http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/12/22/crazy-conspiracy-theorists-2/
December 22, 2008, 8:32 pm
Crazy conspiracy theorists
So Rush Limbaugh, Bill O'Reilly, and Karl Rove all claim that the
financial crisis was a liberal conspiracy, generated either by evil
mastermind Chuck Schumer or by wily journalists.
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/12/22/limbaugh-democrats-indy/
Why does such stuff flourish? Probably because there is no punishment
for it -- as long as you're on the right, and I mean right, side. Let
Michael Moore point out, entirely correctly, the close ties between the
Saudis and the Bush family, and he's blasted as a crazy conspiracy
theorist. On the other hand, let Donald Luskin suggest, in 2004, that
George Soros is planning to engineer a financial crisis to defeat Bush,
and he gets to publish front-page articles in the Washington Post
Outlook section declaring that there isn't a recession.