Naomi Wolf: ISIS videos 'staged by US government'

Naomi Wolf reacts to Isis 'conspiracy theories' critism after she questions 
whether beheading videos are real
http://www.911forum.org.uk/board/viewtopic.php?p=168968#168968

The author suggested that Isis victims and their parents could be actors, and 
that the videos were 'staged by the US government'

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/naomi-wolf-reacts-to-criticism-for-isis-conspiracy-theories-after-she-questions-whether-beheading-videos-are-real-9778064.html

By JENN SELBY
Monday 06 October 2014
Naomi Wolf stirred controversy over the weekend, after she posted a series of 
comments on Facebook, in which she questioned the authenticity of the Isis 
beheading videos and suggested that they "had been staged by the US government".
She went on to query whether Isis (also known as the Islamic State) "victims 
and their parents were actors", while in a separate, deleted post, she asked a 
New York Times journalist to verify that the murder of Americans and two 
Britons had actually happened, political commentary site Vox.com reported.
Furthermore, the best-selling author, who has worked as the former advisor to 
Al Gore and Bill Clinton in the past, mused that sending American soldiers to 
west Africa to help stop the spread of Ebola was all a ruse to justify a 
military takeover of the region.

She wrote: "The US benefits from … us being SO DAMN SCARED so that our 
intelligence agencies can take away the last of our freedoms on behalf of 
corporate interests the way intelligence agencies in the West are doing all 
over ... Britain, Canada, Australia, next NZ ... so there you are."
Her posts were predictably met with some criticism online.
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Vox.com journalist Max Fisher branded her ideas "wild-eyed conspiracy theories" 
that could be harmful to an impressionable audience given her "record of 
respectability".
"It is important for readers who may encounter Wolf's ideas to understand the 
distinction between her earlier work, which rose on its merits, and her newer 
conspiracy theories, which are unhinged, damaging and dangerous," he wrote.
"For the record … sigh … internetland, I am not 'calling into question the 
authenticity of the ISIS videos',"Wolf responded, again on Facebook.
"I don't KNOW if they are authentic or not - no one can - because no one that I 
am aware of has found a second source for them. I am not making ANY assertions 
or drawing ANY conclusions.
"I am just … engaging in journalism which requires two independent sources 
before you can post or publish something as true. I wonder why this bears so 
much repeating … it used to be something all journalists abided by.”
In a separate, longer post, Wolf further challenged her branding as a 
conspiracy theorist.
"I see some blogs are badly distorting the nature of what I said ... Why do I 
often not take political narratives at face value as they are dictated to the 
press?
"A) Because I am a journalist and verifying skeptically is supposed be our job 
but more importantly b) because I worked for two Presidential campaigns, one 
formally and one informally, as a political consultant, and because I was a 
spouse of a White House speechwriter for many years.
"As a political consultant and also a longtime close-up observer of how news 
and statements come out of the White House and Presidential campaigns, I know 
that FIRST the communications team involved has to start with something handed 
to them that they had nothing to do with ...
"And THEN the creative, talented people in the campaigns' or nation's 
communications shop are asked to construct a narrative about it and talking 
points and find 'heroes' that help the narrative along, and the narrative often 
finally sounds like nothing to do with the actual deal. (In fact best that way.)
"And that uplifting campaign speech or press conference or initiative or photo 
op often involves finding individuals with great stories to tell that have 
nothing to do with the deal.
"So all the people who are attacking me right now for 'conspiracy theories' 
have no idea what they are talking about ... people who assume the dominant 
narrative MUST BE TRUE and the dominant reasons MUST BE REAL are not 
experienced in how that world works."
This isn’t the first time Wolf has come under scrutiny for her "creative 
interpretation of events".
Most memorably, New York Magazine commissioned an article in which they alleged 
that Wolf was convinced that Edward Snowden and his girlfriend were government 
plants because the National Security Agency whistleblower was "too well-spoken".

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discussed in the mainstream press despite the immense financial and political 
power they wield? 
There are sick and evil occultists running the Western World. They are power 
mad lunatics like something from a kids cartoon with their fingers on the 
nuclear button! Armageddon is closer than you thought. Only God can save our 
souls from their clutches, at least that's my considered opinion - Tony

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