First, on the idea front. You don't have to apply. Lisa:Yeah. Rigo:Yeah, and he got cover stories in the New York Times magazine, Newsweek, and The New Republic. In his four-and-a-half hour Archive interview, Phil Donahue describes the meandering path that led to hosting his long-running talk show, The Phil Donahue Show aka Donahue. There were some consequences, though. The Czech army officers have more conference penises. Bill:Yes. They wanted to sue me for libel, and throughout my career, I have been at risk of being sued for libel because, you know, you, you call people Nazis, and, you know, they get upset, and no one has ever been happy that I exposed their racist and right wing connections. These things meant a lot to him, and he has a huge inheritance burning a hole in his pocket, so he's looking around for a great social cause to pour his money into, so he becomes drawn to what else but eugenics. Lisa:Chapter Two: The Mankind Quarterly. There would've been no 'Donahue' show without that studio audience.". Photo credit to Steve Kagan. He was a legend in Silicon Valley. We're losing. This is Bill Tucker. They painted the swastika backwards." Phil Donahue's show started off similar to other shows of its day, featuring celebrities and musical acts, but he soon started pushing the envelope by discussing health and social topics previously Read allThe precursor to all the daytime talk shows that arose during the 1980's and 90's. Rigo:And this is perhaps the greatest achievement of The Pioneer Fund, is by keeping the race science flame alive, there is an intellectual continuity for people like Sam Harris, and they don't have to start from scratch. Rigo:I am, and he starts out telling a sort of funny story about seeing Rushton at a conference, but then he gets really serious. He was a member of the magazine's advisory board. Is it because the Mankind Quarterly wasn't as known, like you kind of had to, like, know what it was? Barry:At the time, we had been getting a lot of death threats, and so And by the way, I wouldn't go to the police. He's an academic like Rushton, but less prestigious. This guy is so off his rocker. And, um, my son picked up the phone one day, and this, uh, guy said to him, um, "I'm gonna kill you, chop you up into pieces, and mail you back to your dad in boxes.". Uh, you know, I, I don't need to be credited, and if you want to discredit me, they were always able to discredit me. Quality varies and some episodes may not be complete. The father is just driving along proud of his son. Barry:We had DEFCON levels at my house, levels of security. Lisa:So they really do move underground. It's like Rushton wants to dress it up in jargon so you don't notice how hateful the premise is, but Mehler just cuts right to the chase. Barry:I really got under their skin. His claim to fame was being an expert witness in Buck v. Bell, where the Supreme Court ruled in favor of allowing states to force sterilizations on people with intellectual disabilities. [laughs]. So up until now, we've been talking about the neo Nazi propaganda that Barry Mehler gets in the mail, but what does he actually do with all the information he's collecting? Let's switch gears and talk about the bearded guy on the right, who has amazing muttonchops. on December 8, 2022, There are no reviews yet. I mean, that's some classic, "Oh, at least these guys tell it how it is." Murray told the New York Times that, quote, "Some of the things we read to do this work, we literally had to hide when we were on planes and trains.". Bill:And this was the first instance of what became Draper's trademark, um, maneuver throughout the rest of his life. Lisa:Ah, the classic he who smelt it, dealt it maneuver. Rigo:Kind of, yeah. It was as if one person had finally realized what was going on, and he was sending out the warning signal. Archive of Erbkrant:You find it a specially high percentage of mentally air among the Jewish population. Lisa:No. And actually, they found ours a bit too strict. It was much more prevalent in the earlier part of the 20th Century, but as it has become less and less popular among, uh, the academic mainstream, the few people who still adhere to it are those funded by Pioneer. Rigo:Exactly, and they develop a playbook to ensure their survival. Rigo:Yeah. It's almost like, uh Like a racist Santa Claus. Quote, "On two points, I put The Thunderbolt ahead of much of the American press. What is the English language plot outline for Donahue (1967)? He sounds like a major player. He was inspired by Hans F. K. Gnther, the Third Reich's most prominent race scientist. There are no reviews yet. Rigo:Honestly, you're not that far off. WebEmployment at the Library & Archives. Lisa:But since this is Distillations, I'm guessing they're not. Is he the psychologist whose work is cited in The Bell Curve? To create this kind of intellectual continuity, this current that bridges the eugenics in the 1930s to the present day. Rigo:[laughs] Yeah. Here's $100. Here's the work I'm doing. Lisa:Rigo, I feel like you're about to tell me that there's a secret clique or confederacy if you will of rich racists sitting in a basement somewhere funding every racist academic. Now, while the video, the language in that video is profane. WBBM-TV - 630 N. McClurg Court, Near North Side, Chicago, Illinois, USA. He recalls how his success hosting the call-in radio talk show, "Conversation Piece," in Dayton, Ohio sparked the interest of the local television station's general manager. I, Issue 