Wednesday, May 23, 2007

Maybe Griffin is COINTELPRO?

I don't know how else to interpret this. At the Vancouver speech that James linked to a little earlier, Griffin actually cites Flight 93 revealed as a terrific book. I talked about this book yesterday; it's hilariously bad, with a glaring mistake in the very first sentence!

At 36:25, Griffin says:

"By the way, you can read this and many other fascinating facts about this flight, Flight 93, in the best book written about this flight which happens to be written by one of your neighbors, Rowland Morgan, and I believe he's here tonight. Rowland, if you are, would you stand up so we can see you? There he is! (Applause) So let me suggest you get his book, Flight 93 Revealed and you will learn a lot."


Yeah, like the fact that Flight 93 originated out of Boston and not Newark, as everybody else has been duped into believing! Or that Delta, which is based out of Atlanta, is a Texas company. Or that plane debris was found eight miles upwind of the crash site!

I had originally laughed this book off as a cheap, shoddy attempt to wangle $12.95 out of the conspiracy nutbars; now I laugh it off as a cheap, shoddy attempt to wangle $12.95 out of the conspiracy nutbars that is endorsed by the high priest of 9-11 crackpottery.

We haven't done the Nutbar-O-Meter on Griffin yet:



Raving loony is what I'd call him.

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Monday, May 21, 2007

Flight 93 Revealed... As A Silly Book

I checked the 9-11 section at the local library today and discovered a recent addition called "Flight 93 Revealed", which professes to tell us what really happened on the hero flight.

One of the things I like to check with these conspiracy theory books is how long it takes for them to lie or make a mistake. This one might just set the all-time record, with a glaring boner in the very first sentence:

The official story of Flight 93 tells of four men who checked in at the United Airlines ticket counter at Boston Logan airport on 11 September 2001 bound for Los Angeles on United 93, a Boeing 757 airliner.


Well, he got the date right, and the fact that the plane used for Flight 93 was a Boeing 757. However, the flight did not originate from Boston Logan, but from Newark.

Crack (pipe) job of journalism by the author, Rowland Morgan, who by the way was the origin for the story David Ray Griffin bought that AA #77 had no Airfones on board. Countdown to people claiming he's a CIA asset....

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