Around 15:00: "Some of the hardcore deniers, predominately Robert Faurisson, a complete crank from France who really did not contribute terribly to revisionism. He did a few things but he was limited by kind of being dumb."
In Cole's more recent interviews he goes to great lengths to distinguish between "deniers" and "revisionists." And he throws shade at pretty much everyone except for Weber and Irving (the other guys who share his holocaust-lite position). Very poor form. And to say Faurisson contributed practically nothing is just ridiculous. Faurisson's contributions have been many many multiples of what Cole has done.
Around 28:45 he starts mocking a video of "some moron" trying to burn a leg of lamb. Maybe he's referring to Denier Bud's One-Third of the Holocaust? Although if so Cole's is intentionally misleading in his description of it. The point is not that it's
impossible to burn a body on a pyre. Of course it's possible to burn a body! Rather, the point is that it requires a substantial amount of wood per body.
Around 45:00 he says he hasn't compromised his position. He emphasizes that he still thinks Auschwitz was not an extermination camp. Cole, Weber, and Irving all do this same sort of thing. They try to have it both ways by sticking to their guns on Auschwitz to retain at least some of their revisionist cred but then they've embraced Operation Reinhardt (which never received nearly as much emphasis as Auschwitz) so they can say they talk about how "nuanced" they are as opposed to the "deniers." But if you go back to the late 80s and early 90s, it's pretty clear these guys (especially Weber) didn't have this position back then. Irving once said that Auschwitz was the flagship of the Holocaust and if it goes down the whole thing goes down with it. When were any of these guys saying there were gassings in Treblinka in the early 90s? As far as I know they weren't. Of the three of them, Weber comes off the worst, in my opinion. The way he squirms around in his interview with Rizoli is absolutely painful. He didn't seem to really believe what he was saying and he kept appealing to the authority of David Irving to justify himself. It seems entirely inauthentic. Go watch him in his debate with Michael Shermer and the contrast is striking. I'm the most sympathetic to Irving who just seems like a defeated old man. Cole is the hardest for me to read. He pushes holocaust-lite with much more enthusiasm and much more effectively than either Weber or Irving, but I just can't believe that he's being honest with the arguments he's making. There's no way that he doesn't understand the problems with the alleged open-air cremations. Yet here he brushes off the issue with nothing but distortion and bluster.