Posted by
Andrews on Tuesday, March 04, 2008 4:35:07 PM
Now I am sure someone out there will poke a few holes in my theory. Someone will point out that former President Clinton was born six years after Trotsky died for example. But I am sure someone out there read my title, nodded his head, and added it to his list of conspiracy theories.
There is nothing so outlandish that someone doesn't buy it. That 9/11 was an inside job? Thousands buy it. That JFK was killed by the CIA? Yes. By the mafia? By Johnson? By Comintern? Of course! By aliens? By Elvis? By Nazi clones of Hitler? By Jim Morrison? I am sure someone out there believes all of those too. As I said, nothing is so nutty that it won't be believed by someone out there.
But I have now found the absolute hands down winner for nutty conspiracy theories.
This site claims that GEORGE BUSH SENIOR KILLED JFK!
And not only is it mad, but it is pretty shoddy even by conspiracy theory standards. I am quite a fan of truly loony conspiracy sites, and this one just does not measure up.
Then again, you have to admire the outright chutzpah of the author. He claims that a letter from Hoover to George Bush of the CIA MUST be to George Bush Senior. Confronted with evidence that there was ANOTHER George Bush who actually worked for the CIA, he mumbles something about the other Bush being "too unimportant", throws in a slur intended to portray Hoover as gay, and presses on.
That sort of response takes nerve. "Contradictory evidence! Who cares? Hoover was a drag queen! Oh, and what evidence?" It is a bold move. Not a convincing one, but sometimes you have to admire the brazenness of an act, even if you admire nothing else.
Well,
read it for yourself, it provides some interesting insight into the depths to which Bush Derangement Syndrome can drive someone.
ADDENDUM
As soon as I posted this, I recalled an even better conspiracy theory. Now, it is drawn from fiction, so I am not sure whether it was meant to be taken seriously or not. Then again, as the author claimed at the time to be talking to G-d, via the spirit of a 1st century Christian, I think he may have been serious.
In several of Phillip K. Dick's later works, he postulates that Nixon somehow orchestrated the assassinations of JFK, RFK, Martin Luther King, Bishop Pike and George Lincoln Rockwell, all so a second-string politician like him could get elected. (At least that is how I read it. Dick could be a bit cryptic at times, so I may have some of it wrong.)
But, even if I missed some of the nuances, that still has to be the greatest tinfoil hat theory ever. Who else ever tried to link JFK and Rockwell? Or turned Bishop Pike's death into an assassination, so it could be linked to the others? The whole thing is just beautifully deranged.
I suppose, compared to that, the idea that President Bush killed JFK is a bit less impressive.