Strong Evidence for NeoCon/Liberal - Deseret News Nexus
Posted: November 8th, 2017, 2:45 pm
This was written in response to Fiannan's thread: "McMuffin helped to get Republican defeated", and basically provides at least part of the answer he posed by asking: "Who is behind this dude, anyway?" see viewtopic.php?f=1&t=47006#p819479
There was an article in last Saturday's Deseret News ( November 4th), "A call to protect principles of freedom" that sheds some light on this. The article is about a 'seminar' given to the Deseret News and KSL editorial boards by Bill Kristol, billed as "an outspoken conservative critic of President Donald Trump". The seminar was also attended by Mitt Romney, Sen. Mike Lee and Boyd Matheson, president of the Sutherland Institute. So, go figure.
The article says: "Kristol, . . . . helped recruit BYU graduate Evan McMullin to run as an independent candidate for president last year".
The claim that Evans was picked to actually run for the Presidency with the idea of perhaps winning it is disingenuous because McMullin entered the race very late in the game and by his own admission, he only did so with the express purpose of pulling votes away from Trump and throwing the election into the House, not to win the election per se.
And one has to wonder whether Evan is related to Keith B. McMullin, who is president and CEO of Deseret Management Corporation ( http://deseretmanagement.com/about-us/leadership-team/ ; he was also a member of the Presiding Bishopric and a GA [member of one of the '70's quorums?]).
The fact that the Deseret News pushed Evan so hard and relentlessly lends credence to this possible connection, IMHO.
So who is Bill Kristol? He is a son of Irving Kristol, who was a managing editor of Commentary (I used to subscribe, before I woke up) among other things. Irving, along w/Midge Dector, et al, who come from the same group, belonged to Trotskyist groups in their earlier lives. BIll Kristol was also a co-founder of the Project for the New American Century (PNAC). So there you have it. QED on steroids.
These folks are almost the core of Neoconservatism and would be billed as Neocons, and are one of the point groups for 'Globalism'. They are certainly Straussian, as well, and could be described as global authoritarians in the Hobbesian sense. Conservative, they ain't. This is just their cover.
And when you couple this association with the recent interview that Doug Wilks, the DesNews' Chief Editor, had with Martin Baron, Editor of the Washington Post (Inside the newsroom: Talking fake news with the editor of The Washington Post: https://www.deseretnews.com/article/900 ... -post.html ), the Deseret News mind set is even further illuminated.
Baron takes what may be one of Trump's more hyperbolic statements about 'fake news' (if the quote is even accurate), and conflates it into the idea that Trump really isn't addressing actual 'fake news' (including highly biased/slanted 'news'), which abounds in CNN, WP and the NYT. One gets the impression that Wilks positively revels in being able to bask in the 'preeminence' of the WP chief editor.
This connection is reinforced when you consider that Clark Gilbert, a recent former president and CEO of the Deseret News, is a former Harvard Business School professor, who has "made the newspaper industry the focus of much of his academic work and consulted with The New York Times and The Washington Post" ( https://www.deseretnews.com/article/865 ... ditor.html )
So clearly, with the stories about these two recent seminars/interviews (Bill Kristol and WP Chief Editor), I would say the Deseret News has completely unmasked and uncloaked itself. No wonder they have been so anti-Trump, no wonder they avoid 9/11 truth, no wonder they were an acting arm of the NY Times, the Washington Post and AP (still an arm of AP).
You could also throw into the mix Jim Bennett, the son of ex Sen. Bob Bennett, starting a new 'centrist' or 'moderate' party' (United Utah Party ) and trying to co-op the traditional Republican Party. Another principal in this new party is Richard Davis, a BYU leftist PolySci Professor, who generally writes the most horrible 'left-wing'/liberal OpEds for the Deseret News that I've seen in the paper. Jim Bennett has been a regular columnist for the Deseret News for a few years, as well.
It somehow all becomes crystal clear.
