One of the more disturbing aspects of our political culture is the willingness of substantial numbers of people, even those with access to the major media, to embrace wild conspiracy theories and other hokum. Think of Rosie O'Donnell's insane rants regarding 9/11, or Spike Lee's assertions that white authorities deliberately dynamited New Orleans' levees during Katrina, or Ted Kennedy's charge that the Iraq war was cooked up by Bushies just to give themselves a winning campaign issue, or the looney Left's claims that Bush invaded Iraq in order to control the world oil supply, or Al Gore's apocalyptic environmental scenarios. The list goes on and on.
Why should this be happening?
Bill Whittle has a few [actually a lot of] thoughts on the matter. Check out the first two installments of his essay here and here.
