LaRouche Breaks Containment, and Some Aren't Happy

August 16, 2009 (LPAC)—A pair of reports, yesterday, demonstrates the truth of Lyndon LaRouche's statement, today, that "I am out of the box, and I can't be put back in it." The first, a lengthy screed by Chris Weigant, on Huffingtonpost, laments the fact that LaRouche has broken the decades-long media containment of him and his policies, and that they better get him contained again. In reference to all of the videos of angry people screaming at their Congressmen, Weigant writes: "I truly believe that some of the overpaid well-coiffed talking heads on television finally woke up and became embarrassed that they were lending so much legitimacy to people who morally would be referred to as the 'tin-foil hat brigade' (see for example, followers of Lyndon LaRouche). There's an unspoken rule in the mainstream media that once a consensus is reached that any one person or group is from 'the fringe,' then all they deserve from that point on is ridicule. Look at how they treated Dennis Kucinich or Ron Paul in last year's campaign for instance."

Weigant goes on: "But the media found themselves in a quandary last week. They loved the 'angry person screaming at member of Congress' video so much (and ran it so many times) that they knew they were culpable when the fringier of them 'crossed the line.'"

Then, as if to prove LaRouche's point that containment has been broken, comedian Bill Maher's "Real Time" show on HBO "crossed the line," and only a few hours after Weigant's article was posted. A video report of Rep. Adam Schiff's town hall meeting in Alhambra, California, prominently featured the Obama-Hitler sign and other LaRouchePAC signs and the LPAC Nazi health care pamphlet. Maher's on-the-scene reporter, Dana Gould, interviewed an LPAC organizer telling Gould that, "In 1939, Hitler set up an independent committee that would decide who was going to recieve treatment and who wasn't... Obama is calling for it to have the same exact role." This is used, of course, to counterpose the "angry mobs," with the thousands of people lining up for free health care at the Los Angeles Coliseum, who aren't angry but rather "hopeful."

Then, the show cuts back to the studio with Maher and Gould and their guests to continue the discussion. When Gould begins to talk about "So much Hitler," outside the Schiff meeting, New York Times journalist Ross Douthat points out the "LaRouchePAC" label on the signs that were so prominent in the video segment. "That's Lyndon LaRouche," he said. He described LaRouche as a "super left-wing crazy man," and then notes how, in Washington, D.C., LaRouche's people are handing out literature at the subway entrances all the time.

Indeed, the containment has been broken.