Truther Douchebaggery Entering Our Homes Soon

I rarely watch any television that is not PBS, cable news, Sundance, foreign channels, or the triumverate of Discovery-History Channel-Travel Channel, and perhaps I see why now.

Despite hearing that America is going through a second "Golden Age of Television" exactly 50 years after its first, if segments like this on FX's "Rescue Me" are anything to go by, I am not missing a thing.

A coming episode of the acclaimed FX drama “Rescue Me” will tackle what may sound like a far-fetched plot line: that the attacks of Sept. 11 were an “inside job.” The actor who espouses the theories on camera, it turns out, also subscribes to them in real life.

Claims that Al Qaeda terrorists were not solely responsible for the attacks have a lively following on the Internet, including on YouTube, but the second episode of “Rescue Me’s” fifth season, starting in April, may represent the first fictional presentation of 9/11 conspiracy theories by a mainstream media company (FX is operated by the News Corporation).

“They’re not discussed a lot in the press,” Daniel Sunjata, the actor who plays Franco Rivera on “Rescue Me,” told reporters at a television press tour last month. He predicted that the episode would be “socio-politically provocative.”

Ugh. I wonder if "Rescue Me" would ever tackle the Holocaust suggesting it never happened. Of course not (thank God). And why? Because there are some conspiracy theories more acceptable than others.

As for the topic, let me reiterate that there is nothing, and I do mean nothing, that makes my hair stand on end more than people who believe in conspiracy theories. It alters my entire view of a person's intelligence. This actually affected my enjoyment of Marion Cotillard's wonderful performance as Edith Piaf, in last year's "La Vie En Rose".

Yep, she's a Truther, too.

Cotillard: I have a tendency to often share the point of view of the conspiracy theory. [...]

Coluche, 9/11, all that. We can watch on the Internet all the films that, well…about 9/11, about — about the conspiracy theory. It's fascinating. It's even addictive after a while.

Paris Première: Let's take 9/11, for example. What did disturb [sic] you more concretely?

Cotillard: You are shown that other towers of the same kind that were hit by planes, that burnt — there is a tower, I think that it's in Spain, that burnt for twenty-four hours.

Paris Première: Before collapsing…?

Cotillard: It never collapsed! None of these towers collapsed. And, over there, in a few minutes, the thing collapses. And, then, after that, we'll talk lengthily about it because there was — because the thing was filled with gold, the towers from 9/11. And then it was a money-sucker because they were finished, it seems to me, in '73, and to update all that, to modernize all the technology and everything, it was much more expensive to have work done, etc., than destroying them. Did man walk on the moon? I've seen quite a lot of documentaries about it, and I ask myself. But, in any case, I don’t believe everything that I'm told, that's for sure.

I've already spoken at length about conspiracy theories. Though upon reading this excerpt by Cotillard (who later apologised for her remarks, saying they were taken out of context), I am again jolted back into the theory I have about why certain people believe in them.

It's not a logic thing. It's also not that there has never been a single conspiratorial act in the history of mankind, and therefore, they're all bunk.

It's that conspiracy theories are twisted creatures of the human ego.

Listen to what conspiracists always, always say when justifying their beliefs.

But, in any case, I don’t believe everything that I'm told, that's for sure.

Commit that sentence to memory. It is used by every person who has ever wanted to explain how the world works according to their world view.

What they are really saying is this:

The whole world might be made of gullible morons who believe in everything they are told, BUT! I! AM! SMARTER! THAN! THEY! ARE!

"They" - another they - cannot pull the wool over MY eyes!

... whomever "they" think it is, though I suspect the they is more The System than an actual cadre of people.

Having said that, I think it goes again to my theory of the ego being stimulated by such thoughts. It is very easy for people to imagine that there is a puppetmaster inside a smoke-filled room pulling the strings of our world, sending his minions to do his evil bidding.

Never mind that the total sum of our world's actions cannot be conceived by any single human being, let alone one person or select group being able to control such an organic growth as an open society. In their hearts, they are comforted by their view of how the world works, at the same time continuing to be appalled by misanthropic visions, which is the root of their attitude.

