December
16
Ep. 0175: The Real George H.W. Bush, with Russ Baker
In light of the recent death of former President George Herbert Walker “Poppy” Bush (1924-2018), CJ was very happy to speak to investigative journalist and author Russ Baker (author of Family of Secrets: The Bush Dynasty, America’s Invisible Government, and the Hidden History of the Last Fifty Years, and head honcho of WhoWhatWhy) about the reality of Poppy Bush, which is quite a contrast to the media hagiography that’s been ongoing since his death.
Join CJ & Russ as they discuss:
- How Russ got into the investigations that eventually became Family of Secrets
- A bit of the backstory on the Bush family
- The ways in which the mainstream portrayal & perception of Poppy Bush are wildly different from the truth, including his involvement with American intelligence going back decades before his tenure as CIA director in the 1970s
- Poppy Bush’s interesting connections to many major events of 20th century American history, including the JFK assassination and the Watergate scandal
- What this sort of history (and the degree to which it is deliberately ignored) says about the political system and mainstream media in the United States
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External Links
- Russbaker.com
- Russ Baker on Twitter
- WhoWhatWhy.org
- FamilyofSecrets.com
- Russ’ article about John Hinckley Jr., the attempted assassination of Reagan, and the Bush connections
- Carl Bernstein’s 1977 Rolling Stone article about CIA influence over the US media
