I thought CPAC allowing the John Birch Society back into their conference that peak wingnut was pretty close to being realized, but Frank Gaffney has really upped the ante and claims that CPAC is infiltrated by the Muslim Brotherhood. He’s quite effectively taken the far right and moved to their right by calling them fifth columnists. It’s truly awesome. But it gets better from Talking Points Memo:
The Muslim Brotherhood is often a target of right-wing pundits like anti-sharia crusader Frank Gaffney, who last month claimed the group had infiltrated CPAC. And as the single largest organized opposition group in Egypt, the Muslim Brotherhood has emerged as a target for the right as the protests continue.
On Hannity last night, Gaffney argued that “the Obama Administration’s policies are being viewed through, and actually articulated and implemented through influence operations that the Muslim Brotherhood itself is running in our own country.”
“You cannot possibly get your strategy right, you cannot execute it effectively if you don’t know that the enemy is actually giving you advice on how to proceed,” he said.
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Gaffney was much more explicit to ThinkProgress yesterday, listing Homeland Security Advisor John Brennan, Director of National Intelligence Jim Clapper, and Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano as “questionable people who are sympathetic to the program of the stealth jihadists who have influence with the United States government.”
Fox News let’s this loon on TV and not to make fun of him.