Grand Unified Conspiracy Theory chart?

February 2, 2007 6:21 PM

Looking for a satirical chart I saw some years ago of a "Unified Conspiracy Theory".

I'm looking for a chart I saw some years ago that presented several common pre-9/11 conspiracies (Kennedy assassination for sure, fake moon landing?, perhaps Watergate?, maybe Iran/Contra?) all bundled together into a Grand Unified Conspiracy Theory. It may have been published in a mainstream news mag, such as Newsweek or Time. It's certainly not this one, which is the closest thing I could find via Google. I remember it as being funny and a pretty good effort at gathering together a lot of different threads. It was not presented as serious, but the tone of the chart wasn't mocking, either.

I did a Google image search using "conspiracy theory" as the search term and looked through all 46 pages that were returned and didn't see it, so it may well be a print-era artifact that has yet to cross over into digital form.

Anyone have any leads on this? I'd hate to think that my inability to find it is somehow part of the conspiracy...

posted by mosk to Grab Bag (8 answers total)

I think it's in America: The Book, by Jon Stewart. just from memory though, so i'm not sure.
posted by ofthestrait at 6:55 PM on February 2, 2007

specifically, it is located in the poster that you can tear out.
posted by ofthestrait at 7:00 PM on February 2, 2007

I have that book and have taken the liberity of having a look for you. The fold out chart could be what you're looking for, and is entitled "The Shadow of Government".

Sadly my googling is not allowing me to find a copy of said chart online - the search terms mosly lead to the sites of crazy people...
posted by tiamat at 7:31 PM on February 2, 2007

Response by poster: Thanks -- I just looked at my copy, and while that chart is good ("The Shadow Government"), it's not the one I'm after. The one I saw was a more traditional org chart, with lots of dashed lines linking some very improbable things. And it definitely pre-dates 9/11.
posted by mosk at 7:33 PM on February 2, 2007

This, perhaps?

Found searching for "Unified Conspiracy Theory" chart.
posted by Partial Law at 7:39 PM on February 2, 2007

Response by poster: Thanks, Partial Law, but no -- I also found that via the same search, and I included it in my original post as NOT the one I was looking for ("It's certainly not this one...) But I appreciate the effort.
posted by mosk at 7:44 PM on February 2, 2007

Oh man...I hate when people do that. As contrition, I offer you this, which is similar, and these, which are probably not what you want but pretty cool anyway (most relevant at the bottom).
posted by Partial Law at 8:34 PM on February 2, 2007

Response by poster: Lol, thanks. I discovered the stuff at threetwoone.org while looking for my chart earlier today, and yeah, those are very cool, and very much like the chart I'm searching for. I really like the War of the Roses chart a lot -- would have made some of my history classes a lot easier to understand, back in the day.

I tried several different permutations via Google (and Google Images) and didn't come up with it, so I'm afraid it may not have been digitized...which would be a pity.
posted by mosk at 8:42 PM on February 2, 2007