Debunk This, My Aunt Petunia

This is a series that's getting a fair amount of attention from the Truthers, which goes through fluoride in the drinking water, FEMA death camps, Tim McVeigh, etc. This episode is on the 9-11 Commission and contains the usual quote mining of John Farmer, Tom Kean, Tim Roemer and others, with the predictable conclusion that "we need another investigation."

Of course, the video ignores the fact that the lies the military told to the Commission go against the most popular conspiracy theories. The military tried to claim that it knew about the hijacked planes (especially Flight 93) before it actually did. The video also ignores that the Commission discovered the lies before issuing its report, and, as John Farmer said in an interview:

John Farmer- Well, let me just say that I think the [9-11 Commission] report is, uh, extremely accurate, and- and sets forth the facts of 9/11. And we actually did point out in the report the discrepancies between the accounts that were given and what we actually found.

You won't see Change Duh Channel mining that quote anytime soon.

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Note that the JFK quote about secret societies and secret oaths, so popular among conspiracy nutbars, is exhumed once again. It comes from this speech gave on the topic of the press (to the American Newspaper Publishers Association. The speech is basically an exhortation to the media to consider what stories they should run in the interests of national security, in light of the communist threat. Nobody who lived through those tense times would mistake it for a speech about the Illuminati, but because Kennedy used carefully vague terms, it can be read that way by the kooks.