By Jack Cashill
Last Wednesday, on MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow Show, Hillary Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook revived a weary '90s-era theme, namely that any attack on someone named Clinton is, by its very nature, a “conspiracy theory.” In the first four minutes of the interview, which played out under the banner “Trump pushes Clinton health conspiracy theories,” Mook or Maddow used some derivative of the phrase “conspiracy theory” no fewer than thirteen times, often preceded by the verb “peddle” and/or the adjective “rehashed.”
This whine may have seemed fresh to the snowflakes in Maddow’s audience, but it was vintage Clinton. Most memorably, Hillary evoked the specter of conspiracy on the “Today Show” in 1998 during an interview with the selectively gullible Matt Lauer. “There isn’t any fire,” she told Lauer about the “smoke” surrounding her husband’s involvement with intern Monica Lewinsky. ''The great story here,” she said ominously, “is this vast right-wing conspiracy that has been conspiring against my husband since the day he announced for president.” As history records, Hillary was the one blowing smoke. There was fire enough to get her husband impeached........Read more
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