The Chosen One

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From Swampland, posted 20.13 Thursday March 20:

Call me naïve and idealistic, but if something good is to come out of the death of Stuart Goldstein let it be this: let the paranoid right in America shut the hell up. When the President’s tormentor, Vic Forbes, was found dead – and when every possible sign pointed to suicide – the Right immediately cried foul play. Or rather they didn’t cry; they whispered it, as invidious gossip and innuendo, hinting at it in the blogosphere and on Fox. The likes of Rick Franklin did nothing to stop such talk; on the contrary, they exploited it, allowing it to ‘alter the atmospherics’, to change the climate of opinion against Stephen Baker so that they could bring forward their spurious charges of impeachment against the President. Put simply, senior Republicans used conspiracy theories about Forbes to incubate the conditions in which they could hatch their plot to topple a legitimately elected president.

Well, let’s hope they have the decency to at least fall silent now. They have tried to paint the Baker White House as the Corleone family, murderously rubbing out its enemies. The result is that a good man – a man whose life was dedicated to public service – has been driven to his death. Stu Goldstein loved politics and could play hardball with the best of them. He loved the game. But what’s been happening in Washington these last few days is not a game. This is politics as blood sport.

So let there now be a pause, a ceasefire, while those responsible for guiding our republic take a breath. Let both sides pause and reflect. And let this be Stuart Goldstein’s legacy…

From the comments thread at Fox Forum:

Re: Stu Goldstein found dead. Lamestream media are saying conservatives should stop accusing the Baker folks of being involved in Vic Forbes’s death, as if we’re somehow responsible for Goldstein’s suicide. When I heard Goldstein had killed himself, my first reaction was, ‘Sounds like a guilty conscience’…

From Twitter, Thursday March 23:

#stuartgoldstein Maybe Baker bumped him off just like Forbes: because he knew too much…

#stuartgoldstein What if Franklin took out Goldstein, because he knew he was the 1 guy in White House who could defeat impeachment?

#stuartgoldstein I reckon Baker had Goldstein killed so that people would now suspect Republicans of murder…