Byron York:
By all accounts, an Internet documentary named "Zeitgeist" was the favorite movie of accused Tucson shooter Jared Loughner. Created in 2007 by New York-based conspiracy merchant Peter Joseph, "Zeitgeist" is a two-hour mash-up of old and new conspiracy theories involving religion, the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, and the Federal Reserve system. Its message is simple: "We've been lied to. We've been lied to by every institution."
"He wanted to watch it all the time," a teenage friend of Loughner's told the Arizona Republic. "It was cool at first. But then it got weird. It was all he wanted to do."
"Zeitgeist" has three parts. The first tells us that Christianity is a myth, and that religion in general conditions us to believe other myths. The second tells us that the most powerful of those other myths is 9/11 -- we call it an act of terrorism when it fact it was an inside job perpetrated by the U.S. government. And the third part tells us the real powers behind 9/11 and the other myths are central bankers. They're making the myths for money, while we're just being duped.
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So he was a 9-11 truther who hated
President Bush. That is not the apolitical picture than even conservatives have been pushing of late. The guy had bought into the far reaches of the left wing. Polling at one point put about 35 percent of
Democrats in the truther category so for Democrats the theory was almost mainstream. I think many of them bought into this nonsense because they were reluctant to accept the consequences of what was needed because we were attacked by al Qaeda. They were looking for an excuse to avoid war and this gave them one.
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