The Real 'Birther' Conspiracy Theory

The Real 'Birther' Conspiracy Theory

“   Given this understanding, it is the rare "birther" who qualifies as a conspiracy theorist.  Few have conjured elaborate, impossible conspiracies on the scale Oliver Stone did in JFK or the French leftist Theirry Meyssan and others did with 9/11.  ” Jack Cashill, in this American Thinker piece fulfills the requirement for winning the Palm 'D Enema (for deep cleaning the culture).  That is, say something so mindblowingly profound, and exquisitely simple,  that I am green-jealous he beat me to it.

“ In the course of my inquiries into many of history's more recent controversies -- JFK, Waco, Vince Foster, Oklahoma City, Ron Brown, TWA Flight 800, 9/11, Obama's birth, the authorship of Obama's books -- I have come to see that when there are actual conspiracies afoot, they fall into two general categories, conspiracies of execution and conspiracies of concealment. Conspiracies of execution, at least on any kind of scale, are rare in American history.  The nature of our national character and the openness of our political culture war against them.  Conspiracies of concealment are another matter.  When officials fail in their duties and let, say, a president get shot, a plane get blown out of the sky, or a hijacker fly into a building, their first impulse is to conceal their mistakes.  Such is human nature. To me, a "conspiracy theorist" is one who sees a conspiracy of execution where none could logically exist or who confuses a conspiracy of concealment with one of execution despite ample evidence to the contrary. Given this understanding, it is the rare "birther" who qualifies as a conspiracy theorist.  Few have conjured elaborate, impossible conspiracies on the scale Oliver Stone did in JFK or the French leftist Theirry Meyssan and others did with 9/11. [cont] ”