Comments on: Weaving the tangled web of deception: confessions of an April fool

By: Ed Driscoll

Ed Driscoll — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 07:00:00 +0000

Neo wrote:

"Welles was quite the enfant terrible, wasn't he? Although I do think he was most likely suprised at the extent to which people believed the show, he probably was not all that displeased."

Welles' last commercially released film, F For Fake explored how easily people are manipulated--I wonder what he'd think about today's brand of tricksters: Michael Moore, Morgan Spurlock, Al Sharpton, Ward Churchill, et al.

By: neo-neocon

neo-neocon — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 07:00:00 +0000

Blogger back up. Good old Blogger!

By: neo-neocon

neo-neocon — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 07:00:00 +0000

Well, at the moment I can’t connect to Blogger and post today’s post. It’s there, ready and waiting–the first of a two-part series on coercion and mind control, starting with the Carroll kidnapping and then seguing into the strange case of Patty Hearst.

So, hopefully Blogger will return to business as usual shortly, and I can publish it. Till then, all I can do is comment.

By: neo-neocon

neo-neocon — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 07:00:00 +0000

ed driscoll: Welles was quite the enfant terrible, wasn't he? Although I do think he was most likely suprised at the extent to which people believed the show, he probably was not all that displeased.

By: neo-neocon

neo-neocon — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 07:00:00 +0000

kcom: It's always amused me that Bergen was a ventriloquist on the radio. After all, even I could be a ventriloquist on the radio.

According, to my mother, source of all important cultural information for that era, Bergen was a great ventriloquist for the radio because he was actually a pretty lousy ventriloquist, technically speaking. But he was funny.

Wikipedia backs her up.

By: SippicanCottage

SippicanCottage — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 07:00:00 +0000

I've heard recording of WC Fields and Charlie McCarthy.

Fields: Your mother was a gate leg table.

McCarthy: If so, your father was under it.

Fields: Quiet, or I'll put a Japanese Beetle on you.

By: kcom

kcom — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 07:00:00 +0000

"a time in our recent history when it was considered entertaining to have a ventriloquist on the radio!"

We have one now. He's called Phil Hendrie. Okay, maybe not exactly a ventriloquist (I'm not sure) but close enough.

By: SippicanCottage

SippicanCottage — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 07:00:00 +0000

In keeping with my odd fascinations with extraneous things, consider that Neo touches on the detail that there was a time in our recent history when it was considered entertaining to have a ventriloquist on the radio!

By: dloye

dloye — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 07:00:00 +0000

Thanks Neo or ReNeo… I read your blog daily, but getting a laugh is surely an added bonus. Tough to do the right thing!

By: triticale

triticale — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 07:00:00 +0000

There was a general lack of advance anouncement this year. My wee wifey heard about it on the classic rock station’s morning show; not a reliable source. I spent several minutes with google before I decided to set the clock forward, and still made a point to check whether Windows had reset it’s clock before getting dressed to go pick her up from work. She told me that a full 50% of first shift didn’t arrive on schedule.