AN ALEX JONES FAN?

September 15, 2017

Rep. Dana Rohrabacher,

101 Main Street #380

Huntington Beach, CA 92648

Dear Congressman,

Re: Conspiracy

So, are you now an Alex Jones fan? I see, from a report inthe Los Angeles Times, that you now subscribe to the theory that Charlottesville was a Democratic plot! “It was a setup for these dumb Civil War reenactors,” you’re quoted as saying. “It was the left-wingers who were manipulating them in order to have this confrontation” and to “put our president on the spot.”

Nobody “put him” on the spot, Congressman. If you recall, he stepped right on to it with his absurd statement that both sides were to blame. Then, challenged, he doubled down on the insinuation and even yesterday, so I heard, tripled down on the same vile equivalency, that the American left is no better than Nazis and KKKers. Please! He showed his own colors, willingly. He was not tricked by “left-wingers”!

Whether knowingly or not, it seems you picked up on a conspiracy theory promoted by the widely discredited right-wing extremist, Alex Jones. And did so in a forum (the SF Chronicle, in the article I referred to in my letter yesterday) that you well knew would be publicized. In other words, this could not be considered an off-hand slip of the tongue, but an expression of your true belief.

I have to tell you, Congressman, it’s beyond my belief that you would believe such wicked nonsense.

Respectfully,

Peter Clothier, Ph.D.