The really disturbing thing to me is, in so far as the Brethren use groups such as these to get up to speed on things political, it begins to make sense why Bro. Ballard and Anderson lapse into the misuse of such terms as 'nationalism' and 'individualism', in effect turning perfectly good words into terms of opprobrium.
I wonder how far this trend will develop?
There was an article in last Saturday's Deseret News ( November 4th), "A call to protect principles of freedom" that sheds some light on this. The article is about a 'seminar' given to the Deseret News and KSL editorial boards by Bill Kristol, billed as "an outspoken conservative critic of President Donald Trump". The seminar was also attended by Mitt Romney, Sen. Mike Lee and Boyd Matheson, president of the Sutherland Institute. So, go figure.
The article says: "Kristol, . . . . helped recruit BYU graduate Evan McMullin to run as an independent candidate for president last year".
The claim that Evans was picked to actually run for the Presidency with the idea of perhaps winning it is disingenuous because McMullin entered the race very late in the game and by his own admission, he only did so with the express purpose of pulling votes away from Trump and throwing the election into the House, not to win the election per se.
And one has to wonder whether Evan is related to Keith B. McMullin, who is president and CEO of Deseret Management Corporation ( http://deseretmanagement.com/about-us/leadership-team/ ; he was also a member of the Presiding Bishopric and a GA [member of one of the '70's quorums?]).
The fact that the Deseret News pushed Evan so hard and relentlessly lends credence to this possible connection, IMHO.
So who is Bill Kristol? He is a son of Irving Kristol, who was a managing editor of Commentary (I used to subscribe, before I woke up) among other things. Irving, along w/Midge Dector, et al, who come from the same group, belonged to Trotskyist groups in their earlier lives. BIll Kristol was also a co-founder of the Project for the New American Century (PNAC). So there you have it. QED on steroids.
These folks are almost the core of Neoconservatism and would be billed as Neocons, and are one of the point groups for 'Globalism'. They are certainly Straussian, as well, and could be described as global authoritarians in the Hobbesian sense. Conservative, they ain't. This is just their cover.
And when you couple this association with the recent interview that Doug Wilks, the DesNews' Chief Editor, had with Martin Baron, Editor of the Washington Post (Inside the newsroom: Talking fake news with the editor of The Washington Post: https://www.deseretnews.com/article/900 ... -post.html ), the Deseret News mind set is even further illuminated.
Baron takes what may be one of Trump's more hyperbolic statements about 'fake news' (if the quote is even accurate), and conflates it into the idea that Trump really isn't addressing actual 'fake news' (including highly biased/slanted 'news'), which abounds in CNN, WP and the NYT. One gets the impression that Wilks positively revels in being able to bask in the 'preeminence' of the WP chief editor.
This connection is reinforced when you consider that Clark Gilbert, a recent former president and CEO of the Deseret News, is a former Harvard Business School professor, who has "made the newspaper industry the focus of much of his academic work and consulted with The New York Times and The Washington Post" ( https://www.deseretnews.com/article/865 ... ditor.html )
So clearly, with the stories about these two recent seminars/interviews (Bill Kristol and WP Chief Editor), I would say the Deseret News has completely unmasked and uncloaked itself. No wonder they have been so anti-Trump, no wonder they avoid 9/11 truth, no wonder they were an acting arm of the NY Times, the Washington Post and AP (still an arm of AP).
You could also throw into the mix Jim Bennett, the son of ex Sen. Bob Bennett, starting a new 'centrist' or 'moderate' party' (United Utah Party ) and trying to co-op the traditional Republican Party. Another principal in this new party is Richard Davis, a BYU leftist PolySci Professor, who generally writes the most horrible 'left-wing'/liberal OpEds for the Deseret News that I've seen in the paper. Jim Bennett has been a regular columnist for the Deseret News for a few years, as well.
It somehow all becomes crystal clear.
The really disturbing thing to me is, in so far as the Brethren use groups such as these to get up to speed on things political, it begins to make sense why Bro. Ballard and Anderson lapse into the misuse of such terms as 'nationalism' and 'individualism', in effect turning perfectly good words into terms of opprobrium.
I wonder how far this trend will develop?