And if that's the play now, I have to wonder if that's what was going on with him all along - that he was always a pied piper fed fake. I suspect not though, because it would have been easy for him not have laid a massive trap for himself by going after the pipe bomber story so hard, if he instead stayed focussed on safer ragebait for boomers.

I didn't know he was that keyed in to the pipe bomber story. That's bizarre. They whipped him into line somehow.