That same year he appeared with the legendary John Wayne in the Western "True Grit." Slate was also a talented country-and-western lyricist who penned the words to the song "Every Time I Itch (I Wind Up Scratchin' You)," sung by his other "True Grit" co-star, Glenn Campbell. As Daniel "Danny" Carmody in "The Born Losers" he played a charismatic gang leader, and in "Hell's Angels '69," which he wrote the script for, Slate worked alongside several actual members of the infamous motorcycle gang. Following a stint in the Pulitzer Prize-winning play "Look Homeward, Angel," he launched his screen career as salvage-diver Larry Lahr on "The Aquanauts." From here he began to put in appearances on prime-time TV shows until Slate hit his stride portraying outlaws in biker flicks and Westerns. It wasn't long before he won a Tiahuanacothe-essentially a Peruvian Tony such success motivated Slate to take his talent to Broadway. After the war, his job in public relations took him to Peru, and he began to dabble in theater as a hobby. At 18, Slate enlisted and served in World War II, and was at the beaches of Normandy on D-Day. You just have to listen to some really, really good people-your station, which I’ve heard many times, your TV or video exposés are extraordinary.” The 9/11 truther movement is awash in this sort of antisemitism, and Gage seemingly never disputes it.Born Robert Perham, matinee idol Jeremy Slate had a career that ranged from Westerns of the late 1960s to TV soaps in the 1980s. In response to the podcast host essentially suggesting the Jews did it, Gage responded: “It’s not too difficult to figure that out. When I visited one of his group’s gatherings in 2012, he offered an open platform to participants claiming “that our government and the Israeli government, the Israeli Mossad, could be responsible for the Twin Towers demolition.” In one recent interview, Gage endorsed the ideas of a podcast host who said that Israel’s use of COVID-19 passports means that it “has the database that collects all of our phone calls” and that “Israel benefited” from 9/11 and “it’s pretty obvious who” the real perpetrators of the attacks were. When you listen closely to Gage and attend his events, other alleged criminals start to emerge. In the past year, he has said on various podcasts that COVID-19 is a “deep state” “hoax” and “false flag event” that has been perpetrated by an “increasingly restrictive and tyrannical government that has locked us into our own homes, and kept us in isolation from each other with distance and masks, and poisoned us with vaccines that are going to kill us.” Gage has also claimed that “Bill Gates is a eugenicist” attempting to “reduce the population” by doing “a good job with the vaccines” because “his father was the head of the whole legal deal for Planned Parenthood.” Again, once people dip a toe into the fever swamp of conspiracy theories, they are often sucked all the way in-with all the attendant horrific consequences for society and public health. Gage, for instance, considers himself an expert on the COVID-19 pandemic. But Lee and HBO are offering Gage and his conspiracy theories the biggest and most mainstream platform they’ve ever had, pointing their viewers directly towards a bog of heinously dangerous ideas: Like other conspiracy theorists, Gage doesn’t just stick to 9/11, and if Lee’s viewers follow Gage down the rabbit hole, they likely won’t, either.
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