Just watching this now on television. It is such utter BS. Not enough time to disect the whole movie and its terrible job at debunking the Conspiracies. Not one point actually made. This actually just made it more clear to us that there indeed was a conspiracy. Not only is the only source used in the examination POPULAR MECHANICS- Which is Surprisingly Enough Owned by the HEARST Company. The same company that owns the History Channel! The CEO of the Hearst Company (Victor Ganzi) also sits as co-chair of the Partnership for NYC....alongside The CEO of CITIGROUP. If your familiar with ZEITGEIST MOVIE- This would really ring a bell in your head.

The biggest problem with addressing the fallacious statements in this program is that there are so many of them. Here are a few observations I've already made. First of all, Lester Holt begins the whole thing by showing a clear bias. "We'll hear from those promoting theories, and from those challenging them." The insinuation is that explanations other than '19 zealots with box-cutters' are "theories" whereas the OCT is "fact". We are, of course, using the vulgar definition of the word "theory" here.

At 00:30:05 we find the infamous clip of Amy Goodman from Democracy Now running in terror as the pyroclastic cloud rolls her way from the collapse of WTC 7, except it cuts away just before Amy shows up.

There is a review of their first Shanksville debacle here:
http://vehme.blogspot.com/2007/08/history-channel-conspiracy-of-911.html

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00:04:30

Chip Berlet, Senior Analyst, Political Research Associates. Here's his Blog: Chip Berlet, and some biographical information:

Chip Berlet is senior analyst at Political Research Associates in the Boston area. Berlet is co–author of Right-Wing Populism in America: Too Close for Comfort (Guilford, 2000) and editor of Eyes Right! Challenging the Right Wing Backlash (South End Press, 1995), both of which received a Gustavus Myers Center Award for outstanding scholarship on the subject of human rights and bigotry in North America.

This is a sample of his 9/11 "debunking" work: The ZOG Ate My Brains:Conspiracy theories about Jews abound. Chip Berlet unpacks their appeal.

Michael Schermer Skeptic : The Skeptics Society & Skeptic magazine Yammers a bit about JFK and how we needed a bigger explanation so we invented one. HC then tells us that hundreds of investigative reports came to a similar conclusion. Never mind the Church Commission.

00:09:50

Douglass Brinkley, Historian, Tulane University. Claims Pearl Harbor was really a surprise. Others disagree: PEARL HARBOR MOTHER: OF ALL CONSPIRACIES

00:13:35

Davin Coburn, Research Editor, Popular Mechanics addresses the "4,000 Jews" rumor while we are shown an image of a Focal Point Press web page with this quote from Shimon Perez: The Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem has so far received the names of 4,000 Israelis believed to have been in the areas of the World Trade Center and the Pentagon at the time of the attack., followed by what appears to be the body of a September 12, 2001 article from The Jerusalem Post. That page seems to no longer be on Irving's website, but this one did show up when searching for the same text: Real History, Insurers, and the World Trade Center. In the article, Irving quotes the New York Times from September 22, 2001 as follows:

But interviews with many consulate officials Friday suggested that the lists of people they were collecting varied widely in their usefulness.

For example, the city had somehow received reports of many Israelis feared missing at the site, and President Bush in his address to the country on Thursday night mentioned that about 130 Israelis had died in the attacks.But Friday, Alon Pinkas, Israel's consul general here, said that lists of the missing included reports from people who had called in because, for instance, relatives in New York had not returned their phone calls from Israel.

There were, in fact, only three Israelis who had been confirmed as dead: two on the planes and another who had been visiting the towers on business and who was identified and buried.

This author cannot provide an exact quote, but does recall Irving stating very explicitly that the "Jews told to stay home" rumor was unsubstantiated and should be verified or put to rest.

The fact that one of the two Israelis allegedly killed on one of the planes was Daniel Lewin, as well as the exact details of how he was reportedly killed are highly suspicious in themselves.

HC made no mention of the Odigo instant messages sent to warn subscribers of an immanent terrorist attack. Nor do they mention the arrest of 5 Urban Moving Systems Inc. employees. Nor any of the other conspicuous events surrounding Israelis and 9/11.

The only place this author ever encountered the "4,000 Jews" rumor was on the US State Department's web site. Methinks the existence of the rumor is nothing but a rumor.

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