We've been subjected to wave after wave of MSM journalists insisting that no conspiracy theory is ever correct and that inquiring into them is a sign of derangement and professional disgrace. And then we hit two stories which suggest otherwise. DSK, we now discover, had a serious pattern of sexual abuse that remained rumor and was never subjected to MSM scrutiny in France until now. But that's France. America is not like that, right?
Well: how does someone as prominent as Arnold Schwarzenegger keep a now 14-year-old son a secret until now? That beats John Edwards' double life by a long shot (and Edwards was also accorded MSM immunity). We don't yet know how this story broke, and perhaps we never will. But we do know that the MSM believes that anything elaborate or conspiratorial about the lives of public figures is disgraceful conspiracy-mongering and that any journalist who inquires should be ostracized by his or her peers.
How many people are required to be in on a conspiracy to conceal an out-of-wedlock 14-year-old child for a decade and a half? Wouldn't child support have traces? Wouldn't a birth certificate have to be filed, health insurance paid, etc? How do you bring a child up thinking someone who was not his father was actually his father, without involving more than the actual biological parents? I don't know and would welcome reader suggestions.
But it seems to me that this proves that when a small group of people all have a powerful incentive to lie, it's amazing what can be done. And this is not the governor of a small-population state far away from the national spotlight. This is the governor of the biggest state, a global super-star, a man known across the planet, subject to massive press exposure, married to a Kennedy. And he got away with it.
How? Wouldn't you like to know? Or is that a tawdry disgraceful piece of conspiracy-mongering that really is beneath a "serious" journalist's reputation?
The Dish 