A lot of our conspiracy theories (e.g. Vince Foster) actually DID make sense.
I agree. Some made sense (although I don't think the Clintons had Foster bumped off, someone else did)
But some of those theories didn't make sense. And we got singed on a few, such as Danny Williams. But looking back, there was a cottage conspiracy industry peddling those - remember Drudge promoting Danny Williams as an earth-shattering story, with Newsmax piling on? All because they thought that they could link Danny's DNA to Clinton's DNA published in the Starr Report. Whoops, they couldn't.
But after a couple of years of that, we started to sober up and look at the internet as an investigative, organizational and journalistic medium - and started assuming some old-school journalistic ethics that, ironically, had all-but been abandonded by the MSM. The quality of our fact-checking, writing and analysis improved. So did our speed and our understanding of the strengths and limitations of the medium. To where we run circles around the MSM today. They still gather much of the news. But they can't spin it any longer, or omit key facts, or engage in out-and-out fallacies like this piece. And it's driving them bonkers.
And the left-wing bloggers and forums are eight years behind up. EIGHT YEARS. That's an eternity. And not only that, they are not trying to come up with their own model for success, they are emulating what we did with Clinton. They are calling Bush a liar every chance they get, whether or not the facts fit the charge, because, hey, that's a label that eventually stuck on Clinton. And they want their impeachment and want it bad - to the point where an idiot reporter for the Philly Daily News is maintaining a countdown to Bush's impeachment on his blog - timed when Nixon would have been impeached had he stayed in office.
It's so typically liberal. Out of step with the times. Imitating, not innovating. And attempting to furiously pound square pegs into round holes, all the while blaming Karl Rove for the fact that the pegs no longer are round, instead of finding the proper square hole for the peg.