More conspiracy theory—only this time it’s not the Holy Spirit, it’s ground and/or water pollution. Or maybe it’s The Gays!

h/t to slogger Michael of the Green

Kelly O—formerly a Stranger staff photographer, music writer, Drunk of the Week columnist, and more!—finished art school and a soul-crushing internship at a corporate advertising agency in Detroit,...

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  1. p.s. Some now suggest that the 1938 War of the Worlds broadcast was a conspiracy:

    “It has been suggested that War of the Worlds was a psychological warfare experiment. In the 1999 documentary, Masters of the Universe: The Secret Birth of the Federal Reserve, writer Daniel Hopsicker claims the Rockefeller Foundation funded the broadcast, studied the panic, and compiled a report available to a few. A variation has the Radio Project and the Rockefeller Foundation as conspirators.[8] In a theatrical trailer for his film F For Fake, Welles joked about such theories, jesting that the broadcast indeed “had secret sponsors”.

    While Mercury Theatre had no sponsor, CBS and the Rockefeller Foundation were contracting the leading crowd psychology researchers of the time; CBS had Edward Bernays, the Rockefeller Foundation had Ivy Lee. With the involvement of Frank Stanton in the Radio Project and his position in the CBS research department, it is possible the “creative curiosity” of Orson Welles came from conversations within these business circles. A detailed documentary on these circles and the ideas behind social manipulation was made by the BBC, called The Century of the Self.

    There has been continued speculation that the panic generated by War of the Worlds inspired officials to cover up unidentified flying object evidence, avoiding a similar panic. U.S. Air Force Captain Edward J. Ruppelt[9], the first head of UFO investigatory Project Blue Book wrote, “The [U.S. government’s] UFO files are full of references to the near mass panic of October 30, 1938, when Orson Welles presented his now famous The War of the Worlds broadcast.”

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_the_…)

  2. My father once spotted a rainbow in the sky and took the opportunity to complain about how teh gays co-opted the symbol, and why do they have to ruin everything?

  3. OMFG! I had forgotten about this.

    “This cannot be natural… what is oozing out of our ground?”

    Break out the tin foil hat, lady!!!

    Classic.

    Classic.

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