by Watchful Citizen » Thu Nov 03, 2005 4:39 pm
Chip is still kicking shit up and managed to get into another otherwise fine publication, Lip magazine. <br><br>He cleverly prattled about feeble old news, 'politically correct speech' to make progressives look rediculous and even explained Lakoff's framing while framing progressives badly. Clever monkey.<br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://lipmagazine.org/articles/featberlet_pc.htm">lipmagazine.org/articles/...let_pc.htm</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>I was so appalled by this, that I sent the magazine an email explaining what Berlet had pulled on them. Here's some of what I wrote to Lip Magazine:<br><br>"Congratulations on your fine magazine. Like it a lot.<br><br>But.<br><br>Some of us who study US intelligence control of media<br>were horrified to see Chip Berlet interviewed in your<br>magazine.<br><br>Chip Berlet works for the CIA doing the equivalent of<br>COINTELPRO work to lure lefties to his website and<br>listen to him so they won't get info about the CIA.<br>Berlet vigorously points to the FBI as dangerous and<br>deflects discussion away from CIA crimes with minimizing euphemisms.)<br><br>Berlet badjackets the most important whistleblowers<br>against the CIA (L. Fletcher Prouty, Mark Lane, Lyndon<br>Larouche who really is a crank though extremely<br>well-informed about CIA thus aiding Berlet's tactic) as<br>'right-wingers' and it works.<br><br>Berlet derides 'conspiracism' as a symptom of the<br>wacky paranoid right and left, a 'debunking' that is<br>rebutted by the federal criminal code and history of<br>criminals doing exactly that, conspiring.<br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://publiceye.org/articles/articles.php?topic=32">publiceye.org/articles/ar...p?topic=32</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>Berlet ingratiated himself with more of his intended<br>targets for psy-ops on the left merely by being in<br>your magazine and distracting from the sins of the<br>right by talking about very old jibes against the left<br>in a truly underwhelming topic hardly discussed since<br>the 1980s, 'politically correct speech.'<br><br>This tactic is trivialization of progressives and<br>distraction from right-wing crimes.<br><br>Berlet managed to FRAME PROGRESSIVES IN A DEROGATORY<br>LIGHT in the guise of explaining Lakoff's framing<br>concept (which is simply prejudging tone of speech) and thus conveyed slurs by pretending to<br>debunk them. <br><br>Quoting Berlet from his interview-<br><br>Berlet denied twice "that liberals and the left are<br>engaging in an Orwellian project of thought control to<br>force people to accept certain language, to re-educate<br>them."<br><br>"You reframe it to say that these people are coercing<br>you into a form of thought that is a hand-wringing<br>kind of liberalism. And then you talk about the<br>changing language and how silly it is..."<br><br>"So then you end up with progressives who say, "We<br>want political correctness," which is idiotic, and<br>then you have progressives who say they're against<br>political correctness. Either way, it's idiotic."<br><br>"One was in the hideous journal of the Midwestern<br>Modern Language Association, but it's worth wading<br>through the rhetoric to read it;"<br><br>etc. etc. etc. <p></p><i></i>