To be fair to Truthy, I'm going to address each and every single one of the things he felt the BBC ommitted.
no eyewitness reports of explosions.
Eye witness reports of explosions? Don't you mean earwitness reports? I don't recall anyone SEEING explosions (other than the collapses and aircraft hits).
People hear explosions during fires, earthquakes, storms, etc all the time. That's partly because:
A) People often describe loud noises as "explosions" even when they aren't
B) Fires, earthquakes, storms etc often do cause actual explosions
There are no earwitness reports of explosions that support a CD theory of collapse. Furthermore, if it can be demonstrated in other ways that CD was not the cause of collapse, the testimony of explosions can be dismissed as not evidence of CD.
You will not find a FDNY testimony that supports any 9/11 Conspiracy Theories.
Again, you won't find any quotes from news anchors that support any 9/11 conspiracy theories.
No mention of FAA records being destroyed.
Okay, this is the first time I've actually heard this one. Given that tapes from the ATCs exist, as well as transcripts, which records, exactly, were destroyed?
No sustained shots of the WTC1 & 2 'collapses' showing explosive force .
Only photographs of the collapse are helpful to CTers. Any sort of video clearly shows debris falling down, thus refuting "outward exploding force" claims.
No mention of debris hurled 400 feet sideways.
There was actually. They talked about WTC7 being hit by debris from WTC1's collapse.
No molten metal. No Thermite. No Steven Jones.
These are all really interlinked so I put them together. I believe Steven Jones was invited to appear on the show but refused.
A professor of religion and philosophy. He cannot offer anything useful. I've seen his list of the major myths of 9/11:
1) The admin/military wouldn't do it
2) The admin/military have no motive to do it
3) With such a big conspiracy involving so many people, someone would have come forward.
4) The 9/11 Commission,which endorsed the official account, is impartial.
5) The Bush administration provided proof that Al Qaeda did it
6) The 9/11 attacks came as a surprise to the Bush Administration
7) US officials have explained why the flights weren't hijacked
8) Official reports have explained why WTC1, 2 and 7 collapsed.
9) There is no doubt that AA77 (piloted by Hanjour) hit the Pentagon.
I've seen his presentation of these myths, and his efforts at "Debunking" each of them. He regurgitates the same old boring facts as the other people who appeared on the BBC documentary. He offers nothing at all new.
No mention of 4,000,000 views of Loose Change.
The first teaser trailer to "The Fellowship of the Ring" was downloaded 1.7 million times in the first 24 hrs of its release.
No 85 confiscated videos at Pentagon.
They did, actually. They didn't cite a number, but they did talk about the FBI's refusal to release "many" videos of the Pentagon strike. It's one aspect of the doco the BBC did pretty poorly, actually.
The Mineta testimony doesn't actually help the truth movement. And you do realise that on 9/11 Mineta was only a month from turning 70, right?
No skeptic eyewitnesses at pentagon or Shanksville.
There aren't any, that's why. CTers only make it look like there is by misquoting them. The documentary DID talk to those people who were misquoted, and set the record straight.
Are you serious?
I had to look that one up. As per above. Are you serious?
It was mentioned. I thought the BBC should have addressed this, if only because it's such a simple claim to prove wrong.
Actually the doco showed a number of excellent shots of WTC7 that I'd never seen before - including a couple that showed just how non-symetrical the collapse actually was.
No toxic dust. No dying responders.
This doesn't help the truth movement at all. We know there was dust. No one says otherwise. Breathing in lots of dust of ANY sort will cause death. GZ dust causing death is not a 9/11 Conspiracy Theory, which, in case you missed it, is what the program was about.
No big-names ( Bowman, Paul Craig Roberts, Von Buelow, Meacher, Sheen, Lynch etc etc).
Maybe they should have interviewed the Dixie Chicks and Greenday too.
The programme is about science, not popularity.
No BBC report that 5 of hijackers still alive.
Again this is a mistake by the BBC. Given it was their story, and they later retracted it, and have all of the inside knowledge regarding the story, they could have crushed this little claim in a matter of moments.
