the BUFFALOg: Put Your Tinfoil Hats On, Folks

Monday, February 21, 2005

Put Your Tinfoil Hats On, Folks

Here's a portion of a speech given by Congressman Maurice Hinchey (D-NY) in Ithaca this past Saturday. He has an interesting theory about the provenance of the Rathergate documents.

Now, I mean, I have my own beliefs about how that happened: it originated with Karl Rove, in my belief, in the White House. They set that up with those false papers. Why did they do it? They knew that Bush was a draft dodger. They knew that he had run away from his responsibilties in the Air National Guard in Texas, gone out of the state intentionally for a long period of time. They knew that he had no defense for that period in his life. And so what they did was, expecting that that was going to come up, they accentuated it: they produced papers that made it look even worse. And they -- and they distributed those out to elements of the media. And it was only -- what, like was it CBS? Or whatever, whatever which one Rather works for. They -- the people there -- they finally bought into it, and they, and they aired it. And when they did, they had 'em. They didn't care who did it! All they had to do is to get some element of the media to advance that issue. Based upon the false papers that they produced.

This guy's a congressman, for chrissake, and when pressed, admitted he has no evidence.

Of course, this being Ithaca, his delusions were rewarded with enthusiastic applause.

Hat tip to Little Green Footballs.