olive branch?
Roughly translated: "Not only do you not know anything, there's no way that anybody can know anything, so that's okay."
Maybe that seems conciliatory to you. Maybe I have the wrong outlook.
You asked what Hoover was doing. I told you, busting my ass to find liberal sources so I could avoid the crap I otherwise get. I suspect you learned something you didn't know before you read my links. Maybe some of it didn't go over well, hence the "who can know anything?" response.
"Amateur Googling?" Heh. I was reading Paine and Hayek when Larry Page was still trying to stop crapping his diapers.