Posted on 07/12/2006 8:09:50 PM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
by Mark Finkelstein
July 12, 2006
Are you like me? Have you assumed that Alan Colmes is an essentially harmless, if misguided, liberal? If so, we might all have to rethink things in light of his apparent statement on tonight's Hannity & Colmes that he is 'agnostic' as to who is responsible for the destruction of the World Trade Center.
H&C had wanted to have on as its guest University of Wisconsin instructor Kevin Barrett, who claims that the Bush administration orchestrated the 9/11 attacks and used controlled explosions to bring down the WTC towers.
Barrett is apparently laying low and declined to come on the show. But H&C managed to dig up a substitute conspiracy buff in the person of one Bob Bowman, member of the august Veterans for 9/11 Truth. Oh, and by the way, Bowman also happens to be . . . a Democratic candidate for congress from Florida's 15th District!
In any case, Bowman told Sean "I'm agnostic about these conspiracy theories," adding that Barrett's "conspiracy theory is far more believable than yours," and further: "I don't know who did it and neither do you."
Later, addressing himself to Bowman, Colmes said: "Bob, I'm Alan Colmes. I'm agnostic as well . . . As I understand it this theory while propounded in this class is not central to what he is teaching in this class. As a matter of fact, 400 pages are provided supporting the official government version and 75 pages supporting the alternative [crazy conspiracy] version that we are debating here."
Maybe in all the cross-fire I misread what Colmes was saying. But it sure sounds as if he is willing to entertain the possibilty that the Bush administration might have been responsible for the destruction of the WTC. If that's true, he has written himself out of the 'harmless liberal' category in my book.
In all fairness almost every personality does this with the most notabl exception being Brit Hume. He is fast becoming the only one I can tolerate watching.
Oops my "e" fell off should be notable.
I wonder what Alan's DU screen name is and how often he posts?
My wife visited the Flight 923 crash site last week. Despite being a typical libral, she now refers to the Muslim perpetrators as subhuman and less than animals and that we should do what is necessary to rid the world of these types.
You are correct, most do it in varying degrees. I also consider Britt Hume to be the finest host and news analyst on TV with few even close.
Instructor? What, is he a Drivers' Ed teacher?
Popular Mechanics printed an article addressing many of the more popular conspiracy theories a while back.
http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/defense/1227842.html
Bill O'Really doesn't have to play "sraight man" for anyone on his show ... neither does Hannity. Sean does just fine without Alan Colon on his radio show
If you really research it, I'm sure you will find that it was the sightings of Elvis that caused the second plane to veer and hit the corner of the building down lower.
To even give any credence whatsoever to these wild conspiracy theories one has to totally disregard what they saw with their own eyes.
No one is that good of a hypnotist.
Interesting, my husband was telling me about this tonight at dinner, he saw the same thing your wife saw and had the same conclusion.
I guess I was posting on FR instead of watching the screen, but my husband saw it and said it was pretty telling.
Well stated.
No, I make jokes because of useful idiots that tend to make up facts to fit their pet conspiracy.
I note you totally ignore simple questions to cling to your conspiracy. You also fail to say just who rigged the buildings to implode as well as who actually flew the aircraft into the buildings.
Your conspiracy is filled with enough holes to float a battleship through, but that doesn't stop moonbats from trying to convince others they did not see what they clearly saw along with the rest of the world.
Let us all know the next time you see Elvis.
Yes, but how does he do it? I don't think he's smart enough to determine which side is common sense, and which one isn't. So how does he consistantly pick the side opposite of common sense? And with a 100% success rate at that. How does he do it?
That's uncalled for. Everybody knows Elvis died when he flew his plane into WTC.
Time for Alan's monthly botox injection to keep that runaway left eyebrow from pointing straight up in the air. Seems the further north his eyebrow points, the wackier he becomes. Time to tame him down.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/gate/archive/2006/04/19/cstillwell.DTL
And now, from a group that is opposed to America's Foreign Policy and sees the wild conspiracies for what they really are;
http://www.geocities.com/factsnotfantasy/ExplosivesDebunked.html
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