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Well, the heckler guy in the audience is a nutjob, that's for sure, and Bill handled it with great aplomb. I generally enjoy his show very much and find it an entertaining and stimulating platform. Sometimes it's even rather informative, even somewhat bipartisan. What I don't enjoy is Maher's rather narrow-minded and one-dimensional view of religion, but then again, I suppose organized religion tends to lend itself to being an easy target.
It's a bit odd to me though that people use the blanket term "conspiracy theorist" so often these days. Although I do understand why the label is used because there are many (at best) paranoid and (at worse) self-serving loose cannons that don't bother to get the facts straight, I don't subscribe to all of the implied connotations arising from the use of the derogatory term.
The structure of power has always been rooted in conspiracies throughout human history, thus conspiracy is a very real concept with very real ramifications in our world.
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