Conspiracy Theory Quotes
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835-1910
This hatemonger’s writing against the Freemasons and the Jews where used by the American Catholic demagogue, Father Coghlen as a model. In Ireland, he could not obtain many supporters for his hateful and absurd ideas. His own Archbishop John Charles McQuaid said him: “He is not regarded as a man of balanced judgment.” Ireland was the first country to recognize the rights of minority faiths such as Judaism as equal with the majority faith in its constitution, but Fahey tried to organize a movement to change the constitution but could find few followers. Fahey was far less influential in Ireland than he was through Cather Coghlen in America.
McCarthy had turned hyperbole into an art form.
Even the President was not spared during the McCarthy era. The red scare was so pervasive, that a lunatic fringe ultra right wing organization could call the President a “communist dupe” and be taken seriously be much of the media who were themselves intimidated and might be accused of being communists at any moment. It was a very low point in America’s history.
