{"id":24194,"date":"2014-12-29T12:29:18","date_gmt":"2014-12-29T20:29:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=24194"},"modified":"2015-01-01T12:15:38","modified_gmt":"2015-01-01T20:15:38","slug":"2014-an-epic-year-for-conservative-crackpot-conspiracy-theories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=24194","title":{"rendered":"2014: An Epic Year For Conservative Crackpot Conspiracy Theories"},"content":{"rendered":"

Recalling the bygone year, there were enough examples of political foolishness, public embarrassment, and unabashed propaganda, to fill a trainload of FEMA caskets. But nothing comes close to boggling the mind like conspiracy theories rooted in nothing but psychotic paranoia and partisan dementia.<\/p>\n

News Corpse has covered much of what the right-wing media has attempted to pass off as legitimate news, but was actually evidence of severe cognitive failure. So, as a reminder of 2014’s most ludicrous departures from reality, here is a compilation of some of the best (worst?) excretions from the imagination of the conservative hive mind.<\/p>\n

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CONSPIRACY: President Obama Is Trying To Impeach Himself<\/a><\/h3>\n

The evil genius in the White House orchestrated the whole Obama-hate campaign from its earliest days in 2008 just so that he would be able to use impeachment, which is every president\u2019s dream, as an election strategy six years into his presidency. He had the foresight to anticipate that his anti-America agenda, developed in concert with the Muslims and Marxists in his inner circle, would make the 2014 midterms so difficult that he would need something positive, like having himself prosecuted before Congress for high crimes and misdemeanors, in order to stem the tide of opposition that would rise up.<\/p>\n

\"Impeach<\/p>\n

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Ben Carson Fears That Obama Will Declare Himself President for Life.<\/a><\/h3>\n

The United States and its democratic system has endured for over 200 years, through economic catastrophes, civil and world wars, Nixonian corruption, and assassinations. Yet Carson thinks that it may all soon be over because of our present economy (with it\u2019s soaring stock market, record profits, and low unemployment), and a band of desert rats 8,000 miles away?<\/p>\n

\"Ben<\/p>\n

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Glenn Beck Asserts That Obama Purposely Planted Ebola In Dallas<\/a><\/h3>\n

Obviously President Obama\u2019s agenda centers around the fact that he hates Dallas so much that he arranged to have an Ebola-infected Liberian fly there and die. […] First and foremost, it is not true that Dallas \u201cdoesn’t particularly care for the President.\u201d<\/em> In 2012 Obama was reelected with 57% of the vote from Dallas County. That\u2019s a larger margin than he won nationally. Obama also beat McCain in Dallas by the same amount in 2008.<\/p>\n

\"Glenn<\/p>\n

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Steve Doocy Discovers A Mysterious Photo Of Two Men With One Pair Of Legs.<\/a><\/h3>\n

Doocy: Fox News Alert: New questions about those two Iranian men who boarded flight 370 with stolen passports. Did somebody Photoshop this picture of them, because they both appear to have the same legs. That\u2019s leading many to believe there is a cover-up happening. […] The Malaysians are saying \u2018No, we didn’t Photoshop or anything like that. They had a Xerox copy and part of the guy on the left was put on top of the duplicate of the guy on the right. Do you buy that?<\/p>\n

\"Fox<\/p>\n

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According To “Doctor”<\/em> Keith Ablow, Obama Orchestrated The World Cup To Distract From [???]<\/a><\/h3>\n

Somehow Obama orchestrated FIFA\u2019s scheduling of the quadrennial games to coincide with whatever scandal is presently infecting Ablow\u2019s brain so that the American people, who usually ignore soccer, won\u2019t notice that FEMA has already begun incarcerating Tea Party leaders and the EPA is deploying new Pentagon technology to increase global temperatures. What a devious plot our Kenyan in the White House has devised.<\/p>\n

\"Keith<\/p>\n

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Conservative Media Freak Out Over Obama’s Plan To Grant Amnesty To 34 Million Illegal Aliens<\/a><\/h3>\n

The usual conservative media mouthpieces are reporting that there is a plot afoot by the Obama administration to grant amnesty to some 34 million \u201cillegal\u201d<\/em> aliens soon after the midterm election. To put that number into perspective, that\u2019s more than three times as many undocumented immigrants as are currently estimated to be in the United States. It\u2019s a third of the entire population of Mexico. If they all occupied a new state it would be the second most populous state in the country after California with 38 million.<\/p>\n

