Madman

I haven't really wanted to ever bring this guy up, but a piece on NRO today takes a look at the conspiracy theory bete noire Alex Jones.  Jones is a proud 9/11 truther, and a day after the Boston bombing called it a "false flag" operation (in other words, the government was behind it in order to further ratchet up the police state).  A sample:

Jones isn’t so much a professor of conspiracy theory as he is an evangelist for conspiracy theology. And that’s probably what makes his oeuvre so compelling to so many — it’s bad news compounded by worse news compounded by news that’s even worse, but there’s always at the end a germ of hope.

The theories Jones and his followers spew are problematic at best because they almost always tend to follow this line of logic:  Every theory is accepted until proven otherwise, and anyone who discounts the theories are either willing dupes or are a part of the conspiracy.  This is the logic of a madman.