Why Does FOX NEWS Attack 9/11 "Truthers" While Never Refuting the Evidence They Present?

Question

A FOX News special yesterday included a heated discussion on 9/11. The host of the program, Erich "Mancow" Muller, tried to portray his guest Kevin Smith--producer for the Alex Jones radio show-- as a backwoods conspiracy nut living in a shed.

Mancow used all the cliche straw man attacks to diminish the perception of 9/11 Truth, including naming the segment 'The Grassy Knoll,' asking Smith about Bigfoot, the Lockness monster and space aliens. However, Mancow could'nt refute any of Smith's information-- he could only restate his disbelief.

Smith brought up the fact that several of the alleged hijackers lived at the Pensacola, Florida Naval Air Station, according to addresses listed on their licenses and the fact that Mohammad Atta and others were trained at a base in Monterrey, California.
(newsweek)http://www.prisonplanet.com/alleged_hijackers_may_trained_us_bases.html

Kevin Smith also covered WTC Building 7's mysterious collapse and the poll-supported fact that 9/11 Truth is no longer a 'fringe' theory (84% reject the Official 9/11 account, believing the Bush Administration is either 'hiding something' or 'lying' in a SCIENTIFIC Angus-Reid poll and over 1/3 believe the U.S. Government carried out 9/11 attacks according to a SCIENTIFIC Scripps-Howard poll).
http://www.wtc7.net/
http://www.angus-reid.com/polls/index.cfm/fuseaction/viewItem/itemID/13469
http://www.scrippsnews.com/911poll

The hit-piece was fair compared with the usual FOX News treatment for 9/11 'conspiracy nuts.' If Bill O'Reilly were to set the bar, 9/11 guests should expect to have their mics cut off, have relevant information over-run by banter until commercial break, or, as in the case of Jim Fetzer's appearance, have O'Reilly even call for FBI surveillance and arrest.
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/october2006/141006oreillyequates.htm

"lucky2bal..." You are doing the same thing. You are not refuting the evidence. You are just saying "its not true" without stating any sources.

"cynthiatw"..."tinker thinker" You must be living in a cave like Osama. Go back to sleep.

"AreWeTher..." Thats beleivable. These guys stole military I.D's that had their names on them. I have a pretty common name with much better connections than guys living in caves in the middle east, and I assure you, I would never be able to steal a military I.D with my name on it no matter How I tried.

Answer 1

Its real easy to do.

The list of “conspiracy theories” is long. Do you know why all of these are still on the books as conspiracy theories? That’s right; no truth has ever been established to any of them?

Do you know how many conspiracy theories that have been on this list have been proven as “true”? Right again, NONE!

Do you know that all of these conspiracies are linked by a common element (common denominator)? Correct, they are all unproven!

Do you know what the odds are that any of these will ever be proven? Now this is just a guess but based on past experience, NONE!

