The Fate of a Quintessential Right-Wing Blogger

I'd never heard of Lane Davis, but I'd heard of all the things that consumed him as a conspiracy theorist. He worked as a blogger for The Ralph Retort, a right-wing website.

Davis was an avid Trump fan and wrote that he would vote for Trump even if he killed the pope.

Davis relentlessly pushed the misogynistic GamerGate movement, mercilessly attacking women who work in the computer game industry, then turned against his GamerGate fellows in a dispute over credit.

Davis was an acolyte of and unpaid intern for Milo Yiannopoulos. Yiannopoulos is a gay ultra-conservative Catholic and woman hater who frequently espouses racist garbage. He is married to a black man and condemns Pope Francis for being too liberal.

Davis was convinced that the phony Pizzagate pedophile ring was true, even after another right-wing nutjob shot the place up and Alex Jones of Infowars infamy disavowed the conspiracy. He believed Seth Rich had been murdered to silence him over Pizzagate.

And then one morning last July Davis started ranting nonstop at his parents about liberal pedophiles taking over the country. His mother called 911, which only made him more paranoid. He spat in his father's face and stabbed him to death with a kitchen knife.

You would have thought such a grisly murder would have been a big deal in the "liberal media." You would think that they would have milked this story for all it was worth, with CNN and the New York Times splashing big headlines about the "Pizzagater Patricide" and how right-wing blogs turn people into father murderers.

But no. If you google Lane Davis you find references to him only in the local Seattle paper from July and August. Then there are some references to the case in the last week or so on a computer gaming forum and the Ralph Retort. The "liberal media" ignored this murder until the Daily Beast wrote about it today, months after it happened.

I've always called Fox News "political pornography," because they know they're selling a pack of fantastical lies to give racists and misogynists their jollies. But Fox News is soft-core porn. People like Alex Jones and Milo Yiannopoulos know the extreme conspiracy theories they're pushing are hard-core pornographic lies, literally in the case of Pizzagate.

But some people can't separate truth from lies. The lies drive them mad. The lies drive them to shoot up pizza places and kill their dads.

Yet these right-wing sites keep pushing outrageous lies at these vulnerable people, all for monetary and political gain. How many more of their own followers are they going to sacrifice to the god of profit?