Thursday, March 30, 2006
Jill Carroll Conspiracy Theories
It's sometimes hard to predict the things that will really irritate the jingoistic mind. This whole Jill Carroll situation is a little surprising to me. You would think the story of an American woman abducted for months by Iraqis would fire up the wingers in the obvious way and that her release wouldn't cause them that much cognitive dissonance, but it apparently does.
Although the right's top blogs aren't officially endorsing it, among the commenters and in the blogs of the bottom feeders, the boys are spinning a conspiracy theory in which Jill Carroll was in cahoots with "the terrorists" and faked her own kidnapping in order to make the occupation look bad ... I kid you not. Here for example is an actual comment from Free Republic:
which seems to imply that the two Simonas were in league with the terrorists as well. Maybe Tom Fox faked his own death to smear egg in the face of bourgeois Christians by, you know, demonstrating what actually living by the words of Christ looks like?...
Granted the conspiracy theories upon Carroll's release follow from the crazy viciousness with which the Free Republic and LGF folks attacked Ms. Carroll while she was abducted but are nonetheless pretty insane. What is Carroll's crime in these people's eyes? -- Being a woman, a journalist, not an idiotic jingoistic rightwinger, and getting kidnapped by insurgents who were insufficiently bloodthirsty for the tastes of America's enlightened patriots?
Although the right's top blogs aren't officially endorsing it, among the commenters and in the blogs of the bottom feeders, the boys are spinning a conspiracy theory in which Jill Carroll was in cahoots with "the terrorists" and faked her own kidnapping in order to make the occupation look bad ... I kid you not. Here for example is an actual comment from Free Republic:
I will always believe this to be a set up situation...I think she was in on it and I said at the time if she was released unharmed she was part of the setup....now I will prepare to hear how she wouldn't have been in the situation to begin with if the US hadn't invaded and OCCUPIED the poor little Iraq's...
Does anyone else wonder why no other American Woman "Journalists" are kidnapped??? -- Just this one who has been an apologist for the terrorists from the beginning..and foreign females from liberal papers????
which seems to imply that the two Simonas were in league with the terrorists as well. Maybe Tom Fox faked his own death to smear egg in the face of bourgeois Christians by, you know, demonstrating what actually living by the words of Christ looks like?...
Granted the conspiracy theories upon Carroll's release follow from the crazy viciousness with which the Free Republic and LGF folks attacked Ms. Carroll while she was abducted but are nonetheless pretty insane. What is Carroll's crime in these people's eyes? -- Being a woman, a journalist, not an idiotic jingoistic rightwinger, and getting kidnapped by insurgents who were insufficiently bloodthirsty for the tastes of America's enlightened patriots?
