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reprehensor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-08-06 03:21 PM
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Alexander Cockburn: "Leftgatekeeping for Dummies"


Have you ever wanted to write a 9/11 hit piece, but you just weren't quite sure HOW? Well, put that lack of confidence in the DUSTBIN, because with this handy list of catch-phrases, YOU TOO can can keep your head firmly tucked up your rectum, and STILL smear people that have VALID 9/11 questions for fun and profit!

"You trip over one fundamental idiocy of the 9/11 conspiracy nuts in the first paragraph of the book by one of their high priests, David Ray Griffin ... One central characteristic of the nuts is that they have a devout, albeit preposterous, belief in American efficiency, and hence many of them start with the racist premise that "Arabs in caves" weren't capable of the mission ... My in-box overflows each day with fresh "proofs" of how the towers were demolished. I meet people who start quietly, asking me what I think about 9/11. What they are actually trying to find out is whether I'm part of the coven ... It's the same pattern with the 9/11 nuts. There are photos of the impact of the "object" that hit the Pentagon ... People inside who survived the collapse didn't hear a series of explosions ... Instead, the conspiracy nuts have combined to produce a ludicrous distraction." - Alex Cockburn, "The 9/11 Conspiracy Nuts" - The Nation, 9/7/206.


Wow! Thanks, Alex! Drop Noam a line, would you? He's still using Smear 1.5" - - time to upgrade to the new template.



(DISCLAIMER: There is no "Leftgatekeeping for Dummies" book. That is satire! Ho-ho!)
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FoxOnTheRun Donating Member (829 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-08-06 03:28 PM
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1. On how many forums are you on?


I think some links are missing and the money is probably to low
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gbwarming Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-08-06 04:23 PM
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4. Wow! William Casey (the dead one?) is controlling 'The Nation'.
Or is it the other way around? There's no arrow on that part of the diagram.
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John Q. Citizen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-08-06 04:15 PM
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2. Well there ought to be a book, some of the gatekeeping I've been
observing lately isn't up to par.

The 9/11 truth movement hasn't gone away yet and it's bothering some folks.
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Nozebro Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-08-06 04:19 PM
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3. El Ron's cult even gets favorable PR on "Counterpunch"

Most of the articles on CP aren't disinformation for Cockburn's "sponsors" at the FORD Foundation, but ALL of the 9/11 and Scientology articles are about as objective as Popular Mechanics or the OCTers here at DU.
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TAM Donating Member (87 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-08-06 04:32 PM
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5. Hypocritical...
ah yes because objectivity is show throughout the Ct 9/11 Truth movement. I vote your statement as one of the most "Hypocritical" statements of the year.

Cool posters by the way. I like them actually.

TAM
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