Recap: The Most Ridiculous Leftist Defenses of Ant

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Recap: The Most Ridiculous Leftist Defenses of Anthony Weiner


The vast right wing conspiracy

The "it's a coordinated plot to take down Weiner" line mostly originated in the blogosphere, but made its way into the mainstream via some of the usual suspects, such as The View's Joy Behar. "Somebody is out to get [Weiner], apparently," Behar theorized. And of course, it was "because they don't like his politics."

Behar took the more general anti-Weiner conspiracy line, but there were also two prominent offshoots of that theory: the "Andrew Breitbart is the antichrist" offshoot, and the "cover for Clarence Thomas" offshoot. The former was more likely to crop up among television personalities.

Breitbart was, as usual, a favorite target of the nutroots as well. He garnered headlines such as "Yet Another Andrew Breitbart Smear Falls Apart" from Charles Johnson of Little Green Footballs, and "Breitbart to use SEX SMEAR on Rep. Anthony Weiner" from a Daily Kos blogger (who updated the headline with the now-ironic addendum: "Easily Debunked FRAUD").

Meanwhile, others at the Kos conspiracy factory were cooking up a theory that this was all an attempt to silence Weiner's calls for Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas to recuse himself from any case involving Obamacare. As one blogger there put it (h/t Matthew Shaffer):

Congressman Anthony Weiner was stalked, set up, smeared, and this was coordinated to protect Clarence Thomas from scrutiny…And now this gang, this conservative media mafia, has done a hit on a U.S. Congressman…carefully timed to protect corrupt Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas from scrutiny.

(and 9-11 was an inside job by the Jewish lobby)

Politico's Ken Vogel, while not endorsing this conspiracy theory, threw fuel on the fire with a tweet that seemed to suggest that Thomas would benefit from the scandal. Others were more explicit, echoing the Kos comments above.

[Mongo53]

They need to watch the South Park Episode on Tiger Wood, its all an evil spell cast by an alien wizard.

Cause, you know, Rich Powerful guys, that no one ever says NO to, they could never get a bit of swelled head, and no, there are never any floozy woman that would that are attracted to that or hope for something in exchange and sleep with them just because they are rich or powerful, so they would never ever succumb to those temptation.

It must be the result of spell cast by an evil alien wizard, like Andrew Breitbart, yea, thats the ticket. Its a vast right wing conspiracy that hypnotized Weiner and made him take pictures of little weiner and then branwashed him into admitting it was all his doing, yea, thats the ticket.

We've got a turd in the punch bowl, I repeat, we've got a turd in the punch bowl.