Liberal Stupidity
See the thing is, you can question government. That’s a good thing. And blindly trusting government is generally a bad idea, yes. But in this day and age, especially in this day and age, cooking up idiotic theories about 9/11, and even worse, allowing some fucking nutjob moron — who already was stupid enough to work for the bush administration (in a capacity that has absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with national security, aviation, architecture, structural engineering, physics…) in the first place — to get some airtime in a local Boulder paper, to basically assert that what I fucking saw with my own eyes did not happen, is bad for the liberal cause.
People like this give liberals the bad name that The Sean Hannity People are trying to associate us with, and it pisses me off. Especially when the Boulder Weekly runs this shit story on the eve of the fourth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. This is why I wrote several years ago about what an asshole Michael Moore is. After I wrote that, my friends would ask: “why do you think MM is an ass? I’d have thought you’d like him.” But no, he takes things too far, just like this fucking moron Morgan Reynolds. Reynolds is worse in fact, since he has no idea what the hell he’s talking about. He was Bush’s Chief Economist, yet he seems to think he knows about aviation crash investigation. I think he’s a douchebag.
Reynolds read a book that purports that the US government blew up the WTC, then he did some exercising of his own feeble brain and concluded that the attacks of September Eleventh were orchestrated by the US covernment, and that the “FAA” and “NORAD” — presumably from the top down, which involves a hell of a lot of people — were complicit. I think Reynolds is a stupid fucking moron.
Yes, I’m upset.
I’m upset because people like Reynolds, and the Boulder Weekly who give this moron a voice, and Michael Moore, et al., undermine the entire effort of level-headed liberals like myself and thousands of others, who know there’s some bad shit going on in this world but also recognize that there’s a realm of possibility and there’s a realm of culpability and that’s what we need to be focusing on.
To suggest that no planes were involved, as the author of the book — and Reynolds lends credence to — is just ridiculous, and is the kind of nugget that Rush and Company will devour and place center stage, as a basis for devaluing everything that comes out of any politician with a (D) after their name. The conservatives will sleep well at night, with Rush and Sean laughing about guys like Reynolds, using their borderline-psychotic ravings to make the case for precisely the opposite side. And that’s why I can’t stand Michael Moore, and Reynolds, and Griffin and Falk.
With Rove on the other side, we need to be smarter than this.
As an aside, I have republished my eyewitness account of the attack on the World Trade Center, since it appears that some people think they can rewrite history now that four whole years have passed:
Can we please think of the victims today, and nothing else?
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I’ve never thought of these conspiracy theorists as “liberals” or “conservative” — just nutjobs. I have to agree that Michael Moore is an idiot — more interested in style than substance when the substance works just fine.
My brother-in-law was in the north tower shortly before it was hit on 9/11. I don’t know if he saw the planes, but of course there’s plenty of amatuer video out there of everything that happened.
Wow Richard, thanks for your comment. So sorry to hear about your brother-in-law.
I like your comment, “more interested in style than substance when the substance works just fine”. I totally agree. I’ve had many a conversation with people about Bush, and that sentiment is so true: Bush is such an easy target, there’s no need for grandstanding. He’s an idiot and a screwball; delving deep into his psyche gets you a concussion after you pass three inches.
As for the conspiracy theorists, I don’t really think of them as liberals either; but since the current crop of them are arguing for points that run against the bush administration, their “theories” are generally construed by the general public as supporting the liberal side, and that’s what kinda pisses me off, since they are such an embarrassment.
Glad to see you are still reading. (I got a new bike, should be here in a couple days!)
I did not follow the links because like you, I don’t want to waste my time with nut jobs. I disagree about Moore though. I have not seen F911 but I have seen the guy interviewed many times and he makes nothing but perfect sense. I don’t think he is a very good filmmaker but last time I looked, he was not the only one.
I think it’s good to be careful about how we come to “all agree” on certain “facts” such as: who is an activist judge, what strict constructionism of the constitution means, what the founders thought of religion, and who is a nut job. The middle ground is getting shoved to the right all the time and everybody with a liberal, progressive thought has been labeled a commie fag. Right wing spin radio (and now TV) is controlling the message. Do you ever watch Christian Broadcasting News with Pat Roberton? I don’t see many (if any) conservatives condemning that nut job and he has his own network to spew his hateful, demented speech. Yet, (get this) FEMA listed his charity in the top 5 list of orgs people should contribute to for Katrina relief! Ask yourself, why is it that the righteous righties have the brass balls to get away with crap like that? Maybe we should take some plays from their book.
As for the question of what role/responsibility the Bushies may have had in 9/11, I think it is still an open issue, and will probably remain so forever. It is our generation’s grassy knoll and there is no escaping that because the Bushies had too much to gain by it all. The gains can be seen all these years later in the sudden reversal of fortune for the GOP and their business interests.
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