If you scroll down, you'll find the post in which I predicted how the official G.O.P harrumphers would respond to Promptergate: With "cute" references to tin-foil hats, Elvis-spotting, and black helicopters. They fulfilled the prophecy with eerie precision -- almost as if they had used my words as a template.
C'mon guys -- at least try to come up with a new way to phrase the old insults!
What I find most amusing is the idea of conservatives pooh-poohing conspiracy theories. Throughout much of the '90s, wild speculation constituted damn near the entire act of this country's Right. Black helicopters? They were a conservative thang. So were the assassination rumors surrounding Vince Foster and Ron Brown. Not to mention the Whitewater non-scandal, the Clinton hit list, the garbage surrounding the Mena and Waco controversies -- one can go on and on.
It wasn't liberals who spread rumors (as late as 1994!) that Soviet troops were massing at the Mexican border, just waiting for the "go" signal to come swarming into the States. It wasn't liberals who constantly told large conspiracy-hungry audiences that the Great Gun Round-Up was scheduled to take place "sometime next year." It wasn't liberals who spread the "Satanic panic" yarns. And more recently, it wasn't liberals who tried to convince the American populace that Osama Bin Laden and Saddam Hussein were co-schemers or lovers or both.
Come to think of it, I doubt that a single liberal was dumb enough to buy into that nonsense about Elvis. That, too, was a "red state" belief.
"Promptergate" belongs in a different category. To put it bluntly, the evidence (both photographic and audio) is better. No-one (well, almost no-one) has posited the use of any outlandish technologies. You want to scoff at the "molar phone" posts below? Do so if you must -- but first, try a little Googling. You'll find links to responsible sources such as the Christian Science Monitor and the wire services. That story didn't come from Fate magazine.
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