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Leftist Media Finally Admits Their 9/11 Trutherism
Trutherism, the idea that George W. Bush purposely either planned and carried out the 9/11 terrorist attacks, or purposefully let them happen, has long infected the dark corners of web media.
Shortly after 9/11, such conspiracy theories weren’t tolerated by the left or right. Trutherism was reserved for college kids with the uncanny ability to cut clips together and compose spooky synthesizer music as an outlet to justify their mortal hate for George W. Bush.
The country loved George Bush, and these Dubya haters couldn’t abide that.
So Trutherism was allowed to seethe without being snuffed out completely or being relegated to the same corner of the Internet and Netflix as Bigfoot/JFK/Martian-experiment documentaries.
But as time goes by and the dull, blunt pain of upcoming anniversaries subside, the media is naturally allowed to begin rewriting their own narratives and become more tolerant of the lunatic fringe that infests it. Palestinians dancing in the streets in 2001 gave way to romanticized press narratives of freedom fighters against the Zionists in 2014. The over-militarization of police become a good cop-out (pun intended) for the left to blame Bush’s Patriot Act, while ignoring the current President who erases any human being he pleases off the face of the earth with weaponized drones.
9/11 Trutherism made it all the way into the Oval Office in 2008, when Barack Obama chose Van Jones to be his Green Jobs Czar. Jones stepped down after it was revealed that he signed a letter demanding the “Truth” about the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Jones is now a CNN correspondent along with a former Obama campaign consultant. The network, desperate for Obama’s shine to rub off on them, had no problem signing a Truther to a long-term contract. CNN’s Piers Morgan also gave air time to RT Network anchor Abby Martin, a declared 9/11 truther.
MSNBC, not exactly known for tact on any subject swirling around 9/11, hired pundit and prep-school privilege commentator Touré Neblett as a co-host. His show, “The Cycle,” basically consists of four people sitting at a table watching motorized race cars go around a track. But Touré was better known for his conspiratorial tweets, one of which included his deduction that a passenger airliner couldn’t have possibly hit the Pentagon.
Jones and Touré landing sweet television gigs on networks that barely anyone watches is one thing. Trutherism in web media has remained for the most part on sub-Reddits and Democratic Underground message boards (of course there’s always Salon doing their part).
But Huffington Post has changed all that.
Just nine days before the 13th anniversary of that horrific day, Arianna and team took to Twitter to announce their new domestic national security blogger, former NFL wide receiver Donté Stallworth. Stallworth had a somewhat successful career with several teams but is perhaps most well known for a DUI conviction that resulted in a fatality and jail time.
His past indiscretions are of little concern as it relates to his new position at Huffington Post. But Stallworth’s personal beliefs surrounding George W. Bush and the 9/11 attacks are very relevant to his cushy new gig:
Gggrrrrrrrrrrrrr @ ppl who actually believe a plane hit the pentagon on 9/11… hole woulda been ASTRONOMICALLY bigger, God bless lost lives
— Donte’ Stallworth (@DonteStallworth) July 20, 2009
Stallworth later issued an explanation claiming it was one tweet from five years ago. It wasn’t. Stallworth was tweeting out 9/11 conspiracies as late as last November.
Oops, I sent that tweet a little too early like the young lady from @BBCNews on the collapse of building 7 on 9/11…
— Donte’ Stallworth (@DonteStallworth) November 25, 2013
It appears that the managing editors of HuffPo did very little due diligence. Instead, they jumped at a name that could give them instant recognition with demographics favored by Vox, 538, and Upshot.
There is a clear pattern of mainstream progressive media placating extremist beliefs with no regard for their own credibility. Trutherism in media in the past hid behind the thin veil of intelligence failures and ignored warnings.
No more.
When Truthers infiltrate NBC, CNN, HuffPo and Salon, there’s a clear pattern from the richest and most powerful progressive conglomerates in corporate media. They are advancing the thought that a Republican president orchestrated the mass murder of his country’s own people to push forth his extremist agenda. The goal of these media mavens is to keep that odious idea fresh and cool in the minds of young voters in Guy Fawkes masks.