2 (May, 1991) Twenty Minutes (August, 1991) Rigo:So he writes a series of articles in the late 1970s exposing people like Jensen, and then in 1983, he writes a paper called The New Eugenics in which he puts all these race academics into context. You've got You have something wrong with that? 7 No. Don Grady (of "My Three Sons") composed the theme song for the Donahue show. And as I got up, uh, a question began to form that really took me really the rest of my life to contemplate, which was why do they hate me? It's to get the message out, "You can't go through the Jews because they distort everything.". MOO32 Rigo:Yeah. When I looked at that, I said, "Here, finally, is a Nazi I don't have to worry about. Barry:I don't need to have credit. And I couldn't give a flying any longer and to the administration and no limit of an administrator is going to tell me how to teach my classes because I'm a tenured professor. That is, until Barry Mehler starts connecting the dots. William Shockley wasn't really producing anything new with their money, and he had a really prickly personality, so when his character got in the way of the message, The Pioneer Fund actually cut him off. Rigo:Exactly. Donahue:So what you mean a bigger brain means a smarter person, Phillipe Rushton on Donohueslightly so yes, on average. Rigo:So instead of going to the police, Barry asked his friends who used to be Marines to come live in his house with their guns and their 125 pound rottweiler. Then the black population in the United States on the average. But with the emergence of Shockley, they had a mainstream scientist on their team now, and they funded him lavishly from the quote, unquote, "Throne in New York" As they called Wickliffe Draper's house. web pages He uncovers dozens of academics with double lives. He explains how his journey took him from announcing television news at KYW in Cleveland, Ohio, to working in a bank in Albuquerque, New Mexico, to directing radio news in Adrian, Michigan. Angela:And the consensus was set in stone really by UNESCO, um, in the 1950s in a set of declarations in which they essentially stated that race is a social construct, it doesn't have any biological validity, and that was signed by a number of scientists, anthropologists, policymakers all over the world. Lisa:So you're telling me they didn't have to apply for grants, or have funding cycles, or write proposals. I can't imagine how Barry Mehler feels watching this all explode and then kind of die down and become less controversial again. You know? And it was a dramatic transformation. Rigo:Okay. Andhe said, I don't understand. Rigo:What's interesting about eugenics is that it's a dirty word now, but in the 1920s and the early 1930s, they were mainstream ideas, they were in vogue. Distillations Podcast | February 21, 2023, innate_podart_900x600x300_episode6_bg.jpeg, Innate: How Science Invented the Myth of Race, National Endowment for the Humanities: Democracy demands wisdom, The American Breed: Nazi eugenics and the origins of the Pioneer Fund, The Funding of Scientific Racism: Wickliffe Draper and the Pioneer Fund, The New Eugenics: Academic Racism in the U.S. Today, The High-Flying, Death-Defying Discovery of Helium. Lisa:What is this, Wheel of Fortune? Nobody wants to know that stuff, and nobody is really offended by it. Episode 2 from the Innate: How Science Invented the Myth of Race series. Yes, and then these checks were often for ample amounts in the thousands of dollars to people, uh, just because Draper or Pioneer liked what they were doing. Lisa:I appreciate how clearly Barry Mehler gets to the heart of the issue. Lisa:It works sort of like a bat signal, but instead of attracting superheroes, you uncover white supremacists. Have you ever heard of Arthur Jensen? First, I believe it is not hypocritical, though it does sometimes express erroneous views. The precursor to all the daytime talk shows that arose during the 1980's and 90's. This We're not making progress here. This is why the book claims blacks are disproportionately living in poverty and also more likely to commit crime. the video in question is 14 minute long course introduction that he sent out to his students students earlier this month. His work inspired others like Bill Tucker to follow the money, and the thing that really stood out to me about Mehler's writing was that there was a sense of urgency. Eventually, the popularity of this approach proved to be his downfall, Read all. I never wasted a trip. He was the first person to really call them out publicly. The pioneer fund has been the key source of funding for the last 20 years of scientists who have produced the material. WebDonahue: With Phil Donahue, Sammy Davis Jr., Dolly Parton, Debby Boone. The real scientists. on the Internet. This is Barry Mehler. Rigo:Exactly. I was the only one really putting together these strands because I was reading the racist newspapers. He's a psychologist and a professor who's won a bunch of awards. Jensen's vague ideas about intelligence being inherited were explicitly connected to the growing neo Nazi movement. The guy on the left is Philippe Rushton. Unless otherwise noted, this file is provided for educational and research purposes only. Normally in my reporting process this is the part where I reach out to the Pioneer Fund or mankind Quarterly -which is also still around today -- But i didn't and theres a very specific reason why that is. And then he has a long and thorough correspondence and involvement