Bush Had Prior Knowledge of 9/11, Sez 35% of Dems

[Drake Tungsten]

Is it really shocking that 35% of Dems are 9/11 Truthers? I'm surprised the number isn't higher.

[SlowwHand]

Alex Jones devotees. If that doesn't illustrate the intelligence of some, nothing does.

[Dinner]

Bill O'Reilly doesn't like Media Matters because Media Matters continually exposes Bill lying and generally spinning BS. Bill has been attempting to discredit Media Matters & MoveOn.org for years by claiming the evil George Soros is funding them. The reality is Soros donates a very small fraction of their budgets and most of it comes from small private donors solicited via their e-mail news letters or via their radio ads on NPR. Still, Bill has never been one to let facts get in the way of a good rant.

[Dinner]

Originally posted by Sava
Not only do I believe that Bush didn't have prior knowledge of 9-11, I think that he still doesn't really know what's happened. He just reads what they put in front of him.

More then likely.

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by Sava
Not only do I believe that Bush didn't have prior knowledge of 9-11, I think that he still doesn't really know what's happened. He just reads what they put in front of him.

Don't we all?

[DRoseDARs]

Originally posted by Oerdin
Bill O'Reilly doesn't like Media Matters because Media Matters continually exposes Bill lying and generally spinning BS. Bill has been attempting to discredit Media Matters & MoveOn.org for years by claiming the evil George Soros is funding them. The reality is Soros donates a very small fraction of their budgets and most of it comes from small private donors solicited via their e-mail news letters or via their radio ads on NPR. Still, Bill has never been one to let facts get in the way of a good rant.

Contradicted yourself in the same breath. Apparently you aren't one to let the facts get in the way of a good rant either. How many times does MM need to debunk this "George Soros gives MM money" meme?

http://mediamatters.org/issues_topics/people/billoreilly?f=h_top

[Drake Tungsten]

How can you debunk something that's true? Media Matters for America wouldn't exist if it wasn't for the support of the Center for American Progress and MoveOn.org, both of which received a large amount of money from George Soros.

[Slaughtermeyer]

Originally posted by Drake Tungsten
Is it really shocking that 35% of Dems are 9/11 Truthers? I'm surprised the number isn't higher.

Rasmussen has a reputation of being pro-Republican, its approval rating numbers for Bush are consistently higher than that of other polling organizations. A Scripps-Howard poll conducted last year found that a majority of Democrats believe it is likely that "people in the federal government either assisted in the 9/11 attacks or took no action to stop the attacks because they wanted the United States to go to war in the Middle East."

http://www.shns.com/shns/g_index2.cfm?action=detail&pk=CONSPIRACY-CHART2-08-02-06

What I found particularly interesting is that 17 percent of those who give Bush a positive approval rating believe 9/11 was orchestrated by the government. In other words, they know that 9/11 was orchestrated by Bush & Co. yet still approve of Bush, which means that they approve of his method of motivating the American public into supporting war in the Mideast, or at least don't seriously hold it against him.

[Jadeli]

Yeah, 95% of Republicans believe in God.

What's worse?

[chequita guevara]

I'm surprised the number is so low, actually. Between virtually every country in the world telling the U.S. that there was a major terrorist attack coming against the U.S., the 8/6 bin Laden memo, and the AGs decision to stop using private planes after having been informed a hijacking was in the works, a reasonable person can infer they knew. I mean, how could they not know? They should have known.

Given the unbelievable level of incompetence of this administration, though, despite being handed all the information, I concede its very possible and indeed probable, that they were incapable of connecting the dots.

[Kuciwalker]

[LordShiva]

[chequita guevara]

the most annoying thing is, once you start knocking holes in their theories, they start saying, well I'm just asking question . .

No, that's not the most annoying thing. The most annoying thing is the down right disavowal of what is plainly visible to the human eye, like claiming there was no plane wreckage at the Pentagon.

then again, otherwise reasonable people are supporters of Bush so . . .

[Barnabas]

35% is that not high, considering 15% of repubs think the same.


Is there any poll in which people are no asked, do you think Bush lied? but, instead, do you think he said something false? (as in even if he was wrong, he thought he was right)

[Zkribbler]

I'm a Dem. I hang around with Dems. I just came from a union conference, which were mainly Dems. I hear constant complaints about Bush, his abilities and his policies. I've never heard a single person claim that Bush had prior knowledge of the 9/11 attacks.

Besides, if Bush were part of the plot, I'm sure the planes would have missed NY and smashed into buildings in Toronto.