I posted some of the statements and names that Jim Fetzer addressed me as in an exchange of e-mails.
LOL – I could have predicted how that was going to turn out I first started debating Fetzer about the Wellstone Crash in 2005 before he went full-fledged truther. His MO is to call anyone who disagrees with him mentally impaired or failing that a very clever ‘disinfo agent’. He 1st labeled me the former then the latter but sometimes reverts to the former or calls me both. Due to such tactics I coined the verb ‘(to) fetzer’ but I also like the noun which someone else came up with.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=fetzer
He does have a massively inflated ego which he constantly strokes. He repeatedly claims that he is an “distinguished scholar” and once added: “I know of no faculty member anywhere whose combination of achievements exceeds my own!” this despite the fact he was let go by the lowly ranked U. of Kentucky spent almost 20 years before he finally got tenure then only doing so at a middling school (U. of Minn. DULUTH). This not meant as a put down of people teach at such schools - I know it isn't easy to get tenure anywhere let alone at 'elite' schools - but I doubt many of them would go around claiming they are one of America’s (or perhaps the world’s) most accomplished academics. He does have a habit of tossing around his doctorate trying to prove his case; he even tried to use his co-author’s Ed.D. to beef-up his Wellstone book. Amazingly even when well into his 60s he continued to boast about an award he got from his high school. He continues to brag about an award he got for junior professors well after his retirement.
The issue of Holocaust denial came up and as has already been pointed he says he thinks the numbers have been exaggerated and frequently associates with Holocaust deniers. If anyone raises an objection he whines about guilt by association and asks how that invalidates their “research” on other issues. But he engages in the same tactics himself. One of his arguments for suspecting the NTSB’s Wellstone crash report was that the head of the agency had once (apparently briefly when she was young) been in the CIA), that she supposedly was Bush appointee and led the investigation of the Carnahan crash. He continued to advance such arguments even after I pointed out that the latter two were contradictions because Carnahan died when Clinton was POTUS.
But I digress, besides flirting with Holocaust denial and deniers he heartily endorsed a book which promoted a Mein Kampf like take on early 20th century history the Joooz (aka “Zionists”) were responsible for WWI & II etc.
http://educationforum.ipbhost.com/index.php?showtopic=16296
But back to some of the 9/11 issues here:
FETZER: “Just one question. Since gravity works in one direction (down), how can the
destruction of the towers result from a gravitational collapse when they are
blowing apart in every direction,”
This is hilarious since toofers (including ‘Fetz’ IIRC) normally complain the buildings collapsed into ‘the path of greatest resistance’
SEAN/BRASS: “As for your Larry Silverstein response, I've seen many videos of firefighters saying that they were ready to "pull it" which they clarified "it" as the last remaining firefighting brigade in the building”
I believe you were mistaken about that, though I’ve seen many instances of “pull(ed) us”, “pull back” but never “pull it” not even Gravy found any such instances.
http://sites.google.com/site/wtc7lies/"pull"=withdrawfirefightersfromdanger