Demonic_ How the Liberal Mob Is Endangering America - Ann Coulter [47]
Amazingly, the New York Times refused to accept the Senate committee’s findings and expressed hope for “a fuller, fairer understanding” from the House investigating committee. Jimmy Carter was unable to comment because he was in Pyongyang with Habitat for Humanity building Kim Il Sung a new missile silo.
Five million dollars and yet another congressional investigation later, the House report concluded: “There was no October Surprise agreement ever reached” and further that there was “no credible evidence” that the Reagan campaign had attempted to delay the hostages’ release.27 Five million bucks for that. Liberals were hysterical about the famed “30 million dollars” for Independent Counsel Ken Starr’s investigation during the Clinton years—and Starr got fifteen criminal convictions and a president’s impeachment. The House spent $5 million in an intensive, ten-month investigation to disprove the fantasies of a LaRouchite, a paranormal expert, a fake CIA agent, and the guy who was in charge of Iranian affairs for President Carter.
After foisting this useless investigation on the nation by flacking the crazed conspiracy theories of Gary Sick, instead of apologizing, the Times gave Sick equal time on that day’s op-ed page to respond. His conclusion: Representative Lee Hamilton, the Democrat who had chaired the House’s October Surprise Task Force, was in on the cover-up.
Among other lunacies, Sick wrote:28
1. “As a White House official involved in the hostage negotiations, I refused for many years to accept those allegations [about the October Surprise].”
This was preposterous: Sick had been hawking the October Surprise theory to the media as early as 1988, each time claiming to have resisted believing, but finally being overwhelmed by, the apocryphal evidence.29
2. The family of Reagan’s CIA director, William Casey, “failed to provide his passport, which had vanished mysteriously.”
Wow—that is mysterious! How could a passport simply vanish? This is how: Casey had died in 1987 and the congressional investigation didn’t begin until five years later, in 1992. Not being able to readily produce the passport of a man who passed away five years earlier is not especially mysterious.
3. “All this leaves open the possibility that members of the Reagan-Bush campaign may have interfered with the Carter Administration’s most delicate foreign negotiation.”
This is why you should never argue with homeless people claiming the government is controlling our minds with microwaves, kids! It’s easier to just let them write a column for the New York Times op-ed page.
It is inconceivable that there would ever be comparable congressional investigations by Republicans. It would be as if Republicans spent millions of dollars investigating Obama’s birth certificate—except there is such a thing as a birth certificate. There was no such thing as a secret meeting between the ayatollah’s representatives and Reagan’s people.
The allegedly serious Democrats aren’t just humoring their base. This is what they believe. Years after elected Democrats wasted taxpayer money running down the demented October Surprise conspiracy theory, the Clinton administration’s first contact with Tehran was to demand information from the baffled Iranians about the mythical October Surprise.30
Hitler falsely blamed the Reichstag fire on a communist to justify the mass arrests of communists and insurrectionists. But at least the Reichstag building really did burn down. Liberals just go about inventing news stories and then demanding the rest of us deal with it. This is the politics of hallucination.
Only a mob could impose their psychoses on the nation like this. Only a mob is illogical and paranoid enough to believe such fantastical stories. And only the liberal mob has professors, Times columnists, former presidents, and members of Congress