Democrats are falling for fake news about Russia.

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5. It's the "broad brush" effect.

Conspiracy theorists are always nut jobs because they fall for EVERY "conspiracy" out there. But it's as if a conspiracy is always fantasy held close by fantasists, which suggests that a conspiracy, by definition, is a false story.

Of course, there ARE real conspiracies, some not recognized by the corporate media as legitimate.. until they can no longer be ignored. (Remember all of those JFK "conspiracy nuts"? They were off their rockers until the evidence proved them to be correct. And still, now, we hear smatterings of the once-treasured falsehood that Oswald was the lone assassin!) And people like Mensch, Taylor, Schindler, and others are always irresponsible purveyors of fiction-- until they are proven to be correct. But in the case of Mensch, et al., even when they are consistently correct, they are STILL discredited because... well, because they aren't the NYT or the WP.

This morning, Mensch went through a rant about ALL of the scoops that she reported weeks before they were picked up as big news by the NYT and WP. And it's true. She has her own time-stamped scoops on her blog to prove it.