Saw some vintage Chris Matthews earlier this evening on Hardball. Mathews was speaking with The American Spectator's Bob Tyrrell about the Birthers of the right wing. I wanted to grab the following quote because Mathews eloquently outlines the slanted psychological perspective of conspiracy theorists in general. View the entire clip below.
"You know how, when you're young especially, maybe your whole life, you walk into a party or somewhere, and you have this notion that everybody there knows each other but they don't know you. And you usually get over that when you realize that everybody there is as lonely as you are and as individual as you are and they don't all know each other. But some people never get over that idea, and they think that everybody is out to get them, so they believe there are meetings going on – at all times – among everybody they don't know [and they are conspiring] against them. [They believe] there were meetings about the killing of Kennedy – the Secret Service was involved, the FBI, the CIA, the Irish Mafia – everybody was involved in killing Kennedy.
"They think there is something called 'The Government,' by the way. There is no such thing as 'The Government'; there's just a bunch of scared bureaucrats waiting for five o'clock."
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