The Great American Hoaxer
By: Guest Authors
Charges are heating up, but temperatures aren’t—Al Gore may replace Orson Welles as America’s Greatest Hoaxer.
By William Lavelle
The words, â€œWe interrupt this broadcast,â€ followed by dramatic accounts of Martians invading America, were heard by 6 million radio listeners one infamous Halloween night in 1938. Millions of panic-stricken Americans, first relieved then furious, found out theyâ€™d been hoaxed. They had just heard the radio adaptation of The War of the Worlds, by H.G. Wells, produced and narrated by Orson Welles. Accounts of the hoaxâ€™s impact and motivation vary widely, but all agree the broadcast launched Orson Welles into infamy as Americaâ€™s Greatest Hoaxer – a title that is now in jeopardy from a much bigger hoaxer: Al Gore, the front-man for the global warming hoax.
Orson Wellesâ€™s hoax lasted 60 minutes, and if â€œClimate-Gateâ€œ charges are true, Al Goreâ€™s hoax will have lasted 17 years and panicked billions more Americans and people from every nation in the world. The similarities between these hoaxes are many; some coincidental, and some frightening. Thankfully, for the purposes of this article, all are entertaining. Letâ€™s look at just a couple.
We know Orson Wellesâ€˜s motivation for the War of the Worlds hoax was fame. If you have seen Al Goreâ€™s movie, An Inconvenient Truth, especially the section devoted to Goreâ€™s thwarted presidential hopes, you can deduce both men and were motivated by the pursuit of fame; yet, in an ironic twist, both may only be remembered in infamy.
Next and more importantly, the Martian and Climate hoax front-men have publicly supported socialist policies. Conspiracy theorists believe Orson Wellesâ€™s broadcast was much more than a publicity stunt. They believe it was a dry run of an opening salvo for a plan to takeover America, spearheaded by the American communist Party, and sponsored by Joseph Stalin himself.
Many Americans are unaware of how strong the Communists movement was in 1938 America; their power had reached its apex and was only stalled by the start of World War II that very same year: 1938. Al Gore was born 10 years after Wellesâ€™s hoax, and has a vast public record of support for socialist beliefs. Many of the solutions proposed for global warming are suspiciously in line with communist doctrine. Could Al Goreâ€™s climate hoax be the second attempt at a communist takeover of America?
Many of the conditions that existed in 1938 America exist today: a resurgence of socialism, a deep recession, a fear of foreign entanglements. A famous person once said, â€œA crisis is a terrible thing to waste.â€ After missing their chance in 1938, the Worldâ€™s communists will not let another opportunity slip away. Years from now, our kids will learn about the global warming hoax and Americaâ€™s Greatest Hoaxer: Al Gore, much the same way Baby Boomers learned about Orson Wellesâ€™s, The War of the Worlds, Martian invasion hoax–as a entertaining story and lesson on the responsibility free people have to stay educated and informed to avoid falling for the next great American hoax.
December 5, 2009
Author of, Carbon Zero, and the childrenâ€™s book series, Snowball and Blowhole, William Lavelleâ€™s passion is delivering children, â€œanother opinion,â€ on global warming and its causes.