\"Fox<\/p>\n

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Louie Gohmert Accuses Comcast Of Attempting To Silence Glenn Beck<\/a><\/h3>\n

Gohmert found an angle to question the [Comcast\/Time Warner]<\/em> merger that only he could have dreamed up. He believes that Comcast is engaged in a conspiracy to silence Glenn Beck. And Al Gore is in on it along with Al Jazeera who “wanted to get their Sharia law push into the United States.”<\/em><\/p>\n

\"Glenn<\/p>\n

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Pat Caddell Says That It Is Republicans That Want The IRS To Go After The Tea Party<\/a><\/h3>\n

Did the Republicans infiltrate the IRS and orchestrate a strategy to deny Tea Partiers tax-exempt status? Did they conduct sham hearings in the House, led by the crusading committee chair (and recidivist criminal) Darrel Issa, all the while maneuvering secretly to oppress Tea Party organizations and cast the blame on Democrats?<\/p>\n

\"False<\/p>\n

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GOP Rep Tells Fox News That Obama Plans To Flood U.S. With Foreign Ebola Patients<\/a><\/h3>\n

The plot was discovered by the Republican chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, Bob Goodlatte, who claims to have confidential information that came to him via an \u201cinside source\u201d<\/em> within the administration. Naturally he takes this skimpy, unverifiable gossip to Megyn Kelly of Fox News. The alarmist anxiety of Rep. Goodlatte is typical of the fear mongering that Republican politicians and pundits engage in so frequently.<\/p>\n

\"Fox<\/p>\n

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Fox News Imagines Another Covert Plot Against Rick Perry (And America) By George Soros<\/a><\/h3>\n

Brent Bozell\u2019s op-ed for Fox News is titled \u201cMainstream media censors Soros\u2019 connection to Rick Perry indictment.\u201d<\/em> He begins his bill of peculiars by alleging that the media has suppressed the truth about Texans for Public Justice (TPJ), the group that originally filed the complaint against Perry. Bozell claims that \u201cthe group responsible for that indictment had received a half million dollars\u201d<\/em> from Soros. However, there is a very good reason that the press failed to disclose this information: It isn\u2019t true.<\/p>\n

\"Fox<\/p>\n

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Fright-Wing News: Fox News Reports, As Fact, The Missing Libyan Planes Hoax<\/a><\/h3>\n

Fox News anchor Jon Scott introduced a segment saying \u201cA potentially terrifying scenario is playing out as we approach September 11. Nearly a dozen airplanes are missing \u2013 flat out missing \u2013 from an airport in Tripoli, raising new fears of the possibility of another terror attack from the air.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

OMG! That is truly terrifying. I can almost hear the roar of a dozen jet engines filling the sky with thunderous evil as they aim for defenseless skyscrapers packed with unsuspecting victims. Why doesn’t Obama raise the threat level to \u201cUnrestrained Panic\u201d<\/em> and evacuate America\u2019s cities? Perhaps because the story is not true.<\/p>\n

\"Fox<\/p>\n

Fun With Rush: Limbaugh Explains How The Dreaded Polar Vortex Was Created By Liberals<\/a><\/h3>\n

El Rushbo has dusted off his fake degree in meteorology to explain to his dittohead audience how something that has been studied for decades was just invented by some Democrats this week.<\/p>\n

Limbaugh: So, ladies and gentlemen, we are having a record-breaking cold snap in many parts of the country. And right on schedule the media have to come up with a way to make it sound like it\u2019s completely unprecedented. Because they’ve got to find a way to attach this to the global warming agenda, and they have. It\u2019s called the \u2018polar vortex.\u2019 The dreaded polar vortex. […] Do you know what the polar vortex is? Have you ever heard of it? Well, they just created it for this week.<\/p>\n

\"Rush<\/p>\n

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And there you have it. Just a taste of the insanity that has infected one of America’s two major political parties. And all of it occurring in just one hilarity-packed year. The only thing that makes these frighteningly absurd episodes of psychosis even more disturbing, is that in 2015 these are the folks who will be in charge of both the United States House of Representatives and Senate. So happy new Year America, and good luck. You’re gonna need it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Recalling the bygone year, there were enough examples of political foolishness, public embarrassment, and unabashed propaganda, to fill a trainload of FEMA caskets. But nothing comes close to boggling the mind like conspiracy theories rooted in nothing but psychotic paranoia and partisan dementia. 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