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2014-09-10 Fifth Column

American journalist: Osama bin Laden 'not involved' in 9/11

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Posted by Fred 2014-09-10 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11128 views ] Top

#1 Jack Baur has my greenlight.

Posted by Pheager Crineng7021 2014-09-10 00:32|| 2014-09-10 00:32|| Front Page Top

#2 The retired professor from Madison, Wisconsin

Yes, it was at this point I stopped reading.

Posted by Besoeker 2014-09-10 03:15|| 2014-09-10 03:15|| Front Page Top

#3 Ignore ~~the man standing behind the curtain~~ the tape.

Posted by Procopius2k 2014-09-10 08:02|| 2014-09-10 08:02|| Front Page Top

#4 You know, I always joke that lawyers have to give up their soul when they pass the bar, but I'm really starting to think these so called 'journalists' never had one and were never human to begin with.

Posted by Silentbrick 2014-09-10 08:51|| 2014-09-10 08:51|| Front Page Top

#5 Probably a buddy of Ward Churchill.

Posted by tipover 2014-09-10 10:02|| 2014-09-10 10:02|| Front Page Top

#6 Former professor in Madison, Wisconsin? Who would have known he is "truther?" Madison, Wisconsin is the Berkeley of the Midwest. That vast right-wing conspiracy that "damaged goods" Hillary Clinton talked about is behind 911? You mean the "What Difference Does it Make?" gal who covered up Benghazi?

Posted by JohnQC 2014-09-10 10:05|| 2014-09-10 10:05|| Front Page Top

#7 it is comforting for idiots to blame the victim. That excuses them for their own cognitive dissonance. It gets rid of the discomfort they feel at having to acknowledge the bleeding obvious; that a stone age fascist religion has attacked them. That would necessitate leaving behind their multi culti view and they don't want to do that as it gives them social acceptance.

so to solve the conflict they blame the victim with a conspiracy theory

at some deep level they know they are lying to themselves or they would be in the street protesting to overthrow such an evil government to do the things they claim.

as a secondary benefit, the conspiracy theory that blames the victim gives comfort. It maintains the illusion that our own government is so powerful it is in control even when it all goes titzup. those stone age head bangers couldn't possibly hijack a plane with boxcutters and kill thousands of people, surely. that means we are vulnerable. easier to spread the bullsh*t conspiracy theory.

i despise these idiots

Posted by anon1 2014-09-10 10:35|| 2014-09-10 10:35|| Front Page Top

#8 Odd that his Wikipedia page doesn't mention UW Madison.

It does mention the University of Minnesota-Duluth, a particularly nasty place to live about six months out of the year, and a problem that U-Minnesota had with him in 2013.

Perhaps UW Madison 'scrubbed' the Wiki entry?

Posted by Mullah Richard 2014-09-10 10:38|| 2014-09-10 10:38|| Front Page Top

Posted by DarthVader 2014-09-10 11:38|| 2014-09-10 11:38|| Front Page Top

#10 The average SAT of a journalist is somewhere between a can of tomatoes and a jack rabbit

Posted by Bill Clinton 2014-09-10 13:34|| 2014-09-10 13:34|| Front Page Top

#11 That high?

Posted by JohnQC 2014-09-10 15:21|| 2014-09-10 15:21|| Front Page Top

#12 Deep down, at the bottom of the Arabian Sea, very unpleasant but efficient creatures couldn't care less.

Posted by European Conservative 2014-09-10 18:26|| 2014-09-10 18:26|| Front Page Top

#13 Technically speaking, neither OSAMA nor KSM piloted the planes on 9-11 ...

D *** NG IT, THAT WAS PSU PROFESSOR MUHAMMAD ATTA'S JOB!

[CHARLIE MORTECAI'S "DUHH"! FACE here].

Posted by JosephMendiola 2014-09-10 22:41|| 2014-09-10 22:41|| Front Page Top

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