Stephen Lemons At 9-11 Accountability

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Here's Stephen Lemon's account of his afternoon at the 9-11 Accountability Press Conference. He was the only real media representative at the confab and came within an inch of being forcibly ejected from the hotel.

For the most part, the “press conference” was a pep rally for the conspiranuts. At one point the moderator asked those who were actually from the news media to raise their hands, and about three hands went up out of a room full of 60 persons or so. And it’s not like the other two guys were from The New York Times. At one point I got booted from the room by some pretend security guards working for the “troofers.” But to the credit of the moderator, whom I believe was Phil Berg, he had me ushered back in and allowed me to ask a couple of more questions. After the press conference, such as it was, I spoke civilly with a number of activists, including Don Harkins, who admitted writing an editorial in his Idaho Observer newspaper defending former KKK Grand Wizard David Duke for attending that Holocaust-deniers’ conference in Tehran last year. I also went up to Eric Williams and asked him why he was present, and he genially stated that he had a right to be there, though he would answer no questions about his Holocaust-denying ways.

Steve was the hero of the afternoon; I tried to keep in the shadows. Jon Gold has quite a different take on the entertainment:

At that point, some angry, good looking, intelligent gentleman said, "You're a piece of sh_t" to the idiot journalist. If you didn't guess, it was me. I know that was wrong, but there is a line, and he crossed it. The idea that this man is a journalist is absurd. He focused on the one topic, and disregarded everything else that was brought up. Luckily, with a brilliant speech, Meria Heller nipped this Holocaust Denial bs in the bud. The whole press conference is on video, and will be posted on Monday.

I've uploaded a couple short clips from the presser to Google Video and will post them on the blog when they are approved.