07-01-2011, 10:47 PM
(This post was last modified: 07-01-2011, 11:13 PM by Albert Doyle.)
If you want to see a perfect Operation Mockingbird journalistic hit read this allegedly sympathetic article by Sheila Weller in Vanity Fair Magazine. First she opens by pretending she is confused by the lack of any outwardly organized celebration of the 40th anniversary of Hendrix's death. She then explains it by emphasizing at the beginning of the piece that Jimi died from a drug overdose and this is why there's no organized event or celebration in Jimi's hometown of Seattle. (Somehow Elvis didn't suffer any similar occurrence or lack of national coverage of the Memphis-based celebrations of his anniversaries)
So after making sure Jimi's "drug overdose" was conspicuously advertised at the top of the piece Weller now offers some real classic CIA defamation sliming material by suggesting Jimi was revolutionary because he offered a newly-accepted form of "androgyny". Weller lists how Jimi wore flamboyant clothes, made up his stage hairdo with curlers, and had "girlish" feminine handwriting. For those well versed in Hendrix happenings, this latest attack, that could easily be called a classic intel character assassination which exposingly visits all the weak points they would consider to be a target's "vulnerabilities," comes after Charles Cross divulged Hendrix's previously unseen army psychological records claiming Hendrix said he was gay. This revelation occurred right in the middle of the Bush years at a time when the full force of US psy-ops was engaged. Cross forgot to mention that Hendrix was trying to get out of the army at that point, and was using the classic claim that would instantly get you out, and that he had obviously been advised to do so by others. No doubt weakening a well-known anti-war 60's icon's image with the claim of homosexuality at the heart of the WMD era was not something that would be out of line with already known psy-ops practices. In any case, Weller has now continued the campaign by subtly referring to Jimi in the same vein. Something I've never seen before in decades of Hendrix articles. Jimi has now been very subtly and delicately painted as being latent in an article that alleges to sympathize with him for being one of the first brave stars to do so. Classic of intel methods, the poison is subtly delivered in gifts of praise and the trojan horse of Weller claiming Jimi being part of the "cult of liberation". Weller then concludes that the American male's Wayne's World hero Jimi had a vulnerable side not know to them. (Or perhaps a "vulnerable side" available for cheap Mockingbird psy-ops distorted character assassination?)
From here Weller describes how she did a Rolling Stone Magazine article on Hendrix from her 1969 visit to Jimi's house at Woodstock. She then describes how frail and underfed Jimi was. Forget the fact Jimi was quoted in the same books she references as having abnormal strength and stamina. She then calls him insecure and mumbling. Next she calls him a fussbudget granny who tidied-up and emptied ashtrays compulsively (more effeminizing), and finally she shows he had strange tastes in music according to the non-rock-'n-roll albums he kept (Weller mentions Marlene Dietrich). Face it, the image we are being drawn here is of a show tune-loving gay stereotype being very subtly delivered. Forget the fact that Jimi is mostly known through history for his superhuman macho hyper psycho sexuality. British newspapers didn't warn mothers to lock-up their daughters when Hendrix was due to arrive because Jimi was some frail drag queen, yet Weller seems to think we need to be shown some unknown history. I wonder why?
Weller then steps back and summarizes in hindsight that she now realizes Jimi was well on the way to his final demise from drug abuse and looked it. The "drug overdose" death is then re-accented again just to reinforce the premise. It is then followed-through with a subtle and indirect suggestion that Jimi was a revolutionary and misunderstood person because he could not come out with his true self and was denied by the times. What Weller is saying here is that we need to re-examine Jimi and his persona as a person who was denied being what he really was and probably abused drugs because of the frustration. The frustrated latent figure is now being openly painted in full flame by Weller, without saying so directly, while concealing it in phony praise and personal reverence.
It's no surprise to me that Weller worked for Rolling Stone. A magazine that has now gone underwater after succumbing to the creeping tide of Mockingbird infiltration. In March 2010 Rolling Stone did an article about Jimi's last days. It concentrated mostly on the formation of Hendrix's Electric Lady Studio and his final European tour. Magazines with Hendrix on the cover usually experience good sales. This issue of Rolling Stone had such a prize Hendrix stage shot on its cover. Just as I expected when the article got to Jimi's death it covered it in one short paragraph that mentioned Jimi used heroin, but not to the point of addiction, and died of a barbiturate overdose. The ground-shaking claim by Jimi's manager Michael Jeffery's road crew member Tappy Wright, that he heard Jeffery confess to murdering Jimi, wasn't even mentioned. And this was 10 months after the internet and media were buzzing with the claim. Why Rolling Stone of all things didn't feel it necessary to even mention this epic scandal while gratuitously positing that Jimi used heroin, even though most credible Hendrix sources agree Hendrix did not really use heroin, is beyond me. Why they would assume the same posture as those who do defamation psy-ops against Hendrix and his memory is something that boggles me. And this is Rolling Stone Magazine of all things, and now it looks like Vanity Fair as well.
