Right Wing Nuthouse discusses the roots of Bush Derangement Syndrome.
Today’s nuts inhabit both the right and left sides of the ideological spectrum with the left wing paranoids more prominent if only because of their target; George Bush and his Administration.
No? How’s that military draft coming, guys? And what about that fallout from our attack on Iran? You know, the one that was “imminent” at least three separate times over the last few years? And while we’re on the subject, have you sent your Christmas cards to your friends rotting away in those concentration camps you were so sure were going to be set up to house “regime” opponents?
I could go on, of course. There is no end to the wild nuttiness of the left when it comes to their paranoia about the Bush Administration. To hear them tell it, Bush is both evil genius and incompetent clown – a dichotomy most sane people would find laughable but which the paranoids on the left blithely run off at the mouth coming up with ever more outrageous “warnings” about Bush actions. The closer we get to the end of the Bush presidency, the more we hear of the “manufactured 9/11” where Bush would cancel the election of 2008 and rule by dictatorship.
Where does he find them? In...Clinton Derangement Syndrome.
What CDS did was gather the kooks, the loons, and the nuts on the right under one umbrella with the internet as catalyst. Chat rooms and message boards acted as incubators where the latest preposterous theories about the Clintons were born.
And perhaps it’s no accident that BDS was born just when blogs began their rise to prominence. The archives of Daily Kos are full of diaries and posts that posit the most jaw dropping conspiracy theories about Bush. If the largest liberal blog could indulge themselves in such tripe, then clearly the way to fame and fortune in the leftysphere was to outdo the big guys in coming up with even more ridiculous theories of dark doings and evil abroad in the land.
It has culminated in the Rosie O’Donnell-Keith Olbermann axis of celebrity where those worthies feed hundreds of thousands of people a day a steady diet of BDS related claptrap. One wonders what poor Keith is going to do when Bush leaves office. Methinks he’s in for a fall since his “angry man” routine will be difficult to maintain if Democrats control everything.
The leaping off point is the release of Kathleen Willey's new book, in which she blames the Clintons for her husband's death.
I agree with RWN on this one. I always found the bizarre fantasies of Clinton malfeasance to be both disgusting and beneath disgust (is that possible?). The Clintons were crooked, as evidenced by the various scandals of Bill Clinton's presidency. But did he have Vince Foster killed? No, and multiple investigations--both Democrat and Republican--said so. Was Clinton involved in drug running and murder in Arkansas? Again, the answer is no.
But that doesn't mean the Clintons weren't involved in their own deals, such as Whitewater and Hillary Clinton's miraculous success with cattle futures. From the books I read (and I read several at the time), Bill Clinton, he of Rhodes Scholar fame, was smart enough to stay stupid so he could tell investigators he never knew the various dirty dealings of friends and compatriots. Basically, he remembered, at the time, what the definition of "is" is.
Unfortunately, as RWN points out, the election of Hillary Clinton will probably bring about more CDS and so it will come full cycle. It seems to me that that prospect is enough to vote for anyone but Hillary.
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