THIS Is A Distraction???

You have to hand it to the lunatics at Air Scamerica. They're the only group of people I've ever seen that believe that the best way to distract public attention from their corruption and criminality is to wallow in public idiocy:

Two hosts at the liberal radio network Air America are defending Nation of Islam leader Minister Louis Farrakhan - saying he's not wrong to suspect that white people deliberately blew up the levees in New Orleans.

"You cannot blame people for coming up with conspiracy theories," Air America host Chuck D. said, after he was asked Thursday about the paranoid pronouncement by MSNBC's Tucker Carlson.

"They look on television and see that the government is four days late in saving people [who are] supposed to be their citizens," Chuck D. explained.

Looking on television was his first mistake. As to not blaming people for coming up with conspiracy theories, I seem to recall the Left casting quite a bit of blame on just such grounds when it came to conspiracy theories about Bill Clinton's various and sundry scandals. Guess "D." thinks paranoia is a partisan one-way street as well.

Carlson gave him a second chance to denounce Farrakhan's lunatic declaration, saying, "You're a smart guy. You know that white people didn't blow up the levees to kill black people. You've gotta know that didn't happen."

But the Air America host refused to budge, insisting instead that there was a chance
Farrakhan could be right.

"I can't say unless I know for sure what's the actual facts and what's actually false," the rapper-turned-talk host said....

Actually, he can. He just doesn't want to. For "D.", letting go of this execrable nonsense would be like Linus letting go of his blanket. Not only is it a salve for his racialist extremism, but it's evidently a part of his on-air gimmick.

And he apparently isn't the only one:

After failing to persuade Chuck D., the MSNBC host turned to panelist Rachel Maddow, who also hosts a show on Air America.

Asked if she believed that white people deliberately destroyed the levees, Maddow declined to render a personal judgment - and instead defended the sentiment behind the toxic hypothesis.

"Conspiracy theories don't necessarily help but you have to understand where they come from," she told Carlson. "They come from people feeling like this disaster had a real racial component. I mean, it was a majority-black city that was absolutely abandoned by the country."

If racist conspiracism "doesn't help," why do we have to "understand where it comes from"? The Ku Klux Klan was conspiracist; did that mean we had to understand where they were "coming from"? We know that the Protocols of the Elders of Zion is hateful, paranoid garbage; does that mean we have to understand where anti-Semites "come from"?

Ms. Maddow is correct that conspiracy theories don't "necessarily" help. And neither does irresponsible excuse-making from ideologically sympatico blowhards whose extremism long ago seared away any sense of shame or conscience.