Liberty Lobby
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Liberty Lobby was a political advocacy organization which existed in the United States between 1955 and 2001. It was founded by Willis A. Carto. Liberty Lobby promoted a public image of being a conservative anti-Communist group, along the lines of the John Birch Society. Liberty Lobby was the subject of much criticism from all quarters of the political spectrum. While Liberty Lobby was founded as a conservative political organization, Willis Carto was known to be a devotee of the writings of Francis Parker Yockey. As the old anti-Communism of the 1950s and 1960s fell out of favor, Carto redefined the public image of Liberty Lobby, increasingly taking on the public image of populist rather than conservative or right wing. In that time, Liberty Lobby also tried to create connections to the political left by redistributing a critical report on President Carter by Lyndon LaRouche's NCLC.
In 2001, Liberty Lobby and Willis Carto lost a lawsuit brought by a rival far-right group which had earlier gained control of the Institute for Historical Review, and the ensuing judgment bankrupted the organization. Willis Carto and others who had been involved in publishing The Spotlight have since started a new newspaper, the American Free Press, which is very similar in overall tone to The Spotlight. As an organization, Liberty Lobby is defunct.
[edit] Publishing
Francis Parker Yockey's Imperium was republished by Willis Carto's Noontide Press, which also published a number of other books and pamphlets promoting an Anti-Liberal world view, and Liberty Lobby in turn sold and promoted these books. In 1975, Liberty Lobby began publishing a weekly newspaper called The Spotlight, which ran news and opinion articles with a very populist and anti-establishment slant on a variety of subjects.
