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2006-03-23 Home Front: Culture Wars

Hollywood Actor Charlie Sheen Calls 9/11 'Conspiracy Theory'

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Posted by Steve 2006-03-23 10:19|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 yawn. Shut up and act. Jeesh, it's getting hard to rent movies anymore I dislike so many of these wacked-out spoiled brats. Hollywierd, like MSM, is going to self-destruct itself proudly.

What I really want to see is more movies like Team America, but more realistic, where instead of bad guys like Nazis, Russians or Arabs, we get to see bloggers get an opportunity to expose and waste Alex Baldwin and Susan Sarandon, etc. And I'll watch Sequels I II III IV and V too. Would never get tired of that theme.

Posted by 2b 2006-03-23 11:30|| 2006-03-23 11:30|| Front Page Top

#2 How could you make an interesting movie out of blogging? Think of this as a challenge...

Posted by Robert Crawford">Robert Crawford 2006-03-23 11:50|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2006-03-23 11:50|| Front Page Top

#3 Well, he does run with the baldwin crowd. Loopy all of 'em. If they believed it so much, why would they just sit idle and try a march on the dictatorship that is in Washington? Pure crybaby politics. Nothing more.

Posted by DarthVader 2006-03-23 12:02|| 2006-03-23 12:02|| Front Page Top

#4 That's quite a challenge, RC. The morons have almost ruined any possibility of it without borrowing from (goofy or trite) "thrillers".

I'm thinking and what comes to mind is All The President's Men, The Formula, The Borne Blahs, Paycheck, Enemy of The State, Hackers, The Net, and all of the others of that type where computers, technology, the Internet, getting out the truth against the odds are the operative bits. I don't know... Hollywood has pounded home the Evil Government and Rogue Agent or Agency ideas so often they're trite. And I guess the thriller style would have to be the one if you wanted it to be a success. Set it in 2010 with Hillary as President? LOL. Interesting challenge.

Posted by phased array 2006-03-23 12:11|| 2006-03-23 12:11|| Front Page Top

#5 How's this:

Blogger sees something odd happening, gets photos/video of it. It's something that *should* make the news, but doesn't.

Goes home, posts the evidence.

Then...

Posted by Robert Crawford">Robert Crawford 2006-03-23 12:16|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2006-03-23 12:16|| Front Page Top

#6 A contract is put out by AP, UPI, Reuters, and AFP?

Posted by phased array 2006-03-23 12:19|| 2006-03-23 12:19|| Front Page Top

#7 Yes. Whenever I'm trying to form an opinion on current events, Reformed Cokehead SitCom Star's are who I turn to for my inside info...
How about you stick to telling us which porn stars gave the best head, okay, Charlie? Thanks in advance...

Posted by tu3031 2006-03-23 12:21|| 2006-03-23 12:21|| Front Page Top

#8 If "Alex" is even a half cute woman, she could get Charlie to agree to about anything if she seemed friendly.

Posted by Chort Glineter6875 2006-03-23 12:25|| 2006-03-23 12:25|| Front Page Top

#9 But, but...Charlie was in Platoon! He has Been There!

Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious 2006-03-23 12:25|| 2006-03-23 12:25|| Front Page Top

#10 Yes, he has the Hollywood Reserved Table Stare.

Posted by phased array 2006-03-23 12:26|| 2006-03-23 12:26|| Front Page Top

#11 How about a movie where a demon crawls her way from the depths of hell and takes human form, marries a politician, becomes a 1st lady and then... [partly a ref to the next to last episode of the tv show "Angel"]

Posted by mhw 2006-03-23 12:31|| 2006-03-23 12:31|| Front Page Top

#12 How about a movie where a demon crawls her way from the depths of hell and takes human form, marries a politician, becomes a 1st lady and then...

No way. The legal liability for slander is WAY too high.

Posted by Robert Crawford">Robert Crawford 2006-03-23 12:53|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2006-03-23 12:53|| Front Page Top

#13 RC

Demon lawyers or Hillary's lawyers or a dream team of both?

Posted by mhw 2006-03-23 13:12|| 2006-03-23 13:12|| Front Page Top

#14 He was in Hot Shots, too.

Pyrex Tickle Blowfish

Posted by eLarson 2006-03-23 14:37|| http://larsonian.blogspot.com]">[http://larsonian.blogspot.com] 2006-03-23 14:37|| Front Page Top

#15 "No way. The legal liability for slander is WAY too high."

Heh! Truth is an absolute defense....

Posted by Mark E. 2006-03-23 14:51|| 2006-03-23 14:51|| Front Page Top

#16 OK who took the tin foil from young Charles hat?

