The lead article at RedState this morning is about Rush Limbaugh and his embrace of conspiracy theory thinking as part of his continuous and shared quest to justify Trump. As noted in the headline, though, it’s not just Rush Limbaugh thus devolving.
Take, for example, Ann Coulter.
Don’t think the FBI is incompetent? Just ask the 3,000 victims of the 9/11 attack, after the FBI blew off an agent’s WARNING that a lot of Muslims were taking flight lessons.
— Ann Coulter (@AnnCoulter) January 23, 2018
Before we go on, let’s just be clear about a few things. By “justify” Trump, you must understand that there is a market on the right, a cottage industry, dedicated to the proposition that all which Trump may conceive is immaculate. It is a defense industry.
The major players are no mystery to anyone reading this, and their task is familiar and exhausting. They spend as close to 100% of their time as possible defending everything Donald Trump ever says or does, ever has said or done, or ever may do.
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Moreover, it is orders of magnitude different from pointing out specific failures to proclaiming the entire agency incompetent. To smear those risking their lives to protects us as worthless or weak or cowardly just to score cheap political points or get a little outrage press.
Ann is a Truther in spirit and action. The only differentiation between her and a standard Truther is which American she holds entirely responsible for 9/11.
And all of this is compounded by the fact that she and her newfound fellow travelers do this now in service of Trump. For no other reason than to preemptively clear him of any future wrongdoing or future finding of past wrongdoing.
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As for the rest of the right-o-sphere and their new hobby of trashing law enforcement, they should keep a few things in mind. First, that bad leadership, especially of a political nature, is not an indictment of an agency as a whole. Second, that you aren’t always getting the full picture you think you are from a few ill-informed or ill-conceived tweets by charlatans. Third, when you are saying the same thing that RT and the lunatic hordes of G8 protesters say, you’re headed far astray. Fourth, there is no conflict in believing the FBI is a good agency doing a pretty good job while also believing that there may be bad actors within the agency that need to be rooted out. Both things can be true.
Fifth, and finally, you can still fly in and out of New York City in airplanes, because someone is making it safe for you to do that.
Maybe remember that next time you open your fat mouth.
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— Caleb Howe (@CalebHowe) January 24, 2018
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