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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: The Right Stuff

Yeah, just do a Google search for "FDR fireside chat 20"


81 posted on 09/12/2006 11:37:48 AM PDT by mvpel (Michael Pelletier)
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To: wideawake
The lack of critical education is killing this country's collective braincells.

This "lack of critical education" is a deliberate policy of the educrats.

After all, how could their social conditioning be effectively implemented if its moral and intellectual foundation were held up to the light of reason and critical thinking by the captive children involved?

There's no chance of that happening under the current regime.

82 posted on 09/12/2006 11:46:12 AM PDT by headsonpikes (Genocide is the highest sacrament of socialism.)
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To: mdmathis6

It wouldn't last 20 seconds at DU...


83 posted on 09/12/2006 11:48:59 AM PDT by rock_lobsta (cair = hamas = iran = EVIL)
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To: dirtboy
The right wing outgrew that, and anyone who didn't was marginalized.

Exactly. We have plenty of nutbags (you know who you are :), but for the most part, they were marginalized. I mean, you knew they were there, but they were like some drunk uncle. You still loved em, but you didn't let them play with electrical devices.

For the Democrats, the moonbats have come front and center, and are now DRIVING their party.

I recall the media was all over itself worrying about "Clinton Hatred", the VRWC, etc, but with BDS, they pretend its like having the common cold or something.

84 posted on 09/12/2006 11:53:35 AM PDT by Paradox (The "smarter" the individual, the greater his power of self-delusion.)
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To: rock_lobsta
That's easily solved, moonbat-style.

The Cheney/Bush/Wolfowitz cabal had been planning all this for years and they engineered the 2000 election in order to put the final puzzle piece in place.

85 posted on 09/12/2006 11:57:45 AM PDT by wideawake ("The nation which forgets its defenders will itself be forgotten." - Calvin Coolidge)
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To: .cnI redruM

Aliens did it after the US Government threatened to cut off their supply of cow lips. (Watch Dan Akroyd in the movie "Sneakers" for the whole story).


86 posted on 09/12/2006 12:06:19 PM PDT by mbynack (Retired USAF SMSgt)
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To: wideawake

Funny that you mention JFK. That was a waste of time and money. I had seen it with a friend of mine. She thought it was believeable. Actually she thought Onasis had it done because he wanted Jackie.


87 posted on 09/12/2006 12:08:45 PM PDT by Jaded (does it really need a sarcasm tag?)
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To: .cnI redruM


We shouldn't judge all Muslims on the basis of a few terrorists.

But we should judge all who doubt our paranoid theory as the same...


88 posted on 09/12/2006 12:18:55 PM PDT by Tzimisce (How Would Mohammed Vote? Hillary for President! www.dndorks.com)
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To: mvpel

Very interesting! Where did you find this?


89 posted on 09/12/2006 12:40:08 PM PDT by squarebarb
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To: .cnI redruM
Buy the book: Debunking 9/11 Myths: Why Conspiracy Theories Can't Stand Up to the Facts (Paperback)

cheap, easy read, very informative

90 posted on 09/12/2006 12:47:39 PM PDT by Rate_Determining_Step (US Military - Draining the Swamp of Terrorism since 2001!)
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To: at bay

Paging Dale Gribble- Mr. Gribble please pick up.


91 posted on 09/12/2006 12:49:44 PM PDT by synbad600
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To: redgolum

I still find it incredible that people believe that missles hit the Pentagon. Barbara Olsen died on that plane...a friend of mine knew a family who died on that plane. Are they suggesting that the pilots knowingly flew people to their deaths somewhere and died themselves?? It's ludicrous.
At least with Oklahoma City, there were early reports of a John Doe that might lend credence to the belief that McVeigh didn't act alone. But these people a nut jobs. Their "explanations" are impossible, not just improbable.


92 posted on 09/12/2006 12:50:28 PM PDT by t2buckeye
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To: .cnI redruM

This sounds like Monty Python.....remember "She's a witch"??? Same logic


93 posted on 09/12/2006 12:51:44 PM PDT by t2buckeye
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To: Rate_Determining_Step
It's a shame that this book had to be published. It reminds me of how Oliver North supposedly supplied Crack Dealers all over South-side Richmond, Va.
94 posted on 09/12/2006 12:51:49 PM PDT by .cnI redruM (The investigation was a hoax. Fitz should be brought up on charges.)
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To: Rich_E
"Aircraft wheels are made of Magnesium alloy. Magnesium burns at 4000 degrees F. Plenty hot enough to melt steel at 2700 F."

Which, of course, is why they sprayed fire retardant on the steel support beams when they built the building! It's because fire weakens steel.

It's just too bad they didn't apply it in a way that stuck.
95 posted on 09/12/2006 12:52:14 PM PDT by jpf
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To: ct_libertarian

96 posted on 09/12/2006 1:03:10 PM PDT by r-q-tek86 (** Tagline Removed By Admin Moderator **)
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To: .cnI redruM

What is a "haying gig"?


97 posted on 09/12/2006 1:24:12 PM PDT by 3catsanadog (When anything goes, everything does.)
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To: .cnI redruM

I'll give you the secret to decoding all of the rightwing messages. Move your fingers one character to the right of "home".

og upi vsm trsf yjod. upi lmpe yjr vpfr/


98 posted on 09/12/2006 2:26:01 PM PDT by GoLightly
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To: .cnI redruM

My children's father is a BBC bobblehead. Last night he actually remarked that "we still don't know who brought down the towers."


99 posted on 09/12/2006 2:37:50 PM PDT by Excellence (Vote Dhimmocrat; you'll look in a burqa!)
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To: mvpel

They played that chat on XM Track 4. Yes, there were tin-foil-hatters back then, too.


100 posted on 09/12/2006 2:40:01 PM PDT by Excellence (Vote Dhimmocrat; you'll look in a burqa!)
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