Chris Hayes on Julian Assange from Today's Show

[The Doctor.]

25. Are you being deliberately ignorant?

There are more than enough facts for any thinking person to admit that this is not about rape at all.

I think you've been told that prosecutors already dismissed Assange after he DID make himself available for questioning.

You've ignored it.

I think you've been told that the rape case wasn't re-opened until after the leak of the intel by Wikileaks.

You ignored that.

I believe you've been told that right after Assange's hearing on extradition, SoS Clinton made an unprecedented trip to Sweden, about which Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt said: “We will warmly welcome Secretary Clinton to Stockholm next Sunday. First bilateral visit to Sweden by a US SecState for a very long time.”

You've either ignored that, or have dismissed it in order to cling to your laughable position.

I'm pretty sure you've been told that Assange offered to go to Sweden IF the Swedes guarantee non-extradition to the US, which has international precedent, but for a reason you can't rationally explain, they refused to grant such a guarantee.

Naturally, as that one fact right there puts the silver bullet through the silly notion that this is only about the rape allegations, you've chosen to ignore that as well.

Or the fact that Assange has invited the Swedes to come to the Ecuadoran embassy to interview him, another scenario with precedent, yet they insist that it MUST be done in Sweden where they will not guarantee non-extradition to the US, it is Blatantly Obvious to anyone with two working brain cells what is going on here.

But you are ignoring that as well.

Since you're presumably not a moron, the only conclusion we can reach over your insistence that this is about rape, is that you are deliberately ignorant in order to maintain your negative view of Assange.

I find this more reprehensible than mere stupidity. So why do you do it?