement,” including various Fox pundits (e.g., former Bush speechwriter Marc
Thiessen), who supported the socialist-statist-globalist Emmanual Macron during
the last French presidential election.
The
logic for Goldberg et al is so—so—very
profound: “Those Le Pen women represent
a political party, the National Front, that is…shudder!...nationalist,
populist, anti-European Union, anti-immigrant and insufficiently ‘capitalist,’ and
thus not ‘conservative,’ so, therefore, we reject it and supported the
socialist globalist Macron in the last French election!”
Does
it not remind you of the same kind of “reasoning” that Never Trumpers Goldberg,
Kevin Williamson, and David French (all at the pseudo-conservative National Review) vomited up in the lead
up to the 2016 elections? And that were echoed by The Weekly Standard, various GOP “establishment” slime creatures,
and others, anxious to maintain their seats at the Deep State table and sucking
at the Deep State hind tits?
This
is the kind of ersatz “conservatism” that is being passed off today (by the
dominant Neocons) as “conservative gospel” but that only confirms the power of
the Potomac swamp. I’ve written about this previously, and my good friend Paul
Gottfried has authored three significant volumes which examine the subject in
detail (i.e., After Liberalism, Multiculturalism
and the Politics of Guilt, and The
Strange Death of Marxism), and above all, Conservatism in America (2007)…and I should mention other scholarly
offerings, including studies by Drs. Claes Ryn and Gary Dorrien.
CPAC
director Matt Schlapp’s defense of inviting Le Pen, fascinatingly, was rather
tepid. Unwilling to actually defend the revival of a truly traditionalist and
nationalist “conservatism” in France (as exemplified by the National Front), he
was compelled to dissimulate and declare that Marion Le Pen was a “fresh
neo-liberal voice” that CPAC needed to hear—an obvious dodge, an attempt to stave
off furious establishment Neocons like Goldberg, still licking their wounds
over the rejection of the flaccid and intellectually corrupt and the ever-sliding-to-the-left
“conservative movement” in the 2016 primaries. (Goldberg, by the way, embraces
same sex marriage, transgenderism, etc., but is presented as one of “America’s
leading conservative voices.”)
And
that brings us back again to the first story. CPAC is, apparently, trying—as it
has done in the past—to steer something of a “middle course,” a trajectory to not
upset (most of) its donor base, mostly fat cat GOP-types who favor open borders
and don’t give a hoot about who marries whom, as long as the dollars and cheap
labor keep flowing in—while not scaring off newer, more Trumpian folks whom it
hopes to inveigle in its web.
Inviting
“nationalist conservatives” like Le Pen and Farage is okay, as long as their
appearances are pitched—disguised, if you will—as “broadening CPAC’s reach.”
But
that “broadening” has limits…and questioning the actors—like David Hogg—in the
current gun hysteria goes too far for them.
The
“conservative movement,” as we see it and know it today, is rotten to its core.
Four decades of infiltration into the movement by those ex-Trotskyite Marxists,
the Neoconservatives (who brought with them a Trotskyite praxis and
intellectual framework on “equality,” “racism,” and “feminism”), and who
displaced an earlier genuinely traditional, anti-egalitarian Right wing (with
figures like my mentor, Russell Kirk; Southern conservative Mel Bradford;
sociologist Robert Nisbet; Catholic traditionalist Frederick Wilhelmsen; and
political leaders like Jesse Helms, and, yes, Barry Goldwater), has had
incalculably disastrous results: Primarily, continued advance of the “farther Left,” enabled by a miserably inept conservatism that in many ways shares presumptions about equality,
race, gender, and globalism that its supposed enemies also possess.
You
don’t win political AND cultural wars basing your action on postulates also
undergirding the philosophy of your enemy, or by compromising or by banning
real opposition to the Deep State and its zealous globalist minions and the managerial
class.
This,
indeed, is what “draining the swamp” is all about—and we aren’t talking about
just a few buckets full of fetid water.
Politically,
it’s time to “clean out the Augean stables,” as the hero Hercules was directed
to do in Greek mythology. Or, as they say down in Johnston County: “Time to
show the bastards the door!” Dump the Establishment GOPers, cancel your National Review subscriptions, and support
“Deplorable” candidates who will change this nation’s course and who will, yes,
“make American great again.”
Dr.
Boyd D. Cathey
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