torcher88
04-22-2004, 10:30 PM
Hadding got me thinking about old ADVs. Here are links to an old ADV broadcast by WLP that I like.
http://www.thirdworldplanet.com/adv/fs9903b.htm
http://www.natall.com/internet-radio/ts/022799.wav
Here is an excerpt where he quotes an interesting editorial published in a 1955 magazine. Interesting how long our malaise has been festering:
I have an old, yellowed editorial from the July 1955 issue of the magazine The Point. It is titled "Should Hate Be Outlawed?" In it an unusually bold Gentile editor, Leonard Feeney, is still taking issue with the Jews' campaign at that time to stamp out fascism by outlawing "hate" -- a campaign, he notes, which has been pushed hard by them since 1940. At least, 1940 is when the "anti-fascist" campaign became noticeable to Feeney. He writes:
On billboards, on bus and subway posters, in newspapers and magazines, through radio and television broadcasts, Americans are being assured and reassured, both subtly and boldly, that "Bigotry is fascism . . . Only Brotherhood can save our nation . . . We must be tolerant of all!"
The editor continues -- and remember, this was written 44 years ago:
The long-range effects of this [anti-fascist propaganda] campaign are even now evident. It is producing the "spineless citizen": the man who has no cultural sensibilities; who is incapable of indignation; whose sole mental activity is merely an extension of what he reads in the newspaper or sees on the television screen; who faces moral disaster in his neighborhood, political disaster in his country, and an impending world catastrophe with a blank and smiling countenance. He has only understanding for the enemies of his country. He has nothing but kind sentiments for those who would destroy his home and family. He has an earnest sympathy for anyone who would obliterate his faith. He is universally tolerant. He is totally unprejudiced. If he has any principles, he keeps them well concealed, lest in advertising them he should seem to indicate that contrary principles might be inferior. He is, to the extent of his abilities, exactly like the next citizen, who, he trusts, is trying to be exactly like him: a faceless, characterless putty-man.
http://www.thirdworldplanet.com/adv/fs9903b.htm
http://www.natall.com/internet-radio/ts/022799.wav
Here is an excerpt where he quotes an interesting editorial published in a 1955 magazine. Interesting how long our malaise has been festering:
I have an old, yellowed editorial from the July 1955 issue of the magazine The Point. It is titled "Should Hate Be Outlawed?" In it an unusually bold Gentile editor, Leonard Feeney, is still taking issue with the Jews' campaign at that time to stamp out fascism by outlawing "hate" -- a campaign, he notes, which has been pushed hard by them since 1940. At least, 1940 is when the "anti-fascist" campaign became noticeable to Feeney. He writes:
On billboards, on bus and subway posters, in newspapers and magazines, through radio and television broadcasts, Americans are being assured and reassured, both subtly and boldly, that "Bigotry is fascism . . . Only Brotherhood can save our nation . . . We must be tolerant of all!"
The editor continues -- and remember, this was written 44 years ago:
The long-range effects of this [anti-fascist propaganda] campaign are even now evident. It is producing the "spineless citizen": the man who has no cultural sensibilities; who is incapable of indignation; whose sole mental activity is merely an extension of what he reads in the newspaper or sees on the television screen; who faces moral disaster in his neighborhood, political disaster in his country, and an impending world catastrophe with a blank and smiling countenance. He has only understanding for the enemies of his country. He has nothing but kind sentiments for those who would destroy his home and family. He has an earnest sympathy for anyone who would obliterate his faith. He is universally tolerant. He is totally unprejudiced. If he has any principles, he keeps them well concealed, lest in advertising them he should seem to indicate that contrary principles might be inferior. He is, to the extent of his abilities, exactly like the next citizen, who, he trusts, is trying to be exactly like him: a faceless, characterless putty-man.