Oh, TPM Reader AC is right. You just can’t make this stuff up.
Earlier I noted David Brooks’ reference to this site in today’s column in the Times. And as part of that I noted David’s past record of issuing rather crude aspersions of ‘conspiracy theorizing’ against anyone who had the temerity to question the neo-conservative turn of US foreign policy under the Bush administration.
Now, here’s where it gets fun.
By way of example, I linked to this post from January 2004 which referenced one of Brooks’ lowest moments in the ‘conspiracy’ mugging game, the instance in which he implied that the term ‘neocon’ is in fact an anti-semitic slur. (I think he actually had to issue a retraction in the Times for that lapse; but perhaps someone else can remind me.)
In any case, TPM Reader AC went back to the original column (which is of course behind the Times’ Times-Select veil) in which this choice paragraph appears (emphasis added) …
Theories about the tightly knit neocon cabal came in waves. One day you read that neocons were pushing plans to finish off Iraq and move into Syria. Web sites appeared detailing neocon conspiracies; my favorite described a neocon outing organized by Dick Cheney to hunt for humans. The Asian press had the most lurid stories; the European press the most thorough. Every day, it seemed, Le Monde or some deep-thinking German paper would have an exposé on the neocon cabal, complete with charts connecting all the conspirators.
As you can see, crude and a tad vulgar (especially in the three grafs which follow the one above), but occasionally, well … prescient?
