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I want to share a thread about conspiracy theories and the right. In the last few days we’ve seen lots of proper scorn for flawed and overly-credulous reporting on Russiagate and proper scorn for leftist conspiracy theory dot-connecting. You know, “game theory” and all that. 1/
But let’s be clear here. Lots of the people leading that charge are marinating in their own (amazing!) conspiracy theory about the inception of the Russia investigation, the president himself is arguably America’s most famous conspiracy theorist (birther-in-chief), and . . . 2/
Some of these folks also perpetuated one of the most vile conspiracy theories of the whole Trump/Russia affair — the idea that Seth Rich was the true source of the DNC hacks. Fox gave it life. Hannity gave it legs. Newt Gingrich repeated it. These are not minor players. 3/
Think of what they did to the Rich family. Just think about it. At one point, Hannity was even hyping anticipated revelations from some guy named Kim Dotcom. I kid you not. 4/
So what we have now, in many cases, is one set of conspiracy theorists dunking on another set of conspiracy theorists. It’s like moon landing truthers yelling at 9/11 truthers that “fire can melt steel!” while they look for camera reflections in Neil Armstrong’s facemask. 5/
And, by the way, lots and lots of folks on the right who watchdog the MSM’s every flaw didn’t have one damn thing to say about Sean Hannity’s Seth Rich conspiracy theory. Not. One. Damn. Thing. But oh man are they on their high horse now. To hell with that. 6/
But we should remember. We should understand that the (proper!) intolerance for mainstream media mistakes, bias, and conspiracy theories should not blind the very same maladies on the right and in right-wing media. It’s there. It’s right in front of us. And it’s repugnant. /end
