Word: birching
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Atlanta, Kathryn McDonald stoically faced TV cameras to declare that her husband Lawrence, a staunchly conservative Democratic Congressman and national chairman of the ultraright John Birch Society, had been the victim of "an act of deliberate assassination." She charged that it was no accident that "the leading anti-Communist in the American Government" had been on a plane that was "forced into Soviet territory" and shot down. She linked her husband's "murder" with the assassination attempt against Pope John Paul II, blaming both on the Soviets...
Because of such unorthodox political views and accusations against the government and its officials, the Society asserts that Washington conducted a national and "vicious smear campaign' against the John Birch Society in the 1960s...
...pointed our fingers at all the powerful people in the United States," he says. "There was a deliberate attempt to make the John Birch Society look lousy. How can you make us more lousy than calling us racist, anti-Semitic, pro Nazi, pro-KKK and other junk like that...
Such criticisms were, however, no doubt warranted two decades ago. In Bulletin, published by the John Birch Society in 1965. Robert Welch wrote that"...there comes a period of some 40 years when an abnormal percentage of the Communist Conspiracy was of Jewish ancestry. And these traitors to their race--as well as to mankind--worked and schemed and plotted to have themselves hated, not as Communists, but as Jews...
Even McManus concedes that at "one time" anti-Semitism pervaded the John Birch Society. But he adds that anyone who accuses the JBS today as being anti-Semitic is a downright liar. The ADL, wouldn't say that any longer...