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.
Right now Scarborough is on opposite H&C and since the management changes made at MSNBC Joe is back to having half way decent shows and I just switch over to him when Colmes starts this stuff. I have no use for the man.
Many thanks, np. Since I watched without videotaping, I wanted to be cautious, but as more personal reports come in, there seems little doubt as to what Colmes said. Thanks again.
Alan Colmes is an enemy to the United States.
And on top of that, he's an ugly doofus.
It's quite an amazing conspiracy theory to suggest it was ginned up by Bush...let's think of some of the things that would be required...The Bush administration created fake people to be on the passenger lists of the planes and fake family members to morn their deaths, interferred with the cameras that filmed the planes hitting the towers to create the illusion and mental telepathy to interfere with the eye witnesses having the planes in person rather than on television. The planes were guided in on these fake images to the place where the explosives were placed so that it would look like the planes had caused the collapse instead of the explosives.
There's a special place in Hell for all the deniars. Like the day the Challenger exploded, I heard the Columbia breaking up trying to land. Excruciatingly painful noise. I was home and watched the second plane crash into the tower. Are the RATS going to tell me not to believe my lying eyes?
Yep, I'm sure if he's called on it he'll pooh pooh the importance like he does on other subjects that he knows he's completely wrong about.
Colmes?
Aaa, somebody made a necklace out of his spine years before he was on FOX.
I have to agree. He always was far-left with his comments, but he was respectful and actually seemed like he was enjoying the show. He is a bit more angry in tone lately.
I might give that a try. I stopped watching Joe because it seemed to just get worse and worse but if he's getting better I'll give him another try.
And NO, Colmes was NOT "joking", as other posters here have suggested. The "guest" said that he was an "agnostic" when it came to believing anything about the WTC and Alan mimicked him, nodding his head in full agreement, as he said it too. The entire episode was disgusting!
I had stopped cold turkey because he started having Lawrence O'donnell on again, but I haven't see O'Donnell on there since Kaplan left the network and Joe has been more reasonable. I kind of like Anderson Cooper, too. He goes off the reservation once in a while, but most of the time he seems to try very hard to play it right down the middle.
Since they can't deny THAT part, they of course will say that the planes were part of the e-e-e-evil Republican conspriacy, but that there were no Muslims on board. (Those tapes from Flight 93 were faked, of course.)
is the same as Ignoramus in Latin lets see how it goes : "Hi I'm Alan Colmes and I'm an Ignoramus as well !" I wonder if Alan knows that agnostic in Greek
Being agnostic about the subject of the possibility that President Bush planned and executed the whole 9/11 scenario is crazy and wrong...and NOT worthy of respect to the person that asserts it.
LOL...Lawry was off about a year after his meltdown and I was watching the night he came because Joe welcomed him back. I emailed Joe and said if I saw Lawry on again I would stop watching and a couple nights later he was back and I quit him. It was the straw that broke the back.
Sounds like my m.o... BTW, did you get a nasty email back from Joe or am I the only Freeper with that distinction.
Nope, never got an answer. I'll bet Joe got lots of emails on that. I sent one the night of Lawry's meltdown too and never got an answer on that one either.
Remember the night of the breakdown, Joe was on medical leave and Buchanan was filling in for him, I wrote the whole world that night..... somehow around that time I got the real, direct, email for Joe.. later during Katrina when Joe started trashing the President I sent him a livid email and got a very nasty response and then honorable mention that night between he and Tucker Carlson.
I understand where you're coming from, but no amount of goodwill will ever let me forget the Palis dancing in the street on 9-11. The IDF can kill all of them that they want to.
I'll never forget the night of his meltdown. It's the only time I've ever seen Buchanan at a loss for words, he didn't know what to say or do. Pat just wanted it to stop but didn't know how to end it. To this day I think O'Donnell was high on something, whether it was booze or drugs I don't know. Don't really know why MSNBC ever let him come back.
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