No offense kid, but Jim doesn't really deal in reality.
Jim Hoft is a hardcore wingnut who writes for
The Gateway Pundit, a website devoted to conspiracy theories and fallacies driven by rightwing fanaticism. The website is, for instance, pretty much consistent in its
global warming denialism and
red-baiting, but it also toys with
birtherism, mainly by
JAQing off. In short, it is something of an online version of WND, without even WND’s ever so feeble attempts at constraints.
And Jim Hoft is your typical contributor. There is little point in trying to explore the full range of his nuttery, but
this piece of abysmally mindnumbing idiocy is a pretty good illustration of why Hoft qualifies as an entry in our Encyclopedia. And
here Hoft confuses closed captioning on his television screen with a conspiracy (it is epic; do see it). And though I am loath to linking to him,
this one probably has to be seen to be believed as well; in this screed Hoft attempts to argue that the Occupy wall street protest was really the result of a conspiracy organized by Soros. His
conclusive evidence? Soros had once, back in the days, contributed to a Canadian organization that now played a minor role in organizing protests in Canada. That’s what counts as proof of a conspiracy for people like Hoft when politics is involved.
Indeed, Hoft has won some recognition as
the dumbest man on the Internet. Among the entries submitted in the nomination process was
his claim that Obama celebrated the murder of Daniel Pearl, the time
Hoft fell for a satirical story about a San Diego high school rescinding its commencement invitation to President Obama because students apparently discovered that his long-form birth certificate is a fake, as well as
this one,
this piece of paranoid survivalist gibberish, his
insane attempt to paint Desmond Tutu as an anti-semite through inaccuracy and lying,
his outrage that the official logo of the Nuclear Security Summit depticting an atom in his mind “looks like” an Islamic crescent, his attempt to characterize the Westboro Baptist church
as a leftwing cult, and his – later often repeated by the crazier elements in wingnut “media” –
speculation that Obama was photoshopped into the situation room when Bin Laden was killed.
http://americanloons.blogspot.com/2013/10/769-jim-hoft.html
Jim Hoft: Dumbest Man on the Internet?
https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2010/09/21/jim-hoft-dumbest-man-on-the-internet/170927
What is Gateway Pundit, the conspiracy-hawking site at the center of the bogus Florida ‘crisis actors’ hype?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/what-is-gateway-pundit-the-conspiracy-hawking-site-at-the-center-of-the-bogus-florida-crisis-actors-hype/2018/02/23/dded562a-174e-11e8-b681-2d4d462a1921_story.html?utm_term=.034d0d585369