How do you deal with the overwhelming evidence that the people in the most danger from the heightened vitriol in our society are, and always have been, marginalized people and their allies fighting for progressive change in our country? You obfuscate and cloud the issue with conspiracy theory and doubt. You make everything the fault of the Left, and when that story doesn’t fit the facts available to you, you double down by saying that the facts being presented have been manufactured by the Left in order to trick you. Fox News is in the business of this form of propaganda. It is what they do 24 hours a day, in between advertisements for gold and pillows and pediatric cancer.
Former FBI Special Agent Chris Swecker has been Fox News’ go-to guy for bashing former FBI head James Comey over the last year. With a series of explosive devices and mysterious packages sent to prominent liberals and news outlets, all targets of white supremacist in chief Donald Trump’s tweets and Third Reich rally speeches the past few weeks (and years), the question has to be asked: Are the person or persons attempting to murder liberal politicians … conservative? Swecker doesn’t want to jump to conclusions here, guys.
Swecker: They’re going to be looking at this as a potential terrorist motive, whether it’s on one side or the other. And as you correctly pointed out earlier, this doesn’t necessarily mean someone is espousing some sort of conservative ideology and targeting Democrats. It could be someone who is trying to get the Democratic vote out and incur sympathy.
Good point. That would be super crazier than the already crazy right-wing nutjobs who are responsible for the majority of domestic terrorist actions in the United States, but sure, it could be something along the lines of … that. If it turns out that the person or persons involved with this series of events are something less than conservative, we will all hear about it. In fact, we will hear about it for the next few years or decades. But if it turns out that this is in part generated out of the same minds as those that brought us Pizzagate and “But her emails,” I’m sure it will quickly be submerged the way that the Las Vegas shooter’s politics and motivations were.
The clip should begin at around the 49:58 mark. If it doesn’t, please skip ahead and save yourself the agita.
H/T Rawstory