Posted by 49 Pan">49 Pan 2006-03-23 14:57|| 2006-03-23 14:57|| Front Page Top

#17 Sheen should move to any of the various non-capitalistic utopias (like Yemen or Nigeria) so he can unshackle himself from the cares and worries his paranoid-psychotic microenchephalic brain stem keeps cooking up. Moron!

Posted by Zenster 2006-03-23 14:59|| 2006-03-23 14:59|| Front Page Top

#18 here's another movie for Charlie Sheen to shoot

So there's this two bit gangster wannabee and the big gansters don't respect him but he marries his boss, then gets a few followers and moves to a different part of town and then his wife dies and he marries a 6 year old and then he marries 4 other women to gain allies in his new part of town and then he robs and steals his way to big money while massacreing neighborhoods and making sex slaves out of the surviving women and then he makes his way back to the old hood and takes over and convinces people he is some kind of holy man

Posted by mhw 2006-03-23 15:16|| 2006-03-23 15:16|| Front Page Top

#19 With Oliver Stone directing?

He'd make it, per your script, and claim it was about the Bush Dynasty, lol.

Posted by Snuper Thramp5041 2006-03-23 15:21|| 2006-03-23 15:21|| Front Page Top

#20 The apple doesn't fall far from the tree does it.

Posted by Cheaderhead 2006-03-23 16:31|| 2006-03-23 16:31|| Front Page Top

#21 I believe, that there are aspects of the 9/11 plot that have not been revealed to the public. Among these concealed items is the manner in which the WTC towers went down. Unfortunately, the people advancing these arguments are generally not equipped to understand what that means.

When a terrorist attack occurs, the first response of the US government is to manage public perception. If the attack can be denied outright, and explained as a mechanical failure, the attack was a mechanical failure. If it is undeniably terrorism, it's a small group of radical extremeists. If there are multiple attacks at the same time, a stateless terrorist organization is responsible. But terrorism is never, ever, ever state sponsored.

But, quietly, at the highest levels, the US government does not treat terrorist attacks as a law enforcement operation. These things are handled at the diplomatic and military level. So the FBI's primary job in the 9/11 investigation was to find out who among the hijackers went where and said what to whom, and then seal it off. The FBI did not treat the crash zones as crime scenes; there was no real investigation of the 9/11 hijackings any more than there was a real investigation of the anthrax letters.

The 9/11 plot in particular had backing from the governments of Iraq, Iran, possibly Bosnia, and significant insubordinate elements of the Saudi and Pakistani governments. The prime mover was Iraq, while Iran provided technical assistance for the hijackings.

I think some of the mysteries of the WTC collapses might be explained by a look at the first WTC bombing, in 1993, which had Iraqi sponsorship. There, the primary attack was a truck bomb, and multiple truck bombs may have been used on 9/11. That evening, authorities nationwide put out an alert to hospitals and other locations to be aware of ambulances and fire trucks sporting bomb loads. After the spectacular and distracting and not all that destrcutive plane crashes into the towers, truck bombs disguised as emergency vehicles drove in, providing the main impetus for collapse.

That's my idea, anyway. This complexity necessarily implies state sponsorship, due to the numbers involved. Wretchard had a good piece about state sponsorship and private conspiracies many months ago. The upper limit for private conspiracies is about 150 people.

Posted by Rory B. Bellows 2006-03-23 16:38|| 2006-03-23 16:38|| Front Page Top

#22 Uh oh. There are some rather large holes in there. I presume you've made yourself aware of the many and varied sources who've studied this, who aren't conspiracy believers, and know about the construction of the towers?

Never ever state sponsored terror? The surviving Taleban will be both surprised and, I presume, rather indignant, then.

I'm sorry, but I've been to the sites where the "alternative theories" are peddled and it does not wash.

The architect who designed the WTC Twin Towers, with their new and innovative exoskeleton structure, was a featured documentary subject - and it was updated to include a postscript in which he explained what happened in terms simple enough for anyone to comprehend. Nothing but planes laden with fuel were necessary. No super complex uber doober conspiracy was required.

Posted by Snuper Thramp5041 2006-03-23 16:49|| 2006-03-23 16:49|| Front Page Top

#23 [cue Outer Limits theme]

I'll have what he's having. Sounds like some pretty good stuff.

The WTC's skyscraper skeletons were made to take a relatively large aviation impact, just not the prolonged thermal stress resulting from a multi-ton deluge of burning aviation fuel.

Considering that the buildings gracefully collapsed instead of catastrophically keeling over speaks volumes about how well designed they were. Guess which scenario the terrorists were rooting for.

Posted by Zenster 2006-03-23 20:29|| 2006-03-23 20:29|| Front Page Top

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