Thursday, May 9, 2019

Mark Dice Cites John Birch Society as a Source


I’ve pondered whether or not Mark Dice is an ex conspiracy theorist or still a conspiracy theorist. Watch my video on that. Recently he released a video indicating he may still cling on to some of his old ways.

In his video recently posted discussing Alex Jones, Paul Joseph Watson, Louis Farrakhan, and Milo Yiannopoulos being banned from Facebook, Dice had a questionable book on his reading list. He also cited a questionable organization as a source.
The book Mark Dice described as "fantastic" was The Creature from Jekyll Island by G Edward Griffin. The book claims all the wars and regimes around the world are controlled by the Federal Reserve banking system along with other colorful claims.

Dice shows a video of G Edward Griffin over 50 years ago reading and quoting a fake communist directive. He says it at the 4:09 mark. Dice uses this clip to demonstrate fulfilled prophecy today that right wingers fear.
"When certain obstructionists become too irritating, label them, after suitable build-ups, as 'Fascist' or 'Nazi' or 'anti-Semitic,' and use the prestige of anti-Fascists and tolerance organizations to discredit them. In the public mind constantly associate those who oppose us with those names which already have a bad smell.  The association will after enough repetition become fact in the public mind.”
Dice acknowledges the clip is from the John Birch Society, a fringe conspiratorial anti-communist organization. But doesn’t seem to realize that the selected clip he presents gives an entirely fake quote. G Edward Griffin is a John Birch Society member.

This is one quote many ultraconservatives spread. According to the book They Never Said It which documents fake quotes and their origins, the quote is fake. Professor Paul F Boller Jr. from Texas Christian University who wrote the book has said:
"Researchers in the Library of Congress had been unable to locate such “directive” nor do specialists in Soviet affairs regarded it as authentic."-- Professor Paul F Boller Jr.
It would seem Dice is still the conservative he's always been. Not that there's anything wrong with that. The problem is he'll side with fringe organizations and take conspiratorial positions so long as it supports the conservative cause he wants. One of his only lines seems to be that he won't suggest these mass shooting are fake. He won't go that far.

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