The Shell Game

The “shell game” is a standby in movies featuring someone deceitful. And why shouldn’t it be? The game features the dealer, who places a ball (ostensibly) beneath a cup and then shuffles the cups around. One generally has a 0.33 chance of finding the ball under the cup—with a fair dealer. But all too often, the dealer isn’t fair and manages to palm the ball before shuffling begins. This means the player has a 0.00 chance of finding the ball under any cup.

But at Right and Freedom, we deal in politics, not games of chance. So why mention the shell game? Well, if you look at it a different way, a crooked dealer’s only job is to convince the player that the ball exists under the cups that they are shuffling around. Just like…wait for it…the evidence required to impeach Joe Biden. In this context, McCarthy is the dealer, and you, the American people, are the patsies…I mean players. And right now, McCarthy and the Republicans are doing what the crooked dealer does: try to convince you that evidence is there when, in fact, it’s not.

Look. If they manage to produce evidence, then we at Right and Freedom will print a formal retraction. After nine months, our opinion is that if they’d found anything, they’d have produced it by now (just like the terrific health care proposal, right?). They haven’t, and our money is that they won’t. But what will they do? Try to convince everyone that they might have something.

Don’t fall for it.