scope wrote on Dec 21
st, 2021 at 7:04am:
Typical response from a brain dead moron, cant prove me wrong about your claim that the CIA "invented" the term conspiracy theory, so decide to attack using lies and steering the thread away from his bullshit claim.
So show me where I defended the CIA.
I showed that your claim was more bullshit no defence of the CIA involved, this is the point when wombat ignores any further posts about his CIA claim,and will turn the thread off on a tangent simply because he cant defend the initial claim, oh! looks like he has already done that
I said above that it was naive to think that the CIA would admit to using the term for nefarious purposes and your attitude prompted me to educate you on the crimes against humanity committed by that agency.
Now to your accusation that my claim is BS. Far from it:https://www.amazon.com/Conspiracy-Theory-America-Discovering/dp/0292757697/ref=s...And who is Prof. Lance deHaven-Smith?
Florida State University News - The Official News Source of Florida State UniversityExpert: Lance DeHaven-Smith
Professor Emeritus
DeHaven-Smith is an expert on demographic and partisan trends and voting behavior in Florida, as well as crime/issues that leave election outcomes in doubt.
https://news.fsu.edu/experts/lance-dehaven-smith/Furthermore,
Professor Lance deHaven-Smith holds the Reubin Askew Eminent Scholar Chair in Florida Government and Politics in the Reubin Askew School of Public Administration and Policy at Florida State University. He received his B.A. degree from the University of Georgia, and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the Ohio State University. Dr. deHaven-Smith is the author of over a dozen books on topics ranging from the philosophy of science and political philosophy to American politics and elite political crime. His most recently published books are The Battle for Florida, which analyzes the disputed 2000 presidential election, and Conspiracy Theory in America, which traces the pejorative "conspiracy theory" label in American public discourse to a CIA propaganda program initiated in 1967.
In a 2006 peer-reviewed journal article, Dr. deHaven-Smith coined the term "state crimes against democracy" (SCADs) to delineate a crime category for Watergate, Iran-Contra, Plame-gate, and similar conspiracies in high office. In February 2010 the SCAD concept was the topic of a special issue of American Behavioral Scientist. In June 2010, the journal Public Integrity ( the ethics journal for the American Society of Public Administration) published a symposium issue on SCAD theory and research. Other articles on the SCAD construct have been published in the peer review journals Contemporary Politics, Administration and Society, and Public Administration Quarterly. The SCAD construct directs inquiry to a comparative analysis of known and suspected political crimes to identify patterns in targets, timing, policy consequences, officials who benefit, and other characteristics that points to criminogenic institutions and circumstances.
Dr. deHaven-Smith’s scholarship is nationally recognized. He has appeared on Good Morning America, the Today Show, NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw, CBS Nightly News with Dan Rather, the Jim Lehrer News Hour, CNN, NPR, and other national TV and radio shows.
"The CIA wrote a memo to all their media assets ... and (told) them that if they hear somebody criticizing the Warren Commission report just say that they're a conspiracy theorist ...
so they wanted to create this term to discredit critics of the Warren Commission... but it didn't exist in the American political lexicon prior to 1967-68..." Your original claim is BS, The CIA did not invent the term in the 60's.
But now ,as always you want to change your claim, now you are claiming that the term
Nice try snowball but no cigar.
This is another method used by your ilk, get caught out, change the claim. Pathetic.
As always, fill your post with mostly irrelevant detail, who cares what Dr. DeHaven-Smith said in 2005, it's irrelevant to your original claim.
Just give up, you are out of your depth, as usual.