HISTORY CHANNEL, HIDE YOUR HEAD IN SHAME

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One of the wonders of the television world is how The History Channel,
which so often does great things, could stoop to such an incredible
low as depicted in its presentation Friday night of "The 911
Conspiracy: Fact or Fiction."
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It was an insult to the limited number of Americans who possess
intelligence as well as a rip-off sham.
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If I didn't know any better, I'd say all of the debunkers of a Bush-
Cheney conspiratorial plot must hae slept with Georgie and Dickie and
none were wearing underwear.
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Sad!
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With an incredible amount of physical and other evidence that confirm,
beyond ALL reasonable doubt, that the Cheney administration -- NOT
Islamic terrorists -- were responsible for 911, the boys from Popular
Mechanics and Skeptic Magazine were at their very best debunking the
truth.
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Obviously, the program's format suited them well.
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Decades ago, when I first entered the newspaper business, an Old Pro
told me one of the easiest thigs to do is write a rebuttal to a nasty
comment (say, as appeared in A Letter to the Editor).
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He explained that, although the letter is dynamite (and true), it
almost always contains a passage that can be turned inside out.
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So what you do . . . You ignore everything that makes sense -- and IS
true -- in the letter, but pounce on the one comment that is a bit
weak.
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Ignore everything else and pounce on that, and the end result is that
you wind up as the hero not the villain.
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History Channel's format, same as it always is with controversies
(such as the conspiracy of JFK's assasination), was to let the critics
speak first, then assault them on finer points.
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Furthermore, do not let them respond to your final comment because
they indeed would, and could, make you look like an idiot.
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James Meigs and Davin Coburn, editor-in-chief and research editor,
respectively, of Popular Mechanics as well as Michael Shermer,
pubisher of Skeptic Magazine,
were identified as EXPERTS throughout the program. (Why are they
called experts?)
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I didn't see the identification for Dylan Avery of Loose Change or
author David Ray Griffin
but I imagine if I looked closer I would have seen a tiny line
identifying them as retards.
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Still, despite everything targeted to molest the truth, "The 911
Conspiracy: Fact or Fiction." DID contain a few gems for the open-
minded and folks who aren't braindead.
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One came when Todd Brenner, allegedly aboard the plane that crashed in
Shanksville, miraculously got his mother on the phone via cell phone
and greeted her with "Hi, Mom. This is Todd BRENNER."
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Or when Wallly Miller, the county coroner who arrived at that crash
site and soon realized it was not a passenger jet.
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"I quit being the corner after 20 minutes," he remarked, explaining
that he could find no bodies or body parts on the ground."
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Of course, Meigs was the featured conspiratorial critic and had the
audacity to make these two comments at different times.
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"They (the conspiracy theorists) are not interested in evidence."
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And . . . while having the last word.
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"If you don't care about truth or the facts, it's very, very
compelling propaganda."
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