Conspiracy theories, not facts, are driving hatred of Clinton

[TomCADem]

In contrast, the press is oh so careful not to suggest that there is no clear evidence of coordination between the Trump campaign and the Russian government notwithstanding Trump's pro-Russian statements and Russia's active efforts to hack the Clinton campaign.

http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/01/opinions/hillary-clinton-victim-conspiracy-theories-kohn/

No matter how much they try, Republicans can't make Hillary Clinton guilty.

I recently met a student at the University of Wyoming who wanted to know why, during a speech, I said Benghazi is a non-issue. Because, I explained, after 33 hearings conducted by multiple Congressional committees featuring more than 250 witness appearances, and resulting in hundreds of pages of published reports, no evidence of wrongdoing -- either by Hillary Clinton or the State Department more broadly -- was found.

That is not to say that no mistakes were made. All of the investigations found there were things in hindsight that Clinton and the State Department could and should have done differently -- important lessons to learn in protecting our diplomatic assets going forward. But the fact is the committees found no breach of duty on the part of Clinton.

But because Republicans didn't like that answer, they launched yet another investigation -- which, after two years and more than $7 million in taxpayer dollars, reached the same conclusion. Yet here was this student, insisting in spite of all the findings to the contrary, that Clinton was not only guilty, but that she had deliberately caused the deaths of Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other brave Americans. The facts were clearly irrelevant to her conclusion. She was determined to believe in Hillary Clinton's guilt.

[Cary]

1. Of course...

What have we been saying about irrational loathing of Hillary Clinton?

[The Genealogist]

2. The Republican party is the party of conspiracy theory and witchhunts

They'll gripe if they think so much as one welfare dollar has been spent in a way they don't agree with, but will dump millions of dollars down the drain to find the least shred of anything they can pin on an opponent. Just think how many hungry children's bellies could be filled with seven million dollars' worth of food.

[cilla4progress]

3. Exactly. She has been investigated more than

ANYONE!! Vetted, pre-vette and re-RE-vetted.

AIN'T NO THERE THERE!!

[livingonearth]

4. This type of thing concerns me.

Could your student explain why she thought that way? What was the evidence she was using to come to her conclusion?

[TrekLuver]

5. It's troublesome that the fake news becomes the real news. My co worker alerted me that the Obamas

had scrubbed all twitter references regarding Hillary...I gave him side eye and I said sounds like one of your rag site conspiracy theories. 2 clicks proved it true. I continued and said can you imagine what else you are believing because you are not cross checking this information? I hope I'm getting through to him.

[GWC58]

6. 30 years in their crosshairs have

accomplished what they set out to do, at least to the RW. What pisses me off is how some on the left fell for that shit (Sarandon, R. Dawson, etc., etc.) hook, line and sinker.