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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.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


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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To: ct_libertarian
I prefer a statement in a Philosophy primer I have.

"Whether they believe in reality or not, most people still get out of the way of the Mack truck."
61 posted on 09/12/2006 11:12:59 AM PDT by redgolum ("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)
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To: .cnI redruM

I do this little exercise with my Lefty family memebers.
I get in a conversation about 9/11, draw them in with a couple small criticisms of Bush. Then I drop the hammer. I sincerely suggest that Bush was possibly "in on" the 9/11 attacks. To a person, they agree that it's very possible that he was. And, these are not what we'd consider "hard" Lefties, they're your run-of-the-mill Democrats...or so I thought.


62 posted on 09/12/2006 11:13:37 AM PDT by threeleftsmakearight
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To: redgolum

Exactly!
Unless of course they are a conspiracy moonbat!


63 posted on 09/12/2006 11:14:39 AM PDT by ct_libertarian ("Who Is John Galt?" Ayn Rand)
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To: mvpel

Is that for real? I am doing an article comparing WWII to now, and this would be great info.


64 posted on 09/12/2006 11:14:43 AM PDT by The Right Stuff
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To: redgolum
What happened to the Twin Towers might be parabolically extended to illustrate what is happening to the weak minds that feed on this stuff.

This stuff only survives because these <IYFWH>[1] are comfortably insulated from reality. For a few brief moments in 2001, reality burst upon them with scant welcome, but now they've got it stuffed safely back in the box.

And they are ignoring it.

[1] Words fail me. That's rare enough.

65 posted on 09/12/2006 11:15:24 AM PDT by thulldud ("Para inglés, oprima el dos.")
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To: .cnI redruM

It would have been a better experiment of some of them had gotten in the cage then lit it.


66 posted on 09/12/2006 11:15:29 AM PDT by jpf
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To: .cnI redruM
We Buchananize our idiots, the Left elevates them to Democratic Party Chair.

Now THAT is a quotable quote!

67 posted on 09/12/2006 11:15:41 AM PDT by BeHoldAPaleHorse ( ~()):~)>)
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To: threeleftsmakearight

THAT'S what makes my blood boil. It seems like even those Democrats that don't beleive in the conspriacy theories still lead credibility to it by saying that since there are questions, it should be investigated.

I saw the chicken wire experiment thread on DU. Perhaps the funniest thing I've ever seen online in years.


68 posted on 09/12/2006 11:17:14 AM PDT by Portnoy (Fahrenheit 451...Today's Temperature is hotter than you think...)
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To: kb2614

"WELCOME BROTHER!!! You do remember the secret handshake, right?? :-)"


I would have joined too,...but that "wiggling middle finger" in the palm hand shake just creeps me out!


69 posted on 09/12/2006 11:18:35 AM PDT by mdmathis6 (Proof against evolution:"Man is the only creature that blushes, or needs to" M.Twain)
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To: liberty_lvr

Here is the link to the Chicke Wire Experiment

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=125&topic_id=56836&mesg_id=56836


70 posted on 09/12/2006 11:18:56 AM PDT by Portnoy (Fahrenheit 451...Today's Temperature is hotter than you think...)
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To: mdmathis6

LOL!!!


71 posted on 09/12/2006 11:19:53 AM PDT by ct_libertarian ("Who Is John Galt?" Ayn Rand)
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To: rock_lobsta

Try posting that notion on the conspiracy web blogs and see what response you get!


72 posted on 09/12/2006 11:21:46 AM PDT by mdmathis6 (Proof against evolution:"Man is the only creature that blushes, or needs to" M.Twain)
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To: Portnoy
My personal favorite Conspiracy Theory Site!!!

The truth is OUT THERE



like most moonbats
73 posted on 09/12/2006 11:22:29 AM PDT by ct_libertarian ("Who Is John Galt?" Ayn Rand)
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To: AppyPappy

oh!!! sheesh... darn it.. thanks for the tip! hehe


74 posted on 09/12/2006 11:26:38 AM PDT by Echo Talon
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To: redgolum

Aircraft wheels are made of Magnesium alloy. Magnesium burns at 4000 degrees F. Plenty hot enough to melt steel at 2700 F.


75 posted on 09/12/2006 11:27:04 AM PDT by Rich_E
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To: Rich_E

AND HABILLURTON IS tHE PeoPle taht Put thew WHEels on THe Planes!!!!!
CaN'T You SeE aLL oF the ConnecTIONs!!!
It"S SO ObviOUS!!!!


76 posted on 09/12/2006 11:30:39 AM PDT by ct_libertarian ("Who Is John Galt?" Ayn Rand)
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To: ct_libertarian

CONNECT THE DOTS!!!!!


77 posted on 09/12/2006 11:33:57 AM PDT by AppyPappy (If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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To: ct_libertarian

Oh my! You're right! My eyes have been opened!


78 posted on 09/12/2006 11:36:26 AM PDT by Rich_E
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To: AppyPappy
CONNECT THE DOTS!!!!!

Didn't he get banned?

79 posted on 09/12/2006 11:37:03 AM PDT by BeHoldAPaleHorse ( ~()):~)>)
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To: listenhillary
"with Ken Lay's executor of his estate."

Ken Lay didn't die. Rove set him up in the Bahamas to manage the slush fund the RNC has hidden from the IRS.

80 posted on 09/12/2006 11:37:44 AM PDT by skimask (People who care what you do don't matter.......People who matter don't care what you do.)
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