He said he did it, and he said he didn't. So he's lying in one. So we know he's a liar. Which one?
Easily refuted. Put options were direct response to financial advice from trading agencies, in response to a falling air transport industry. Put option levels on same stocks had previously far exceeded the levels reached just prior to 9/11.
You'll have to expand on this one because I don't know what you're talking about.
The BBC had to teach Dylan Avery what a similie is. Should they have to teach him basic comprehension as well? What is this, the language channel?
If you disprove the CD theory, any little tid bits like bush Admin connections to security are meaningless. All that could *possibly* prove is it was possible for government agents to plant explosives. That doesn't mean they did.
See above re: Silverstein.
All his opinion demonstrates is that WTC7's collapse looked the same as a CD. That doesn't mean it WAS a CD. (Never mind the specifics of HOW these statements from Jowenko were captured).
Again, this is a pretty weak link. If hijackers from Al Qaeda got the planes to their targets, and the buildings collapsed as per NIST, it's actually irrelevant what Bush was doing.
No CIA funding of Al-Qaeda.
Yes. The CIA never funded Al Qaeda. You're correct.
Rejection of a plan to pretend to kill Americans is proof of approval of a plan to actually kill Americans?
I'm glad you're not a judge!
Half power down of one building. Unsupported claim.
Additional protection initiated in response to specific threats. Removed when threats were ceased.
Mr Rodriguez witnessed the ignition of jet fuel which spilled down the elevator shafts.
Rick Siegel's video shows nothing of a CD. The explosion noises are doctored, and as a filmmaker myself, that's very obvious. Footage much closer to the towers do not capture the same explosions, thus utterly demolishing any claim of their authenticity.
Siegel is also vehemently critical of the 911 truth movement, as you'd know if you read his blog.
The documentary is about the theories. No need to list every single website or individual who believes any of those theories.
Distortions: WTC7 shown four times in weakest shot (the one used for Berger CNN interview where 7 is half hidden).
You only show weakest because it doesn't look as much like a CD.
Impression of scientists v. isolated fanatical individuals.
Yup. Pretty much.
Alex Jones as cult-leader at quasi- evangelical 'rally'.
Sounds about right.
Fetzer in close-up moving his head around a lot .
In filmic language, tighter framing is used to bring the audience more into the subjects world and evoke stronger empathy.
Only Dylan held his cool and in one classic scene when interviewed about Wally Miller he exuded seething if controlled anger.
Actually, in case you forgot, he was being taught what a similie is. He looked like he was about to throw up.
Strawmen like '4,000 Jews' used to discredit whole range of 911 skepticism.
It's not a strawman. It's a fairly widespread 9/11 CT. YOU might not believe it, but that doesn't mean others don't.
Presented 'evidence' of UA93 crash as Bandana and Passport, then said , "In the face of ALL THIS,some still believe it was a conspiracy."
There was a lot more to it than that. They were pointing out that there's a mountain of evidence refuting the CTs, yet people still cling to them.
Lies: "WTC 7 was a raging inferno".
I take it you've talked to the firemen and other witnesses who were there on the day, and they've admitted that their other testimonies were forced out of them by the CIA and the evil JREF Unter-Kommando Gravy?
"Flight 11 took off that morning".
Are you saying AA11 did not take off that morning?
Because it is.
X-files writer-"To think that the US government contains mass-murderers is preposterous".
That's not what he said, but never mind. They had video of the guy ACTUALLY saying the things he said. How can that be distortion?
Popular Mechanics given credibility as ordinary down to-earth magazine.
As opposed to AFP, Hustler, and infowars?
Ended by trying to boil down the whole movement to FBI's admission of failure to act on intelligence supplied to CIA. ''The American people were failed" .
I'm not entirely sure what you're trying to say here.
Concluding words of V/O: "The other conspiracy theories are just that - theories.
The evidence doesn't support them.
We were never shown that evidence.
You have been. In truck loads. The fact that you ignore it is your problem.
-Gumboot