Kudos to the Michigan YAF, who gave a meeting of 9/11 Truthers exactly the right amount of respect: Conspiracy theorists stir controversy at Union. (Hat tip: Terp Mole.)

Claims like Bowman’s are “absurd,” said Ryan Fantuzzi, vice president of the University’s chapter of the Young Americans for Freedom, a far-right group that protested the event.

About a dozen YAF members stood wearing tin foil hats in the hallway around the entrance to the Union Ballroom last night.

Audience members entering the ballroom for the speech could not help but notice the outlandish-looking protesters. In addition to the hats, one carried a sign saying “Jedi ascertain the Sith did it.” Others chanted “Bush Causes Cancer” and “Bush Killed Kenny.”