Posted on 09/07/2009 11:38:38 AM PDT by Mount Athos
The Truther petition states the suspicion (really an assertion) that Bush and "other high officials" deliberately allowed 9/11 to happen, "perhaps as a pretext for war."
Here's how the Times now characterizes it:
"... a petition in 2004 questioning whether the Bush administration had allowed the terrorist attacks of September 2001 to provide a pretext for war in the Middle East."
As Kaus notes, all that means is that Bush "used" the attacks which had already occurred, minus his complicity, to gin up support for military action.
It's a lie. The petition stated that Bush may have had foreknowledge of the attacks and deliberately permitted them to go forward in order to create this situation. Not that he may have acted afterwards to turn the situation to his advantage. That he created it.
The entire point of Trutherism is that it suggests direct, before-the-fact premeditated government complicity in 9/11. Not negligence before the fact. Not cynicism after the fact. But deliberate complicity in mass-murder, either through intentional passivity to allow the attacks or (and this is what they really mean; the "intentional passivity" claim is just an attempt to soft-pedal the actual theory) premeditated involvement in the planning and execution of the greatest mass-murder on American soil in history.
The NYT doesn't know that, it seems. Just sort of slipped past them. (But they can tell you all about the birth certificate controversy!)
The MSM is determined to push readers to the alt-media. They are basically just telling everyone "Don't read us, we're deliberately lying, and, even worse, making the news substantially less interesting due to our lies."
The media is choosing boring lies over interesting truth. Lose-lose.
Via Hot Air. In the headlines, if you want to weigh in there.
I am looking for a better word than "pathetic." This is not pathetic any longer. This is malicious.
how is it a shock to anyone?
The "truth" is the furthest thing from what they believe!
Why read the Bankrupt Times when you can go straight to the DNC website? If they would close the site more people would have to read the Day Old News.
Pray for America
I can’t see why the NYT bothered. Their readers are on the same page as Van Jones.
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