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Title: Rosie O'Donnell 'View' Booking Of 9/11 Conspiracists Made ABC Nervous
Source: Tittle-Tattle Too
URL Source: http://www.postchronicle.com/news/original/article_21283139.shtml
Published: May 28, 2007
Author: Tashi Singh
Post Date: 2007-05-29 15:00:27 by Red Jones
Keywords: None
Views: 547
Comments: 18

The Post Chronicle™

Tittle-Tattle Too

Rosie O'Donnell 'View' Booking Of 9/11 Conspiracists Made ABC Nervous

By Tashi Singh

May 28, 2007

Rosie O'Donnell and Charlie Sheen have been the biggest supporters of the wacky 9/11 documentary "Loose Change" - which argues that the World Trade Center terror attack was part of a covert U.S. government conspiracy - but that support is dwindling quicker than John Edwards polling numbers. Rosie O'Donnell trumpeted her feelings about it on "The View" and her blog, making ABC bosses nervous and infuriating many viewers, writes the New York Post.

Page Six reports that O'Donnell had reportedly booked the film's producers, Korey Rowe and Dylan Avery, for Thursday's show. But after the fight with Elisabeth Hasselbeck on Wednesday, and after her chief writer was caught defacing Hasselbeck's photos with mustaches, O'Donnell bolted from the show.

Charlie Sheen "is having second thoughts" about being involved in an updated version of the film.

Virgin Atlantic had announced it would offer the current, narration-free version of the film as an in-flight movie choice, but dumped the idea almost immediately.

"Loose Change" attempts to argue the widely debunked "controlled demolition" theory, which claims the Twin Towers and 7 World Trade Center were an inside job. It alleges the jet-fuel fires inside the towers weren't hot enough to melt the buildings' steel reinforcements. It offers the ludicrous idea that the buildings were blown up from within.

Those claims were soundly refuted by Popular Mechanics magazine, which methodically shot down every single one.

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Isn't the quality of their propaganda breath-taking?

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Regarding the methodical, authoritative work of Popular Mechanics, we also have the following from their book Debunking 9/11 Myths, Why Conspiracy theories Can't Stand Up to the Facts, at page 66:

http://Reopen911.org is bankrolled by Jimmy Walter, heir to a Florida-based home-building fortune. yada yada yada.

If identifying some millionaire as being behind a 9-11 truth organization is relevant, it would seem only fair for PM to be open about PM management, and what went on at PM shortly before it became a 9/11 propagandist rag.

The following was published by David Ray Griffin in Debunking 9/11 Debunking at p. 212-3:

[footnotes deleted]

However, in the months just prior to the publication of the article on which this book is based, a radical change in PM's personnel was orchestrated by the president of Hearst Magazines, Cathleen P. Black. As reporter Christopher Bollyn pointed out, Black is married to Thomas E. Harvey, who has worked for the CIA, the Department of Defense, and the U.S. Information Agency.

Bollyn, describing this Black-orchestrated change at Popular Mechanics as "a brutal take-over," wrote: "In September 2004, Joe Oldham, the magazine's former editor-in-chief, was replaced by James B. Meigs. In October, a new creative director replaced PM's 21-year veteran who was given ninety minutes to clear out of his office." In each of the following six months, Bollyn further reported, three or four more people were similarly dismissed. Accordingly, the suggestion that this book about 9/11 reflects PM's long tradition of expertise is misleading.

Bollyn also unearthed another fact relevant to the credibility of PM's writing about 9/11: that 25-year-old Benjamin Chertoff, who described himself as the "senior researcher" for the article, is a cousin of the new head of Homeland Security, Michael Chertoff. Bollyn then wrote an essay entitled "9/11 and Chertoff: Cousin Wrote 9/11 Propaganda for PM." The Hearst Corporation, Bollyn charged, had hired young Chertoff to work on an article supporting the very interpretation of 9/11 that had led to the creation of the department now headed by his older cousin.

As Bollyn learned, this familial relationship seemed to be something that neither Benjamin Chertoff nor PM wanted to advertise. When young Chertoff was asked by Bollyn if he was related to Michael Chertoff, he replied, "I don't know," then said that all further questions should be put to PM's publicist. Bollyn then called Benjamin Chertoff's mother. When asked whether her son was related to the new secretary of Homeland Security, she reportedly replied: "Yes, of course, he is a cousin."

From editor-in-chief Meigs' "Afterword" to the book, however, a reader would assume that there was some doubt about this. After commenting about "the odd coincidence that Benjamin Chertoff, then the head of the magazine's research department, has the same last name as the then newly appointed head of the Department of Homeland Security, Michael Chertoff," Meigs wrote: "Christopher Bollyn phoned Ben's mother, who volunteered that, yes, she thinks Michael Chertoff might be a distant cousin." Confidence in Meigs' reportorial honesty is hardly inspired by this transmutation—of "yes, of course" into "yes, she thinks" and of "he is a cousin" to "[he] might be a distant cousin." Besides mentioning the conversation between Bollyn and Benjamin Chertoff's mother, Meigs himself says: "it's possible that Ben and Michael Chertoff are distantly related."

Meigs' expression of doubt is amazing. He is claiming that he and his crack staff were in a few months able to discover all the central truths about 9/11—why the planes were not intercepted, why the World Trade Center buildings came down, what really hit the Pentagon, and what really happened to UA Flight 93—and yet they were not able to find out for sure whether a member of their own team was related to the director of Homeland Security!

Meigs does, however, say that there is one thing about the two men of which he is certain: "Ben and Michael Chertoff have never spoken." The point of this denial is, of course, to rule out the suspicion that Michael Chertoff had anything to do with PM's 9/11 article, perhaps encouraging his younger cousin to work on it and even giving advice. If true, this would have suggested, as Bollyn inferred, that PM was consciously serving as an agent of Bush administration propaganda.

Whatever be the truth, it appears that PM took every possible step to avoid having this charge leveled against its book. Whereas Benjamin Chertoff had described himself as the magazine article's senior researcher and his name was prominently displayed at the head of the list of reporters who worked on it, his name is not on the book's cover as one of its editors. His name is not even listed under either "reporters/writers" or "researchers," or anywhere else on the book's technical page. Indeed, the only mention of his name, prior to the Afterword, occurs in the "Acknowledgments" section, where he is thanked—even though he had been head of the research department when the article was put out—only as one of many "members of the original reporting team." Probably no one, reading only this book, would think of it as being heavily indebted to a man related to the director of Homeland Security.

In any case, whether the book was actually written at the behest of the government, it is clearly perceived by the government as a reliable exponent of the official story. A US State Department document entitled "The Top September 11 Conspiracy Theories," after having repeatedly recommended Popular Mechanics' article, says that PM's book "provides excellent additional material debunking 9/11 conspiracy theories."

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