We’ve shown how WorldNetDaily promoted lies and conspiracies about relief efforts after Hurricane Helene. A couple columnists, however, went into conspiracy theorizing. Rachel Alexander used her Oct. 7 column to push the idea that the government created Helene to hit red states the hardest:
Rumors are spreading that the devastating damage caused by Hurricane Helene was deliberately created by the Biden administration to incapacitate red areas of the country, interfering with early voting. What is the difference between a conspiracy theory and facts? About six months, the saying goes.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene posted on X, “Yes they can control the weather.” She included a video clip of President Barack Obama’s CIA director, John Brennan, discussing it.
Brennan said “geoengineering” could “alter weather patterns” and “potentially help reverse the global warming effects of climate change.” He said “stratospheric atmospheric injection” (SAI) puts particles into the atmosphere that “can help reflect the sun’s heat.” He compared it to how volcanic eruptions change the weather. Volcanic eruptions can cause sunspots, which in turn may increase temperatures on the earth. Brennan said this technique could be used to lower the earth’s temperature.
In fact, Brennan never claimed that the CIA can control hurricanes, as Greene argued. Alexander then cited evidence that government weather manipulation doesn’t exist — then concluded by pulling the conspiratorial move of claiming that lack of evidence is itself evidence:
While the government generally claims it hasn’t had much success affecting hurricanes, why not let people decide for themselves based on the facts, instead of issuing far-left “fact checks” that cherry pick sources of information to come to a predetermined outcome in advance?
Alexander offers no reason anyone should trust her far-right sources of information simply because they conflict with others.
Wayne Allyn Root served up amore conventional and partisan conspiracy theory in his Oct. 11 column:
Remember when a Republican president (Gerald Ford) refused to give money to a bankrupt New York City? The newspaper headlines the next day said:
“Ford to City: DROP DEAD.”
But that was a Republican president’s message to a bankrupt, crime-ridden, Democratic city that spent like a drunken sailor and wasted all their money on welfare.
Today, a Democratic president (who is brain-dead with dementia) and Vice President Kamala Harris (not brain-dead, just dumb as a doorknob) have CLEARLY intentionally withheld and “slow walked” FEMA money and “boots on the ground” for the innocent victims of devastating Hurricane Helene. And I’m guessing the Florida victims of Hurricane Milton won’t find the FEMA response much different.
American citizens have been betrayed, abandoned and left behind by our own government.
But in this case, unlike bankrupt New York City in the 1970s, the innocent victims of this disaster are overwhelmingly white, Southern, rural, conservative Trump voters.
Why aren’t the media headlines “Biden and Kamala to Hurricane Helene Victims: DROP DEAD”?
Because let’s be honest – that’s exactly what’s happening. This administration has made a cold, hard, political calculation to do as little as possible for these innocent victims because they aren’t the right race, sex or political persuasion.
We all know and see what’s happening. FEMA is not only “a day late and a dollar short” (except in this case it’s 10 days late) in getting supplies, food, water and medical help to these victims. They are actively getting in the way of private relief efforts – and we have testimony from so many different witnesses.
Things are so bad that many of my TV viewers from North Carolina have emailed me to report that there are thousands dead. Although the government and their lapdog media claim the death toll is just over 200.
Unsurprisingly, Root offered nothing to back up his conspiracy theory — conspiracists never do. Still, he tried to further it:
So, here are my questions:
Could you even imagine this happening if a natural disaster hit a major city in America with a predominately black population?
If these Hurricane Helene victims were black Democrats instead of white Republican voters, how different would the response have been by this Biden-Harris administration?
What if the victims were illegal aliens? How quickly would this administration have grabbed billions of dollars from other agency budgets to provide support for the illegals?
What if the hurricane victims were gay or transgender? How quickly would Harris move heaven and earth to save them?
What if the victims were black – would Harris have been making guest appearances on sex podcasts aimed at women with “daddy issues,” while black Democratic voters suffered with no help from her government?
Can you imagine the media headlines, if we had Republican President Donald Trump in office – and the federal government abandoned the black victims of a natural disaster to fend for themselves?
What if Trump were sunning on the beach in Florida, while black American citizens were dying and suffering? What would the media reaction be?
What if mules were being used to bring supplies to black citizens during a natural disaster? Do you think the media would ignore that story? Or would this be the biggest story in America for days on end?
What if Trump’s FEMA chief was caught shopping for luxury items in Georgetown, while black citizens were without food, water or shelter?
What if Trump were president and he bragged about giving $157 million to a foreign country, while his FEMA chief complained his agency was out of money?
What if black Americans were burying their dead in their backyards because no one from FEMA had ever come to help?
What if black citizens were in distress after a disaster, and the only help was being delivered by an army of black citizen volunteers, with their own boats, planes and helicopters?
I’ll bet the media response would be very different.
Trump might already be in a prison cell, charged with treason – or lynched by an angry mob of liberals. Trump would certainly be impeached by now.
Again: Root has offered exactly zero evidence that issues with hurricane response were deliberate or solely because of the race of the victims.