Montini: Paul Gosar goes over conspiracy cliff, again

I’m not sure it is accurate to refer to Rep. Paul Gosar as an embarrassment, because that would suggest he understands the emotion.

He doesn’t. He can’t.

The man has … no … shame.

This time he plunged deep into the conspiracy-theory cesspool and suggested – without any evidence – that billionaire George Soros, a backer of progressive causes, could have been behind the white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Va., that left one women dead.

Then he further suggested that Soros, a boyhood survivor of the Holocaust, “turned in his own people to the Nazis.”

He dissed the Pope and defended Bundy

It is insulting and grotesque, but it is not surprising.

After all, this is Gosar, who boycotted a speech to Congress by Pope Francis, whom he referred to as a “leftist politician,” but rushed to Nevada to provide aid and comfort to the racist, law-defying rancher Cliven Bundy, who said that “the negro” might have been “better off as slaves.”

Now Gosar is regurgitating  the conspiracy-theory vomit of talk show host Alex Jones.

In an interview with Vice News Gosar suggests that the Charlottesville disaster may have been “created by the left” and that Soros “is one of those individuals that helps back these individuals.”

Proof?

No.

Nothing.

Soros says he didn't help the Nazis

And this comes from one of those politicians who squawks about fake news.

Gosar said of Soros, “Who is he? I think he’s from Hungary. I think he was Jewish. And I think he turned in his own people to the Nazis." 

A spokesman for Soros issued a statement saying, “George Soros survived the Nazi occupation of Hungary, and he has spent his life supporting efforts to ensure that such terrifying authoritarianism never takes root again …

"He was 14 years old when the war ended. He did not collaborate with the Nazis. He did not help round up people. He did not confiscate anybody’s property. Such baseless allegations are insulting to the victims of the Holocaust, to all Jewish people, and to anyone who honors the truth. It is an affront to Mr. Soros and his family, who against the odds managed to survive one of the darkest moments in our history."

It’s pretty gloomy out there these days as well.

Thanks to politicians like Gosar.  

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