July 21, 2004

A Proper Foil

There are two things required to produce a really good conspiracy theory. The first is a really good tin foil hat. A really good tin foil hat requires most of all really good tin foil. Cheap store brands are entirely inadequate as the need for more numerous layers will seriously compromise the structure and effectiveness of the hat. Buy good foil, and craft your hat with care.

Having blocked out all the interference being beamed into your head via satellites and black helicopters, your mind will be free to work. This brings us to the second thing you need, the mental filter. An effective conspiracy theory starts with the desired outcome of the conspiracy and filters every relevant event of reality through that prism. My particular favorite is the Hillary in '08 filter.

Through this filter everything is viewed in the context of how it helps Hillary's 2008 presidential campaign. With the use of really good tin foil hat and the Hillary '08 filter I recently made the following prediction regarding the progress of the current presidential campaign.

At a crucial moment in the campaign a scandal either directly involving Kerry or Edwards or linked to the campaign would be leaked to media. The scandal would be enough to cost Kerry the election but not enough to do serious harm to the Party. Also the leak - coming from the Clintons or one of their lackeys in the DNC - would be made look like it was done by the Republicans. Democrat partisans would dutifully complain about the timing of the story and blame it on Republican dirty tricks while the scandal itself gained surprising mainstream media focus and slowly eroded Kerry's poll numbbers. With no Democrat incumbant in the way, Hillary is virtually guaranteed the nomination in '08. And to top it off, she has a ready made issue of Republican dirty tricks to hammer away at in hope of keeping the worst of her skeletons in their closets.
But who's to say. Even a good tin foil hat has been known to be wrong from time to time.

Posted by: Stephen Macklin at 03:09 PM | No Comments | Add Comment







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