After Bill Clinton was elected President of the United States, Rush Limbaugh spear-headed a campaign of vitriolic hatred  against him. As Jeff Cohen said in the film The Brain Washing of My Dad, “Limbaugh becomes almost the leader of the opposition.” He spread the rumour, without any evidence, that Vince Foster, a Clinton aide was killed and the body was found in Hillary Clinton’s apartment. This conspiracy theory was around for years. Probably it is still around. It probably had an effect on Hillary losing the presidential election in 2016. Yet it was all nonsense on steroids.

Limbaugh told his listeners that after Bill Clinton was elected he was part of a global coalition that would get the UN to come and take over the American government and take their guns away and put dissidents in concentration camps. This theory is still around too and hampers the work of the UN.

Jen Senko’s father was convinced that Bill Clinton was a murderer and wanted to destroy the country to protect himself. Hillary said “there is a vast right-wing conspiracy that has been conspiring against my husband from the day that he announced he would run for president.”  David Brock, author of the book Blinded by the Right: The Conscience of an ex-Conservative, admitted that he was part of such a conspiracy. He said,

“I knew what she was saying was true. I was involved with it and new very much first hand  that people I was working with in places like the American Spectator magazine back in 1993 shortly after Clinton was elected were trying to figure out how to get him thrown out of office. How to impeach him.”

According to Jeff Cohen, “the role of Rush Limbaugh in the ascendancy of the right-wing-wing in America was crucial.”

Even more important, the role of such conspiracy theories was part of the right-wing movement. And it still is. Hatred blinds.