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CONSPIRACY CRANKS. CREATING CRAZED '9/11 TRUTH'.
NY Post ^
| September 12, 2006
| By JAMES B. MEIGS
Posted on 09/12/2006 10:24:21 AM PDT by .cnI redruM
ON Feb. 7, 2005, I became a member of the Bush/Halliburton/Zionist/CIA/New World Order/Illuminati conspiracy for world domination. That day, Popular Mechanics, the magazine I edit, hit newsstands with a story debunking 9/11 conspiracy theories. Within hours, the online community of 9/11 conspiracy buffs - which calls itself the "9/11 Truth Movement" - was aflame with wild fantasies about me, my staff and the article we had published. Conspiracy Web sites labeled Popular Mechanics a "CIA front organization" and compared us to Nazis and war criminals.
For a 104-year-old magazine about science, technology, home improvement and car maintenance, this was pretty extreme stuff. What had we done to provoke such outrage?
Research.
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Editorial; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: New York; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 911; conspiracies; tinfoilhats
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I guess this guy was NOT the technical advisor for Farenhate 9-11.
To: .cnI redruM
"What had we done to provoke such outrage? "
You told the truth.
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posted on
09/12/2006 10:25:38 AM PDT
by
EQAndyBuzz
("For seven million extra, we could have avoided a billion dollar WOT.")
To: EQAndyBuzz
"ON Feb. 7, 2005, I became a member of the Bush/Halliburton/Zionist/CIA/New World Order/Illuminati "-
I've been one for years, and they won't even send me my lousy secret decoder ring....
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posted on
09/12/2006 10:27:55 AM PDT
by
.cnI redruM
(The investigation was a hoax. Fitz should be brought up on charges.)
To: .cnI redruM
hmmm, an American Airlines cruise missile... hmmmm, where do they get enough tinfoil?
To: .cnI redruM
"In every single case, we found that the very facts used by conspiracy theorists to support their fantasies are mistaken, misunderstood or deliberately falsified."
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posted on
09/12/2006 10:30:26 AM PDT
by
stm
(Katherine Harris for US Senate!)
To: .cnI redruM
Sites like loose change are in it for the money and always were.
The loose change guys put together a really shabby, inaccurate movie and are now making a fortune on it because there are so many purposely ignorant people who will spend the $10 to $15 that is charged for the dvd.
It's kind of like a taxation on stupidity, but the problem is that so many folks now believe the bizarre assertions that it's somehow becoming acceptable.
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posted on
09/12/2006 10:31:59 AM PDT
by
Schnucki
To: Schnucki
"stupidity tax"
Bwahahahahahahaaaa! We could eliminate the national debt with something like that!
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posted on
09/12/2006 10:33:40 AM PDT
by
stm
(Katherine Harris for US Senate!)
To: .cnI redruM
I've been one for years, and they won't even send me my lousy secret decoder ring....I got mine, but all the messages ever say is "Be Sure To Drink Your Ovaltine."
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posted on
09/12/2006 10:34:41 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: .cnI redruM
Funny thing this, I was just "banned" from slate for ridiculing a 911 conspiracy nut. I was a little overzealous, it happens.
I guess asking whether he wanted me to refer to him as "crazy" or a "liar" crossed the line.
It's a little like being deported from Cuba I think.
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posted on
09/12/2006 10:35:09 AM PDT
by
jpf
To: Echo Talon
I lent them some of my old headgear.
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posted on
09/12/2006 10:36:18 AM PDT
by
.cnI redruM
(The investigation was a hoax. Fitz should be brought up on charges.)
To: Schnucki
The loose change guys put together a really shabby, inaccurate movie and are now making a fortune on it because there are so many purposely ignorant people who will spend the $10 to $15 that is charged for the dvd. "BRILLIANT!"
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posted on
09/12/2006 10:36:32 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: Echo Talon
where do they get enough tinfoil?I don't think all the aluminum mills in America can produce enough to wrap the theories of the 9-11 crazies.
To: .cnI redruM
ON Feb. 7, 2005, I became a member of the Bush/Halliburton/Zionist/CIA/New World Order/Illuminati conspiracy for world domination.
WELCOME BROTHER!!! You do remember the secret handshake, right?? :-)
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posted on
09/12/2006 10:37:34 AM PDT
by
kb2614
(Hell hath no fury than a bureaucrat scorned)
To: dfwgator
and we all know that Ovaltine is a secretly held subsidiary of Beelezburton.
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posted on
09/12/2006 10:37:35 AM PDT
by
.cnI redruM
(The investigation was a hoax. Fitz should be brought up on charges.)
To: .cnI redruM
I wish he wouldn't include the illuminati...we have our own thing going on...
To: .cnI redruM
Reminds me of the whackjobs that said the same thing about the Oklahoma City bombing.
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posted on
09/12/2006 10:38:29 AM PDT
by
Wolfie
To: jpf
I used to be a star poster on slab. Then I emerged from the dark side of the force...
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posted on
09/12/2006 10:38:30 AM PDT
by
.cnI redruM
(The investigation was a hoax. Fitz should be brought up on charges.)
To: .cnI redruM
Paging Oliver Stone - Forget your new project idea.
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posted on
09/12/2006 10:38:58 AM PDT
by
listenhillary
(Only the stupidest of animals fouls it's own nest - Democrats provide a fine example of this)
To: Wallace T.
To: Wolfie
I knew this guy who I hate to admit is a fellow ORSA. He seriously believed the US Govt ordered McVeigh to blow up the building in order to incinerate a bunch of data that could have incriminated Bill and Hill concerning Whitewater. There are some genuine nut cases on the right as well.
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posted on
09/12/2006 10:40:35 AM PDT
by
.cnI redruM
(The investigation was a hoax. Fitz should be brought up on charges.)
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