Are We About to Get Conservative Truthers?

I don't know, but that idiot Glenn Beck is getting pretty close.

We are a country that is headed towards socialism, totalitarianism, beyond your wildest dreams. I have to tell you: I’m doing a story tonight that I wanted to debunk – these FEMA camps – I’m tired of hearing about them – you know about them? - I wanted to debunk them. We’ve now for several days done research on them. I can’t debunk them! If you trust our government, it’s fine. If you have any kind of fear that we might be heading towards a totalitarian state: look out. Buckle up. There’s something going on in our country … that ain’t good.

Hooo boy! Over at JREF they have a phrase, "the mark of woo". A new poster will sign up and in his first post he'll say something like, "I'm not a conspiracy theorist, but I do have one or two questions..." sounding quite reasonable. Of course three or four posts later he's doing the "freefall speed into its own footprint! 84% of the people agree 9-11 was an inside job."

This is similar. How many times have we heard 9-11 Troofers start out saying "I tried to debunk this but I couldn't." Brad Waddell used that exact formulation during the intro to 9-11 Mysteries. Sherry Clark said she became a truther after trying (and failing) to debunk Loose Change (which of course says more about her than about Loose Change). Richard Gage became a Truther after hearing DRG on the radio and being unable to debunk him. In fact I think even the Great God Griffin claims that it was his own inability to debunk 9-11 Troof that compelled him to write New Pearl Harbor.

Yes, Glenn, the FEMA death camps are real. We've got a Chinese-made guillotine that will fit that neck of yours just perfectly.

Not All 9-11 Kooks Are Liberal

Here's a video of a self-described "conservative" (actually I'd classify him more as a survivalist a la Alex Jones) who's bought into the whole "no law says I have to pay taxes and the Federal Reserve is a conspiracy and 9-11 was an inside job" fruitcakery.





His CT musings are a cornucopia of the dumbest stuff out there, from "speed of gravity" to "where are the two holes from the titanium engines" to "the Lusitania was sunk to get us into World War I" (amazing how it only took the US two years after the sinking to enter the war). Amusingly, he claims to have a "beautiful wife" and two boys, but when you go to his MySpace page, he describes his status as "single".

And yes, he is a Ron Paul supporter.