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Show ranifflMrtftMtffl SlmfiffrlfWtWtfli t ' I The National Enterprise, June 29, 1977 Page r twenty-seve- n F f Pragmatic Dogmatics The greater Carter conspiracy V r Americans, hand picked by Rockefeller, had among them Cyrus Vance, Michael Blumen-thaHarold Brown, Leonard Woodcock, Walter F. Mondale, and "a formerly obscure but promising Georgia governor." James Earl Carter. The Commissions executive director was Zbigniew Brzczinski. 5 e t t by Kent Shearer magazine has just hit the newsstands featuring two articles which, taken together, describe international intrigue at the very highest level. The reports could be titled collectively, The Plot that Produced Carter." A Since the By 1973, Richard Nixon had lost any favor he once had with the Eastern Establishment, and "the Trilateralists pinpointed a vital political objective: to gain control of the American presidency." Rockefellers brother. Nelson, had a poor record in the presidential sweep-stakeso he was passed over in favor of the Trilateralist Georgia an illuminati-lik- e elite of bankers and politicians from Europe and the i mid-fiftie- s United States has been regularly assembled, under the chairmanship of Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands, to discuss matters of mutual concern. Ther secret deliberations bear the label Bildenberg Conferences and have excited the attention and suspicion of many, particularly those on the far political right. s, As if by magic, things rapidly began to fall into place for Carter. The media, led by such Eastern Establishment organs as Time and CBS, painted each Carter advance in vivid technicolor and down played to the point almost of ignoring his numerous reverses. David Rockefeller a veteran Bildenberger and the head of Chase Manhattan Bank founded, with Bildenberg Conference approval, the Trilateral Commission. It was conceived to be a private vehicle for planning the industrial world's course out of the international monetary crisis (and John Connallys cowboy responses) of that period, away from the Nixon shocks' that had troubled Japan, into a new stability of banking arrangements among the First World and of trading agreements with the Third World." In ' ) staff." l. 1972, "Through 1975, Time's advertising in other magazines for its won campaign coverage looked more like an ad for Jimmy Carter: a e picture presented the candidate in a Kennedyesquc rocking chair under the caption: His basic strategy consists of handshakg his wav into familiaring and ity. Through 1976. . .Time's hagiographers were hard to separate from the Carter personal half-pag- strcct-corncrin- i In view of this type of treatment, it is a wonder that Carter did not triumph by a landslide. But win he did, and the Trilateral Conference had its American President. Promptly, no less than h of 16 Conference members (or over became the North American participants) top level advisors in the administration. The more prominent are Mondalc (Vice President). Vance (Secretary of State). Blumenthal one-fourt- (Treasury Secretary). Brown (Defense Secretary), Brzczinski (National Security Council), and Woodcock (Diplomatic representative to Red China). And where do you think appears this talc of international power brokers and their capture of our nation? Perhaps in the Birch Society's American Opinion magazine in an article written by conspiratorial theorist Gary Allen? Not at all. What you have just read comes from the pages of the supremely respectable Atlantic Monthly. Each quote is from cither Christopher Lydon. a former New York Times reporter now with public television, or Jeremiah Novak, a columnist for the Asia Mail. Lydon and Novak may have overdrawn their pictures, but at the very least they show that a poor ole Georgia boy can go a long way. When lie's backed by David Rockefeller, that is. j ! mr 5HAU- 81 AX AOP me yzemCHECKERS UW 06 aso- weea fBOH 101X00 15 0V- - - &) - His THROUGH oxc&a. farsweu. THE THE user- - v; HtnHOKe SWF-- V HIS smj eXKWSJME erntm. MEMOIRS WITH RAVlP fBDST - i na E3. cm BiuePTHeM (01X01 HAS TAK0U 0DROAKY, HI6H FII0AI0C6 $ 5PVID- idlTH M0RO SIS, SfllTIhteNTAtlTV AUP S&F- - PITV- - AWC? 6- HAS W ZCDW VZ0WCp AS A soei ART FORM- - oom is TVS sews- - LQ. Wizard of Oz revisited of the screen as Toto was exposing the Great Oz and did not ask, but demanded ihai he become the wizard he was reputed to be. by Parker Nielson In a column appearing in Media Watch. Ted Carpenter makes some points about the broadcasting industry which bear repeating. O Q. DC Ui Carpenter compares the TV media to the Wizard of Oz, for those of us in the TV audience "have rattled and shook like the Tin Man or put our tail between our legs like the Cowardly Lion in the face of the Great Broadcasting Industry (who) fill the screens and the living rooms they occupy with whatever suits their purpose." Powerful athletic franchises even alter their for commercial game to suit the demands of TV, taking time out breaks. And we accept, compliantly, the absurd TV game shows, fourth rate movies, horse operas and other trash put out for our consumption rather than demand that television become the positive cultural and educational medium for which it is so well suited. Carpenter carries the analogy further: 4 O O the little dog whose Remember Toto instinct for the jugular and unquenchable curiosity led him to pull back the curtain behind the big screen? What did he find? Who was the Great Oz? A simple huckster, an to entrepreneur, a seller of patent medicines the wit. an advertiser who was manipulating magic screen for his own personal benefit." And it was Dorothy, we should all remember, who stood in front The National Citizens Committee for Broadcasting (NCCB), on which I commented in my April 6 "Counterpoint," is applying Carpenter's "Toto principle" and, interestingly, getting the Oz response. Of the 12 advertisers named in NCCB's Fall. 1976, survey as being most violent," each of the top nine have taken public positions in opposition to violence and steps to reduce the amount of TV violence with which their products are associated. The action of General Motors, number two in the Fall survey, was so emphatic that it does not even appear in the latest rankings. Note the reaction of Robert D. Lund, a vice president of General Motors and General Manager of the Chevrolet Division: "The time is at hand when society is beginning to demand higher standards from many of its institutions. . .Weve got to go beyond ratings, beyond market share, beyong pragmatism. Advertising today has the power to help shape the quality of life. Our strategies of communications must put a tremendous emphasis on both integrity and innovation. The creation of powerful advertising is not an end in itself." These results are achieved, not through the device of censorship of which local "pornography" opponents arc so fond, but by giving the public a means to make their preferences known enabling them, like Dorothy, to stand up and demand that the Great 0 fulfill his destiny. |