America 20xy
February 11, 2010
Today, in a move that illustrates exactly why Glenn Beck has painstakingly tried to portray himself over the past year as some kind of man of the people while hosting a show on the infamous Fox News Channel that cheered the War in Iraq, he turned an interview with Debra Medina, a candidate for the TX Governer seat, into a PR ambush on her and the 9/11 Truth movement.
According to Raw Story:
Beck began his interview with Debra Medina on Thursday by stating: “There was a theme that ran against you, which is that you’re a 9/11 truther.”
“Well, there’s lots of mud that people would like to throw at Debra Medina and make it stick … But that’s the first time I’ve heard that accusation. That’s an interesting one,” Medina responded, laughing.
“Then let me be more frank and ask you the question,” Beck said. “Do you believe the government was in any way involved with the bringing down of the World Trade Center on 9/11?”
“I don’t have all of the evidence there, Glenn, so I’m not in a place– I have not been out publicly questioning that,” Medina said. “I think some very good questions have been raised in that regard, there are some very good arguments and I think the American people have not seen all the evidence there, so I have not taken a position on that.”
“I think the people of America might think that might be a yes,” Beck replied. After the interview, the radio host added: “While I don’t endorse any candidates, I think I can write her off the list.”
Since then, the mainstream media machine, (including the Raw Story article that the above excerpt is from), has been in full attack mode with articles screaming that Medina’s political career is over, including commentary from carefully selected pundits to punctuate this point in the minds of their audience as they are portrayed as authorities on what the attitudes of average Americans are.
While in the isolated world of network news, asking questions about the biggest mass murder in US history which has led the United States to adopt policies of pre-emptive war, torture, and pass the Patriot Act is considered “on the fringe “, a CBS/New York Times Scientific poll in 2006 showed that 84% surveyed reject the official 9/11 story. 53 percent of respondents thought the Bush administration was hiding something about the attacks, while 28 percent believed it was outright lying.
Among the many questions posed by 9/11 Truthers and victims’ family members is why 3 steel-framed buildings in New York City, only 2 having been hit by airplanes, could collapse at near free fall speed without the use of explosives when the official story of the “pancake collapse” would have meant that the floors would collide into each other on the way down, thus slowing the collapse speed. Building 7, the building that wasn’t hit by an airplane, completely collapsed into it’s own footprint when no other steel framed building has ever before or after done so simply because of fire.
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