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The Ghost of Vice President Wallace Warns: "It Can Happen Here"
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In early 1944, the New York Times asked Vice President Henry Wallace to, as Wallace noted, "write a piece answering the following questions: What is a fascist? How many fascists have we? How dangerous are they?"
Vice President Wallace's answer to those questions was published in The New York Times on April 9, 1944, at the height of the war against the Axis powers of Germany and Japan.
"The really dangerous American fascists," Wallace wrote, "are not those who are hooked up directly or indirectly with the Axis. The FBI has its finger on those. The dangerous American fascist is the man who wants to do in the United States in an American way what Hitler did in Germany in a Prussian way. The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method is to poison the channels of public information. With a fascist the problem is never how best to present the truth to the public but how best to use the news to deceive the public into giving the fascist and his group more money or more power."
In this, Wallace was using the classic definition of the word "fascist" - the definition Mussolini had in mind when he claimed to have invented the word. (It was actually Italian philosopher Giovanni Gentile who wrote the entry in the Encyclopedia Italiana that said: "Fascism should more appropriately be called corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power." Mussolini, however, affixed his name to the entry, and claimed credit for it.)
As the 1983 American Heritage Dictionary noted, fascism is: "A system of government that exercises a dictatorship of the extreme right, typically through the merging of state and business leadership, together with belligerent nationalism."
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Wallace seems to describe a Fox news, who poisons the channels of public information today.
Oh, you almost got it right, but you missed it at the end!!!!!
Fox News represents a very tiny bit of the 'channel of public information'. The MSM represents the majority and they are clearly biased to the Left. Just look at the way the MSM is handling the Global Warming email leaks (a.k.a., Climate-Gate). So Fox is a very, very minor problem, yet you focus on them. Unfortunately, you accept liberal fascism and you don't even know it! How sad for you.
Zen Koan: If a Librul is never taught that they are a Fascist and they fall in the forest, do they still make a sound?