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18, AMERICAN
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* Issue 29-30 AMERICAN FREE PRESS
BEHIND THE SCENES WITH
MICHAEL COLLINS PIPER
Mystery
Man Gives Marching
Orders to Conservatives
By Michael Collins
Piper
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. Sometimes
the most significant information about current
events—and as to who really runs things
in official Washington—is coyly dropped
as a simple aside in The Washington Post,
often buried in its gossipy “Style”
section or its “Fed Page” which features
news of interest to the Washington bureaucracy
and the capital city’s insiders. These articles
are written in a glib, almost humorous, free-style
fashion, but they drive home their underlying
point all too well.
 A
perfect example of this subtle manner of news
dissemination came on July 5 when the Post
(on the aforementioned “Fed” page)
featured a profile of 39-year-old Paul Teller
who is, by any estimation, clearly one of the
most powerful figures on Capitol Hill and an “unofficial
liaison to the tea party movement” on behalf
of the Republican Party.
Despite
the fact he has never faced the voters in an election
and is hardly known at all to the general public,
let alone to most grassroots Republicans, whose
party policies he plays a major role in dictating,
Teller — described by the Post
as having been “reared by liberal Jewish
parents on Long Island . . . educated by liberals”
— is said to exercise “quiet power”
as “one of the most influential conservative
aides in Congress . . . who can influence the
thinking of lawmakers and the outcome of legislation.”
The
Post headlined the story, “Once
a child of the left, now resolute on the right,”
implying that Teller is in the mold of so many
of those self-described “former Trotskyites”
who emerged as the famed “neo-conservatives”
of the Bush era and who are now first and foremost
in ruling the Republican Party roost.
Said
to be of “ebullient nature, impeccable manners
and stealthy determination,” and “a
bomb thrower in the shadows,” Teller is
executive director of the Republican Study Committee
(RSC), a caucus of more than 100 GOP members of
the House of Representatives who call themselves
“conservative.” Through this position,
Teller has ensconced himself as a foremost figure
admired — and feared — in D.C. policymaking
circles. According to the Post, Teller
has “earned the respect of K Street lobbyists
and many conservative thinkers.” Among
those touting Teller’s attributes is Grover
Norquist — one of the driving forces behind
the birth of a certain segment of the tea party
movement — who said of Teller: “People
trust his judgment and want to know what he has
to say.” The fact that Norquist —
a member of the New York-based Council on Foreign
Relations (CFR) who often postures as if he were
a populist — is so enthusiastic about Teller
says much. Norquist was a singular force in helping
launch and publicize what has come to be known
as the “tea party” movement, or at
least its neo-con branch.
Teller
told the Post that his own thinking and
that of the RSC is “very in line”
with the tea partiers except, in the Post’s
rendition of Teller’s words, “when
things get ugly and hate-filled at some tea party
rallies.” The Post quoted Teller
directly as saying: “We don’t work
with those folks. . . . When you see an otherwise
legitimate rally about spending, about liberty,
role of government, and then you see one really
bad Hitler-type sign, as the token Jew of the
RSC staff, maybe that sign hits me harder.”
In
fact, tea party rallies are not known to be havens
for anti-Jewish or anti-Israel rhetoric or where
people boost pro-Hitler placards. Quite the contrary,
many tea party participants believe Barack Obama’s
policies are akin to those of the German leader
of the mid-20th century, a notion that —
while nonsensical — is nonetheless believed
by many in the tea party movement, due largely
to the constant emphasis about “Hitler and
the Nazis” that is drummed up in the major
media and in some “alternative” and
“patriot” media on a daily basis.
The
Post described Teller’s supreme
influence over GOP conservatives in the House
in a particularly graphic example: on Aug. 4,
2007 Teller — simply by sending out an email
message to all of the House RSC conservatives
— caused substantial numbers of them, at
the last minute, to reverse their votes on an
energy-tax bill before Congress that had been
initiated by the Republican leadership. “One
by one, in rapid succession,” noted the
Post, “the GOP ‘yes’
votes on the electronic voting board changed to
‘no.’ With Teller’s intervention,
conservatives had helped kill the Republican bill
and embarrass their leaders.”
Teller,
by the way, moved to his current post after having
served on the staff of Rep. Mike Pence (R-Ind.),
who is one of the loudest and most enthusiastic
Capitol Hill voices for the interests of Israel.
Pence recently described how every time the subject
of Israel is mentioned on the House floor, he
rushes there to hear what is being said.
While
Teller claims he is motivated by a devotion to
the Constitution and that he places conservative
principles before Republican partisanship —
which seem to be quite admirable views —
the fact that this one unelected individual plays
such a powerful behind-the-scenes role in GOP
affairs leaves some people unsettled.
Teller’s
influence recalls the famous quote from another
powerful Jewish conservative — 19th-century
British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli —
who, in his novel, Coningsby, attributed
these words to a manipulative character modeled
on money king Rothschild himself: “So you
see . . . that the world is governed by very different
personages from what is imagined by those who
are not behind the scenes.”
* * * * * * *
. . ..Michael Collins Piper can
be heard every week day night live on
the Internet at republicbroadcasting.org.
He is the author of Final
Judgment, the controversial
“underground bestseller”
documenting the collaboration of Israeli
intelligence in the assassination of
John F. Kennedy. He is also the author
of The
High Priests of War,
The
New Jerusalem: Zionist Power in America
, The
Judas Goats: The Enemy Within,
Dirty
Secrets: Crime, Conspiracy & Cover-Up
in the 20th Century,
The
GOLEM: Israel's Hell Bomb,
and Target:
Traficant. These
works can be found at America
First Books and FIRST
AMENDMENT
BOOKS: 1-888-699-NEWS.
He has lectured on suppressed
topics in places as diverse as Malaysia,
Japan, Canada, Russia and Abu Dhabi. |
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(Issue #29-30, July 19-26, 2010, AMERICAN
FREE PRESS)
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