These also happen to be the same people who think you’re crazy for claiming a conspiratorial relationship between the White House and the IRS.
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Just remember, metal doesn’t melt.
Good god man I have been following you on Twitter and just now made the connection! This is why I am concrete vol not perceptive vol! Whoever doesn’t follow @redsteeze I highly recommend it.
They are the same people who say it’s crazy to be concerned that every federal agency has a swat team and seems to be buying all the ammo they can get their hands on. Lol Of course the dept of ed needs a swat team… Nothing to see here!
All these outfits raised a clamor because GOP candidate Romney would not issue a categorical condemnation of the Obama birthers.
Romney missed several chances to turn that back onto the media types. He could have just said that Obama brought it on himself by claiming to be a Kenyan while touting his book, so Republicans have every right to indulge in schadenfreude.
Ron Paul is a truther. Or, at least, he believes the CIA had knowledge of the attacks ahead of time.
9/11 trutherism is an example of a false belief that makes no sense but which nevertheless does not result in any negative consequences for the person who “believes” it. Normally if we convince ourselves that falsehoods are true, there are serious consequences. Such as if we believe that we can fly. But trutherism is something you can convince yourself of and all it does is make you feel good about yourself and reinforce your prejudices. It makes you feel a part of an elite group. No negative consequences. The irony is that no truther “really” believes it. If forced to bet their lives on it, I’m sure very few if any would.
When those buildings came down did anyone think ‘3000 people’ ? Personally, I thought 30,000 t0 50,000. So to believe trutherism you have to believe that George Bush and Dick Cheney actually DECIDED that killing 30,000 to 50,000 Americans was a good idea. Yes folks, they actually think that all Republicans including us are that evil. Thirty to forth years of unanswered slander will do that.
Well, hey, assuming the plane downed in PA was headed for the White House Cheney also had deviously plotted his suicide while GWB decided to kill Laura in the bargain. All to achieve… something or other.
Lunatics walk among us.
And Rumsfeld forgot to tell himself not to report to work in the Pentagon on the day he arranged to have a jumbo jet crash into it.
This leftist shaping of the narrative will result in two years when the Iranians nuke Tel Aviv and do whatever kind of damage they can to West Jerusalem, the folks at Slate, Mother Jones, MSNBC, and the others will be dancing in the street, pushing for the US to back the fight for the one state solution, the State of Palestine, particularly since the Jews will have certainly fought back with a “disproportionate response.”
Well, Rumsfeld obviously knew where the plane would hit and he wasn’t there, was he?
Duuhh!
JH, You missed Stallworth’s and Toure’s point that it was not a plane thus no footage (ignoring the parking lot camera). Or if it was a plane, it was not the airliner but some other plane. Or if it was the airliner, the passengers had been taken off (without saying why)…
RFTS, Clearly, the difference is all the Jews who were told not to show up to work. Or it was because Bush had to keep people out because they would see the demolition charges he planted…
When dealing with these people, we have to get personal and ad hominem. We can’t just stick to the facts. We can’t just punch the main hole in each nutty theory and then wait for the next one, because there always will be a next one.
When Rosie O’Donnell says fire can’t melt steel, we can barely gather the fortitude to say that fire is how you melt steel and here it only had to soften it a bit. We don’t go any further. We do not point out that these are evil lunatics and those who associate with them are similarly evil. We need to.
That’s interesting. I didn’t know that about Romney. I would never make an issue out of it, but I was really frustrated that the Democrats would run a candidate who couldn’t produce a U.S. birth certificate. It is so basic to our Constitution. I think that’s because the royal families in Europe so often sold out their own countries.
I’m glad Romney at least didn’t give the Democrats a pass on it.
The one thing Truthers have never been able to answer all these years–and it really pisses me off to have to ask–if it was an “inside job,” then where in the hell has Barbara Olson been all these years?
Dear Toure,
There are photos of the plane hitting the Pentagon.
Signed,
Everybody