“Dave :
I really have a hard time believing conspiracy theories.”

Nobody has to make “conspiracy theories. Conspiracy theories are rationalizations of cause and effect that either ignore occam’s razor and/or use unsubstantiated assumptions and events (often disguised as “conventional wisdom”) to “connect dots” that would otherwise be dissociated.

What is happening here is that everyone is verifying the FACTS, NOT “the truth”. For example, what book stores are carrying Mr. Goldberg’s books and what affect it will have on sales. The interpretation is up to you, as the author of the original post pointed out.

As for “John P. Normanson”, I don’t like being deceived about something I just witnessed this past week at a Bookstore that I drove by every day and visited twice this week alone.