By Brian Carnell

Wednesday, October 30, 2002

Left wing fruitcake Ted Rall predictably has a column outlining various conspiracy theories that George W. Bush had Paul Wellstone killed so that Republicans could regain control of the Senate or something like that (I'm surprised Rall missed the obvious "Wellstone killed for oil" angle).

The most hilarious part of Rall's moronic piece is this bit of schizophrenic self-reference,

The fact that we're having this discussion at all is a symptom of the polarizing effect that Bush and his top dogs have had on the United States since assuming office and even more so in the hard-right free-for-all that followed the Sept. 11 attacks. Presidents routinely cause their political detractors to take offense, but one would have to go back to Franklin D. Roosevelt's attempt to stack the U.S. Supreme Court (news - web sites) or Richard Nixon's wiretapping and enemies list to find another American leader who crossed the line of acceptable discourse as extremely as George W. Bush has done.

Got that? Ted Rall writes about an idiotic conspiracy theory, and the very fact that he writes about idiotic conspiracy theories is in itself evidence that the Bush administration is polarizing (a position almost identical, of course, to the nutball assassination conspiracy theories that the far Right threw around about Vince Foster and Ron Brown).

Source:

THE (POSSIBLE) ASSASSINATION OF PAUL WELLSTONE. Ted Rall, YahooNews.Com, October 29, 2002.

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