Letters to the Editor

Right-wing blogs discover massive conspiracy to hide WMDs in Iraq The embrace by leading neoconservatives and other war supporters of the most bizarre and deranged conspiracy theories speaks volumes about their credibility and judgment. Glenn Greenwald [2007-04-21]

• This Is What Happens When The Shark Jumps Itself

  It's happened before, repeatedly, when the right wing runs into serious trouble. It's already been noted that the John Birch Society identified Eisenhower as a Communist dupe. But several decades later, the JBS graduated to seeing Communism itself as merely a front for the Illuminati and other secret societies. (The Illuminati conspiracy was itself a right wing fabrication to explain away the French Revolution as not being the result of decades of monarchical/aristocratic misrule.)

  So, now what we're seeing is not really an abberation at all. It's simply happened too often on the right. Because they need to have been right about WMDs in Iraq, they need to have some sort of explanation, and given the amount of support this story has already gotten, it bids fair to become the official wingnut version, which the 30-percenters of future generations will come to regard as gospel.

  I am interested in knowing more about how her global warming denial fits into the mix. Is the IPCC controlled by China, for example? The Soviets? And once global warming becomes utterly undeniable even by them, will it suddenly turn out that it was all a plot to decieve us by presenting such phony evidence that we never suspected it was real?

  -- Paul Rosenberg
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