This is the first, and most likely, only time, I can say that I agree with everything Ann Coulter says:
I will note, however, as The Pajama Pundit does, that Coulter’s assertion that most conspiracy theorists are on the left is simply false. She obviously doesn’t remember the 1990s when right-wing chatrooms and talk radio shows were replete with discussions of the drug running operation that Bill Clinton headed out of Mena, Arkansas, the murder of Vince Foster at the behest of Hillary Clinton (or the murder of Foster at the behest of Bill Clinton because Foster was having an affair with Hillary), and rumors of blue-bereted United Nations troops being snuck into the country ready to swoop down in black helicopters ready to arrest us all.
And that’s just from the 1990s, and it doesn’t even touch on the more bizarre conspiracy theories involving the Illuminati, Tri-Lateral Commission, and George H. W. Bush’s “New World Order.”
Go back further and you’ll find the extreme right-wing giving birth to conspiracy theories about water fluoridation and claims that everyone from General George Marshall to General, and later President, Eisenhower, were communist sympathizers.
Conspiracy paranoia exists on the extremes of both political ideologies.
July 27th, 2009 at 7:36 pm
Ahem… “both” political ideologies? You honestly think there are only two?
July 27th, 2009 at 7:38 pm
And, btw, conservatism isn’t even an ideology. It’s a disposition.
July 27th, 2009 at 8:24 pm
Okay, so I’ve edited it, happy ?
July 28th, 2009 at 8:39 am
Modern science indicates that ingesting fluoride is ineffective in reducing tooth decay, harmful to health and a waste of money
adverse health effects of fluoride
http://www.fluorideaction.net/health