I will never get over the fact that this woman was once a respected 60 mins correspondent!
— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yasharali.bsky.social) July 24, 2025 at 6:39 AM
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LARA LOGAN: Is it true that to get to a certain level in Hollywood, these famous people have to sacrifice their firstborn child? Is that a crazy thing to say?This isn't the only batshit-crazy clip from the podcast. Hang on for a few seconds in the clip below as Smith struggles to make it seem as if sex at Hollywood parties is extraordinarily decadent -- and then Logan kicks the conversation into another gear altogether. I won't spoil the surprise:
MIKE SMITH: ... I believe that there is a club, and I do believe that there are certain people that to attain certain stature or certain level of influence or power, fame, whatever, you're required to either sacrifice a blood sacrifice, whether it be a mom or a relative or whatever, or transition one of your kids, because it's all worshipping their god, their false god.
... That is, that is Baphomet, that is satanic.
This is just normal discourse on the right these days. A generation ago, some of the conspiracies on the right were fairly primitive -- the Clintons killed Vincent Foster! Michael Dukakis's wife once burned an American flag! The conspiracies gradually became more and more baroque (the Clinton death list, for instance) until, eventually, Michelle Obama was a man, Barack Obama was controlling Joe Biden's presidency remotely, and, of course, every rich "globalist" in the world was an ally of America's Democratic Party and was part of a global conspiracy to sexually exploit children and extract a chemical called adrenochrome from their bodies.
When Fox News largely controlled the right-wing infosphere, there was a limit to how mainstream a truly batshit conspiracy theory could become. But in the era of social media and podcasts, conspiracy-mongers just keep upping the ante.
And now the audience expects every explanation of the world from trusted media figures to have two characteristics: (1) It must be elaborate, baroque, and massive, and (2) its villains must be exclusively people the right-wing base regards as enemies.
The Lara Logan-Mike Smith allegations fit the bill nicely. (To the right, everyone in Hollywood is evil, apart from a handful of brave conservatives.) The problem with the Jeffrey Epstein story is that it's not likely to satisfy right-wingers the same way. So while it's nice that some Republicans in Congress are as eager as Democrats to wrest Epstein documents from President Trump's Justice Department, GOP voters (and politicians) won't like what they see if we finally get the documents and Trump or any of their other heroes are implicated, or if prominent Democrats aren't implicated, or if it becomes clear that Epstein's circle of friends consisted of rich people who committed statutory rape with impunity but didn't control the world using pedophilia as a weapon.
This is a long way of saying that if we ever see the Epstein documents, Republicans will declare them fake as soon as they don't confirm the right's global pedophilia narrative. If Trump is implicated, or prominent Democrats aren't, they'll say the documents are fakes created by Obama, or by whoever controlled Joe Biden's autopen. There seems to be a bipartisan movement now to get at the truth, but it won't be bipartisan for long. Republicans need their craziest theories to be affirmed, and if that doesn't happen, they'll turn against the whole process.
And, of course, that's why the Trump Justice Department is trying to coerce testimony from Ghislaine Maxwell. The Trumpers want her to endorse the right's narrative, and when and if she does, we'll be told she's telling the truth and the documents are the real liars. And everyone on the right will say that's true.
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