•Bilderberg Group—A well-known informal, international, annual meeting of influential people that some critics allege have a sinister purpose. Its name is that of the hotel in the Netherlands where the group first met in 1954.
•Council on Foreign Relations—Conspiracy theories surrounding the membership of this foreign policy think tank.
•Elders of Zion—A supposed conspiratorial group bent on Jewish global domination, as portrayed by the forged document, The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.
•Eurabia—The idea that Europe is becoming a satellite of the Islamic world at French "instigation" due to the activities of the Parliamentary Association for Euro-Arab Cooperation.
•Freemasons.
•The Gemstone File—Details a wide ranging conspiracy involving Aristotle Onassis, the CIA, FBI, and the Mafia in addition to John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Ted Kennedy, Richard Nixon, the Washington Post, San Francisco Mayor Joseph Alioto, Howard Hughes, Martin Luther King Jr., and the Watergate conspirators.
•The Illuminati—Thought of as a secret group attempting to control the world.
•Korean Air Flight KAL-007.
•Priory of Sion—Various different theories.
•Reptilian humanoids—According to David Icke, a group of reptilian humanoids called the Babylonian Brotherhood control a secret world government. Icke has accused many prominent politicians and celebrities of being such creatures, including George W. Bush, Queen Elizabeth II, and Kris Kristofferson.
•SARS conspiracy theory—Suggests that the SARS virus could be developed artificially.
•Trilateral Commission—Theories concerning the motives of this group.
•United Nations—Theories regarding the UN and its various Secretaries General.
•Vril Society Conspiracy which suggests that a secret form of energy, called Vril is used and controlled by a secret, subteranean society of matriarchal, socialist utopian superior beings.[1] AIDS conspiracy theories—Some people believe that the CIA created the AIDS epidemic and deliberately administered it to blacks, and gays through tainted hepatitis vaccinations in the 1970s. Another theory posits that HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, was invented by either white scientists in the World Health Organization (WHO), or by "The Jews", as a way to kill African Americans and destroy the black race. This latter view is heard most often among groups such as the New Black Panther Party and Louis Farrakhan's Nation of Islam. Still more theorists claim that HIV does not exist, does not cause AIDS, or that persons who test HIV positive can take certain nutritional suppliments (or other forms of alternative medicine) and eventually test HIV negative. See AIDS Reconsideration for more information on the topic.
•Apollo moon landing hoax accusations-Proponents of this theory claim that all of the Apollo moon landings never happened and were "staged" in a Hollywood movie studio.
•Area 51—Various theories surround the activity of this secretive military base, including the theory that it contains hidden alien spacecraft and/or bodies.
•Assassination—Conspiracy theories of varying popularity surround the deaths, murders, attempts and attacks on, several prominent figures including:
oZachary Taylor, 1850
oAbraham Lincoln, 1865
oHuey Long, 1935
oAdolf Hitler, 1945
oMahatma Gandhi, 1948
oJames Forrestal, 1949
oMarilyn Monroe, 1962
oJohn F. Kennedy, 1963
oMalcolm X, 1965
oBrian Epstein, 1967
oMartin Luther King, Jr., 1968
oRobert F. Kennedy, 1968
oBrian Jones, 1969
oJimi Hendrix, 1970
oJanis Joplin, 1970
oJim Morrison, 1971
oJ. Edgar Hoover, 1972
oGeorge Wallace, 1972
oGerald Ford, 1975
oBob Marley, 1978
oKeith Moon, 1978
oJohn Bonham, 1980
oJohn Lennon, 1980
oRonald Reagan, 1981
oOsho, 1990
oVincent Foster, 1993
oKurt Cobain, 1994
oGeorge H. W. Bush, 1994
oYitzhak Rabin, 1995
oRon Brown, 1996
oTupac Shakur, 1996
oGary Webb, 2004
oKen Lay, 2006
•Black helicopters.
•Cattle mutilation.
•Denver International Airport—Believed by many conspiracy theorists to be the Western headquarters of the New World Order, and a massive underground base and city is believed to exist underneath the airport. Reasons for this include: the airport is unusually large (larger than some major cities), is somewhat distant from the Denver, Colorado city center, there were in the airport a set of bizarre murals (some of which have been painted over) depicting burning cities, gas-mask wearing soldiers, girls in coffins, Masonic symbols and strange writing.
•Elvis sightings.
•High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program
•Hurricane Katrina-several theories[2] are advanced.
•Kentucky Fried Chicken—It is sometimes claimed that the franchise is owned by the Ku Klux Klan, and the chicken is laced with a drug that makes only black men impotent. In actuality KFC is owned by Yum! Brands, Inc., a publicly traded Fortune 500 company. Sometimes, Church's Fried Chicken is named instead of KFC.
•Majestic 12.
•Men in Black.
•Montauk Project-A continuation of the Philadelphia Experiment, this time with the intent to create a weapon that would cause enemies to turn insane.
•Oklahoma City bombing—Various conspiracy theories surround this event, asserting that Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols received assistance from other parties, such as neo-Nazi groups, an Iraqi intelligence agent, or the U.S. government. Much of this speculation surrounds the identity of "John Doe 2", sometimes referred to as the "Third Man" or " Third Terrorist".[3]
•Philadelphia Experiment- An attempt to turn a ship invisible, that allegedly caused severe harm to onboard crewmembers.
•Roswell UFO incident.
•Satanic ritual abuse.
•Skull & Bones—This Yale University fraternity is often thought of as being a secret society producing many financial and political leaders who have control or seek to gain control.
•TWA Flight 800— Some theorists allege that the explosion of this plane, officially ruled an accident for a short circuit in the fuel-tank wiring, was actually due to a missile attack. The most widely-repeated theory suggests that the plane was accidentally shot down during a Navy training exercise. Writer Peter Lance alleges that TWA 800 was blown up by a bomb intended to disrupt the trial of terrorist Ramzi Yousef.[4]
•Vast right-wing conspiracy theory

http://talkingincircles.net/2006/10/13/south-park-episode-about-911-conspiracy/

Answer 2

It conspiracy nuts selectively quote from the articles or evidence.
For example the newsweek article sounds like it had definite proof that the terrorists trained out a Naval Base. But when you read the article it is far from it. It is more likely the terrorists stole the identifications.

