I wondered how long it would take for the teenage girl at the center of the Weiner sexting case to receive the same treatment as Bill Clinton's victims. Fittingly it took just long enough for Weiner to plead guilty.
What's the damning charge against the teenage girl? The most damaging accusation in liberal circles. Her family are... Republicans. Never mind that Weiner pleaded guilty. That he has a long history of this sort of behavior.. Her family has tainted Republican genes.
This follow the pattern with Bill Clinton of the media attributing partisan motives to his victims (though of course the same never held true when the parties were reversed.)
The article is co-written by Russ Baker. Baker is a former New York Times and Washington Post writer. His "journalism" consists of digging through the supposed social media accounts of family members to prove it's a conspiracy.
How else could a fine progressive like Anthony Weiner have wound up in the dock except through a vast right-wing conspiracy.
But Russ Baker has been a liberal conspiracy theorist for a while. He's best known for conspiracy theories about Bush. Here's a review from that right-wing organ... the Los Angeles Times.
The great Satan in this fevered schema is not the current President Bush but his father, President George H.W. Bush, whom Baker alleges has been a covert intelligence agent since his teens. According to Baker, he also was at the very center of a successful plot to murder John Kennedy...
Also Bush might have been behind Hinckley's attempt to kill Reagan. And oh yes, he's a 9/11 Truther.
In March 2010, he appeared before the "Treason in America Conference," a gathering of Sept. 11 truthers. Baker said the 9/11 commission had “no credibility,” and "sounded open to the possibility that 9/11 was an inside job."
And that the Boston Marathon bombing was a false operation.
Now you would assume that someone like this would not be taken seriously. But his anti-Bush tract was reviewed by the Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times. He was allowed to write about Bush for the New York Review of Books. His "scoop" targeting a sexting victim is being trumpeted by The Hill.
And his site has rather serious backing.
His board of directors includes Margaret Engel, the executive director of the Alicia Patterson Foundation,* and longtime editor Jonathan Z. Larsen, while Daniel Ellsberg, Pulitzer Prize-winner Sydney Schanberg, and Salon founder David Talbot serve on the site’s advisory board.
Why are they there? Because the left is rotting with conspiracy theories. That's why they're obsessed with Comey.