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Date: August 21, 2007 1:58:37 PM PDT
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Subject: "[OFFICIAL] History Channel" 9/11 Special Just A Straw-Man
Hit-Piece
History Channel 9/11 Special
Just A Straw-Man Hit-Piece
Documentary set up bias straw man arguments, ignored key evidence,
afforded debunkers overwhelming majority of time - so-called
"experts" Popular Mechanics are on the same corporate payroll as
the History Channel itself, which is owned by Disney, GE and Hearst
Publishing
Prison Planet | August 21, 2007
Paul Joseph Watson
Initial reaction to last night's two hour History Channel Special
on the 9/11 truth movement was vehement and conclusive - the show
was nothing more than another biased hit piece that manufactured
straw man arguments, ignored key evidence, and afforded debunkers
to talk at length while ridiculing any other viewpoints.
According to viewers who were unfortunate to have to sit through
120 minutes of yellow journalism, the program was very similar to a
previous BBC hit piece - an outright smear attempt that abandoned
any pretense of neutrality early on and sought to vigorously attack
so-called conspiracy theories.
Though producers of the show promised Alex Jones directly that the
documentary was not going to be a hit piece, according to viewers
it was replete with distortion and deception, all delivered in the
kind of condescending tone we have become used to from the
establishment media.
- According to 9/11 researcher James Gourley, the debunkers
attempted to wriggle out of Secretary Norman Mineta's bombshell
testimony about Cheney's actions in the Emergency Operations
Center, by claiming that Mineta was talking about Flight 93 and not
the plane that hit the Pentagon. In reality, Mineta makes it clear
in his testimony that he is talking about Flight 77, "the airplane
coming in to the Pentagon," and this is then confirmed by
Commissioner Lee Hamilton.
- The debunkers admitted that temperatures inside the twin towers
were not hot enough to melt steel, but claimed that they were hot
enough to weaken steel and cause the collapse. The debunkers
uniformly failed to address the fact that firefighters and first
responders described witnessing molten steel beneath the rubble of
the towers and they also ignored Professor Steven Jones' scientific
analysis of the iron-rich microspheres found in the rubble. In a
website posting last night , Professor Jones stated that he
emphatically pushed the dust analysis during his interview with the
producers, but the topic was completely overlooked. The New York
Times reported that the molten steel was "perhaps the deepest
mystery uncovered" but the History Channel, mirroring NIST, failed
to address the issue.
- The debunkers mentioned WTC 7 only in passing and completely
failed to address why the building, which wasn't hit by a plane,
collapsed in 7 seconds into its own footprint after suffering only
limited fire damage from falling debris. They also failed to
mention why news outlets were reporting the collapse of Building 7
over an hour before it actually fell.
- The wargames that dovetailed 9/11 and deliberately confused NORAD
personnel so as to slow response to the real attack were completely
excluded.
- The Able Danger program and how the hijackers were discovered
before 9/11 was completely excluded.
- The fact that the money man behind the hijackers, Pakistan's ISI
Chief Mahmoud Ahmad, was meeting with U.S. government and
intelligence officials before and on the morning of 9/11 , was
completely excluded.
- William Rodriguez' first-hand testimony of explosions prior to
the impact of the planes was completely excluded, as was the
testimony of numerous firefighters who attested to bombs and
explosions.
- NBC reporter Pat Dawson claimed that FDNY Chief of Safety Albert
Turi had only described explosions, not bombs, going off,
contradicting Dawson's own report at the time which stated ,
"Reports of a secondary device, that is another ‘bomb' going off."
According to another blogger, the whole tone of the program was
crafted to be antagonistic towards those questioning the official
version.
Conspiracy theorists were derided throughout the program as being
ignorant, mean and kooky with no personal lives. On the other hand,
the Popular Mechanics editors were given the last word on each and
every subject along with the undeserving title of “expert”. To the
best of my knowledge, not one of the pencil pushing staff members
have any credentials that are relevant to any aspect of 9/11 truth.
Of course it was the conspiracy theorists that were accused of not
having any of the valid expertise necessary for stating their
assertions logically. They do this by completely ignoring the very
existence and works of groups like Architects & Engineers for 9/11
Truth and Pilots for 9/11 Truth. Also just as expected, the History
Channel failed to disclose the Chertoff connection and other major
conflicts of interests that have clearly drastically compromised
the research and conclusions of their so-called “experts”. It was
disingenuous and deceptive from the very start. It only got worse.
As we reported previously , the makers of the hit piece first
advertised the show as a response to "outrageous" theories about
9/11, but then immediately back-pedaled and altered the program
description on their website after we highlighted the blatant
biased agenda of the piece and its multiple corporate conflicts of
interest.
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Hearst Publishing's Popular Mechanics, the premiere name in yellow
journalism , were featured on the show as the most prominent
debunkers, shilling for their corporate bosses in a brazen display
of cronyism.
The History Channel is part of the A&E Television Network which is
jointly owned by The Walt Disney Company (37.5%), The Hearst
Corporation (37.5%), and NBC Universal (25%).
The owners of Popular Mechanics are also the joint owners of the
History Channel!
Once again it is not a good starting point for a neutral
investigation when the people you choose to represent one side of a
factual debate are actually on the payroll.
It makes Fox News appear fair and balanced in comparison!
Furthermore, the other joint owner of The History Channel, NBC
Universal , is run by General Electric , the world's second largest
corporation and one of the major players within the military
industrial complex .
GE is a major supplier of arms and the “war on terrorism” has seen
GE's government and military contracts rise substantially to over
$2.2 billion.
In short, GE really has very little to gain and a great deal to
lose from probing into questions concerning the possibility of 9/11
being a military intelligence operation to seed the "war on terror"
and to justify a huge increase in military activity around the globe.
Despite the fact that this charade was seemingly another crude
smear job, we should thank the History Channel for attacking us
because it only ensures that more people will check out the
evidence for themselves and discover what was deliberately buried
by the debunkers.
As we head towards the sixth anniversary of 9/11, our numbers are
larger than ever and our credibility is growing, while lying
corporate media whores like the History Channel lose respectability
at a rate rivaled only by their hemoraging of viewers.=
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