AInformative article(s)… balanced reporting. As many readers here are already aware, the Soviet saboteur, Ralph Ginzburg did two major muckraking pieces of yellow journalism, to destroy opponents, or perceived threats of the Soviet Union… portray them as “fascists” whilst the Soviet continued carrying on with their own anti-semitic, misogynist, homophobe, racist, gestapo boot-licking authoritarianism in the Soviet Union. The first victim, was Bobby Fischer, who was still just a teenager at the time, in the January 1962 Harper's Magazine, Ginzburg used his Soviet Payrolled paintbrush in re-making Fischer into an “antisemite, homophobic, misogynist,” traits which were NOT true of Bobby at the time, and confirmed by those who knew him.
Following that abusive article, Fischer sought out a church to join and withdrew from normal social interactions as he was then known to do… any coincidence Fischer chose a religion which kept the Saturday sabbath, like our Jewish counterparts kept? Frank Brady claimed Ginzburg was confronted, demanding evidence of the distortions alleged against Bobby, and Ginzburg, being a weasel, claimed he had burned the recordings and notes. Destroyed them, as if that exonerated him of “the burden of evidence.”
The second victim of Ralph Ginzburg was presidential candidate Barry Goldwater… unlike the pacifist Fischer, Barry Goldwater assembled a dream team of lawyers and sued Ginzburg in the supreme court, and won. The American Psychological Association was so embarrassed by Ginzburg's abuse of professional psychology, mailing out surveys to psychologists whom ethically NONE, should have responded, the APA changed their standards of conduct. Professionals are not to disclose “public” opinions with persons of whom they've neither acquainted as a client, or obtained consent. But a few licensed quacks did respond and Ginzburg cherrypicked the few surveys from unethical practitioners, discarding those surveys which didn't convey what he wanted to hear.
In his 1964 smear campaign in “FACT” magazine, Ginzburg proceeded to report things that were knowingly untrue, and this was presented in court. Ginzburg appealed to prejudices rampant at the time (i.e., Portraying Goldwater as a h****exual, to appeal to mainstream prejudice and bigotries. In the era, Psychologists classified the behavior among “mental illnesses”.) Ginzburg's tactic was a mirror of his Soviet employer, “…During the leadership of General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev, psychiatry was used to disable and remove from society political opponents (“dissidents”) who openly expressed beliefs that contradicted the official dogma.” (Soviet Legal and Criminological Debates on the Decriminalization of Homo*exuality) “…In the late 1950s and early 1960s, almost three decades after consensual…was declared a crime in the USSR…any deviations from “normal” …were condemned and criminalized by Soviet law.” (So Ralph Ginzburg really had some nerve, attempting to blacken Goldwater for supposedly being one (Goldwater fought till late in his life for the civil rights of the gay community serving in military)… whilst Ginzburg attempted to paint Bobby as a homophobe.)
Here's an insightful bit of history on Goldwater. NOT what the Soviet Union and certain establishment troublemakers have tried so hard, to present Goldwater to be… who did in fact, have a long-standing history of fighting FOR Civil Rights… unlike most of his ultra-conservative counterparts, his record demonstrates he fought against discrimination till his old age.
“…A member of the NAACP and active supporter of desegregation in Phoenix, Goldwater voted in favor of the Civil Rights Act of 1957 and the 24th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, but reluctantly opposed the Civil Rights Act of 1964, believing one of its provisions to be unconstitutional and a potential overreach of the …”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Goldwater
“…Most of the twenty-seven senators who voted against the Civil Rights Act were Southern segregationists. Goldwater was not a segregationist, nor was he any kind of racist. He was, in fact, a lifelong opponent of racial discrimination. At the beginning of his political career, as a city councilman, he had led the fight to end segregation in the Phoenix public schools; his first staff assistant when he went to the Senate, as Perlstein tells us, was a black woman; he was a member of the N.A.A.C.P. Goldwater voted against the Civil Rights Act because he believed, as a conservative, that the federal government did not have the power to compel states to conform to its idea of racial equality, or to dictate to individuals whom they must associate with.”
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2001/03/26/he-knew-he-was-right
“…Sen. Barry Goldwater of Arizona, the clear frontrunner for the Republican presidential nomination, announces on the Senate floor that he will vote against the civil rights bill.
Goldwater specifically objects to the public accommodations and employment parts of the bill, calling them an usurption of power by the federal government and says they “require for their effective execution the creation of a police state.”
He reiterates that he is opposed to discrimination of any kind, and points out that he voted for the civil rights bills of 1957 and 1960. But he says his conscience cannot let him vote for a bill he argues is clearly unconstitutional.
The next day, by a vote of 73-27, the Senate passes the bill. President Johnson will sign it into law on July 2.
Goldwater will win the GOP presidential nomination on the first ballot in San Francisco on July 15. He will suffer a crushing defeat in November at the hands of Johnson."
npr.org: Flashback This Day in 1964 Goldwater says no to Civil Rights Bill
Back to the New Yorker article, on the effectiveness of 1960's political propaganda:
“…Anti-([SOVIET IMPERIALISM]) was also undoubtedly the leading sentiment among many of the conservative groups… whose agitation helped seed the ground for the Goldwater insurgency. The decision to campaign against Goldwater as a dangerous warmonger seems logical today, but that is largely because of the effectiveness of the campaign. Goldwater is remembered as a man who proposed using nuclear weapons in Vietnam BECAUSE THAT IS HOW LYNDON JOHNSON WISHED HIM TO BE REMEMBERED. Most Americans who voted for Goldwater, though, did not do so because of his position on Vietnam and the worldwide Communist conspiracy. They voted for him because of his position on an issue THAT JOHNSON WANTED TO KEEP AS FAR FROM the center of the campaign as he decently could. This was the issue of race.”
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2001/03/26/he-knew-he-was-right
A situation full of pitfalls… I am guilty, just as Bobby Fischer and Goldwater, of being a stickler for U.S. Constitutional Law.
Why leave out the half of Goldwater's biography, where he spent most of his life, fighting FOR Civil Rights? Even when the NAACP were opposing Goldwater in 1964, the Rev. Martin Luther King, it is said, acknowledged that Goldwater was NOT a racist:
“…King said of Goldwater’s voting record, “While NOT HIMSELF A RACIST, Mr. Goldwater articulates a philosophy which gives aid and comfort to the racists” (King, 16 July 1964). King feared that Goldwater’s position that “civil rights must be left, by and large to the states” meant “leaving it to the Wallaces and the Barnetts” (King, “The Republican Presidential Nomination”). Electing Goldwater, King said, would plunge the country into a “dark night of social disruption” (King, 21 September 1964).”
“…To many, Mr. Goldwater was a man of contradictions. He ended racial segregation in his family department stores, and he was instrumental in ending it in Phoenix schools and restaurants and in the Arizona National Guard. But he also voted against the 1964 Civil Rights Act, contending that it was unconstitutional, and he backed restrictive amendments to earlier civil rights legislation. Blacks voted overwhelmingly against him in 1964.
Mr. Goldwater's relations with the news media were never smooth. He often complained that what he said was misinterpreted or distorted or both. During the 1964 campaign, reporters sometimes complained that Goldwater aides asked them to “write what he means, not what he says.” Mr. Goldwater said he would have voted against himself in 1964 if he believed everything that had been written or said on radio and television about him.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/daily/may98/goldwater30.htm
Russia's Anti-Semitism 30 Sep 1964, Wed The Daily News (Lebanon, Pennsylvania) Newspapers.com
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