TV Guide: Rescue Me Heats Up With 9/11 Conspiracy Theories
(Correction: This blog entry originally identified "Reader's Digest" as the source, but the article is on the TV Guide website. -rep.)
http://www.tvguide.com/News/Rescue-Me-Interview-1005022.aspx?rss=news&partnerid=spi&profileid=05
by Adam Bryant - Apr 13, 2009
Rescue Me is back from its 18-month hiatus, and the early episodes of Season 5 prove the show is again firing on all its raucous and raunchy cylinders. But it's also turning a more focused eye back on 9/11 and its impact on the men of 62 Truck.
In doing so, this season brings mainstream attention to widespread conspiracy theories that suggest the 9/11 attacks were an "inside job." Fireman Franco Rivera — played by Daniel Sunjata, who in real life subscribes to these same beliefs — becomes the mouthpiece for these ideas on the show, something Sunjata admits he wasn't expecting to see on his script pages.
"I was pretty shocked because I happen to know for a fact that those opinions are not indicative or reflective of FX, Denis Leary, Peter Tolan, or anybody affiliated with creating the show," Sunjata tells TVGuide.com. "What I like about the way they're addressing the topic is that they're not pre-packaging it for the audience — the reactions span the whole spectrum from agreeing to vehemently disagreeing to a great big question mark. I think it's laudable and admirable that with such a hot and controversial topic, FX was willing to even include it in the show."
Franco first reveals his theories in Tuesday's episode when being interviewed by a visiting French journalist who's writing a book on 9/11. In a two-minute monologue (which you can watch in full below), Franco suggests the attacks were part of a "massive neo-conservative government effort" that wants to achieve "American global domination." To do so, they must create war to control Middle Eastern oil, a prospect that would be sped up by "a new Pearl Harbor."...
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... the popcorn! I challenge Bill Maher to invite Sunjata onto Real Time for a discussion, if not also Griffin, Gage, Jones ...
If you're not outraged, you're not paying attention.
Oh the hell with Maher -
Oh the hell with Maher - he's a first-class coward and completely misinformed buffoon. He wouldn't be respectful of Sunjata or Dr. Griffin at all - seeing as his past performances with those who wish to open his eyes. He only has eyes for the Playboy bunnies. He should stay there, as far as I'm concerned.
Great
There has been an increase in public attention and mainstream media tolerance in the last few weeks, and I hope this latest paper, the Danish interview and Rescue Me push the offical conspiracy theory out of the public mind and get the sheeple thinking more clearly about the facts and the obvious links to criminals in power to this day. Thanks to FX, and especially Daniel Sunjata for his courage and honesty!
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Daniel Sunjata at Webster Hall, NYC 9/9/07
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AL-bvQ8Zsc
Mainstream attention is good, but....
I don't know how good it is when it's on a fictional program.
I've often suspected that films such as "V for Vendetta" create a fictional atmosphere around the theories, and in a sense put into the general public's mind that these theories are only fictional, and nothing more. If I tell someone that the future depicted in "V" could very well happen, and is possibly going to happen one day, I get laughed at with the typical response of "That's just a movie!" I fear the same could be said for FX putting it into a fictional show, and could be the reason why they decided to include it in the program. When Daniel Sunjata says he was surprised that it appeared in his script, he should probably ask himself the reasons why.
Maybe...
Maybe--but all I know is that when I went to see 'V' when it came out back in '06, the audience gave a very enthusiastic cheer at the end. They could definitely see that this was a film very much commenting on our present situation, beneath a veneer of 'fiction.' Best of all, this was at a major multiplex, not some small arthouse gathering.
At the same time, I don't doubt you've had experiences with people of the kind you describe. Another of those frustrating situations where what is effective for some people isn't with others.
Maybe...
Maybe--but all I know is that when I went to see 'V' when it came out back in '06, the audience gave a very enthusiastic cheer at the end. They could definitely see that this was a film very much commenting on our present situation, beneath a veneer of 'fiction.' Best of all, this was at a major multiplex, not some small arthouse gathering.
At the same time, I don't doubt you've had experiences with people of the kind you describe. Another of those frustrating situations where what is effective for some people isn't with others.
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Firewall.
Fighting fire with fire.
They are not stupid,
But they are scared.
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.