Stop Insulting the Gibbering Idiots, Says Columnist

Geoff Olson of the Vancouver Courier has some new friends, and he's tired of the way the progressive left demeans them:

They're "nutcases" to Vancouver writer Terry Glavin, "gibbering idiots" to British author and Guardian columnist George Monbiot, and "conspiracy nuts" to U.S. political writer Alexander Cockburn. They're promoting "crap," says David Corn, Washington editor of The Nation. They're trafficking in "pure fantasy" that is "rotting peoples brains," says Canadian military analyst and author Gwynne Dyer.

Of course, from where we stand, those are pretty accurate comments, but not to Olson, who is easily impressed by "evidence":

A news clip from Sept. 11, 2001 has been making the rounds on YouTube, of a BBC reporter announcing the news of the collapse of the Salomon Brothers Building, aka WTC 7. As she repeats the information from her sources, the Manhattan skyline can be seen behind her, with WTC 7 clearly visible-more than 20 minutes before its actual collapse.

His argument boils down to "It's not nice to call these folks kooks when there are so many of them. One wonders if he feels similarly felicitous towards those who, say, think Elvis is still alive, which consistently scores higher than 9-11 Denial in the percentage of the population that believes it.