Forgive James Tracy, for he knows not what he types.
Tracy, an avid conspiracy theorist and tenured professor at Florida Atlantic University, believes the Sandy Hook massacre — in which 20 children and six adults were killed — didn’t really happen.
At least not the way the media portrayed it.
Tracy, like many conspiracy theorists, doesn’t offer much to back up his claim, other than his conspiracy laid out on a cute little blog. He believes the shooting was nothing more than “[news] intended primarily for public consumption to further larger political ends.”
Basically, he thinks the shooting was a ploy by the Obama administration to kickstart further gun control measures in Congress.
It’s tough to imagine the type of cynic who could be led to such an outrageous conclusion. How do we explain this type of person? Is he crazy?
I don’t have any answers for you. I’ve never met him. However, if I was going to blog about an elementary school shooting being a hoax, I’d probably get intoxicated first for that idea to make sense.
So for the sake of simplicity, just picture Tracy as the highest and/or drunkest person ever. High people love conspiracy theories almost as much as they love “Cosmos” with Carl Sagan.
Conspiracies are nothing new. With every major incident, there’s always the guy — either on the far left or far right — who claims the government is behind everything.
Take JFK’s assassination, which we all know was carried out by James Bond and Elmo in cahoots with the CIA, or 9/11, which definitely wasn’t carried out by radical Islamists, but rather Kate Middleton, as a way to recapture Prince William’s attention.
How could we forget the infamous Pearl Harbor? Which, in actuality, was Quentin Tarantino and his Japanese crew filming one of his earliest budget films, “Kamikaze Chronicles.”
The news media obviously has its shortcomings. If fair and accurate are the standard, then slanted and patchy would be the practice.
For instance, many news outlets reported that Obamacare had been struck down by the Supreme Court (even though it wasn’t), because all those reporters were about to blow up all over Capitol Hill if they didn’t get the news on TV before everyone else.
News media failure 101.
However, the media didn’t create 26 dead victims in a New England elementary school. Neither did the government.
Sandy Hook wasn’t a ploy by Obama to disarm this nation in order to prep our country for an invasion by the Chinese.
So if you are going to be a conspiracy theorist, realize that everyone will hate you. They will call you an idiot behind your back, and every ounce of intellectual respect you’d managed to garner will disappear overnight.
James Tracy, Vicodin is not meant to be snorted.
