Mitt Romeny Recommends Radio Host Read book by Fringe Conspiracy Theorist

[Ex Lux lucis]

Cleon Skousen, author of "The Naked Capitalist" and "The Nake Communist" was a conspiracy theorist, who believed, among other things, that former President Dwight. D. Eisenhower was a secret communist agent.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleon_Skousen


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Boy, tonight is just a complete Romney goldmine.

[Ex Lux lucis]

He also thinks that another of his books was "worth reading"
http://www.nationalreview.com/articl...mark-hemingway

" As police chief of Salt Lake City, Skousen was such a law-and-order man he lost his job in 1960 after raiding a friendly card game that happened to include the mayor. On his way out the door, the mayor called Skousen “an incipient Hitler” and said that Skousen “ran the police department in exactly the same manner as the Communists in Russia operate their government.” "

[Ex Lux lucis]

http://www.nationalreview.com/articl...mark-hemingway

" Which was kind of an ironic comment, considering that two years earlier Skousen had written a book entitled The Naked Communist, which even for 1958 is so irrational in its paranoia that it would have made Whittaker Chambers blush. According to Skousen, The Manchurian Candidate was a documentary — he earnestly believed Communists sought to create “a regimented breed of Pavlovian men whose minds could be triggered into immediate action by signals from their masters.” "

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http://www.nationalreview.com/articl...mark-hemingway

"Skousen’s Communist paranoia may have reached it’s apotheosis in 1970 when the Mormon church and BYU in particular began receiving a tremendous amount of external pressure to change the church’s policy on denying the Mormon priesthood to blacks. Skousen, then a professor at BYU, published an article entitled “The Communist Attack on the Mormons” and noted that critics were employing Communist tactics which were “distorting the religious tenet of the Church regarding the Negro and blowing it up to ridiculous proportions.” "

[Matt Collins]

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I haven't read Skousen's books, but his family continues his legacy (Mark Skousen at the Mises Institute, Joel Skousen at World Affairs Brief) and they are very much pro-Paul. 5000 Year Leap was recommended by Glenn Beck and I've heard is popular with tea partiers. I've heard that Naked Capitalist is supposed to be very similar to Creature from Jekyll Island, a book that Ron Paul has praised.

There's nothing you can use against Romney here that couldn't also be used against Paul, so I recommend forgetting about it.

edit: I just noticed Joel Skousen is on the Alex Jones Show today. Ron and Alex have a good relationship but Alex is considered to be a conspiracy theorist