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-- National Vanguard, March 1984 --
Times and Manners
"Frisbee Lips"
Country music fans may constitute one of America's last strongholds of old-fashioned White values and attitudes -- at least, in a negative sense. They don't like communists, queers, and non-Whites, and advertisers who lust after their dollars will attempt to ram the standard controlled-media propaganda down their throats only at the peril of losing their business.
Some advertisers understand that fact of life so well that they are willing to scrap the media-approved "line" altogether in appealing to the a country-music crowd. One such is Washington, D.C., country-music radio station WPKX. From 5 a.m. to 10 a.m. every weekday the WPKX microphone is in the hands of disk jockey and call-in host Gary Gilbert, who must surely hold some kind of record for outspokenness on the airwaves.
Gilbert -- who goes by the name "Gary D" on the air -- has referred to occasional Black callers to his program as "frisbee lips" and similarly descriptive terms. One, who identified herself as a welfare mother, was told on the air by Gilbert: "If I could find you, I'd give you a tubal ligation with my bare hands."
A liberal caller who began arguing with Gilbert on the air was shut off with the series of epithets: "You commie, you bed-wetter, you hairless homosexual, you alien, you pinko limp-wrist!" On another occasion Gilbert urged his listeners to "shoot communists" and suggested that the Washington Post should be bombed.
The audience ratings of WPKX have soared since Gilbert went on the air late last year, but the Washington establishment has responded to him primarily with a somewhat pained silence. Part of this official indifference undoubtedly stems from the fact that Gilbert's listeners are nearly all rednecks, and in the eyes of Washington's rich and mighty what they listen to isn't important. Another part of the reason Gilbert is still on the air may be that he has carefully avaided saying anything about Jews.
Heroes for the Goyim
Televised spectator sports is big business, and advertisers naturally want to know as much as possible about the public's attitudes toward the athletes whose exertions keep the fans glued to their television receivers. One thing the experts on Madison Avenue have long known is that professional athletes are more likely than are members of any other occupational group to be role models for young Americans. That's one reason why advertisers have been willing to pay astronomical sums to Joe Namath to slosh Brut on himself, or to Muhammad Ali to zap roaches with a can of D-Con, in front of the cameras.
It makes sense for the advertisers to take polls and analyze the psychology of television viewers as can design advertising campaigns for maximum effectiveness. But profit, unfortunately, is not the only motive of many major advertisers: often they see the athletic spectacles they subsidize as tools for manipulating public attitudes on such issues as race. That is apparently the case with Miller Brewing Company, a subsidiary of Philip Morris, Inc. Miller has just released a 200-page report on a study it commissioned on American attitudes toward sports, and the motives of the sponsor are all too clear.
According to the Miller report: "Sports figures are the heroes of both young and old in American society. They represent glamour, great wealth, and the 'anybody can make it' syndrome. Most Americans (69%) have a favorite athlete. Younger people are particularly likely to have a favorite athlete (81% of those between 14 and 17 years and 84% of those between 18 and 24 years ...)."
The heart of the report, however, is its survey of the racial attitudes of sports fans. Miller pollsters asked people to evaluate the importance of various factors in their choice of a favorite athlete. They found that 79 per cent of the public rated athletic skill as "very important," and 18 per cent rated it as "somewhat important." But only 4 per cent would admit that the race of the athlete is "very important," and only 6 per cent said it is "somewhat important ."
When asked to name their favorite athlete, however, 89 per cent of the Blacks polled chose a Black, while only 27 per cent of White fans named a non-White athlete: a clear indication of lingering White racism. But the pollsters saw signs of progress in the age breakdown on this question. The number of fans who named a non-White as their favorite athlete ranged from a low of 14 per cent for respondents 65 and over to a high of 50 per cent for those in the 18-24 age group.
The chairman of the board of directors of Philip Morris, Inc., is George Weissman. According to his biography in Who's Who in World Jewry, Weissman is also a New York divisional chairman of the United Jewish Appeal, the principal agency for funneling money from U.S. Jews to Israel.
Dummy Cords and Gooks
A few weeks ago an American journalist saw something in Germany he would have preferred not to see. He was watching U.S. troops go through a winter exercise in a cold, snowy Bavarian forest. Their performance, in the journalist's words, was "sorry." The troops, he reported, were lackadaisical, bored, inattentive. Their instructors were visibly disgusted with them, and any effort to make them shape up and pay attention brought a response close to sullenness.
The journalist, Washington Times columnist Fred Reed, noted during the exercise that each man's M16 rifle was tied to him with a length of white cord -- something he had never seen before. When he approached one of the instructors afterward he asked what the strings were for.
The instructor answered: "When these guys get tired, sometimes they forget their rifles. Then we have to stop the operation and go look for the weapons. So we tie them together with dummy cords." Reed was incredulous. He inquired further and was told that approximately 70 per cent of the U.S. Army troops going through the winter exercises in Germany are of such low quality that they have to use "dummy cords."
That will be no surprise to anyone who has served recently with America's racially integrated, all-volunteer Army. And it shouldn't be a surprise to most of America's journalists, either, if they've been paying attention to the news coming out of the Pentagon and America's military training centers in recent years.
For example, while Reed was in Germany learning about "dummy cords," a reporter for the Chicago Tribune, Michael Coakley, was at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, preparing a feature article on one of the cadets there: Jean Nguyen, a female Vietnamese refugee.
Nguyen escaped from South Vietnam with her family in 1975 and came to this country unable even to speak English. She still couldn't speak it well enough to pass her freshman English course at West Point when she entered under the Army's new equal-opportunity recruiting program in 1981. But they let her try again during the summer, and now she is in her junior year.
Next year Jean Nguyen will be a commissioned officer in the U.S. Army.
"Legitimacy," 1984 Style
The government of the Republic of South Africa is, in the view of America's controlled news media, "illegitimate," because it is elected entirely by Whites; the Black inhabitants of the country are not permitted to vote. If they were, then South Africa would quickly go the way of every other country in sub-Saharan Africa, in which White colonial powers have turned over their rule to Black majorities.
One of the latter is Mozambique, which was abandoned to Black rule by Portugal a decade ago. Today Mozambique is a Marxist dictatorship, in which no citizens, Black or otherwise, vote. It is ruled by a former terrorist leader, Samora Machel, and is slipping rapidly into economic and social chaos. But, because it is not elected by Whites, Mozambique's government is "legitimate."
Some Black Mozambicans apparently don't appreciate that distinction, and they are waging guerrilla war against the Machel regime anyway. The government of South Africa has been supplying the Mozambican rebels with arms, because the government of Mozambique has been doing the same for Blacks trying to overthrow White rule in South Africa. The South African tactic has apparently worked, because now Machel wants an agreement with South Africa: if the South Africans will stop supplying the rebels in Mozambique with arms, he will not permit anti-South African terrorists to operate from bases in Mozambique.
White liberals in America are disturbed by the prospect of such an agreement, and the Washington Post headlined a recent news item about it thus: "Security Pact Offers S. Africa Legitimacy" (February 22, 1984). The way the Washington Post and its admirers see things, a formal agreement between the "illegitimate" government of South Africa and the "legitimate" government of Mozambique may have the undesired effect of making White South Africa less a pariah in the world community of nations.
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