Nothing about Van Jones and 9/11 Truthers, then?

The left has plenty of nutty fringes of its own.

No one on the mainstream left engages the Truthers. Van Jones wasn’t a truther anyway. And even then the administration got rid of him (wrongly) when that signature came to light.

That hardly compares with the amount of “birthers” in the Republican right, does it?

Oh, don’t get me wrong; though it’s not quite true that “no-one on the mainstream left” engages the Truthers, the stats for numbers of Republicans that believe the birther stuff are really scary, and the willingness of some Republican politicians to indulge this kind of quasi-racist drivel is appalling.

My point is merely that there are crazies on both sides.

My point is merely that there are crazies on both sides.

True, but when it comes to seriously worrying expressions of that craziness, such as full-on eliminationist rhetoric and bringing assault rifles to public meetings, I think you’ll find that one side is in a rather different league than the other… There’s a big difference between posting stupid conspiracy theories on the internet and turning up at a public meeting with a loaded assault rifle and a sign saying “It’s time to water the tree of liberty.”

The proper response to 9/11 would have been the immediate, massive and repeated nuking of Makkah and Madinah until only radioactive nothingness remained in either place.

However, the Bush gang’s cosy relationship with the House of Saud precluded such appropriate chastisement.

Yep, I don’t buy the “nutters are on both sides” thing, it’s a little bit LOOK OVER THERE for me.

I do like what that chap said, to paraphrase, shouldn’t be wasting time arguing with things that are wrong on the Internet.

9 11 Truthers unite.