Of course it’s a reflexive defense mechanism. It’s there to ensure that none of the right-wing media industrial complex has to do any soul-searching when someone actually takes their “revolution! Obama is a traitor and tyrant!” rhetoric seriously and starts shooting.

It reminds me of radical Muslim clerics blaming terrorist act by a Muslim on Jews or the Mossad. It’s an attempt to wash the guilt away from their fire-breathing sermons that some dumbass took seriously.