They do not trust their fellow human beings, especially those who they disagree with politically.

The other way would actually entail putting away their half-gassed fabrications; to approach the world as a mature, mentally healthy adult -- and some people die of old age believing in Machiavellian blueprints.

Look, conspiracy theories exist only because we have doubts. The doubts are legitimate, but the conclusions are a panacea for ignorance.

RELATED LINK: Pithy and always intellectually stimulating Blake of The Bit Maelstom coincidentally touches on the very topic of conspiracy theories, of which he was working on posting for a while.

He writes about the current and past crops of conspiracies, from the moon landing (debunked by Adam and Jamie, thanks be to God -- I'm only being half-facetious when saying that) to the JFK assassination to Obama's "mysterious" birthplace.

Blake's gambit is to try to shame the conspiracists for the inane quality of recent theories.

The 9/11 Truthers have instead constructed an elaborate explanation for the towers' collapse which insults everyone who saw the planes hit.

Worse, they do so in the face of an actual conspiracy: Of anti-American hard-line Muslim terrorists who left massive paper trails, who had ties all over the world, who had many co-conspirators, and who had a boss willing to take credit for it.

On a lighter note, another dumb conspiracy making the rounds is the "Obama wasn't born in America" theory. This requires us to believe that the State of Hawaii is hiding something (apparently in a many-decade anticipation of Obama's eventual Presidential bid) and that there's not a single Republican or Hillary supporter able to sneak that evidence out.

Really, it's just not up to snuff.

I hope to see better in the future from everyone.

Heh.

I only wish I could be this light-hearted about the topic, tweaking their noses like Blake does.

Unfortunately, it really cheeses my left non-existent nut to have to speak about such things. I think it is the educator and the Historian in me, which balks at the grains of truth being used to insinuate concrete fact.

We have the French Revolution to blame for every cockamamie conspiracy that has been flung out since the world exploded into modernity in the late 1700s. People who didn't know how to explain how the world suddenly looked back at them, needed to find reasons in the form of groups (the Jews, the Jacobins, the Jesuits, the Masons) to make sense of a topsy-turvy era.

The world has never really recovered since.

SUGGESTED VIEWING: If you haven't already done so, check out Fritz Lang's silent film, "Spies" (Spione).

It's a treasure trove of insinuations about how the world works, down to the creepy banker (so obviously intended to suggest "a grasping, devious Jew" with his neurotic Lenin goatee and Dr. Evil sidekick cat) who masterminds a spy ring.



I always wondered about this film, which despite the love of intrigue and sense of helplessness Lang loved to show in his films, was uncharacteristically lazy intellectually.

Then I remembered that Thea von Harbou, Lang's then wife, was later one of the top artist prizes secured by a grateful Hitler to show the world that, hey, intellectuals were amenable to National Socialism.

To quote the outraged Headmistress in another Weimar classic, "Mädchen in Uniform", ein Skandal.

The Hindu Zionists Did It

Mystery solved, people.

Pakistan's News One channel had a Pakistani security expert who blows the lid on who staged the Mumbai 11/26 attacks: Hindu Zionists.



The Times of India are on it. For some reason, though, they don't seem too convinced with the scenario.

NEW DELHI: Mumbai's 26/11 was actually a plan hatched by "Hindu Zionists" and "Western Zionists", including the Mossad, said a self-styled Pakistan security expert on a Pakistan news television show, uploaded on www.hotklix.com.

" Inki shaklein Hinduonwali hain, jis zabaan mein guftagoo kar rahein hain, woh zabaan koi Pakistani istemaal nahin karta hai (They look like Hindus. No Pakistani speaks the language they chatted in)," said Zaid Hamid while referring to the terrorists on the show Mujhe Ikhtilaf Hai (I differ) on Pakistan's News One channel. The sensationalist channel was launched in November last year.

Anyone else tired of the Mossad being blamed for anything Islamic extremists commit? The sad thing is that many people believe what this idiot says as gospel truth. "The Mossad, of course!".

