Some Dare Call It Conspiracy: The John Birch Society and the SPLC | Hatewatch | Southern Poverty Law Center
That’s not terribly surprising if you’re familiar with the radical right in this country. The New American is the magazine of the John Birch Society (JBS), published by the organization’s media arm, American Opinion Publishing. The New American website is oddly discreet about this fact, and offers no visual clues that it is a Bircher operation. Only after clicking the easily missed “shop” button at the bottom of the page is its provenance illuminated, as if by a lightning bolt. The New American shop sells such distinctive DVD titles as “The Kinsey Syndrome,” detailing how the Rockefeller Foundation colluded with the “pedophile” Alfred Kinsey to destroy America’s postwar moral fabric; “9/11: Press for Truth,” which explores the government’s alleged role in the attacks by looking at known “discrepancies, lies, and cover ups”; and “The Robert Welch Presentations,” a six-DVD set featuring the wit and wisdom of the Massachusetts candy maker-turned-JBS founder, most famous in death as in life for his 1958 allegation that Dwight Eisenhower was an agent of the worldwide communist conspiracy.