Hillary Clinton, conspiracy theorist

Some time back in 1994 or 1995, Bill and Hillary Clinton had what I
would now describe as “a prophetic nightmare.”

You probably remember Hillary talking about this bad dream in a
television interview in which she explained that her husband’s problems
were all manufactured by “a vast right-wing conspiracy.”

What you might not know is how this nightmare is chronicled in a
331-page report co-published and distributed, at taxpayer expense, by
the Democratic National Committee and the White House counsel’s office.
The report was titled, “The Communication Stream of Conspiracy
Commerce.”

This was a report distributed to select U.S. reporters in an effort
to discredit a new breed of investigative journalism into what was
already emerging as the most scandal-plagued administration in the
history of the United States.

Let me quote from the opening lines of the report: “‘The
Communication Stream of Conspiracy Commerce’ refers to the mode of
communication employed by the right wing to convey their fringe stories
into legitimate subjects of coverage by the mainstream media. This is
how the stream works. First, well-funded right-wing think tanks and
individuals underwrite conservative newsletters and newspapers such as
the Western Journalism Center, the American Spectator and the Pittsburgh
Tribune-Review. Next the stories are reprinted on the Internet where
they are bounced all over the world. From the Internet, the stories are
bounced into the mainstream media through one of two ways: 1) The story
will be picked up by the British tabloids and covered as a major story,
from which the American right-of-center mainstream media (i.e. the Wall
Street Journal, Washington Times and New York Post) will then pick the
story up; or 2) The story will be bounced directly from the Internet to
the right-of-center mainstream American media. After the mainstream
right-of-center American media covers the story, congressional
committees will look into the story. After Congress looks into the
story, the story now has the legitimacy to be covered by the remainder
of the American mainstream press as a ‘real’ story.”

Now, remember that the White House was having this bad dream back in
1994-95. This was long before anyone had ever heard of Matt Drudge. It
was long before WorldNetDaily.com, the Western Journalism Center’s
pioneering Internet newspaper, was even on the drawing board. To keep
things in perspective, I think Monica Lewinsky was a teen-age
undergraduate student at the time.

Was it a premonition? Indeed, this was an administration doomed to
scandal exposed by the Internet — the one form of mass communication
its partisans in the old, establishment press couldn’t seem to control.
And, already, by early 1995, the White House could see the handwriting
on the wall. Here’s some more from that 331-page White House report on
the Internet:

“The Internet has become one of the major and most dynamic modes of
communication. The Internet can link people, groups and organizations
together instantly. Moreover, it allows an extraordinary amount of
unregulated (emphasis added) data and information to be located
in one area and available to all. The right wing has seized upon the
Internet as a means of communicating its ideas to people. Moreover,
evidence exists that Republican staffers surf the Internet, interacting
with extremists in order to exchange ideas and information.”

It doesn’t take a Ph.D. in computer science to recognize that the
Clintons and their political allies are scared of the Internet. They are
clearly dying to get their hands on it — not for their own creative
use, mind you, but for the purposes of control, for stifling free
expression by others.

Just last year, you may remember, Hillary was asked by reporters if
she favors curbs on Internet expression, which, by that time, had played
a key role in breaking news about the president’s scandals.

Here’s what she said: “We are all going to have to rethink how we
deal with this, because there are all these competing values.” According
to a Reuters report, she deplored the fact that the Internet lacks “any
kind of editing function or gatekeeping function.”

It’s no wonder the Clintons are obsessed with the new media. It goes
without saying that Bill Clinton would likely not have been impeached if
Matt Drudge had not salvaged Newsweek’s Monica Lewinsky story from the
trash can and resurrected it on the Internet. Interesting, given that
Newsweek is owned by the Washington Post Co., the news agency that takes
such great pride in breaking the Watergate story that led to President
Nixon’s downfall a generation earlier.

There’s even more reason for concern by Hillary. In 1995 there were
approximately 1 million computers connected to the Internet. By the end
of 1998, there were 50 million. Within 10 years, there will be in excess
of 1 billion connections. To put that in perspective, after the
invention of television, it took more than 10 years before there were 50
million sets in the world. The same rise on the Internet has taken less
than three years.

For the press, the Internet has proven to be a great equalizer. Matt
Drudge, sitting in his Hollywood apartment with his laptop computer,
makes as much impact on the day’s news as most big daily newspapers in
the country — if not more. WorldNetDaily.com is viewed by more people
each day than Geraldo Rivera or Larry King.

In other words, the free market, working through the Internet is
solving longstanding institutional problems in the media, as well as
exposing fraud, waste, corruption and abuse at the highest levels of
government. Now, if we can just keep Hillary’s power-hungry little hands
off it. …

The Communication Stream of Conspiracy Commerce is available for sale
at the WorldNetDaily online storefront.