Did Keith Olbermann lose his job recently? (Well, OK, he only has maybe 12 nutjobs watching him on any given night, but it’s the thought that counts.)

Then to prove this left wing obsession with conspiracy theories he shows videos of Reverend Jeremiah Wright and a couple of 1960 era SDS leaders who no one under 30 has ever heard of and I honestly didn’t even realize were still alive. 

This whole argument is intellectually dishonest. Both the left and right wing have their lunatic fringe elements. The main difference is the right wing lunatic fringe is much better funded and gets a much wider audience than the left wing lunatic fringe.

He’s right that at the moment, the nutjob fringe with most visibility is left wing. There’s also the perennial Nader Factor. But, if we get a Democrat president, I expect the right wing nutjobs to be out in force again, some of them making lots of money.

These right wing conspiracies don’t fit into his "left wing is obsessed with conspiracies" theme. Instead he tots out some old 1960s radicals that absolutely no one in modern American politics pays any attention to. Meanwhile relatively mainstream figures like Jerry Falwell that appeared in and promoted the Clinton Chronicles get no mention.

This will set up a confrontation over Israel between China and the West, led by the anti-Christ, who will be the head of the European Union, Pastor Hagee writes. That final battle between East and West – at Armageddon, as the actual Israeli location of Meggido is known in English – will precipitate the second coming of Christ, he concludes.

I’d like to ask Bill Ayers what he and his friends are smoking or using.

i think the same things that draw one to the fringe of any belief system, be it left or right leaning, is going to naturally incline one to indulge in conspiracy theories.  the video is clearly well-produced, i just wish it offered insights as refined as its backdrop.