ANOTHER WINGER WEB CONNECTION

(h/t John Amato at Crooks & Liars)

To my knowledge, Glenn Beck was the 1st major winger to discuss the Cloward-Piven strategy to destroy the American system, though nasty little Mark Levin claims that he was first to mention this.

Digby finds that Joseph Farah, one of the leading Birthers, is also on board with the Cloward-Piven conspiracy theory:

Then Farah cited the plan devised by Richard A. Cloward, a Marxist Columbia University professor, and his assistant, Frances Fox Piven. It was first unveiled in a May 2, 1966 issue of The Nation. The title of the plan pretty much says it all: "The Cloward-Piven Strategy of Orchestrated Crisis."

Under the canard of ending poverty, Cloward and Piven openly calculated "bringing the capitalist system to collapse through a series of escalating demands that could never be met," Farah said.

"When these entitlements were no longer able to be covered by government agencies," he continued, "the new dependent class would riot and rebel and create chaos that would create a real crisis for the system."