Crackpot Chronicles: Van Jones, Glenn Beck, Ron Paul, Rorschach, the Truthers, And Me – Part IV

David Horowitz's NewsReal Blog ^ | October 7, 2009 | David Swindle

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We cannot confront the fallacies of conspiracy thinking in our political culture if we do not understand it. In recent weeks Van Jones, the President's Green Jobs Czar, lost his job because of his embrace of conspiracy thinking. More recently popular talker Glenn Beck has been smeared by his opponents as a conspiracy nut. We can only decipher these issues and win these intellectual fights if we know just what kind of thinking needs to be isolated from political life.

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I had not responded to the 9/11 Truther Crackpot's last email but he felt inclined to email me again. He knew what buttons to push:

"How fortunate for governments, that people do not think"

A. Hitler

But, since there aren't any conspiracies, some crazy moron probably made up that whole Nazi germany thing.

Thanks for the enlightenment.

E.V.

I never said there weren't conspiracies. Conspiracists are absolutist in their thinking, unable to see nuance or ambiguity.

We further see a recurring motif in Conspiracist Crackpot thinking: an obsession with Nazism.

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[Scanian]

Horowitz regards concern with Obama’s eligibility as crackpot conspiracy thinking, which is enough for me to tune him out.