Conspiracies never die. They’re immortal. They have more lives than thousands of cats.
Who killed JFK? What did FDR know about Pearl Harbor? Was 9/11 an inside job?
These things make me crazy.
Now comes the “vast right-wing conspiracy” put forwarded by Bill and Hillary Clinton. It’s back.
Bill Clinton to join the fight
The former president says all this talk about e-mails and whether his wife, the former secretary of state and current Democratic presidential candidate, is part of the “right-wing conspiracy” cooked up by his foes as he was considering a run for the presidency way back in 1991.
I wish he and his wife, Hillary Clinton, would leave that argument alone.
President Clinton told CNN about a menacing phone call he got from the White House as he was preparing to challenge President George H.W. Bush. The caller allegedly told the then-Arkansas governor he’d better not run, or else his foes would dig up tons of dirt on him.
Media officials — such as Washington Post assistant managing editor Bob Woodward, no slouch as a journalist — said the call never occurred. Others have said the same thing.
Hillary Clinton coined the term “vast right-wing conspiracy” early in her husband’s presidency. She said conservatives conspired to cook up lies about the presidentĀ in an effort to destroy him.
There’s little doubt that some of the allegations of wrongdoing were bogus. Was it all part of a concerted conspiracy? No one has yet come close to proving that to be the case.
The conspiracy theory, though, is back.
Oh, brother.