Posted: Thu Apr 03, 2008 5:03 pm
Jeff wrote:
Jeff, maybe my style is also impenetrable, so forgive me for putting what I regard as the essential (and obvious) point in bold type:
The 9/11 Truth Movement is also - and above all - what the liberal media choose to make it.
We live in the Age of the Spectacle, right? And the morphing of Old Truth into New Truth coincided precisely with its discovery by the media, once those "unanswered questions" had grown unignorable. Funny thing, that. And these comfortable secular clerics have far louder voices (and redder faces) than the proles they delight in cackling at (who have little or no access to the media). Matt Taibbi Associates are currently working overtime to make "9/11 Truth" into a Comedy Planet populated solely by loonies and lepers. It's a place in which Cynthia McKinney, Paul Thompson, the Jersey Widows, Bryan Sacks, Peter Dale Scott, Nafeez Ahmed, Nicholas Levis, Jamey Hecht, Daniele Ganser, and indeed you, are all strikingly conspicuous by their absence.
Why do you think that is? Who created the 9/11 Comedy Planet, as it is mediated and publicly perceived? Who makes it what it is, for the average young urban professional with a short attention-span? And who do you think might have an interest in deciding which loonies and lepers get to join the cast?
And yet you make a point of quoting with approval the bone-lazy and dismally conventional scribblings of Matt Taibbi and David Rovics, who have no such unanswered questions (or are happy to leave them unanswered), and who use their privileged public voices to misrepresent 'Truthers' as a fungible mass of unkewl paranoid kooks obsessed with explosions.I mean everyone who has unanswered questions about 9/11, and suspects that its events were managed in part by powerful and unacknowledged forces.
Jeff, maybe my style is also impenetrable, so forgive me for putting what I regard as the essential (and obvious) point in bold type:
The 9/11 Truth Movement is also - and above all - what the liberal media choose to make it.
We live in the Age of the Spectacle, right? And the morphing of Old Truth into New Truth coincided precisely with its discovery by the media, once those "unanswered questions" had grown unignorable. Funny thing, that. And these comfortable secular clerics have far louder voices (and redder faces) than the proles they delight in cackling at (who have little or no access to the media). Matt Taibbi Associates are currently working overtime to make "9/11 Truth" into a Comedy Planet populated solely by loonies and lepers. It's a place in which Cynthia McKinney, Paul Thompson, the Jersey Widows, Bryan Sacks, Peter Dale Scott, Nafeez Ahmed, Nicholas Levis, Jamey Hecht, Daniele Ganser, and indeed you, are all strikingly conspicuous by their absence.
Why do you think that is? Who created the 9/11 Comedy Planet, as it is mediated and publicly perceived? Who makes it what it is, for the average young urban professional with a short attention-span? And who do you think might have an interest in deciding which loonies and lepers get to join the cast?
