The 9/11 conspiracy theorist who changed his mind

[BlueStreak]

1. In today's world, the way-out-there crazies are obscuring attention on some important issues

The teabaggers have these childish notions about what government does and how it needs to be funded. But the problem is that when they lay out a position at the far end of the spectrum, the establishment welcomes that by staking out the polar opposite position. What happens is that all the corruption, waste , and bad priorities in the middle don't really get any attention at all. "You are either with us or agin' us."

It is the same way with the "truthers". They cling to some ideas that are at best far-fetched, if not altogether preposterous. But in the process, that allowed all the authoritarians to lay out the polar opposite position. "Look at those crazy truthers. Have you ever seen anything more crazy than that? Everything they are saying is crazy, right? Only a crazy person would give them the time of day."

But in fact there are some serious questions that were never addressed about 911 and probably never will be. In all likelihood, it wasn't as simple as Osama sitting in a cave dreaming this up. And it wasn't so overt as Rudy Guiliani and Bush's brother hiring a bunch of secret agents to plant explosives in the towers. In between those two poles are important questions.