video of the jumpers
That's what they were celebrating.
Posted on 11/24/2015 4:08:12 AM PST by kristinn
I have a strong dislike of the current fashion among American's decrepit and unreadable newspapers for "fact-checker" columns, because the practice attempts to cloak run-of-the-mill hacks in an aura of dispassionate authority that they do not, in fact, possess. Case in point: The Washington Post's Glenn Kessler, who has awarded "four Pinocchios" to Donald Trump, for claiming to recall seeing "thousands" of Jersey City Muslims celebrating on September 11th 2001. Mr Kessler wrote:
Trump says that he saw this with his own eyes on television and that it was well covered. But an extensive examination of news clips from that period turns up nothing. There were some reports of celebrations overseas, in Muslim countries, but nothing that we can find involving the Arab populations of New Jersey.
Kessler has spent the day re-writing and re-re-writing that confident assertion. As of now, that last sentence currently reads:
There were some reports of celebrations overseas, in Muslim countries, but nothing that we can find involving the Arab populations of New Jersey except for unconfirmed reports.
When Kessler says "nothing that we can find", he didn't have to search very hard. After a two-minute Google search, Powerline's John Hinderaker turned up the following:
In Jersey City, within hours of two jetliners' plowing into the World Trade Center, law enforcement authorities detained and questioned a number of people who were allegedly seen celebrating the attacks and holding tailgate-style parties on rooftops while they watched the devastation on the other side of the river.
What demented fringe conspiracist website would traffic in such nonsense? Well, in fact, it was Glenn Kessler's own newspaper, The Washington Post, which published the story on September 18th 2001. Is it an "unconfirmed report"? Well, Kessler's colleague, Post reporter Serge Kolvaleski, said in a 2003...
(Excerpt) Read more at steynonline.com ...
We need fact checkers to start checking the fact checkers.
thx Kristinn.
Hope you are keeping well. ‘Pod.
The Libs are scared to death of Trump. They cannot grasp why he is so popular so they are doing everything they can to discredit him. The GOP establishment feels the same and has jumped on the Libs’ bandwagon. Meanwhile, Trump wins more and more people to his side by simply telling people what he thinks, regardless of who is in the audience. The MSM doesn’t know how to handle that kind of honesty.
I got so fired up about this this morning that I woke up the wife while I was ironing. I very specifically remembering reading newspapers at the time that said that Muslims in Jersey were detained for celebrations, and now they’re saying, “Oh, no, we were mistaken. That never happened.” Fie on them!
Well I remember it being reported of a joyous celebration of Muslims in Paterson NJ on the destruction of the Twin Towers.
Same here.
Northern New Jersey Draws Probers' Eyes [muslims cheer in NJ after 9/11]
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I realize 2001 was pre IPhone. But it wasn't 1901. Thousands of people gathering in the street is a huge happening.There were cameras, there were video recorders. I am skeptical of Trump's statement until I see video proof. If it actually happened, it wouldn't be that hard to get.
By denying, the left has consciously chosen to give support to the jihadis.
We are not, and have never been, at war with Oceania.
Every sentence, every phrase, every belch is parsed and placed under a microscope to find something, anything to use against the enemy. And believe you me Trump is a bigger enemy of the Republican establishment than ISIS.
The MSM and the GOPe did a pretty good job on Dr. Carson. With a little help from the Democrat wing of the Republican Party, of course. Carson was just the lowest hanging fruit. Now it is Trumps turn.
Next time, keep the ironing part out of the story...
Otherwise, a good comment
As they did with Sarah Palin and Herman Cain.
I’m not certain if I saw videos, but I definitely saw stills of muslims in America partying after the bombings.
video of the jumpers
That's what they were celebrating.
Rule #1: Leftists Lie.
It’s their factory setting, their default condition.
Between the gaslighting from every media and academic outlet, and the screaming of the poop-flinging monkeys on the Web, truth is Stage IV Terminal in this nation.
The DIMS and the GOP have been lying for so long they don't know how to respond to objective facts.
I live in Jersey. More of a Cruz guy myself, but I distinctly remember them celebrating in Paterson. It was on all the local news
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