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There's a reason why 9/11 truth is angrily laughed at by both the left and the right,
Canadian_watcher wrote:I also would never have gotten to know the other side of a lot of stories if it weren't for him.
Canadian_watcher wrote:8bit -
I listened to a lot of the youtube vid of sheen's AJ phone call too. I didn't hear AJ agreeing with him much, and some of the facial expressions gave away the fact that Jones didn't really know what to do or say. He did a lot of steering away from what Sheen was saying, in my opinion. At one point after Jones kind of makes excuses for Sheen and explains that he isn't calling for physical violence, Sheen actually says something like, "Listen to you, they're in your head too! You now have to backtrack and qualify everything."
Put yourself in that position... here you have a major (?) celebrity, someone who put you on the map via coming out for 9/11 truth back before many people had the balls to do it, and suddenly he calls into your show acting like a total crazy person. It would be awkward. On the one hand you could just outright hang up and distance yourself from the crazy caller.. but would that be better? It was a bit of a blindside, imho.
I know it isn't popular to support Alex Jones here on the forum but I still think he's an important outlet. I don't agree with his stance on some things, but I also would never have gotten to know the other side of a lot of stories if it weren't for him. Andrew Wakefield, Catherine Austin Fitts, Ray McGovern, etc.
Stephen Morgan wrote:Nordic wrote:Of course my first thought upon seeing it was "wow, they've given him something to egg him into doing this, so they can discredit his whole 9/11 truth thing."
My thought too, I seem to recall an X-files episode where Mulder goes mad and starts thumping people because of LSD in his water tank. And of course that, allegedly, happened to Frank Olsen. Of course with Charlie Sheen you'd have to give him rhino-level dosage, to make up for his increased resistance due to over use. And alcohol interferes with hypnosis, too.
8bitagent wrote:Maybe Im getting old, but I prefer Democracy Now, or old Zinn and Chomsky interviews. Also, I think Jeremy Scahill has more balls in his pinky than Alex Jones does in his whole body
Now I know Jack Riddler takes issue with some things I say, but I agree 100% with his assessment of the 2006 era of the Alex Jones/Loose Change crew "new truth" circus. I sadly went to the summer 2006 Los Angeles 9/11 truth conference put on by Jones and We Are Change...hoo boy. While witnessing the babbling incoherency first hand at the hotel bar of Jones, Fetzer, etc over drinks(was kind of entertaining speaking one on one with all these conspiracy world luminaries like Anthony J Hilder, Alex Jones, etc) it's also apparent how batshit some of these people are. I found Steven Jones to be a sweet kind soul, but the Loose Change kids, Fetzer, and even Tarpley just seemed full of themselves.
There's a reason they didn't invite the SANE "truthers", like Paul Thompson and History Commons/Cooperative Research, Nafeez Ahmed, etc. They wanted a two day controlled demolition wankfest, heavy on the Pentagon and "no plane" crap.
I'll take my Saudi visa express program, Ptech and Israeli spies over "controlled demolition", "what hit the pentagon" and "Hey, I cant see Flight 93 buried in the ground" any day.
There's a reason why 9/11 truth is angrily laughed at by both the left and the right, and part of it has to do with perceptions, personalities and a focus on arguments which go no where.
I mean, 9/11 hijacker material supporter and spiritual leader Anwar Awlaki dined at the Pentagon a few months after 9/11, but hey never mind that...lets hear what some Christian theologian has to say about structural engineering!
JackRiddler wrote:8bitagent wrote:Maybe Im getting old, but I prefer Democracy Now, or old Zinn and Chomsky interviews. Also, I think Jeremy Scahill has more balls in his pinky than Alex Jones does in his whole body
Now I know Jack Riddler takes issue with some things I say, but I agree 100% with his assessment of the 2006 era of the Alex Jones/Loose Change crew "new truth" circus. I sadly went to the summer 2006 Los Angeles 9/11 truth conference put on by Jones and We Are Change...hoo boy. While witnessing the babbling incoherency first hand at the hotel bar of Jones, Fetzer, etc over drinks(was kind of entertaining speaking one on one with all these conspiracy world luminaries like Anthony J Hilder, Alex Jones, etc) it's also apparent how batshit some of these people are. I found Steven Jones to be a sweet kind soul, but the Loose Change kids, Fetzer, and even Tarpley just seemed full of themselves.
There's a reason they didn't invite the SANE "truthers", like Paul Thompson and History Commons/Cooperative Research, Nafeez Ahmed, etc. They wanted a two day controlled demolition wankfest, heavy on the Pentagon and "no plane" crap.
I'll take my Saudi visa express program, Ptech and Israeli spies over "controlled demolition", "what hit the pentagon" and "Hey, I cant see Flight 93 buried in the ground" any day.
There's a reason why 9/11 truth is angrily laughed at by both the left and the right, and part of it has to do with perceptions, personalities and a focus on arguments which go no where.
I mean, 9/11 hijacker material supporter and spiritual leader Anwar Awlaki dined at the Pentagon a few months after 9/11, but hey never mind that...lets hear what some Christian theologian has to say about structural engineering!
I certainly have no problem with any of the above and endorse it heartily.
I also think I'd like you a lot better in person than I do in this medium.
My problem with you is the way you start with this promising reasonable stuff that may actually produce actionable proceedings and discovery and somehow, through a process that's impossible for me to reconstruct as factual or logical, you lead away from stuff like Awlaki at the Pentagon and Ali Mohamed and the visible official US sponsorship of the Islamist "terror" scene and the visible Bush regime facilitation of the 9/11 operation (which suggests a covert operation orchestrating it on their behalf with their knowledge) and away from the work of Nafeez and the solid timeline material into an assumed but invisible world of unidentified magical operators who conducted 9/11 as a big birthing ritual for their mystery demons and power-spells. That stuff drives me absolutely mad, yes, because it also trashes (intentionally or not) the amazing evidence that the real scholars developed. It's what makes those people you respect (and I do too) like Scahill and Goodman run away from "truthers" for fear of being discredited and sandbagged.
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Nordic wrote:Hey now, don't go making me like Alex Jones.
It is bizarre as hell how Charlie Sheen's "antics" are being held up as an example of not only him being completely "nuts" but also a total asshole.
Sure he seems a bit megalomaniacal, but it seems like he's almost joking, joking about everything, and being deliberately verbally outrageous for entertainment value.
What's weird to me is how in the entertainment business it seems there is something of a conspiracy to label him as "nuts".
This started, at least out here, even before the Alex Jones interview, where Charlie Sheen gave an interview which was played on the Kevin and Bean show on KROQ out here (a popular morning radio show that even I listen to as I drive to work sometimes). Kevin or Bean then went on talking about what an asshole Charlie Sheen was in the interview, and how he seemed nuts ... only ..... the interview didn't give that impression at all. Sheen just said he was clean and he wanted to get back to work and was joking that he tried going back to the studio and nobody answered the door. The radio host was going on about how Sheen wasn't contrite enough, wasn't apologetic, and therefore that made him an unforgivable jerk. It was just WEIRD. And these are guys who usually celebrate every weird thing they can find and love it.
And now look at the reaction of those media whores on "The View".
It is really weird.
Charlie Sheen cracks me up. Maybe I'm the nutty one, but I think the media itself, and the United States itself, is FAR more "nutty" than anything Charlie Sheen can dish out.
Yeah he's kind of manic, but so what?
Jeff wrote:
The only occasion I've felt any sympathy for Barbara Walters.
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