I mentioned this in the comments section of the Nico Haupt News post a few below this one, but thought it was interesting enough to pull out to the front page.
One of the constant gripes of the 9-11 Deniers concerns "Lefty Gatekeepers". The theory here is that by barring the gates, famed Leftists like Noam Chomsky, George Monbiot and others, along with Leftist Magazines like The Nation, Counterpunch, etc., are preventing 9-11 Troof from reaching a larger audience. That these people and magazines are barring the gate is undeniable; the reasons are debatable. The nutbars believe that Alexander Cockburn and the Nation are in the pay of the CIA. Sensible people will say that the reason they are barring the gate is because they know that if they embrace 9-11 crackpottery, the mainstream media and conservatives will use any association with the "Truthers" to discredit their movement.
That this is so should pretty evident, because the "mainstream" 9-11 Denial Movement practices gatekeeping themselves. They bar the "no-planers" and the "Star Wars Beam Weapons" from their midst just as fiercely as the Lefty Gatekeepers bar them. And why? Because they know that the mainstream media and conservatives will use any association with the "no-planers" to discredit their movement.
Ironic, no?
Labels: 9-11 "Truth", Lefty Gatekeepers, No-Planers
