The Porn-Conspiracy connection

To their credit, the MSM was a bulwark of sanity on the JFK assassination and Warren Commission. They were never taken in by the ravings of the conspiracy theorists and, they have debunked and unmasked many of the charlatans who inhabit the fever swamps of the Grassy Knoll.

This is not true for one not so mainstream media. From the beginning, the skin magazines have been eager promoters of the conspiracy theorists.

Both Mark Lane and Jim Garrison were “honored” with Playboy interviews in 1967. The Garrison interview ran after CBS, NBC, and the Saturday Evening Post ran stories on the New Orleans DA that demonstrated that his investigation was a dangerous farce. Oui ran an admiring profile of one of the looniest of the CTers--Mae Brussells. Larry Flynt of Hustler actually subsidized Brussells and published her in his short-lived magazine The Rebel.

For a couple of decades the conspiracy promoters were sure to get a hearing in Playboy, Penthouse, and their sticky kin.

[In the 1970s] assassination literature found its way increasingly into soft-core pornographic magazines….it is worth noting the appearance of numerous articles, both multipart series and forums, in magazines such as Penthouse, Playboy, Swank, Gallery, and Playgirl.

Art Simon Dangerous Knowledge: The JFK Assassination in Art and Film, 1996

I’m sure there are many interesting facets to this nexus of the obsessively clueless and the one-hand mags. It certainly does suggest Bill Whittle was right with his description of the CTers:

I’ll tell you something. These conspiracy theorists that ignore that miserable, pathetic, self-aggrandizing egomaniac named Lee Harvey Oswald, or glorify him as a patsy and a hero, do so because deep down inside they realize something unpleasant about Lee Harvey Oswald and themselves.

They are Oswald.