Michael Hastings Trutherism

The Week ^ | June 20, 2013 | Marc Ambinder

[2ndDivisionVet]

This is a distasteful subject to write about. But Los Angeles talk radio is obsessed with the death of Michael Hastings and the insinuations that somehow he was killed by unknown forces attempting to silence him.

Yesterday afternoon, I drove to the scene of the car crash. Several bouquets of flowers ringed a tree. I saw candles and notes. It's very sad.

Trutherism (the catch-all term for instant conspiracies based on extreme mistrust and/or unfounded supposition) makes me angry.

I would much rather have Hastings' life work be the subject of discussion and criticism than to hear L.A. radio jocks gawk at Hastings' personal history and demons.

Maybe it's a little too personal for me.

1. Cars don't often crash and burst into flames. Especially not cars that are new and well-made, not Mercedes, and especially not cars that are designed to eject their engine blocks when a major compression is detected. So the fact that Hastings' car burst into the flames on impact is unusual. But it is not impossible. It happens.

2. If you were attempting to engineer a death by making a car burst into flames, you would probably not know a heck of a lot about how hard it is to rig a car to explode like this, absent propellants and ordnance. (There were none detected at the scene.) If you wanted to make a homicide look like a suicide, you wouldn't rig a car to explode on impact precisely because it is out of the norm and doesn't often happen. It draws attention.....

[Boogieman]

“If you and your friends choose to use the word that is fine.”

Well, nobody really needs your permission, but thanks.

“Let me guess, you only use it to describe people you dislike or disagree with.”

No, I use it to describe people who fit the definition of the word. Of course I disagree with them, because they are not generally sensible people.

[detective]

I worded my previous reply poorly. I did not mean to imply someone needed permission.

If you say you and your friends use the word frequently I can not dispute you. I have no way of knowing if this is or is not the case.

I have never heard anyone use the words “truther” or “trutherism” in conversation. The only time I have seen the word truther it was on the internet refering to members of the small fringe group, the 9/11 Truth Movement. A few times on the internet I saw people use the word “truther” dishonestly to describe not just the group but also anyone who questioned any part of the official 9/11 narrative.

I have never seen or heard of the word “trutherism”.

It is a made up word that means whatever the user wants it to mean. It is a lazy and dishonest way to insult anyone who questions the accuracy of any official explanation or narrrative.

[Boogieman]

Well, all words are “made up”, so that doesn’t really mean much. It does have a very specific meaning, maybe you are not familiar with it, but that doesn’t make it not so. If it meant anything anyone wanted it to mean, nobody would use it, because there is no point to using a word that doesn’t have an understood meaning.

[Jack Hydrazine]

Came across this. Don’t know if it is true.

Garrow: Breitbart’s ‘Big Mouth’ Got Him, Michael Hastings & Tom Clancy All Killed By President Obama
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/garrow-breitbarts-big-mouth-got-him-michael-hastings-tom-clancy-all-killed-president-obama

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NmAZIB0BHA
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