Amazon's Top "Non-Fiction" Reviewer Hails Tarpley
Which of course raises the question why he's reviewing a work of fiction like Synthetic Terror. If you've got a couple of minutes this afternoon/evening, look at Robert D. Steele's review and click on the "No" button under "Was this review helpful to you?" This shows one of the problems with Amazon's "rate the reviewers" feature; that a 9-11 retard like this guy can be a top 100 reviewer shows something's terribly wrong.
posted by Pat @ 2:32 PM
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Someone ordered two copies of that crap at our store.
I put the Popular Mechanics book on the top of his pile. Just for kicks.
Steele:
I sit here, a 54-year old, liberally educated, two graduate degrees, war college, a life overseas, 150 IQ or so, the number #1 Amazon reviewer for non-fiction, a former Marine Corps infantry officer, a former CIA clandestine case officer, founder of the Marine Corps Intelligence Center, and I have to tell anyone who cares to read this: I believe it.
How can anyone write about themselves that way without a hint of embarrassment? I think a good rule of thumb is that if you have to tell someone your IQ it's probably because you're trying to make up for something really stupid you're about say.
I'd tell him to go screw himself but it looks like it would just be redundant.
I've looked up the man and he's a proponent of open intelligence, which makes his advocacy of this nonsense book make at least a little sense.
I think a good rule of thumb is that if you have to tell someone your IQ it's probably because you're trying to make up for something really stupid you're about say.
Bingo.
This shows one of the problems with Amazon's "rate the reviewers" feature
All's you have to do is write lots of lengthy reviews (especially for bestselling books). Hell, if I wrote an in-depth review for every nonfiction work I read I'd easily make top ten.
From his review:
(e.g. the bombing of the USS Maine in Havana Harbor)
Uh, Mr. Steele you quite obviously aren't well-read in history. The USS Maine wasn't bombed. It either hit a mine or blew up from the boiler. I think the second theory is more likely, but neither links to America faking a Spanish attack.
And Arthur Conan Doyle believed in fairies.
Copernicus thought that angels moved the planets, stars, and moons around.
This man can list as many credentials as he wants (though that's called appeal to authority). It doesn't change the fact he's been had. He has been rendered moronic by his ideology.
I'd like to point you to this - Mr. Steele is an expert on intelligence (not smarts, the military kind) but based on his review, he doesn't understand critical thinking (thinking Northwoods is good support) nor history (the aforementioned Maine mention).
Throw together a bunch of nonsense (and I've read the book - it's utter nonsense) that flatters his preconceived bias and voila!
WOnder if any of you have actually read the book you are trashing
Perhaps you should read everyone's posts before commenting, Roger.
you twits use it constantly.
Where? You morons love to throw out mistakes/insults without any support.
it's pretty sad that you Deniers choose to ignore the actual evidence.
Sorry, pal. The deniers are you folks. What now? Are the Jews of '40s Europe the Nazis now?
insidejob, first you should check your facts. Then look up Occam's Razor.
Alex Jones is godly, isn't he?
Pathetic.
Yup, almost as pathetic as believing nonsense with no support.
shawn, those facts are accurate.
Oh? Well, great! You should have no problem documenting them then!
Oh, you can't do it without linking to Alex Jones? Darn. Well, I'm sure you're right anyway. Want a juice box?
I know what Occam's Razor is, and I'm tired of hearing pedantic idiots like you misuse that concept
Really?????
REALLY????
So you basically are saying that"
"Yes. Quite simple to pull off really. All I had to do was have explosives planted in the base of the towers. Then on 9/11 we pretended like four planes were being high-jacked when really we just rerouted them to Pennsylvania then flew two military jets into the World Trade Center filled with more explosives and shot down all the witnesses in Flight 93 with an F-15 after blowing up the Pentagon with a cruise missile. It was only the world's most intricate and flawlessly executed plan ever ... ever!
is more simple that:
19 pissed off muslims did it.
I know what Occam's Razor is, and I'm tired of hearing pedantic idiots like you misuse that concept
How did I misuse it?
You're the one listing coincidences (unsourced, of course) and acting as if that's proof. That's you ignoring Occam's Razor. Just because you don't understand terms doesn't mean you can then project that on to me.
