meta_pixel
Tapesearch Logo
Log in
Angry Planet

TEASER: The Cold War Conspiracy That Shaped the Modern GOP

Angry Planet

Matthew Gault

War, Politics, Conflict, Government, History, News

4.3882 Ratings

🗓️ 4 February 2021

⏱️ 9 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Here's a look at what we've been working on in the premium feed. Sign up at angryplanetpod.com or angryplanet.substack.com.


Angry Planet has a substack! Join the Information War to get weekly insights into our angry planet and hear more conversations about a world in conflict.


https://angryplanet.substack.com/subscribe

You can listen to Angry Planet on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play or follow our RSS directly. Our website is angryplanetpod.com. You can reach us on our Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/angryplanetpodcast/; and on Twitter: @angryplanetpod.

Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/warcollege.



Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0

Love this podcast support this show through the a cast supporter feature

0:05.1

It's up to you how much you give and there's no regular commitment. Just click the link in the show description to support now. One of the problems with the reaction to the Oklahoma City bombing, and it's a good example to bring up, is that it was widely

0:25.8

understood as the act of one lone madman, Timothy McBae, and he had to accomplices.

0:32.3

This downplayed the extent to which he was part of a much broader white

0:36.4

nationalist underground. And if you don't recognize that there are other groups that are helping him or helping

0:44.8

splendor.

0:45.8

We won't go to that.

0:46.8

There's a kind of wider conspiracy theory that there was no other groups involved beyond McVeigh.

0:50.5

The point I try to make is rather that there's a broader culture of many people. The federal agencies were extremely effective, if you look at the the federal agencies were extremely effective.

0:57.0

If you look at the 1970s of infiltrating the clan and putting a stop to the

1:04.7

clan they've been very successful in placing the informers inside white

1:10.3

supremacist groups but it's critical if you're able to do that that you have

1:15.0

political support to act on that within the administration itself. So what's

1:21.2

happened in the last four years is that there's been very little support for doing that, right?

1:26.0

So in fact, we've had time, time again reports which says, look,

1:30.0

domestic white supremacist extremists are the most dangerous threat to the United States, much more than overseas terrorists.

1:38.0

And those reports have been downplayed, they've been ignored, they've been told this is not true, this is a slur on American

1:46.6

patriots.

1:47.6

So for example, again, people seem shocked that there are members of the United States Armed Forces or law enforcement

1:55.1

agencies who hold white supremacist views.

1:59.0

Anybody who's been paying attention, this has been clear, they've been infiltrating law enforcement, armed forces

2:06.9

have been a goal of white supremacist movement for decades. The FBI knows

...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Matthew Gault, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Matthew Gault and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.

Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.