And so the American media now offers us a pink-dipped, latent drag queen Hendrix fully neutered and neutralized without ever mentioning his CIA COINTELPRO political assassination or its cover-up by the same outlets. And they don't shy off making a nice little profit while doing so:
http://www.vanityfair.com/online/daily/2...-side.html
So after making sure Jimi's "drug overdose" was conspicuously advertised at the top of the piece Weller now offers some real classic CIA defamation sliming material by suggesting Jimi was revolutionary because he offered a newly-accepted form of "androgyny". Weller lists how Jimi wore flamboyant clothes, made up his stage hairdo with curlers, and had "girlish" feminine handwriting. For those well versed in Hendrix happenings, this latest attack, that could easily be called a classic intel character assassination which exposingly visits all the weak points they would consider to be a target's "vulnerabilities," comes after Charles Cross divulged Hendrix's previously unseen army psychological records claiming Hendrix said he was gay. This revelation occurred right in the middle of the Bush years at a time when the full force of US psy-ops was engaged. Cross forgot to mention that Hendrix was trying to get out of the army at that point, and was using the classic claim that would instantly get you out, and that he had obviously been advised to do so by others. No doubt weakening a well-known anti-war 60's icon's image with the claim of homosexuality at the heart of the WMD era was not something that would be out of line with already known psy-ops practices. In any case, Weller has now continued the campaign by subtly referring to Jimi in the same vein. Something I've never seen before in decades of Hendrix articles. Jimi has now been very subtly and delicately painted as being latent in an article that alleges to sympathize with him for being one of the first brave stars to do so. Classic of intel methods, the poison is subtly delivered in gifts of praise and the trojan horse of Weller claiming Jimi being part of the "cult of liberation". Weller then concludes that the American male's Wayne's World hero Jimi had a vulnerable side not know to them. (Or perhaps a "vulnerable side" available for cheap Mockingbird psy-ops distorted character assassination?)
From here Weller describes how she did a Rolling Stone Magazine article on Hendrix from her 1969 visit to Jimi's house at Woodstock. She then describes how frail and underfed Jimi was. Forget the fact Jimi was quoted in the same books she references as having abnormal strength and stamina. She then calls him insecure and mumbling. Next she calls him a fussbudget granny who tidied-up and emptied ashtrays compulsively (more effeminizing), and finally she shows he had strange tastes in music according to the non-rock-'n-roll albums he kept (Weller mentions Marlene Dietrich). Face it, the image we are being drawn here is of a show tune-loving gay stereotype being very subtly delivered. Forget the fact that Jimi is mostly known through history for his superhuman macho hyper psycho sexuality. British newspapers didn't warn mothers to lock-up their daughters when Hendrix was due to arrive because Jimi was some frail drag queen, yet Weller seems to think we need to be shown some unknown history. I wonder why?
Weller then steps back and summarizes in hindsight that she now realizes Jimi was well on the way to his final demise from drug abuse and looked it. The "drug overdose" death is then re-accented again just to reinforce the premise. It is then followed-through with a subtle and indirect suggestion that Jimi was a revolutionary and misunderstood person because he could not come out with his true self and was denied by the times. What Weller is saying here is that we need to re-examine Jimi and his persona as a person who was denied being what he really was and probably abused drugs because of the frustration. The frustrated latent figure is now being openly painted in full flame by Weller, without saying so directly, while concealing it in phony praise and personal reverence.
It's no surprise to me that Weller worked for Rolling Stone. A magazine that has now gone underwater after succumbing to the creeping tide of Mockingbird infiltration. In March 2010 Rolling Stone did an article about Jimi's last days. It concentrated mostly on the formation of Hendrix's Electric Lady Studio and his final European tour. Magazines with Hendrix on the cover usually experience good sales. This issue of Rolling Stone had such a prize Hendrix stage shot on its cover. Just as I expected when the article got to Jimi's death it covered it in one short paragraph that mentioned Jimi used heroin, but not to the point of addiction, and died of a barbiturate overdose. The ground-shaking claim by Jimi's manager Michael Jeffery's road crew member Tappy Wright, that he heard Jeffery confess to murdering Jimi, wasn't even mentioned. And this was 10 months after the internet and media were buzzing with the claim. Why Rolling Stone of all things didn't feel it necessary to even mention this epic scandal while gratuitously positing that Jimi used heroin, even though most credible Hendrix sources agree Hendrix did not really use heroin, is beyond me. Why they would assume the same posture as those who do defamation psy-ops against Hendrix and his memory is something that boggles me. And this is Rolling Stone Magazine of all things, and now it looks like Vanity Fair as well.
And so the American media now offers us a pink-dipped, latent drag queen Hendrix fully neutered and neutralized without ever mentioning his CIA COINTELPRO political assassination or its cover-up by the same outlets. And they don't shy off making a nice little profit while doing so:
http://www.vanityfair.com/online/daily/2...-side.html