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White_Male_Canada
09-01-2006, 02:54 AM
Liberal Air America radio host Mike Malloy had his show abruptly “terminated” on Wednesday, allegedly for financial reasons. The network is failing but there could be another factor behind the Malloy debacle. There is still fallout from Malloy’s recent decision to turn over two-and-a-half hours of his three hour show to a former associate of ex-con Lyndon LaRouche, a perennial candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination who campaigns against what he views as British and Zionist control of the U.S. political system. The LaRouche organization is frequently labeled as a cult.

The former high-level LaRouche associate, Webster Griffin Tarpley, was on the Malloy show to promote his view that unnamed U.S. officials carried out the attacks on 9/11 and blamed Muslims for the terrorist acts. But Tarpley went beyond this to suggest that leftist Noam Chomsky, a supporter of the Hezbollah terrorist group that attacked Israel, is a rich puppet of the U.S. military industrial complex and a tool of the Zionists. The hapless Malloy seemed to gobble it all up.

It appears that, in this case, the looney left became too looney, even for Air America’s backers. And those backers, according to a July 17 article in the Washington Post, were going to include the so-called Democracy Alliance, a group of rich liberals led by convicted inside-trader and billionaire George Soros. It turns out that Tarpley, who wrote the book, 9/11 Synthetic Terror: Made in USA, thinks Soros has been one of those behind-the-scenes money manipulators telling Alan Greenspan and the Federal Reserve what to do. You can read all about it on page 116 of the Tarpley book. It probably didn’t look good for Air America to be featuring someone who has been critical of the network’s hoped-for financial savior.

Indeed, the controversial Malloy interview with Tarpley may have jeopardized the Air America financial rescue plan.

“Web” as Malloy called him, declared his belief that an “invisible government” was behind 9/11 and the hijackers were “patsies.” He declared, “You’re dealing first of all with a military coup by an invisible government or rogue network faction inside the U.S. command structure. It is a U.S. operation from beginning to end with some help perhaps from the British.” Malloy, who described himself as a friend of the recently defeated and erratic Rep. Cynthia McKinney, did not disagree.

Tarpley also told Malloy, without any rebuttal, that former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani was a “destroyer of the crime scene” at ground zero and a “functionary of the invisible government.”

All of this might be tossed aside as the rhetoric of a political extremist were it not for the fact that Tarpley, described by Malloy as “probably the premier spokesman” for the “9/11 Truth Movement,” is not the only former LaRouche associate who has achieved a place of prominence on the political left. Robert Dreyfuss, another former LaRouche collaborator, is a contributor to TomPaine.com, The Nation, Mother Jones, and Rolling Stone. Dreyfuss recently spoke at the New America Foundation on the topic of the “phony clash of civilizations” between Islam and the West. When he worked for LaRouche, Dreyfuss exposed various “Zionist” plots.

http://ww.nationalledger.com/artman/publish/article_27268094.shtml