More Myths From Kevin Barrett

Earlier Kevin Barrett termed the Holocaust a "hideously destructive myth", but it is apparent that is not the only established fact that he considers a myth. From his radio show yesterday:

We lie to ourselves, partly because we want to believe things that make us feel good. We want to believe things that make me feel like I am the best, I am the good guy. That happens at every level, like these big national myths like Pearl Harbor and the myth of World War II, the heroic good fight, to commercials that try to cast you in the role of someone who is having fun on the beach drinking Coke with scantily clad women playing volleyball, “if you buy a Coke that is where you will be!” And we all want to believe that crap.

Uhh, yeah.... The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, which killed over 2,000 people, is the equivalent of a Coke commercial. You do realize that you are completely insane, right?

In this show Barrett interviews "Clunkity clunk" Sofia of 9/11 Mysteries fame. I swear, listening to her would make more sense if I were smoking a joint and listening to old Pink Floyd records in the background:

Sofia: You know, somebody told me recently that, you know, he felt that we were trying to do the hundredth monkey thing. Right? Critical mass. He said we are at the 99th monkey. So why can’t we get to the hundredth monkey? Why is it so hard?

Barrett: Where is monkey number 100 anyway?

Sofia: And I told him, “From the 99th monkey to the hundredth monkey is not one monkey. It’s the consciousness leap”.

Yeah, OK....

When Troofers Fight Back

The pseudo-television news program INN World Report attacks the History Channel in this bizarre two part show, found here and here. Steven Jones, Alex Jones, Dylan Avery and Clunkity-clunk Sofia all make guest appearances. They even play Alex Jones' "they persecuted Galileo because he thought the world was round" clip, somehow thinking this actually helps their cause.

For bizarre entertainment value you can't beat the part where Sofia, about 2/3rds the way through the first video, whose entire experience in structural engineering is limited to making sounds with her mouth mimicking building collapses, attacks the scientific credentials of Matthys Levy, a structural engineering professor and the author of the book Why Buildings Fall Down:

Sofia: Well I think they are just trying to create belief and perception, which is what they have themselves. That guy, whoever he was, has a belief that he was proffering as fact. When if he really studies fact, which would come from the reservoir of laws of science and physics he would see, with just an application of a tiny bit of logic that what he is telling us happened, didn't happen.

Uhh, Sofia, "that guy", you might want to find out who he is, is an actual scientist who specializes in building collapses. You, on the other hand, are an amateur filmmaker whose idea of science is making silly noises with your mouth.

Siegel Sends C&D to Sofia

I realize that Sofia's considered one of the great filmmakers of 9-11 Denial and Siegel's considered one of the disinfo no-planers, but he's right here:

I see you still do not understand there is no license in this world for the corruption of evidence you have made. The complete wanton editing of sound, inserting explosions that you have done not only dilutes real evidence but also has caused confusion in the ranks of people researching truth. Your fictions have fooled too many people.

9-11 Mysteries--Who Dubbed in the Extra Sounds?

Rick Siegel demonstrates that Sofia made some rather dramatic changes to the sounds he recorded on 9-11 as the North Tower collapsed. I'll confess, I had no idea Sofia was this devious.

Copyright Infringement is a Bee-Yatch!

As Sofia, director of 9-11 Mysteries, can attest.

On or about May 25, 2007, Google Video and YouTube removed links to the video (and to segments from the video) entitled “911 Mysteries,” produced by Avatar, LLC, as a result of a DMCA Takedown Demand filed by Richard A. Siegel, an individual associated with a work entitled “9/11 Eyewitness,” for reasons of copyright infringement.

Mr. Siegel’s claim of infringement is false. First, well before the release of “911 Mysteries,” Avatar obtained express permission from both Blue Star Media Group (co-owner of the copyright in the “Eyewitness” work) through its managing partner Jim Brewster, and from Mr. Siegel’s partner David Shaw, to incorporate limited segments of “Eyewitness” in “911 Mysteries.” Mr. Siegel’s two partners were fully cooperative with Avatar in licensing this material. Second, even if Avatar had not obtained express permission from the creators of “9/11 Eyewitness” to use their material in “911 Mysteries,” the 38 seconds of incorporated footage that Mr. Siegel has taken issue with is fully protected by the copyright Doctrine of Fair Use.

My attitude on this is simple; I hope both sides end up spending a lot of money on lawyers!

The Word from the Bird

Our buddy Stephen Lemons is back with an amusing wrap-up of the events at the 9-11 Accountability Conference since we dropped the Zyklon-B on them about Eric Williams' Holocaust Denial. Kevin Barrett and Sofia come in for special delousing:

Though Barrett proclaimed to this heron that he's not a Holocaust-denier, his off-color commentary on the Final Solution was cited by Dylan Avery as one reason he wasn't attending. In an e-mail published on the Web site www.oilempire.us, Barrett said he could not dismiss the propaganda of Holocaust deniers like David Irving and Ernst Zundel, the latter of whom's currently doing five years in a German clink for anti-Semitic agitating.

And:

Half-baked Hufschmid additionally asserts such drivel as "The Jews created anti-Semitism in Germany to drive Jews out of Europe and into Palestine, and to unify Jews, and to bring pity to Jews." Such repulsive opinions aside, Hufschmid's a major source for 9/11 deniers, specifically for the video 9/11 Mysteries, whose director, known only as Sofia, will be present at the conspiracy confab.