There are few more blatant examples of the political double standards in the media than the differing treatment of Ben Carson for his ideas about pyramids and the way that Hillary Clinton's UFO obsession is treated as a whimsical thing.
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has said that if she is elected, she will 'get to the bottom' of questions over what the government knows about UFOs and aliens.
When asked if she would support UFO disclosure group efforts, she enthusiastically said 'yes'.
'Yes, I'm going to get to the bottom of it,' Hillary Clinton told The Sun reporter last week.
In 2014, Bill Clinton told late-night TV host Jimmy Kimmel that he wouldn't be surprised if aliens visited Earth, and last week
Hillary Clinton appeared to agree with her husband's comments when she spoke about aliens on last week.
'I think we may have been (visited already). We don't know for sure,' she said.
She added that she would like to look into Area 51, which she first called Area 54 but quickly corrected herself.
'He has made me personally pledge we are going to get the information out,' Hillary Clinton said. 'One way or another. Maybe we could have, like, a task force to go to Area 51.'
This actually goes back further to the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and its wealthy UFO fanatic boss.
The Clintons seem to have accommodated what is known in UFO circles as the Rockefeller Initiative 1993 to 1996. This initiative involved high level meetings with the Clintons. One such meeting has a photo of Hillary with Laurance S. Rockefeller while Hillary carries a book about ETs. It's likely that it was given to her as an introductory text to make the whole thing seem plausible.
Laurance S. Rockefeller was a major Clinton donor and patron.
Clinton had said, "if I put you over at Justice I want you to find the answers to two questions for me," Hubbell recounts.
"One, who killed JFK. And two, are there UFOs."
"Clinton was dead serious. I had looked into both, but wasn't satisfied with the answers I was getting," Hubbell adds.
With the Clintons, money is always the bottom line. Rockefeller is dead. So why does the Clinton campaign keep bringing up UFOs.
CNN's Jake Tapper pulled aside Clinton campaign chair John Podesta, who was a guest on "The Lead," to talk aliens."The U.S. government could do a much better job in answering the quite legitimate questions that people have about what's going on with unidentified aerial phenomena," Podesta said.
Clinton herself pledged in January to "get to the bottom" of whether rumors of U.S. contact with extraterrestrial life were true.
In regard to Area 51, Podesta echoed Clinton's call, saying, "What I've talked to the secretary about, and what she's said now in public, is that if she's elected president, when she gets into office, she'll ask for as many records as the United States federal government has to be declassified, and I think that's a commitment that she intends to keep and that I intend to hold her to."
Once again, note the non-judgmental coverage by CNN. Then imagine the howls of laughter, the SNL cold open and the memes if this was coming from a Republican candidate and his camp.
But back to the question, why the UFOs? Is there another wealthy donor out there with a UFO obsession the Clintons are courting. I can't say that would surprise me at all.