Hamid said that it was a "badly planned" operation that had gone horribly wrong. "9/11 jo Americans ne kiya tha usko bahut khoobsurat camouflage kiya tha. Unhone media mein perception management bahut acchha kiya . Indians ne wahi game repeat karne ki koshish ki, lekin akal to hai nahin . In ahmakon ne complete disaster kiya isko handle karne mein . (The Americans executed the 9/11 attack perfectly. They managed the media very well. The Indians tried to repeat the formula but goofed up. The idiots made a complete mess of it).

One has gotta love the backhanded compliment to the US. Our government executed 9/11 perfectly, so much so, that it fooled people into believing 19 innocent lads from Egypt and Saudi Arabia, who just happened to be travelling together that day in 3 airplanes, and who filmed confessional tapes about what they were doing, were framed.

But the Indians? Pfff. They couldn't kill more than 300 or so people. Pikers.

He said that the attackers wore saffron Hindu Zionist bands, which no Muslim would tie. Hamid also said that within the first 5 minutes of the attack, the three ATS policemen investigating the network of terror within India's security agencies and radical right were killed.

I love the idea of saffron Hindu Zionist bands. Why isn't Anna Wintour on this new fashion trend?!

That ensured that those investigations reach a dead end. Anchor Qudsia Qadri added that with their killings, the investigations into the Samjhauta Express carnage would be halted. The killings also immediately shifted attention from India's domestic terrorists to Pakistan, said Hamid.

Marvi Memon, glamorous Pakistan Muslim League member, on the same programme, was appalled at the Pakistan government's expansion of the "India-appeasement package" by initially agreeing to send ISI chief to India. "I just don't get it," she exclaimed in exasperation.

God forbid anyone helps those nasty Hindu Zionists to investigate a tragedy of their own making. Yeah, I don't get it either, Miss Memon.

She wondered how can you send the ISI chief to a " mulk jiske sath jang chal raha hai ...at a different level...," mentioning Kashmir and accusing India of blocking Pakistan's waters. Memon said, "They (Indians) are quite obsessed with anti-Pakistan speak and that unites them," she said. Memon also spoke about India's separatist movements and believed that India was only reaping the bitter harvest of the poisonous seeds it had sowed.

The Hindu Zionist chickens are coming home to roost!

Blogger daily.pk writes in pakalert.wordpress.com, "India has been relapsing into religious extremism and numerous separatist movement have mushroomed due to official patronage ...I see the Mumbai bombings as the desperate move of separatists who want to blame everything on Muslims."

It is true that political Hinduism has become more proactive, as their leader Raj Thacheray gains more power. But what Pakistanis fail to understand is that their country and other countries are not being infiltrated by "Hindu extremism" for the purpose of blowing people up. That's an extremist Muslim thing which fans outward AND inward. Not realising this development undermines their position, and their advance as a nation-state, just like it does any other country which harbours or makes excuses for their religion having been hijacked by these murderers.

The so-called "Arab Street" has always been notoriously conspiracy-prone.

It is inevitable, perhaps, that people who are the pawns of dictators, and who rarely if ever have truth told to them in those countries, should find alternate truths to explain their conditions. After all, everything is a sham. Why should you believe reality when it stares you in the face?

The tragedy of course is that conspiracy theorists are rife all around the world. We in the US are in the grips of so many prominent celebrities who are outspoken in saying they believe our own government was behind 9/11. These people tell you with a straight face that the Mossad planned it, and even emailed every Jew who worked in the World Trade Centres to stay home that day.

(I guess Cantor Fitzgerald employee and brother of their CEO, Howard Luttnick, alongside scores of Jewish fatalities that day, didn't get the memo)

How do we combat this conspiracy theory disease? Because make no doubt of it. It is a corrosive, invasive, debilitating disease which afflicts the most mentally unstable, most cognitive dissonant of people.

Conspiracy theories are the graveyards of the mind. It's where all logic goes to die.

Hindu Zionists are just the latest additions to the mausoleum.