Witch or devil? Let's dunk her in the pond and find out!
by digby
She might be a terrorist too! From Peter Montgomery, we find that certain members of the right are engaged in a lively debate about whether Clinton is the anti-Christ or an Illuminati witch. Seriously:
I don't believe Hillary is the Antichrist, but the fact that so many people are utterly convinced is telling. The chatter continues. One thing is clear, believers are paying close attention to the signs of the times—including the rise of the Antichrist.
The video, though, does offer some shocking info about Hillary. Check it out for yourself.
“Documentary” is a far too generous term for the incoherent 22-minute mash-up of right-wing Hillary-hating news clips, interviews, and voiceovers that appears on the End Of The World YouTube channel.
Disappointingly, the video doesn’t directly address the question of whether Clinton might be the Antichrist. It does recycle conspiracy theories like Clinton’s supposed plan to confiscate everyone’s guns and talks about “that sexual relationship with Huma Abedin that is whispered about in the dark corners of Washington.”
The video includes snippets from Benghazi hearings, attacks on Planned Parenthood and its founder Margaret Sanger, right-wing news coverage of the Clinton’s email problems, and old news clips about the Whitewater scandal. It includes bits of video and audio from some recognizable speakers like Dick Morris, Robert Novak, Phyllis Schlafly, Glenn Beck, and Ben Carson. Oddly, it ends with a number of somewhat endearing clips of Clinton gamely dancing with celebrities during speaking appearances like Ellen DeGeneres’s television show.
The most inflammatory comments seem to have been snagged from an Infowars video featuring Larry Nichols, who is identified by Infowars as a former “Clinton machine insider.” Nichols says of Hillary Clinton, “she’s an animal.” He says that when the Clintons were still in Arkansas, Bill told him that Hillary would go to Los Angeles once a month with a group of women to be “part of a witches’ church.”
This is looney tunes fringe stuff. But the chants of "lock her up!" and "hang the bitch!" at Trump rallies are definitely echoes of witch hunt frenzies of the past. The "powerful woman must be a witch or the tool of the devil" archetype goes way, way back.
