Reply #21: Understand that Jack Anderson was called worse than a "crank" [View All]

[BevHarris]

One of the all-time original investigative reporters, who broke many of the Watergate stories, broke the Savings & Loan Scandal, and many more...

Now he is considered legendary, but in his prime he was considered dyspeptic and a muckracker. He then decided to OWN the term "muckraker" -- when I worked with him, which was only a short time, about a year, before he retired, his business entity was called "The Muckrakers" and he turned right around and wore that term like a badge of honor.

Maybe being called a "crank" is a sign that history will remember Palast in very complimentary terms.

Perhaps we should turn around and make the words "conspiracy theorist" into honorary praise titles. Hey, what would we do if we met an actual "conspiracy" and were afraid to say anything because people might say we are "conspiracy theorists?"

Methinks whoever did the marketing on that term knew what they were doing. (Perhaps there was a marketing "meeting" to disuss talking points, and "call them conspiracy theorists" was one of the talking points they came up with.) OMG! The meeting itself would be a conspiracy. Conspiracies don't exist, therefore there are no meetings.

You see the power of skillfully marketed words?