. . ."Just when you think Douthat’s column can’t get any stupider, he comes up with something even stupider: His belief in UFOs.And you wonder why Times readers think conservatives are simpletons."
"Who could have guessed that The New York Times’ “conservative” columnist would be a pompous idiot, except anyone who’s ever seen the in-house conservatives at ABC, NBC, CBS, The Washington Post, etc., etc.
"I was tricked into reading a column by “conservative” Ross Douthat by its title, “Conspiracies Are Real. The Theories Can Be Traps.” It’s a point I’ve often made myself. Of course, there are conspiracies. Political parties are conspiracies, businesses are conspiracies, sports teams are conspiracies.
"Other than noncontroversial conspiracies, like political parties, business enterprises and the fact that Big Tech was censoring conservatives like mad from 2020 until Elon bought Twitter, the silly conspiracy theories involve vastly complicated, man-behind-the-curtain, super-secret operations — like UFOs manipulating humankind, Obama being the mastermind of everything the Democrats do, “they” (the media? the FBI?) orchestrating the assassination attempt on Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, and of course, the Jews.
"So yeah, there are loads of real conspiracies, it’s the wacko theories that take things off the rails.
"But that’s not Douthat’s point. His point mainly seems to be to remind me why I don’t read him.
"He strikes the classic pose of the “reasonable” conservative. While he may not agree with Times readers, he sure doesn’t agree with those right-wing kooks, either! Everybody’s wrong — but he will explain what’s really going on from his perch on Mount Common Sense Olympus.
"Except what Douthat calls right-wing “conspiracy theories” are classically known as “facts.” And what he posits as the Reasonable Middle positions are completely nuts.
"He says the right-wing conspiracy theory on Jeffrey Epstein is this: “MAGA activists and influencers have long focused on the possibility that he ran a sex ring for wealthy men.” Nonsense, he says, driven by “ideological impulses.”
"Ross, darling, I don’t know where you’ve been, but that is the irreducible minimum of what Epstein was doing. Anyone who cared to know the truth has known it since 2006, when the Palm Beach police released the results of their investigation.
"Since then, we’ve gotten truckloads of court rulings and sworn affidavits, confirming what Douthat calls a “conspiracy theory.” Here’s a tiny scintilla of the evidence for the crazy idea that Epstein was running a sex ring for wealthy men: . . .Full Article here...
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