“Progressive” Conspiracy Paranoia Measured at Category 5
By dcmediagirl on September 2, 2008 at 10:44 AM in Current Affairs
On September 11, 2001 I was working for a media organization that was located about 5 minutes away from the Pentagon.
That morning, two of my colleagues were driving to work on the highway adjacent to where American Airlines flight 77 crashed into the Pentagon. They both witnessed the plane going into the building, the explosion, the fireball, the panic.
Since we worked for a media organization, these two were interviewed about what they had seen. These interviews were picked up by other press, which led to yet more interviews, including Fox News Channel.
Their public exposure soon made them targets of a stream of harrassing phone calls, e-mails and blog posts by 9/11 conspiracy wackos, who accused my friends of being liars, government stooges, or (of course) Mossad agents. After all, what self-respecting conspiracy theory wouldn’t involve Jews, right?
My friends witnessed a grotesque human tragedy. They had nightmare for months following 9/11 and both still suffer from PTSD. One thinks he may have seen the passengers’ faces before the plane went into the Pentagon. They’re both good, decent guys who have now become grist for the loony mill.
I now see that the mistake I made was assuming that these nutballs are confined in a dank corner of a dark basement of extreme the extreme right and left, and that they generally feel more comfortable keeping company with one another and not bothering the rest of us – unless, of course, we’re talking about the Arab world, where lunatic conspiracy theory is a matter of course, Arabs did not fly the planes that went into the building, the Jews were notified ahead of time that the attacks were coming and Israel was the force behind the attacks. But hey, that’s the Arab world, not us, right?
Wrong. Consider:
Responding to photographic evidence that Sarah Palin was pregnant only a few months ago, this Orange Place diarist, who has clearly learned the Fox “New” trick of how to appear fair and balanced by presenting a thesis heavily embroidered with wacko conjecture, writes:
Unless someone has counter evidence, we can drop this crap now. Yes, there are still some interesting questions, such as why she flew to Dallas and back when she was this pregnant, and why the Alaska Airlines crewmembers insisted that she was not visibly pregnant on the flight. Nevertheless, until this photo is debunked, we look stupid pushing this rumor.
Yes, it may be a fake pregnancy suit, but we have no evidence of that, other than self-serving testimony of Alaska Airlines crew claiming that they had no idea Palin was pregnant (if they’d had any idea, they should have kept her off the flight).
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Daughter showing – Mom not showing (12+ / 0-)
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It’s not hard to find photos of the family where the daughter seems to be showing and Mom does not seem to be showing. The photos are not necessarily from 2008, but from the ages of the kids, they can’t be from very long ago.There are several different pictures taken on different days of the whole family. The ones I saw were part of the video on three YouTube videos, by three separate people.
At the very least, there is something strange going on here.
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by NWSteve on Sun Aug 31, 2008 at 09:43:56 PM PDT
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This is so thin. (0+ / 0-)
All I am asking for is a citation of a source. People are spreading as gospel — it’s true, it’s all over the Alaskan blogs, people saw her pregnant — but no one has shown me an original link or source that says “I saw her pregnant”. Or even “So-and-so saw her pregnant.”A police report of a car crash near a business is not evidence of anything other than a car crash near a business.
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by beijingbetty on Mon Sep 01, 2008 at 05:03:53 AM PDT
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it’s not the pregnancy (4+ / 0-)
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but IF palin got tax credits for a child that wasn’t hers, and IF medical records were forged or altered (why DID she fly eight hours back to wasilla, after her water broke, to have the baby with a doctor with whom she had a well-established history of mutual back-scratching?) those are FELONIES.and we would be FOOLS not to at least look into it.
what does she have to hide?
by the disinfector on Sun Aug 31, 2008 at 11:51:54 PM PDT
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Let her release her medical records. (1+ / 0-)
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Thats standard procedure anyway. She’s claiming she knew the baby had Downs syndrome and the McCain campaign and the pundits are using it as part of her campaign. Release the medical records.by Lois on Mon Sep 01, 2008 at 05:41:56 AM PDT
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I could go on but I think that’s enough.
But there are so many more conspiracy theories where that came from. Palin wore padding to fake a pregnancy. The father of Bristol’s baby is an eighth grader. Palin’s baby doesn’t really have Down’s Syndrome. Palin’s water didn’t break during her speech in Texas. Trig is the product of an incestuous relationship between Bristol and Track Palin (seriously). And it goes on and on.
So it has to be said: Andrew Sullivan, Kos aficionados, HuffPo enthusiasts and other conspiracy peddling wackos:
You are a bunch of sick motherfuckers. At long last, have you no decency?
But thanks for not dragging the Jews into it. Yet.
Oh, and as for you Alan Colmes: Stop your sniveling and man up to what you wrote. So now you’re the arbiter of when a pregnant woman should or should not get on a plane? And to add insult to injury, you’re claiming her decision to fly after her water broke raises questions about her decision making process? You condescending bastard.

















