Barry Bishop♗

Francesca Hong was born to non-citizen immigrants. In other words, she has citizenship in the U.S. because she was born here when her parents were on student visas. And now she is running as a socialist in order to dismantle the American way of life. Tell me more about how this isn’t a problem.

my favorite Larry David moment is neither Seinfeld nor Curb but Jiminy Glick

Last night I watched the stream of the self-proclaimed Nazi that was manning the Antelope Hill table at the Ogden conference. About an hour later Ogden put out their own video statement on the controversy surrounding the event which I watched this morning. Both were extremely clarifying while at the same time expressing rather opposing viewpoints. While owning full responsibility for and denouncing the distribution of the so-called "Buy White" flyer which included businesses and organizations ranging from sorcery and witchcraft to a pornographic mens' magazine, they seemed to plead ignorant regarding the secular publisher's presence there at the same time. Brian spent a good portion of the video reasonably articulating the need for reading original sources while doing historical research. He carefully explained how helpful it was for him personally to read multiple volumes of both Churchill's and Hitler's own words before coming to conclusions about WW2. He argued that publishers like Antelope Hill provide such materials. Which is why, he claims, that when over 100 vendor inquiries came across his desk Antelope Hill was selected for one of the 50 tables they had to fill. How they became an official sponsor and present at the VIP mixer the night before wasn't clarified. So according to Brian, his understanding was that Antelope Hill just published historical original source material, he was only minimally aware of their presence at the conference, and not aware at all of any problems until the Twitter mob came after him. But he also takes full responsibility for the distribution of the flyer, confronted Antelope Hill for violating contractual terms in doing so, and admits more oversight will be necessary in the future. This is noble and good. Here's where things get tricky. Antelope Hill sends Adam, a self-avowed Nazi, whose stated purpose is to "normalize" the tenants of National Socialism. He does this via his podcast and according to him he was doing what he does on his podcast for 2 days straight, 12 hours a day and he had a great time doing it. Adam felt very comfortable, thought the speakers were awesome and had nothing but good to say about the people he met. He highly recommends the conference to his friends. In the same stream he also makes the following statements in this order: First he brags about what he was doing there. "we're just selling Third Reich literature at a Christian conference is all." Then he explains why he is a Christian too. "that's why I am a Christian. Because there is a lot of overlap between the moral principles laid out in National Socialism and the moral principles laid out in Christianity." "National Socialism," he then asserts, "is the only solution to our modern problems." "The more people we have normalizing these things the better." Which is what he went to Ogden to do. And apparently he found a very receptive audience. An audience so receptive that allegedly not a single one sounded the alarm about his presence or his products to the leaders of the event during the 3 days he was there interacting with people. In fact, Antelope Hill claims to have sold out most of their merchandise while having friendly conversations "about our common Christian faith." So despite the many fine things Bryan articulated in the video, these questions remain glaring. 1. Why did Antelope Hill send an outspoken Nazi to represent them at this event and why did he feel as welcome and at home as he claims? 2. How is it possible that of all the ministry staff, family and church members, speakers, and like-minded attendees, not a single one perceived anything amiss and spoke up about it? 3. Who bought all the merchandise? Were there really that many WW2 history buffs at this family conference that already had shelves full of Churchill autobiographies and were now ready to finally see what "Uncle Hitler," as the publisher refers to him, had to say in his own words? When one spends their life peddling words, their audience is the visible fruit of their labors.