Morton Downey Jr. is having a comeback--Right-wing conspiracies never left. From MSNBC.com:
"WASHINGTON - The "vast, right-wing conspiracy" is back, presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton is warning, using a phrase she once coined to describe partisan plotting.
Once derided for her use of the phrase, Clinton is now trying to turn the imagery to her advantage.
Speaking Tuesday to Democratic municipal officials, the New York senator used the term to hammer Republicans on election irregularities.
Conspiracy alive and well
Clinton was first lady when she famously charged allegations of an affair between her then-president husband Bill Clinton and White House intern Monica Lewinsky were the result of a conservative conspiracy.
As evidence of the affair eventually came to light, the comment was ridiculed.But many Democrats have since insisted that Clinton was correct, pointing to the well-documented efforts by conservative financier Richard Mellon Scaife to fund a network of anti-Clinton investigations.
On Tuesday, she asserted the conspiracy is alive and well, and cited as proof the Election Day 2002 case of phone jamming in New Hampshire, a case in which two Republican operatives pleaded guilty to criminal charges, and a third was convicted."
Conspiracy is a charged word, but accurate. There is a portion of the right-wing that is incredibly devious and organized and they implement plans with an insidiousness that is diabolical. Think not? What the hell do you think FOX News is? What was the Iraq war but a right-wing conspiracy?
By the way, that doesn't mean that the left-wing doesn't conspire. We're just not any good at it.
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