07-09-2016, 09:59 PM
(This post was last modified: 07-09-2016, 10:52 PM by Tracy Riddle.)
TPM, DailyKos, HuffPost, etc. don't do conspiracy theories, except when they do (I remember Rachel Maddow doing a lot of speculatin' about Bridgegate and Chris Christie, and some of it got pretty inventive). The partisan media is designed to keep people in their little boxes, distract them with trivia, and not encourage independent thought about big issues.
My favorite incident recently was where MSNBC was attacking "conspiracy theorists" (= Trump supporters, Alex Jones, Breitbart), and then they later played a clip of Hillary in the late 1990s complaining about the "vast right wing conspiracy" against the Clintons. So some conspiracy theories are perfectly fine.
Oh, and the Iraq War was about planting a US military footprint in the region, and removing an enemy of Israel. The oil was secondary.
My favorite incident recently was where MSNBC was attacking "conspiracy theorists" (= Trump supporters, Alex Jones, Breitbart), and then they later played a clip of Hillary in the late 1990s complaining about the "vast right wing conspiracy" against the Clintons. So some conspiracy theories are perfectly fine.
Oh, and the Iraq War was about planting a US military footprint in the region, and removing an enemy of Israel. The oil was secondary.