History Channel Hit Piece(s) on Today

[Walter Ego]

A repeat of 9/11 Conspiracies: Fact Or Fiction just ended and now showing The Last Hour of Flight 11.

Sorry about the late heads up.


This was the funniest comment I've read from the truthers about 9/11 Conspiracies: Fact Or Fiction.

The debunkers' interviews [on the History Channel's hit piece on 9/11 Truth] were pristinely shot and framed, with beautiful backdrops and highly sympathetic camera angles and filters, whereas the truthers were shot from bizarre positions, their images were deliberately distorted and even the color filter of the shot had been manipulated to make their appearance look tainted, blurred and contorted. This was an intentional ploy and a crude act of manipulation to detract credibility from the truthers and violates all known ethical standards of journalism.

http://www.captainsquartersblog.com/mt/archives/011808.php#comment-163443

That's the problem with the truth movement gaining acceptance in the MSN: They Need Better Lighting! Needless to say, a look at the actual show proves this was typical truther BS.

I have a high quality copy Conspiracies: Fact Or Fiction on my hard drive but it was rejected when I uploaded it to Google Video. For anyone who hasn't seen the show, you can make due with this YouTube playlist I put up on my blog.

http://911vids.blogspot.com/2008/02/history-channel-9-11-myths.html

 

[Minadin]

Yeah, I'm watching it now. (watched the other previously) I predict that JREF forum members will be most annoyed by the Ben Stein commercials.

 

[OldTigerCub]

The PM show is over, but there is a detailed recreation of the hijacking of Flight 11 on following it. It is on right now...7:16pm EDT.
Edit: My eyes didn't read far enough to the right before I responded.
(haven't been annoyed by Ben Stein yet, though)

 

[Reality Believer]

The torrent is still active here from the initial airing:

http://www.torrentbox.com/torrent_details?id=125450

 

[fullflavormenthol]

Well troothers would hate it, but the lighting looks about right for most of the interviews. It is just that even before the special aired people like Alex Jones were already painting the picture of it as a hit piece.

The main thing they are upset about is that it does an excellent job of debunking them, and they come across looking ignorant. Especially the loose change boys and 9-11 mysteries lady. I wouldn't have thought it possible, but my opinion of these people has actually dropped.

 

[lee5]

Good piece!

I don't know how any truther could sit through that and still think their theory's hold water.

 

[ElMondoHummus]

I don't know how any truther could sit through that and still think their theory's hold water.

The answer to "how" is this: They have an amazing immunity to cognitive dissonance. As an example, others have pointed out that those who excitedly use the NIST report to "prove" that temperatures in the fire zones never rose beyond a given point cannot logically champion thermite as an alternative. After all, how hot does thermite get, hmmm?