Conspiracy-obsessed columnist Jack Cashill has been leading the charge at WorldNetDaily regarding a new film by similarly conspiracy-obsessed charlatan Joel Gilbert about the death of Trayvon Martin, in which he pushes yet another conspiracy theory. Interestingly, the latest escalation in this story has been banished from WND’s “news” pages and confined to the opinion section.
Thus, the announcement that Zimmerman and his terrible lawyer, the equally conspiratorial Larry Klayman was filing a multimillion-dollar lawsuit against various people based on Gilbert’s film first surfaced at WND in Cashill’s Dec. 4 column:
On Tuesday, Dec. 3, Klayman filed suit on behalf of Zimmerman in the Circuit Court of Florida’s 10th Judicial Circuit. Zimmerman is bringing this action against Trayvon’s mother, Sybrina Fulton, his father, Tracy Martin, the family attorney, Benjamin Crump, the real phone witness, Brittany Diamond Eugene, and the fraudulent stand-in, Rachel Jeantel.
Also named in the suit are the Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE), the State of Florida, former state attorneys Bernie de la Rionda, John Guy and Angela Corey, and HarperCollins, the publisher of Crump’s defamatory new book, “Open Season: Legalized Genocide of Colored People.”
The state attorneys and the FDLE are being sued for malicious prosecution and abuse of process. All the defendants save for HarperCollins are being sued for civil conspiracy. Crump and HarperCollins meanwhile are being sued for defamation.
Cashill declared at the end: “On Thursday, Dec. 5, at noon, Klayman, Gilbert and Zimmerman will hold a joint press conference at the Coral Gables Art Cinema with a showing of “The Trayvon Hoax” to follow. The media will have to work especially hard to ignore the power of this story as it unfolds.” Actually, it’s not that hard at all, given that the two people driving this story — Gilbert and Klayman — are unreliable conspiracy theorists.
Klayman devoted his own Dec. 6 WND column to a work titled “We are all George Zimmerman now.” We all murdered a black teenager? We seemed to have missed when we did that.Klayman is self-serving as usual: “As I told the media this week, the filing of George’s complaint, based on newly discovered evidence of witness fraud that could have wrongfully convicted him, is not only to obtain justice for my client. It’s for all those, including African Americans, who have fallen victim to a legal system rife with injustice.”
Meanwhile, while the lawsuit did draw some media coverage, reality intervened when the theater pulled the plug on the screening once it realized who was renting it and the security risk he brought.
Cue another Cashill column complaining that “The left has responded to the suit in unabashedly Stalinist fashion: Shut down dissent and, if that doesn’t work, slander the dissenters.” He baselessly claimed that “the left” forced the cancellation of the screening and huffed of one talk show’s description of the principals: “Gilbert was a ‘nonsense conspiracy theorist,’ Zimmerman ‘a sick desperate man addicted to the spotlight,’ and Klayman ‘a raging lunatic.'” All of that is pretty much true, of course, but Cashill will never admit it — after all, he helped Gilbert with his project.
Still, he insisted, “The Zimmerman case represents a dark turn in leftist history. Progressives now seem comfortable with declaring the conspicuously innocent ‘guilty.'” Never mind the fact that a court of law found Zimmerman not guilty of murder.
Cashill won’t talking about Gilbert’s filmmaking charlatanism and Klayman’s legal bullying, nor will he mention that Zimmerman himself is a troubled man. If Cashill can’t explain why we shouldn’t judge all of these people — including himself — by their track records, he will forever be stuck ranting at a rapidly dying website.