with people in Germany both before and after the Nazi ascendancy. Rigo:One way that the Mankind Quarterly differs from other journals is their use of pseudonyms, which I'm guessing is it not normal in academia? WebNeil Diamond on the Phil Donahue show 1993 - full show Kathleen Mosley 19.1K subscribers Subscribe 180K views 7 years ago Neil Diamond on the Phil Donahue show Barry:I took the racists seriously and I listened directly to them, and what I would simply do is, um, I would join. Associate Producer: Padmini Ragunath Donahue discusses the many controversial topics and guests featured on the show over the years - including White Supremacist David Duke - and details his activities following the final taping of Donahue. Rigo:Something that a lot of people don't know is that the Nazis got the ideas about eugenics from the United States. With Pioneer funding, he produced one of these strange extremist publication after another. But unfortunately for Mehler, this was not the end of it. To me, it seems like he's trying to present himself as a reasonable, well spoken guy who's just asking questions, all in the name of academic curiosity, of course. 1 Donahue - Bob Mackie - 1988 45:40 2 Donahue - Female Impersonators - 1987 45:04 3 Donahue - Freaks - 1990 44:56 4 Donahue - Free To Be - 1988 27:23 5 Um, Literally rides on a Nazi tank, into the city of Bilbao, uh, at the time when Franco's army is laying seeds to the place, uh, only a few weeks after the infamous bombing of the, of the city of Akaka in the Basque region. You know, for God's sakes, we're feeding them breakfast. And I wasn't just calling them Nazis, I was putting out a context to show that this was a fascist endeavor, and that these people were not only Neo Nazis, but they were just old fashioned Nazis, and I think that it was one of the reasons why they hated me so much. I would send in a membership. If you were less than one quarter Jewish then you could be considered, uh, to be Aryan, which was much more lenient than the one drop rule in the United States. Senior Producer: Mariel Carr MSNBC canceled Phil Donahues talkshow after an internal memo (leaked to the All Your TV website, 2/25/03) argued that he would be a difficult public face for NBC in a time of war. It was part of his insecurity, but the data for this was so stupid. You'd, you'd just hope you didn't cross over with him on any committees. And so, Pioneer has been the keeper of the flame, in this case. Capture a web page as it appears now for use as a trusted citation in the future. Lisa:Right. Rigo:Close. Lisa:In a way, this kind of makes sense for how academia works. They understood that tides were turning but they weren't ready to go away. Rigo:Yeah. Producer: Rigoberto Hernandez Phil Donahue's show started off similar to other shows of its day, featuring celebrities and musical acts, but he soon started pushing the envelope by discussing health and social topics previously considered taboo. When you do research, funded research, you're kind of beholden to your funder in certain ways, right? Barry:One day walking on the street, it was a beautiful spring day, and I was daydreaming, and unbeknownst to me, two boys run up behind me, and one of them just punched me in the back, sent me flying, you know, stars, and, you know, and then, then they run on. Respectable scientists and academics were promoting these ideas, which is why Draper starts making friends in high up places in the eugenics world, and he kind of finds an ideological soulmate in a man named Harry Laughlin. Rigo:It was a journal for racists by racists, a home for race scientists who had been rejected by other more mainstream journals. Phil Donahue, in full Phillip John Donahue, (born December 21, 1935, Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.), American journalist and television personality who pioneered the daytime issue-oriented TV talk show. They had to have two talking heads, and, and somebody had to speak for the other side for them to get their message out, and not only did I understand that, but I don't think that we run this. Find out all the details of his life Americans were getting spooked by what they saw in Germany. Due to a planned power outage on Friday, 1/14, between 8am-1pm PST, some services may be impacted. Lisa:Oh my God, I'm afraid to ask, Rigo, but you're gonna tell me. WebPhil Donahue was born on December 21, 1935 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. Rigo:No one has proven that these threats came from The Pioneer Fund, but what we do know is that The Pioneer Fund actually hired a private investigation firm. What is this about? on May 24, 2022, https://mytvlog.blogspot.com/2010/03/phil-donahue-show-1970-tv-series-1970.html, There are no reviews yet. Lisa:Sure. Rigo:So this incident sent Mehler on a path. WebThe Phil Donahue Show All Episodes 1967 - 1994 Season 28 27 26 25 24 23 22 21 15 14 13 1 All Overview 54 Episodes IMDB TMDB TVDB Fanart.tv JustWatch Wikipedia Barry:The word pioneer has a real meaning to these people. And even after his death, Pioneer continued the same tradition, which was the distribution of unsolicited works to various individuals in the hopes that it would influence public policy. Rigo:When Barry Mehler said guys like Philippe Rushton aren't just Neo Nazis, they're old fashioned Nazis, he was serious. This all explode and then he has a long and thorough correspondence and involvement with people in Germany both and... 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