Real Time with Bill Maher Blog: The Truthers Out There
The Truthers Out There
By Bill Maher
It's often said that you can measure the health of a society by how readily it believes in conspiracy theories. ...OK, maybe it's not often said, because I just made it up, but it should be. Because it's true.
Now, our fair country has its share of conspiracy theories, and we may have just added another: that the Boston Marathon bombing was a false flag operation designed to frighten the citizens so the government can take away our rights and our guns. Or something like that. I try not to click on those links so my IP address doesn't get "pinged" in the FBI’s PND -- Potential Nutcase Database.
But when anything major happens in America, you can set your watch and within 48 hours someone will be explaining to you how some nefarious group wanted this to happen, and also planned it. These are usually fringe, Alex Jones-type groups, but not always. The 9/11 Truther movement wasn't exactly tiny, probably about the same size as the Ron Paul movement. Because they're the same people. Then there are the Roswell/UFO conspiracy types, the U.N. black helicopter conspiracy people, those who think the moon landing was faked. Not to mention the people who think all the fat black women in Tyler Perry movies are actually Tyler Perry.
But nothing compares to the Middle East, where conspiracy theories are so pervasive you'd think the whole region was entirely backward and overly religious or something.
For instance, a 2011 Pew survey showed that 75 percent of Egyptian Muslims don't believe that Arabs were behind the 9/11 attacks. They believe it was...oh, I'll let you guess who they think did it. But it rhymes with "Da Blues."
But there's a reason people in the Middle East believe in so many conspiracy theories -- because their governments are often so corrupt and evil, they are working behind the scenes to screw their people. And then blame it on America and the Jews. In the Middle East, people are also usually confined by a state press and have no history of not being lied to.
Also, we're now in an era where, in addition to porn and bomb-making guidelines, you can see any amount of crazy information you like on the internet, whereas before you could only communicate with like-minded losers via ham radio or at a Star Trek convention.
But we should be way ahead of societies where everything the government does is greeted with automatic suspicion, and I'm not sure we are. In America, there seems to be a very thin wall separating those of us who are being critical and skeptical and those who are just being conspiratorial and crazy.
Isn't that, you know, bad for democracy?
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Crazy
I am just sick and fed up with the whole "thats caaaarazzzy talk" B.S. I studied, assiduously I might add, psychology at university for four years and took a degree in the field and I am not qualified to make a determination that anyone is crazy. "Ask your doctor if Paxil is right for you," asks Bill Maher, in his "ever so funny" slur. I have it on good information from my brother for one who is a medical professional and others as well that mediocrity is the watchword in the medical industry. But don't just take my word for it; there is Google and there are the words mediocrity and medicine, have a go. Then there is Paxil itself: while many studies claim high site specificity for that particular drug, I did a study in the past of the Physicians Desk Reference of many major psychotropics and found a dearth of knowledge in regards to site specificity and even agent specificity in many of them and one just has to wonder if anything is actually known about these things or if there is a deliberate proprietary cloud thrown up around them. So Maher's little joke may seem funny to the uninitiated but to someone who knows a little something about the subject it misses its mark completely. There is much information pointing to the placebo effect as the active agent, if any, in psychotropic medicine, that fact coupled with the fact that doctors are heavily lobbied by big pharma the long form of the joke loses steam: "ask your doctor (who may be ignorant of the side effects, efficacy, or better therapeutic modalities) if Paxil (which may or may not even work) is right for you! Yah, real funny Bill.
No need for approval from a smug toady
When toadies of the system like Bill Maher are against you, it's a fair indication you're on the right track.
'In America, there seems to be a very thin wall separating those of us who are being critical and skeptical and those who are just being conspiratorial and crazy.'
Newsflash, Bill! You're not critical, and you're not skeptical! Those traits are incompatible with finding the nice, comfy little niche in the establishment that you so prize.
'But there's a reason people in the [U.S.] believe in so many conspiracy theories -- because their governments are often so corrupt and evil, they are working behind the scenes to screw their people. And then blame it on [Muslims, political protesters]. In the [U.S.], people are also usually confined by a [corporate, imperialist, pro-Israel] press and have no history of not being lied to.'
Of course, Maher said 'Middle East,' 'America and the Jews,' and 'state'--but doesn't the statement in its revised form ring true?
Defense or Offense
Throwing someone off your show and ridiculing them as Bill Maher did in the past seems like a defensive tactic but seeking out the subject, as is the case here, and going out of your way to write a blog about it seems like an attack or offensive strategy. Any thoughts on what is up with that? Yes, Maher is a political commentator but we also know that it is impolitic to discuss anything of real substance, like 9/11.
I'll take a shot at your question...
I'll take a shot at your question and suggest there's an attempt to shore up the 'left' against 9/11 skepticism, which is making inroads. Both Bill and Maddow's attacks are ridiculously weak. I have almost no public speaking experience, but I'm confident that I could get on a stage with either of these two and a whiteboard and mop up. I'm sure there are many others who could do as well or better.
Comments encouraging
Bill's blog is a big backfire. His own viewers are smacking the smirk off his face.
http://www.real-time-with-bill-maher-blog.com/real-time-with-bill-maher-blog/2013/5/14/the-truthers-out-there.html
The LIARS paradigm.
"In America, there seems to be a very thin wall separating those of us who are being critical and skeptical and those who are just being conspiratorial and crazy. Isn't that, you know, bad for democracy? "
http://www.real-time-with-bill-maher-blog.com/real-time-with-bill-maher-blog/2013/5/14/the-truthers-out-there.html
The thin wall also separates Bill from cognition, as he steps from stage to taxi to wherever else he goes in his bubble of intellectual conceit. In the Copernican sense, Bill watches the sun revolve around his critical and skeptical self. WTC7 is a red flag to the BULL of Bill. Any question of Pinocchio'sunder's 'new phenomena' engineering wonder : fire induced sequential building collapse at free fall due to normal office furnishings fires around one column seat on one floor already out at time of critical fail has been satisfied by Bill's skeptocritical thinking and offers no quandary. The creatioNIST report, Stan Lee, Frum, Kay and Popular Mechanics have done all the answering Bill needs to go forward into the brave new world of democracy being threatened by those Engineers, Whistleblowers, Pilots, Spooks and real investigative journalists who continually discover and offer real time primary source evidence of 911 as an inside job.
There are only two ways about it.
Either he knows and is playing the game.
Or he doesn't, and beggars description.
He knows and is playing the
He knows and is playing the game.