{"id":4654,"date":"2009-09-11T12:55:22","date_gmt":"2009-09-11T19:55:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=4654"},"modified":"2009-09-11T12:55:22","modified_gmt":"2009-09-11T19:55:22","slug":"matt-drudge-and-alex-jones-and-joe-wilson-and-jerome-corsi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2009\/09\/11\/matt-drudge-and-alex-jones-and-joe-wilson-and-jerome-corsi\/","title":{"rendered":"Matt Drudge and Alex Jones and Joe Wilson and Jerome Corsi"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Drudge-i-verse spit out the headline “YOU LIE!” following Obama’s health care speech.\u00c2\u00a0 Looking down further, I caught the further glimpse of the snap-shot of where the Conservative Movement is at the moment:\u00c2\u00a0 there was a link to an item about Janet Napalitano rounding up Girl Scouts for the government indoctrination.<\/p>\n

Replete with scary photograph of Napalitano with Girl Scout troupe.\u00c2\u00a0 Everything is topsy turvy, isn’t it?\u00c2\u00a0 We are in a bit of John Birch, or the modern equivalent of the (still existent) Birch Society — the Alex Jones Show arena.\u00c2\u00a0 Take, for instance:<\/p>\n

From “Crooks and Liars<\/a>“:<\/p>\n

But he certainly made some waves last week when — clearly, and appropriately, disgusted by <\/em>Jerome Corsi’s bizarre piece in WorldNetDaily<\/em><\/a> suggesting that President Obama was preparing concentration camps to round up and imprison his conservative critics — Henke <\/em>urged his fellow conservatives<\/em><\/a> to disassociate themselves from WND in every way possible.<\/em><\/p>\n

This is, frankly, an oldie.\u00c2\u00a0 Jones has drummed at it since at least the Clinton Administration.\u00c2\u00a0 I can go back to the 1968 George Thayer book on the political fringe and cull it out from 40 years ago as well.\u00c2\u00a0 I think World Net Daily’s Jerome Corsi (cue 2004 presidential campaign for name check) merely cast a partisan hue to the conspiranoia.<\/p>\n

For an eye on where Alex Jones is throwing things around, I am similarly confused by this link to this piece<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 When I clicked over to “prisonplanet” the other day, the Charlie Sheen Interview with Obama dominated the page.\u00c2\u00a0 It was really, really bizarare.\u00c2\u00a0 That was a hoax?\u00c2\u00a0 I was supposed to believe it?\u00c2\u00a0 When I first saw it, I assumed it was a parody in their own visage — which would be acceptable.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

Incidentally, back to Drudge: I see the Homeland Security Wants to Recruit Girl Scouts” story is on now on that Alex Jones page, now that we’ve seen the Charlie Sheenpromotion subside a tad.\u00c2\u00a0 (But only a tad.)<\/p>\n

And back to Drudge – i-verse, and the celebration of Joe Wilson as the new Joe the Plumber: in retaliation from the liberal blogs, I see an ad for “Censure Joe Wilson”.\u00c2\u00a0 Why bother?\u00c2\u00a0 I don’t even think pushing\u00c2\u00a0 funding for his opposition is all that worthwhile a goal.\u00c2\u00a0 He had a close-ish race in one of the last two cycles, and the next one isn’t probably as Democratic a year.\u00c2\u00a0 The DCCC just plopped his name on their “Targetted List” for fund-raising pitch reasons now that he’s a name.\u00c2\u00a0 Good for the Old Donkey Versus Elephant Show, I guess.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Drudge-i-verse spit out the headline “YOU LIE!” following Obama’s health care speech.\u00c2\u00a0 Looking down further, I caught the further glimpse of the snap-shot of where the Conservative Movement is at the moment:\u00c2\u00a0 there was a link to an item about Janet Napalitano rounding up Girl Scouts for the government indoctrination. Replete with scary photograph […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4654"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4655,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4654\/revisions\/4655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}