"By proxy, Russia is responsible for every civilian death last week," he wrote in reference to the alleged gas attack in Idlib which killed at least 58 people.
Fallon’s argument rests on one of the two competing conspiracy theories promulgated by MSM outlets about the attack.
The first theory is that Trump was baited by a false flag attack into a foreign war, while the second alleges that Russian President Vladimir Putin
...Second and fourth President and sixth of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead...himself ordered a chemical weapons attack in Syria to distract from the investigation into Russian ties with the Trump cabinet.
Commentators claim that calls for evidence to support such theories is actually part of some intricate geopolitical chess game.
Conspiracy theories used to be relegated to tinfoil hat-wearing basement dwellers, but now everyone from politicians of some of the world’s most powerful nations to MSM outlets have drunk the Kool-Aid, it seems.
MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell took to Twitter Friday to offer his own unique take on the Syria attack before elaborating further on his network television show later that night.
"Wouldn't it be nice, if it was just completely, totally, absolutely impossible to suspect that Vladimir Putin orchestrated what happened in Syria this week -- so that his friend in the White House could have a big night with missiles and all the praises he's picked up over the past 24 hours?" O’Donnell asked the audience of The Last Word Friday.
O’Donnell then drew comparisons with a similar false flag narrative that was spun by Republicans during Bill Clinton
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’s presidency which alleged that the embattled president launched missile attacks in Afghanistan and Sudan in August 1998 to distract from the ongoing Monica Lewinski sex scandal.
Obvious compairsons were drawn with the newly released film Wag the dog in which a White House advisor creates a fictitious war with Albania to distract the American people from an ongoing scandal.
However,
if you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning...
in the absence of any evidence to back up his claims, O’Donnell instead deftly retreated to one of two possible logical fallacies: an argument from ignorance or shifting the burden of proof. "You won't hear ... proof that the scenario I've just outlined is impossible," the host proudly stated, without a hint of self-awareness.
"It changes the conventional wisdom about the dynamic between President Trump and Vladimir Putin," O'Donnell added.
The blame game also extends to alternative media sources, in a further attempt to muddy the waters rather than focus on fact and evidence when covering or responding to a story.