On conspiracy theories in the mainstream media

Alright, I'm gonna do this one in english since I want to reach out mainly to an american audience since the european audience won't have an idea of what I'm talking about.

I was watching Bill Maher a while ago and he was talking about Glenn Beck and making fun of him. While I found Maher's jokes about him hillarious I thought I should write this down because this is connected to a thing that has bugged me for months, conspiracy theories in mainstream media.

Of course the main point of Maher's jokes where the fact that Beck was talking about FEMA concentration camps. This is an old conspiracy dating back, as far as I know, to the early 90's when the conspiracy movement and different militias broadcasted this message on crappy shortwave transmitters.

The story ranges from some people believing that these are just camps for dissidents to some people believing that these are death camps built for mass murder.

So you see this is not really a consistant theory but it brings me to the question:

Does Glenn Beck really believe in these FEMA camps?

My answer is: Of course he doesn't.

Notice that Beck started to talk about these camps after Obama got into office.

Alex Jones, who is well known in conspiracy circles, talked about these camps during the Bush years and even before that.

This is just a way to try to cut into the more conspiracy oriented right wingers and try to get them on the mainstream republican side. But it's not only republicans who are doing this.

Right now when a democratic president is in office the democrats sit and laugh their asses of and saying how crazy Beck is when he is talking about FEMA camps.

But during the Bush years liberals were leaning into conspiracy stuff.

I think a lot of people are aware of the conspiracy theories surrounding the September 11 attacks. Mike Malloy on Air America talked to people about the fact that he believed that the Bush administration knew about the attacks and let them happend. Randi Rhodes talked about the apparent nazi connections that Prescott Bush had. This is a very popular theory in conspiracy circles. During this time the conservatives were the ones saying how crazy liberals were to believe these things.

And remember that during the Bush years Beck tried to tie a sort of guilt by association thing to Ron Paul supporters and libertarians like Lew Rockwell.

Just watch it yourself.

Now however he is himself acting and talking like the very same type of conspiracy nuts he tried to make Ron Paul supporters look like.So you see.

When a republican president is in charge the democrats cut into the conspiracy stuff and pick out the conspiracies involving republicans and when a democratic president is in charge the republicans cut into the conspiracy stuff and pick out the conspiracies involving democrats.

This is just a way of rallying support for the party and both parties do it.

Any means necessary apprently.