QUOTE(It's the blimp, Frank @ Wed 23rd February 2011, 7:01pm)
Here's a good scene from the movie: Angels Flight provides a pretty damaging example of Dennis King intentionally misleading his readers
here, but then the real hilariousity comes with
WIll Beback's defense of King.
Okay. So let me get this:
this is King's website. King quotes LaRouche saying,
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It is not necessary to wear brown shirts to be a fascist….It is not necessary to wear a swastika to be a fascist….It is not necessary to call oneself a fascist to be a fascist. It is simply necessary to be one!
which in its original context is about LaRouche denouncing his
political opponents as fascists ... King sticks it under an image of LaRouche and Hitler, which conveys the impression that LaRouche is giving a Hitler salute. And with another out-of-context quote following, taken from
here. And Will says,
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While King did quote a line without giving extensive context, that isn't necessarily an error. He didn't assign any specific meaning to it and readers can interpret it for themselves. It's not an example that proves the book unreliable.
Now that is just excruciatingly vexatious dishonesty.
This juxtaposition is meant to be interpreted in one way, and one way only, to anyone with two brain cells to rub together: "LaRouche is a fascist and wants you to be a fascist too." And that is a misleading use of a quote, nothing else. Any editor who, like Will, doesn't admit that, and is not prepared to take King with a grain of salt after that, does not deserve having the assumption of good faith extended to him. No?