I'll ask it again:
If an idiot (insidejob - just so the idiots know who I mean) calls you an idiot, is it a compliment?
Insidejob-
I think you're a little confused about the definition of "evidence." What you're asking us to address are your claims, please provide evidence of your claims.
IJ,
Almost forgot-
I've been trying to organize a mock trial of the U.S. governemt, or individuals in the USG, as conspirators in the 9/11 attacks. If you're willing to represent the prosecution you can present your "mountains of evidence" on my blog, http://911ontrial.blogspot.com.
Email me at ontrial911 (at) hotmail.com and we can discuss the details. I still haven't found anyone willing to play the role of prosecuter (although I've heard some interesting excuses from conspiracy theorists why they wouldn't).
The best thing about LC Forum going down, and I am speculating on the cause effect relationship of the two, but man has it gotten interesting with the insane troofers we have seen surge into this blog ever since.
Andrew:
nice wikipedia (everyone can be a historian) quote for Mr. Steele.
insidejob:
So your comments are better than those you accuse, how?
911:
your comment was a "pathetic" contribution to the discussion.
Personally I dont care who Steele is , or the book he is praising.
Folks, the 9/11 truth movement is all over but the whining.
DEMS for Congress
DEMS for the Whitehouse
KLEENEX for th troofers, as their movement fades into the cybershelves of history.
TAM
Anyone can also add comments to Mr. Steele's "review".
His claims to past service are just that, claims. Absent a proof anyone can claim anything they want about themselves, including on Wikipedia.
But the cause wasn't terrorism -- it was to be a simulated accident.
I guess you've never seen pictures of this. The simulated accident was in the middle area of the Pentagon.
Oilempire is a good truth site.
That name really makes me think they're objective.
while Clinton had them under wraps
That's why there were more al-Qaeda attacks on American interests under Clinton's watch than Bush's?
9/11 took years of planning, Bush was in office for nine months when it happened. Clinton and his folks dropped the ball, too.
together clearly makes PNAC a prime suspect,
The whole "who benefits" argument doesn't work when all the evidence points to another party.
2 straw-man arguments were used against me.
Could you point those out? I have a feeling you don't know what strawman means (like you didn't know what Occam's Razor nor appeal to authority meant).
the straw-man arguments were made obvious
No, they weren't. You didn't give any support for the "facts" that we questioned.
you goofy sack of camel shit.
Hmmm ad hominem...beautiful. (It stops being ad hominem when you prove your case - until then, stick to trying to prove your flimsy case and stop insulting people smarter than you.)
yes the name Oilempire does make it seem objective
No, it doesn't. I was being sarcastic. If the neocons were just about oil they would've just lifted the sanctions on Saddam. If it's about the almighty dollar, they would've saved a lot.
the first WTC bombing alerted Clinton to Al Qaeda. the USS Cole bombing was a wimpy attack that occured far from U.S. soil. yes that's 2 attacks, which is more than 1!
...it was more than two there, killer.
so put that in your PNAC employee, Exxon-stock-havin pipe and smoke it!
Look guys a classical liberal who think the stock market is legalized gambling now works for a neocon organization and owns stocks in Exxon! God you're fucking retarded.
As typical, the OS'ers decide to not consider what an expert opinion might be on a particular conspiracy subject, but turn around and use expert opinions to support their own beliefs in the OS.
The whole "who benefits" argument doesn't work when all the evidence points to another party.
Huh? I always thought qui bono was the first step in any criminal investigation. Yeah who benefited anyway? OBL? Don't think so. Those dead hijackers? Naw. Afghanistan? Nope. Whoever clamied responsiblity might have benefited? Oh yeah that imposter on the video tape didn't benefit either. Did Iraq benefit? Nope. Oh wait they didn't have anything to do with that. See gents, a true act of terrorism is accompanied by a claim of responsiblity, not discovered, so that there is no doubt who did it. Terrorism in most cases is used for some political purpose. Hating and our freedoms certainly is a policical purpose. Bullocks!
So who did benefit anyway?
Who benefits when a huband commits murder-suicide?
Guess we'll have to start locking up children for collecting insurance policies.
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