Somebody Buy Chip Berlet an iPod
Chip Berlet, the Left-wing hireling of the big tax-exempt foundations, included a rather odd diversion in his recent post at MoreTalkThanAction, I mean Talk2Action:
I wonder if Chip is aware that a fair amount of podcasts are pre-recorded radio programs? This is certainly the case in Rushdoony's podcast Our Threatened Freedom. (I'm sure someone less scrupulous than Chip will cite the Rushdoony podcast as evidence that he's still alive and meeting daily with James Dobson for tea and tyranny!) These radio programs were recorded a number of years ago, and were graciously sent to us by a dear friend.
We are grateful for the MP3 technology that allows us to make these brief commentaries available to our listeners for downloading. I regularly receive emails of appreciation for posting these podcasts. I think Chip may be jealous though. More people care to listen to the dead man speak than peruse his blog postings.
Chip had more much to say in his blog post than the brief mention of Rush's podcast, but responding to his conspiracy theories can be tiresome. In this particular post, he tries to tie Christian Reconstruction to the John Birch Society (JBS). Why bother? Just ask us, Chip. We have no aversion to the JBS other than it's lack of a distinctly Christian worldview. Some of our readers are long time JBS members, and I always look forward to receiving my copy of The New American. I thank God the JBS is still contending with those same financial elitists that underwrite your Marxist employer: Political Research Associates.
Chip is bent out of shape over the Austrian school of economics (Mises) so pervasive within the libertarian circles of Christian Reconstruction, and/or the JBS. To an arm-chair Marxist like Chip Berlet, freedom should not be found in economics; for Berlet, freedom is best expressed socially in "liberty for sodomy." Economically, Chip prefers totalitarian controls. What Chip repeatedly fails to realize is how his efforts best serve the financial interests he is supposed to be opposing. That's why they finance him!
Who could possibly be more opposed to free market economics than oligarchies? Statist intervention is a fascistic front for the most elite financiers and global corporate interests. Socialism protects financial and corporate monolopies as the ruling class utilizes the apparatus of the state to stifle the upward mobility of competitors. Chip Berlet is just one of their many tools to promote socialist utopianism to his economically ignorant Left Wing constituency. That's why big money foundations support him. That's also why he dedicates so much editorial space to undoing "conspiracy theories" regarding the financial elite.
In the meantime, somebody should buy Berlet an iPod. He's not technologically-attuned, and I think he'd like to download some Rushdoony.
Hodge also cites his own work, which appeared as Making Sense of Your Dollars: A Biblical Approach to Wealth, published by Ross House Books, an arm of the Chalcedon Foundation, created by the progenitor of Christian Reconstructionism , Rev. R.J. Rushdoony. (I pause here to note the proponents of Rushdoony are so techno-attuned that Rushdoony has his own podcasts, even though he is dead.)Chip, I agree. We are techno-attuned, but I pause to wonder why you included this in your post. Chip apparently believes the truism of the Old West: "Dead Men Don't Podcast." But, at least I know that Chip has found the podcast. That gives me hope, because the less advertising dollars I have to spend, the better.
I wonder if Chip is aware that a fair amount of podcasts are pre-recorded radio programs? This is certainly the case in Rushdoony's podcast Our Threatened Freedom. (I'm sure someone less scrupulous than Chip will cite the Rushdoony podcast as evidence that he's still alive and meeting daily with James Dobson for tea and tyranny!) These radio programs were recorded a number of years ago, and were graciously sent to us by a dear friend.
We are grateful for the MP3 technology that allows us to make these brief commentaries available to our listeners for downloading. I regularly receive emails of appreciation for posting these podcasts. I think Chip may be jealous though. More people care to listen to the dead man speak than peruse his blog postings.
Chip had more much to say in his blog post than the brief mention of Rush's podcast, but responding to his conspiracy theories can be tiresome. In this particular post, he tries to tie Christian Reconstruction to the John Birch Society (JBS). Why bother? Just ask us, Chip. We have no aversion to the JBS other than it's lack of a distinctly Christian worldview. Some of our readers are long time JBS members, and I always look forward to receiving my copy of The New American. I thank God the JBS is still contending with those same financial elitists that underwrite your Marxist employer: Political Research Associates.
Chip is bent out of shape over the Austrian school of economics (Mises) so pervasive within the libertarian circles of Christian Reconstruction, and/or the JBS. To an arm-chair Marxist like Chip Berlet, freedom should not be found in economics; for Berlet, freedom is best expressed socially in "liberty for sodomy." Economically, Chip prefers totalitarian controls. What Chip repeatedly fails to realize is how his efforts best serve the financial interests he is supposed to be opposing. That's why they finance him!
Who could possibly be more opposed to free market economics than oligarchies? Statist intervention is a fascistic front for the most elite financiers and global corporate interests. Socialism protects financial and corporate monolopies as the ruling class utilizes the apparatus of the state to stifle the upward mobility of competitors. Chip Berlet is just one of their many tools to promote socialist utopianism to his economically ignorant Left Wing constituency. That's why big money foundations support him. That's also why he dedicates so much editorial space to undoing "conspiracy theories" regarding the financial elite.
In the meantime, somebody should buy Berlet an iPod. He's not technologically-attuned, and I think he'd like to download some Rushdoony.
