How far has the once-venerated NBC news fallen? They allow conspirators, partisans, lunatics, disaffected fools like MSNBC host Joe Scarborough to get on TV and tell you what is going on in the world and why. In regards to the Jefferey Epstein report of suicide, Morning Joe went off the rail.
Scarborough tweeted, “A guy who had information that would have destroyed rich and powerful men’s lives ends up dead in his jail cell. How predictably…Russian.”
Colleague Joy Ann Reid noted that the federal prison where Epstein had died was operated by the Department of Justice. “Let’s just be blunt,” she said. “William Barr’s justice department is not one that you can readily, simply rely upon, and feel confident in. So what do we make of all this now?”
A guy who had information that would have destroyed rich and powerful men’s lives ends up dead in his jail cell. How predictably…Russian.
— Joe Scarborough (@JoeNBC) August 10, 2019
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Clara Jeffery, the editor-in-chief of Mother Jones, called the fact that Epstein reportedly wasn’t on suicide watch at the time of his death inside the Metropolitan Correctional Center “sketchy as shit.” And former Democratic Senator Claire McCaskill of Missouri tweeted, “Something stinks to high heaven. How does someone on suicide watch hang himself with no intervention? Impossible. Unless…..”
Some saw Epstein’s death as cause for a broad indictment of American elites. Sohrab Ahmari, the conservative op-ed editor for the New York Post, touted the wisdom of a bar-owner he knows who’d repeatedly predicted that “our ‘Eyes Wide Shut’-style ruling class” would “never let Epstein live.”
Something stinks to high heaven. How does someone on suicide watch hang himself with no intervention? Impossible. Unless…..
— Claire McCaskill (@clairecmc) August 10, 2019
Others, like Fox Business host Lou Dobbs, took a more sharply partisan approach. “Epstein should have been at least on Arkanside Watch,” he tweeted, deploying a portmanteau of “suicide” and “Arkansas” that was being used by Twitter conservatives to accuse the Clintons of foul play.
Epstein should have been at least on Arkanside Watch: https://t.co/oSLlic1zaL #MAGA #AmericaFirst #Dobbs
— Lou Dobbs (@LouDobbs) August 10, 2019
Amid all the fevered speculation, Mike Cernovich—live-streamed his reaction to the Epstein take-cycle. Barely able to contain his glee, Cernovich seemed to revel in how some mainstream journalists were edging closer to his approach.
The guy who owns the bar/restaurant on the first floor of my building kept predicting, "They'll never let Epstein live." "They" being they, our "Eyes Wide Shut"-style ruling class. Regular people are wiser than us pundits.
— Sohrab Ahmari (@SohrabAhmari) August 10, 2019
“Right now, in real time, mainstream media—they’re going to have to adjust their operating software, they’re going to have to adjust their mental model of the world,” he said. “It doesn’t matter how normie mainstream you are. It doesn’t matter how credible you think you are.” The official story of Epstein’s suicide, he declared, “just does not make sense.”
Ken White: The Jeffrey Epstein case is like nothing I’ve seen before
It would be easy to treat this frenzied reaction to Epstein’s death as a sad case study in how conspiratorial thinking has bled into mainstream discourse. But finger-wagging feels inadequate at this moment.
As I’ve written before, every grotesque beat of Epstein’s story—including, now, his untimely death—illustrates how America’s culture of elite impunity, failure, and corruption has allowed conspiracy theorists to thrive.
For some, the initial account of Epstein’s death did leave serious questions unanswered; suspicions of foul play—or at least mind-boggling incompetence—seemed natural. Indeed, by Saturday afternoon, the attorney general, facing bipartisan pressure from lawmakers, announced that both the FBI and the Inspector General would be investigating the death. No matter what facts emerge in the coming weeks or months, some observers will forever remain unconvinced.
Alleged pedophiles named include Alan Dershowitz, former governor of New Mexico Bill Richardson, former U.S. Senator George Mitchell, an unnamed prime minister, and Prince Andrew of the House of Windsor.
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