One of the stranger Clintonworld moments of the campaign came when David Brock accused the New York Times of a right-wing conspiracy.
Crazy people often feed off each other. In Casa Hillary, the human centipede of madness begins with David Brock, then goes through Stanley Blumenthal over to Hillary Clinton. Brock and Blumenthal make Hillary even crazier and more paranoid than she already is.
David Brock, whom you may know as the guy behind Media Matters, was already so nuts that he feared right-wing assassins would shoot him on the rooftop. He tried to release a book claiming that Benghazi was a hoax. Even the media, which usually eats out of Media Matters' hairy hand, ignored that one. And he claimed that Hillary's bad book salesw ere a right wing conspiracy.
Here's how crazy this was...
Brock, the former right-wing journalist-turned-pro-Clinton crusader, takes aim at a top New York Times editor in a soon-to-be released book obtained by POLITICO. In the book, titled “Killing the Messenger: The Right-Wing Plot to Derail Hillary Clinton and Hijack Your Government,” Brock accuses senior politics editor and former Washington bureau chief Carolyn Ryan of helping to turn the paper into a “megaphone for conservative propaganda” by unfairly targeting former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. …
“As it concerns Clinton coverage, the Times will have a special place in hell,” he writes, claiming that interviews with current Times employees prove his case.
The Chozick campaign bio of Hillary though suggests that Brock was going to even crazier places. And that the Clintons were on board.
“After the election, Bill would spread a more absurd Times conspiracy: The publisher had struck a deal with Trump that we’d destroy Hillary on her emails to help him get elected, if he kept driving traffic and boosting the company’s stock price.”
The New York Times has made a lot of money off Trump. And he's spent plenty of time talking to its reporters. That's what Brock and Bill were probably working off. But it's still a crazy conspiracy theory.
Trump talks to the Times because he's a New Yorker and it's the dominant paper of record, especially in upscale social circles in Manhattan.
The Times has become profitable. But so did the Washington Post. Attacking Trump is very good for their bottom line.
But this provides yet another insight into how deranged the Clinton inner circle had apparently become.