It is a conspiracy.
a turning away from politics and traditional media — which only perpetuates the problem.
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Are they saying eat your peas? It’s a conspiracy!
Who, and why would you axe a psycologist about this?
Some conspiracies are REAL!
Tell me Nixon didn't conspire to cover up Watergate!
Tell me Barry Soetoro isn't conspiring to cover up his true identity, among many other high crimes, and misdemeanors!
You’re normally such a fastidious poster. How did this happen?
IF we had politicians who simply called a spade a spade we’d have less conspiracists.
Why do rational people buy the NY Times?
I didn’t read the article because I do not want to support the New York Times with my browser clicks.
Did Maggie Koerth-Baker discuss the phony conspiracy theories advanced by the New York Times and other leftist ‘news’ outlets concerning the Bush administration supposedly outing Valerie Plame in order to punish her idiot husband for “telling the truth”?
No, I didn’t think so.
Government lacking transparency is what leads to conspiracy theories.
Telling us nothing, leaving dozens of questions unanswered, citing “national security” for blocking the release of any documents.
THAT is what causes conspiracy theories.
That and all the consipracy facts we have learned about that are over 50 years old. A lot of conspiracy facts have been revealed over the years.
It is my duty to remain skeptical and not to trust my government.
While I don not buy into this conspiracy theory and many others the problem for the people is that the Government does regularly lie, cheat, cover-up and even murder to do so. It actually takes a bit of discernment to know which are nutjob theories and which are not. Lots of people do not have the discernment.
Facts (all the facts taken in their absolute context) are the only arbiters between conspiracy and truth. Anything else may or may not be a signpost but how do you know the destination without the facts - are you being led up the garden path or to truth?
Mel
Insanity is a very common problem today.
I’m finding more and more that the ones who yell “conspiracy theory” are bigger kooks than the conspiracy theorists themselves
Anything that the mainstream media does not like, or want to be known....its always a “Conspiracy Theory”.
The ones who yell “conspiracy theory” just keep giving attention to folks like Alex Jones
Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean somebody’s not out to get you.
Benedict Arnold didn’t conspire to give West Point over to the British?
“Some ideas are so absurd only an intellectual could believe them.”
- George Orwell
Maybe conspiracy theories correlate with stupidity and low information consumption and retention.
Because it’s irrational to believe that people with the ability to conspire never do.
BECAUSE WHEREVER THE LEFT GATHERS... EVIL DEEDS TAKE PLACE AND ARE LIED ABOUT AND COVERED UP... LIKE AT THE NY SLIMES... YOU BUNCH OF ANTI-AMERICAN TRASH.
LLS
Unlike the finality of truth, the participative nature of conspiracy theories makes them fun and entertaining... not unlike an online game.
Conspiracy ideas shared on the discussion threads become the fields of play in which participants present their theories about JFK’s assassination, 9/11 or some other other cataclysmic event and wait for reactions from the other “players.”
My favorites are the JFK-related theories, which implausibly tie the Mafia, military, right-wing groups, Bush 41, Nixon, the USSR and Fidel Castro all together into one huge operation.
The most laughable are the goofy “Bush blew up the Twin Towers” claims. Somehow, in the first eight months of his administration, GWB spearheaded the emplacement of explosives throughout both buildings of the World Trade Center and one section of the Pentagon without detection.
This is not to say conspiracies don’t occur... one look at the current scandals surrounding Benghazi, the IRS and DOJ present plenty of evidence of skullduggery.