Crusader Mike from the Say Wha?? Desk
In 1970, I was a sophomore at Holy Cross. Teddy Kennedy was running for re-election, and there had been that recent unpleasantness on the Cape, at Chappaquidick. So, to distract attention from that problem, his campaign paid the expenses of a frothing at the mouth, Socialist Workers Party candidate to dog his footsteps and act crazy at rallies and meetings. Teddy would graciously allow the madman to rant insanely...and he did so, quite well. If the radical nutbags were after Teddy as opposed to the Republican, well, obviously they saw the biggest threat to their future (such as it was) not to be the reactionaries, but the liberals. Teddy, of course, as always, won in a landslide.
Reason for the history is this piece. A courageous journalist, a weatherman no less -- as opposed to those of us who wonder wither man? but I digress -- has been thrown off the air for advancing the perfectly reasonable theory that the Japanese Mafia has used a Russian Electromagnetic Generator to cause the increase in hurricanes. He is now investigating this theory full time. Hooray for him.
But, one wonders, whither the Carlsyle Group, the Trialteral Commission, and Karl Rove. If they aren't behind this guy, they should be. Nothing like a conspiracy theory to divert the mouth-breathing yahoo hordes. Mencken would have a field day...