So as I was reading this post on Feministing, I stumbled upon this link to a book by the editor of WorldNetDaily, the (unfortunately) "world's largest independent news site." (That a conservative and Christian-oriented "independent" news website managed to become the largest in the world is unbeleivable.)
The book is about how Americans apparently fell victim to evil through the use of very clever marketing and PR campaigns. And of course, this "evil" includes being gay and getting "unrestricted abortions-on-demand" (um, has he been living under a rock in Lapland for the past 20 years?)
Furthermore, he's spouting this nonsense:
Likewise, most of us mistakenly believe the "abortion rights" and "gay rights" movements were spontaneous, grassroots uprisings of neglected or persecuted minorities wanting to breathe free. Few people realize America was actually "sold" on abortion thanks to an audacious public relations campaign that relied on fantastic lies and fabrications. Or that the "gay rights" movement – which transformed America's former view of homosexuals as self-destructive human beings into their current status as victims and cultural heroes – faithfully followed an in-depth, phased plan laid out by professional Harvard-trained marketers.
Clearly, he's selling yet another conspiracy theory to try and convince Americans that they're being tricked into becoming "amoral" or "gay" - this is apparently the only way left to try and get people to hop back onto the conservative/republican/christian bandwagon. Never mind the fact that the only people who don't already believe this crap that would actually buy his book are those who would want to read it for the sole purpose of ripping every one of his arguments to shreds.
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You know what would be awesome? If the people who complained about "an audacious public relations campaign" or "an in-depth, phased plan" could ever actually name names. But they don't, because there aren't any. If there were really some concerted, organized, insidious plot to turn America against its own moral fiber or whatever, it seems like it ought to be obvious where exactly (no, "Harvard" is not an answer) it is coming from.
You know the whole "ZOMG evil gay agenda" line has always puzzled me... this guy seems to be saying that gay people don't want rights because they want to be treated fairly but that it was some mysterious outside force with the nefarious plan of making people treat homosexuals as human beings. It's like the bloody underpants gnomes!
That's one weird mustache twirling villain right there: "bwahaha my evil plan is coming to fruition, soon bigots wont be able to claim gay-panic as a defense mwahahaha! I have you now my pretties!"
seriously WTH?
[b]idiolect[/b], I totally agree with you - there's a reason these "in-depth, phased out PR campaigns" are so mysterious - because they [i]never existed[/i].
And [b]12sided[/b], that villain sounds like something super cheesy out of Batman - I love it! If only Batman had Bigot-Repellent Batspray.
I would actually be kind of curious to read his book and see how many lies I can find. Chances are it would go off the charts.