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Neo-neocon: The Conspiracy of Kennedy ConspiracistsThere are Kennedy conspiracists and then there are writers who write about Kennedy conspiracies. The former may be kooks and fools, but the latter are knowingly dishonest.
I’ve been reading a book by Vincent Bugliosi entitled "Reclaiming History", which purports to definitively prove that Oswald killed JFK by himself and was not part of any conspiracy. Bugliosi amasses a mountain of evidence (almost literally; the book is huge) and strikes down each and every conspiracy theory point by point by point. ...Bugliosi makes an especially interesting point in his introduction, one I hadn’t really thought of before, which is that although most of the people who believe in the various conspiracies are probably sincere in their beliefs, many of those who actually write the conspiracy books are not. They are lying and they know it, but they count on their readers not to realize this.
Why would they lie about things that are easily checked?
Bugliosi notes that conspiracy sells, and he is correct. There is no question that some of the motivation to write these things is to make money. But for at least some of the conspiracy authors and promoters there is probably another reason, which is that belief in conspiracies undermine faith in our government as a whole.
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Bbc Blood Libels Conservatives, Claiming Boston Marathon Bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev Was A Right Wing Fanatic
IBA Says, Tamerlan Tsarnaev Was Thorougly Humiliated By The Infidel Shown to Be A Pathetic Queerboy For Allah From BBC: One of the brothers suspected of carrying out the Boston bombings was in possession of right-wing American literature in...
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Ace of Spades: Tea Party Spokesman: Let's Stop Talking About "Birthers" And Focus On All The "Racers" In The Media Well. yes, why not? Conspiracy theories are defined by several important elements: 1. They are constructed specifically to be nonfalsifiable....
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CAIR Chief: RevolutionMuslim a Conspiracy to “Smear Islam”Click on the title to read the whole story. Ibrahim Hooper doesn’t say who’s behind this supposed conspiracy, but we all know who he thinks the culprits are…da evil Zionist...
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Shepherd, Just Go Get Some More Guyliner, Will You?
The DHS report predicted Brunn's lunacy the way a broken clock is correct. We will NEVER have a govt which can predict, prevent or calculate the details of a Pearl Harbor, 9/11, Kennedy, King, Kennedy, event without massive effort in the...
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If I Had Only Known...
...that the vast rightwing conspiracy was willing to pay me to talk about how odious the leftwing was, I would have started much sooner. Tim Boucher is on to us: I can really imagine having a team of like 5 people working for a PR company who spend...
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