Manchurian candidate

English Etymology From the title of the 1959 novel or 1962 film The Manchurian Candidate, in which the son of a prominent US political family is brainwashed into being an unwitting assassin for a communist conspiracy. First known generic use in 1970. Noun A person of influence, especially a politician, who is being manipulated by an enemy power to harm the interests of their own country, possibly without their own full awareness. en nu metal, alternative metal, rap metal 1997 Slipknot (band) Slipknot w:United States Slipknot (album) Slipknot Joey Jordison, Corey Taylor Wait and Bleed Wait and Bleed Get outta my head 'cause I don't need this!Why didn't I see this?I'm a victim Manchurian CandidateI have sinned by justMaking my mind up and taking your breath away en Roger Cohen No Manchurian Candidate The New York Times 2008-02-11 https://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/11/opinion/l11cohen.html 0362-4331 The attacks, mainly anonymous e-mails, have woven together various threads —his middle name “Hussein;” schooling in Muslim Indonesia; his Chicago pastor’s embrace of the anti-Semitic leader of the Nation of Islam, Louis Farrakhan; and his calls for dialogue with Iran —to portray Obama as the Muslim Manchurian candidate. https://web.archive.org/web/20250108065214/https://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/11/opinion/l11cohen.html 8 January 2025 en 2009 Arthur Goldwag Cults, Conspiracies, and Secret Societies https://archive.org/details/cultsconspiracie00gold/ w:Vintage Books 978-0-307-39067-7 108–109 https://archive.org/details/cultsconspiracie00gold/page/109/ Most of the conspiracies covered in this book are different. For one thing, they have a much wider scope. They may involve thousands or even millions of plotters (Freemasons, international Communists, Jesuits, the Illuminati, wealthy financiers, the Jews) working over the course of generations, and their goals may be as vague and as all-encompassing—as satanic, let us say—as "the destruction of freedom" or "world domination." The plots themselves run the gamut from planting a Manchurian candidate in the White House to aiding and abetting alien space invaders. en terms derived from toponyms en People