There are people that have boxes and boxes of information that "prove" the Nazis did not kill six million Jews despite massive evidence to the contrary.
These 9/11 conspiracy believers are in the same class. They have a patholigical hatred of the Bush administration that they will clunch to any tid bits of so-called "evidence" that advances their pathological theory and will discard the most overwhelming evidence to the contrary. The wackiest theory yet is that before one of the planes hit the world trade center it fired a missile!
However, I am sorry that this bit of insanity will not die. It will live as long as people among us that believe they were abucted and probed by Aliens, an alliance between the KGB, the Mafia, and the CIA killed Kennedy and so on.

Answer 3

Fox News would only have such a guest so they could make him look crazy. That's always the answer with conspiracy theories. I would certainly disagree that the deaths of JFK,RFK and MLK are only conspiracy theories because we don't have proof. The fact is we'll never get the facts because those government records will never be released national security). Some have and they make conspiracy theories even more strongly suspected. Let's never do any critical thinking-let's be sheep!

Answer 4

I appreciate what you are doing. Many are just too frightened to comprehend the fact that the US government may have had a role in the 9/11 attacks. It is much more pleasurable for them to assume it was "a bunch of pissed off Muslims."
I just watched the show on prisonplanet and you are correct. Every time that man was given proof, he stumbled and fumbled and ended up asking about UFOs and Bigfoot. What a joke.

Answer 5

Although i would not expect you to change your mind i will be happy to present what the Bull could not. Standing on the side walk on the day the planes hit the Buildings, watching as people died, and following the trail of the people involved, i do not doubt the official version. You people going through life with your head in a dark position must be difficult, i can empathize with you because i truly believe that Kevin Smith is one of OSAMA'S lovers.

Answer 6

First, because Fox is not news - it's entertainment. What other "news" show would invite a guest to be interviewed and then proceed to interrupt, demean, humiliate and mock him and conclude by telling him to "shut up"? What other "news" broadcast would pit conservatives against liberals during their air time? It's hard to believe anyone takes this stuff seriously, but apparently a lot of folk do.

I didn't see the special you mention but I assume Muller used the usual churlish tactics to ridicule the guest rather than make any effort to listen to the opposite side of a controversy. What else do you expect from Fox propaganda?

Answer 7

If I didn't know better, I'd think this Arewethereyet guy is my AF brother. Seriously.

If you've got 1/2 an hour, there's a pretty good South Park episode that handles the 9-11 "Truthers."

I think Lucky has it.

Answer 8

Because they are part of the conspiracy and coverup and are owned by the same NWO, Illuminati, Isarel and Vatican Globalist.
I really feel sorry for the uneducated and Brain Washed people who visit this site.
http://www.rense.com

Answer 9

I saw that.....I was proud to see Smith stay calm and not look at both of them and just flat up say " are you two this blind to what is right in front of you?"

After that I got back into some of the video's, etc from Smith and Jones. Then came across "the dark side of the moon", and not the Floyd version. Watched that and who did I see....Rumsfeld....who flat up was the one that started and created the fake moon landing. He even admits it in the movie.

So now Rumsfeld is back in Nixon days and rigs the entire moon landing and pulls it off as it was really done and to this day many Americans believe it. Then you look at fact GHW Bush was part of CIA and was in Dallas and in motorcade when JFK was shot.

Then you look at who is in office now, ties to both, and then you witness 9/11.

HOW MUCH CLEARER DOES IT HAVE TO GET AMERICA??

Did you see that clip of Rumsfeld's twin from Nazi's WWII days? The beginning of cloning? Notice even the hair part and receding hair line is identical. Plus most forget that the USA brought in EVERY Germany engineer and scientist after the war.

Answer 10

Obviously because Fox News is the most biased news channel on the air right now. Fox News doesnt have to refute the evidence of 9-11 Truthers, their core audience will openly mock anything Fox tells them to.

Answer 11

I agree with Tinker Thinker. "There is no evidence to refute".