It is surreal to hear the Clinton campaign and its vast army of
surrogates, including virtually the entirety of the corporate media,
howl about “conspiracy theories” timed to sabotage her triumphal
procession to the White House. Shaken by this summer’s Wikileaks
disclosure of the Democratic National Committee’s subversion of Bernie
Sanders’ leftish insurgency, Clinton is attempting to inoculate the
public against the “October Surprise” they fear is coming from Julian Assange,
the Wikileaks founder holed up in the Ecuadorean embassy in London.
With Donald Trump’s electoral prospects diminishing by the day, the only
thing the Clinton camp has to fear is the facts. Therefore, the
campaign’s mission is to poison the well of public discussion in order
to immunize Clinton from future factual disclosures. From now to
Election Day, all facts are to be deemed suspect, no matter how
verifiably true, since they might have bubbled to the surface through
the machinations of “conspiracy theorists.”
-- Glen Ford, "Clintonite Conspiracy Theories " (BLACK AGENDA REPORT).