Pulitzer Prize Winner Takes On the Nutbars

This interview with Lawrence Wright, author of The Looming Tower, doesn't take too long to get into the conspiracy theory craziness:

Let’s talk about the subject of the book. We’re coming up on the sixth anniversary of 9/11. Do we really know what happened on that day? Because it seems that out here in the world, not just among black-helicopter types, there are still questions about who these terrorists were, what their motives were, and whether there are aspects of the plot that we haven’t entirely figured out.

We know what happened on September 11. It’s not a mystery. The mystery, rather, has to do with human nature, with why people believe in things that have no evidence to support them. I’ve been dogged by conspiracy theorists since the book came out, and I’ve spent time trying to convert them back to reality.

Of course, the interviewer is wrong when he says it's not just the black-helicopter types; as we have discussed extensively, almost all of the 9-11 Truthers are believers in other conspiracy theories, ranging from Oklahoma City to JFK to the North American Union crap.

But it’s not a question of being in cahoots, in a literal sense, with bin Laden.

Oh, yes, oftentimes it is. There are a lot of people who believe we were working with bin Laden. I can’t tell you how many variations there are on this theme: Either we did it entirely and the Arabs were simply passengers—they were innocent—or else they were working for Mossad [the Israeli intelligence agency]. The ability of the imagination to stretch the evident is so impressive.

Yeah, this is the Webster Tarpley "patsy" theory.