Alt-right antics nothing new — Bush, Rather and typewriters

The newest round of Clinton email leaks by Wikileaks does nothing to surprise me. It does confirm what many of us long suspected about her Goldman Sachs speeches, that she's a moderate (triangulator?) like Bill, and more.

Nor does the alt-rights spoofing of the actual leaks, complete to inventing fake Scribd transcripts, claiming that an actual racist email which may or may not have looped in John Podesta was sent by John Podesta (hey, alt-right techies, you're idiots indeed if you think sensible people will believe Podesta uses a ".nl" email address) and more.

Remember a dozen years ago, when Dan Rather appeared to finally have the goods on Shrub Bush's fake Air National Guard experience? Remember the alt-right then arose from sewers to try to throw shade on typewriter or word processor carriages, fonts, pitches, etc.? I mean, some already established alt-righters, or fellow travelers like Erick Erickson, actively promulgated this. Others like "Gateway Pundit" Jim Hoft, got their start off this.

Remember how CBS eventually showed it had no balls and threw Rather under the bus then pushed him out the door? And directly canned Mary Mapes to boot?

That's where we're at today, only a different form of damage control. The spoofing against Clinton is just covering The Donald's more grotesque sexism.

And, yes, I do blame CBS. (As well as, somewhat, Mapes, and to a lesser extent, Rather.)

Mapes should have exercised a higher degree of journalistic skepticism. Rather, once he became aware she had not done so, should have done so himself.

That said, these were NOT fireable (Mapes) or de facto fireable (Rather) offenses.

But, when CBS overreacted, the alt-right knew that it could nail more coonskins to the wall.

And today, then, when the alt-right does spoofing, it gives the MSM and Hillbots the semi-sized opening to claim that everything coming out of Wikileaks is fake.

So, to a degree, I blame CBS for the current election.

Conserrvative treason: Soldier won’t deploy, sez Obama not US citizen

And, this isn’t some redneck private, it’s an officer with a sworn oath. U.S. Army Maj. Stefan Frederick Cook says he should not have to go to Afghanistan because President Barack Obama is not a U.S. citizen.

Is it “treason,” beyond a figurative sense, or just “desertion”? Well, it’s an overt act, and, supporting a rumor that arguably could give aid and comfort to the enemy.

I have the perfect solution. Let Dick Cheney assassinate him!

There’s more:

Cook further states he “would be acting in violation of international law by engaging in military actions outside the United States under this President’s command. ... simultaneously subjecting himself to possible prosecution as a war criminal by the faithful execution of these duties.”

It sounds like Cook, a called-up reservist, just doesn’t want to deploy.

Tough shit.

Is there a reservist unit in The Fighting 101st Keyboarders?

Hillary IS ‘the vast right-wing conspiracy’

The hook-up between Hillary Clinton and Dick Scaife, beyond her latest Rev. Jeremiah Wright comments, is provoking a whole bunch of additional thought in my mind. And yes, “hook-up” is deliberately chosen.

Clinton, of course, said, in a recent interview with the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, the paper owned by the billionaire financier of the “vast right-wing conspiracy,” Rev. Jeremiah Wright would “would not have been my pastor” if she were a member at Barack Obama’s home church and Wright said some of the things attributed to him.

The comment was interesting enough, but the organ for it was the big thing.

And, it wasn’t just talking with PTR staff, it was talking with the oozing billionaire conspiracy leper himself:



And, for further viewing pleasure, Raw Story has video of this wondrous meet-up, or hook-up, or whatever.

This was the billionaire thorn in Bill and Hillary’s side from early in the days of their administration. This is the man who called Vince Foster’s death the “Rosetta stone” for his conspiracy theories. This is the many who funded the American Spectator to investigate the pseudo-issue of “Troopergate.”

I know politicians in general stereotypically have few principles.

But, this is at a whole different level of infinity, to deliberately get in bed with one of the ringleaders in the effort to try to destroy your husband’s presidency.

And, who initiated this meeting — Scaife or Clinton?

That’s not the only question this tête-à-tête brings to mind. Another, related one, comes up.

The second is the old Latin cui bono? Hillary’s getting something out of this, but what?

At the least, it’s a greater degree of cred with the GOPers changing their registration in Pennsylvania as we speak.

Is it more?

We know her campaign is way short on money compared to Obama. Is Scaife rounding up dinero from some wingers?

As far as the registration changes, is he organizing drives to do that?

There’s a lot here that still isn’t answered. But, knowing the history of the Clintons, while Hillary was easy with Scaife, she sure wasn’t cheap. (That’s better than saying “fellating,” right?)

As for Scaife, he gets to play kingmaker, distract his mind from his nasty divorce, and pretend that he’s getting his conscience assuaged.