The Hillary campaign and its labyrinthian tentacles must be really concerned about me.
Why do I say that?
Because its surrogates in the media – namely the George Soros-backed Media Matters, the Daily Beast and the chattering class that follows such outlets – are busy weaving conspiracy theories about me and Donald Trump while labeling me as … a conspiracy theorist.
You know how that Saul Alinsky tactic works – accuse others of what you do.
Here are some excerpts from the aptly named Daily Beast:
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- "Hating Bill and Hillary Clinton has been a conservative cottage industry for a quarter-century. But ever since Bill's self-inflicted sex scandals overtook dark talk about shadowy schemes in his second term, the most unhinged ideas about the Clintons faded into the fringe. Until now. Donald Trump has grabbed hold of Clinton conspiracy theories with both of his tiny hands, shaking loose names like Vince Foster and introducing them to a new generation. There's more where this garbage came from – festering heaps of paperbacks and VHS tapes that had been rotting in partisan landfills."
- "So let's air the old accusations out and expose them to sunlight to show how ugly and absurd the work of the Clinton conspiracy entrepreneurs has been. In the second edition of my book 'Wingnuts,' I added a new section on the unhinged Clinton haters and how they foreshadowed the era we're living in now. Many of the names echo on in our politics today, from Roger Ailes to Citizens United to WorldNetDaily to an unexpected cameo by then-conservative Ariana Huffington."
The Beast seems particularly worried about new attention on the mysterious death of Deputy White House Counsel Vincent Foster in June 1993. Trump recently raised questions about the circumstances of Hillary's Rose Law Firm partner's death.
- "[Richard Mellon] Scaife likewise funded the conservative nonprofit Western Journalism Center, founded by Joseph Farah, the former publisher of Scaife's shuttered Sacramento Union (and now best known as the publisher of the for-profit conspiracy website World Net Daily). In a money-go-round, the Western Journalism Center paid for [Christopher] Ruddy's series on Foster to be reprinted in other papers and publicized a pamphlet collecting it in full-page ads, raising half a million dollars from donors. Among the right-wing luminaries on the WJC board were Arianna Huffington and conservative professor Marvin Olasky, both of whom also worked as senior fellows at Newt Gingrich-associated Progress and Freedom Foundation."
- "The Clintons eventually won over some of their enemies – most notably [David] Brock, Ruddy, and Scaife. Rush Limbaugh and Roger Ailes of course still linger, and Citizens United became the plaintiffs in the infamous Supreme Court case that institutionalized big money."
You might note I am not among those who were "won over."
The striking thing about the Beast report and one by Media Matters is the similarity of focus.
Here are some excerpts from the report by Media Matters, which is thisclose to Hillary:
- "For those who weren't around, or weren't actively engaged in the early '90s, the Vince Foster conspiratorial attack is basically the equivalent to birtherism during the Obama era – if birthers had also accused Obama of murdering somebody while supposedly growing up in Kenya. (Note that birther architect Joseph Farah from WorldNetDaily was also a vocal Vince Foster conspiracy advocate.)"
- "Rolling out a 1996-era campaign that primarily targets Bill Clinton instead of Hillary, Donald Trump continues to wallow in all kinds of conspiracies that were once eagerly promoted by right-wing 'Clinton Crazies' two decades ago. Those were the hardcore Clinton haters who spent the 1990s absorbing AM talk radio's chronic toxicity and obsessing over the president's possibly murderous ways. By digging up long-forgotten '90s attack lines and pushing them today, Trump seems content to focus his campaign on the distant past, and on the Clinton who isn't running for president in 2016. In doing so, though, Trump has emerged as right-wing radio's dream Republican nominee, someone eager to debase public debate and to wallow in not-even-half-baked conspiracy theories."
Get the picture? There's nothing to see here. Just old "conspiracy theories" – the kind that make both the Democratic and Republican establishments cringe.
So why are all the Hillary defenders so worried?
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