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Posted By: WFDU - Ron Olesko
05-Mar-07 - 09:39 AM
Thread Name: BS: Conspiracy: Thread for those who want it
Subject: RE: BS: Conspiracy: Thread for those who want it
Peace, thanks for the links. All it does is prove that the storytellers are hypocrits. If you ever spent time in a newsroom you would realize how absurd these new theories are. These people are grasping at fluff because they can't find any evidence to back up their fanciful claims. The eyewitnessed was planted? The filmaker asks - "Who talks like that?" Well, they do! They question how an "expert" could have known how the building collapsed so quickly and ignore the reason why the person was a guest - he knew building construction and he clearly gave a "theory" as to what occured.
I sincerely doubt these filmmakers did any fact checking - interviewing the reporter, camera crew or witness - and simply relied on making up crap as if it were fact. That is bullshit journalism and we take shots at Fox News and other organizations for trying to do that. Shame on the filmmaker who resorts to the same tactic. Hypocrite.
For a "story" to be planted in the way these filmakers are suggesting would require a conspiracy of dozens of people in the organization, and you can be sure there is always a whistleblower who would love to uncover such a plot.
IF such a story were planted, do you really think they would make such an obvious blunder as to showing the building they are reporting demolished? Chalk that one up to misinformation - which, if you choose to remember, was rampant that day. There were news reports of 15 planes hijacked, explosions all over DC, manhole covers being blown off, shots fired, etc. The sad part of journalism that day was that nothing was being checked and everything was being fed to the public. WTC7 was discussed as being in danger of imminent collapse most of that day - it was not a surprise when it fell.
It is easy to say that people like myself do not buy these conspiracy theories and follow the official party line - but that is a cop out. In reality, the conspiracy theory followers are simply frustrated that people cannot buy their convulted and fantasy filled theories without a shred of evidence. Giving circumstantial ramblings about what a witness saw or did not see serves no purpose. It is just guessing.
It would be easy to discard reality and accept these conspiracy theories as the truth. The only conspiracy that I feel exists is that the adminstration planted many of these ideas themselves, throwing off public away from the real story - why were we so inept that we did not heed the warnings and let this happen? Our government failed us.