Bill Clinton Shouts Down 9/11 Conspiracy Theorists

Former President Bill Clinton responded aggressively on Tuesday when his speech at a fundraiser for his wife's campaign was interrupted by 9/11 conspiracy protesters.

"A fraud? No, it wasn't a fraud," Clinton said, responding to one of the hecklers as the audience cheered. "I'll be glad to talk to you if you shut up and let me talk." Another protester yelled that the attacks were an "inside job."

"An inside job? How dare you. How dare you. It was not an inside job," Clinton said. "You guys have got to be careful, you're going to give Minnesota a bad reputation."

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From WJLA-DC (ABC)

Comments

[Ramirez]

The Truthers provide the Democrats with a ready-made "Sister Souljah Moment" and it's probable that Clinton realizes this. Even thought the Truthers are (marginally) part of the Democrats base, a firm and clear smackdown such as this one demonstrates to the nation that Democrats are, ultimately, serious people.

I think each Democrat candidate should be specifically asked his position on the Truthers. I suspect they would welcome the question (now that the Big Dog has set the stage for them of course).

It's pointless to ask the Republicans how they feel about the Truthers. We know where that would go.

[coyote4]

Read my thesis and then try another post.

Incompetence or conspiracy: America is fucked.

[AntiFascistMajority]

9/11 researcher Eric Hufschmid (author of Painful Questions: An Analysis of the September 11th Attack) expressed essentially the same idea:

"This book discusses the aspects of the September 11th attack and the response of the US government that can make us wonder whether our government was involved in the attack or whether they are so amazingly incompetent that they only APPEAR to be involved. An incompetent government is as dangerous as a corrupt government, so WE HAVE A SERIOUS PROBLEM IN EITHER CASE."

[Swift2]

No, it's just damn stupid and offensive. It's always alarming to see the stupid rising up so high. There are forums for this kind of show: on radio, overnight.

[Give Peace A Chance]

Don't tas me Bro.

And wasn't Hillary the founder of the vast right wing conspiracy. How dare she!

[coyote4]

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[realitytrumpsbull]

Um, one word, 'whitewate­r'...anoth­er word, 'lewinski'­...one good thing that
Bill did was the balanced budget. But, that's
promissory water under the bridge, now...

[Swift2]

Quick: what the hell WAS Whitewater? Nobody ever got charged with anything related to the purchase of that land. In fact, the whole thing was a made-up charge.

How much is Rove paying you, anyway?

[villastrangiato]

How do I dare Slick Audacious Willy? I will count the ways:

1) Silverstein, the recent leaseholder for the WTC was interviewed on videotape as having said "pull" WTC #7 on the afternoon of 9-11. The video shows a large intact office building imploding on itself that day. It is well known that the coordinated implosion or demolition of a skyscraper takes days if not weeks of preparation, planning, and setup. Yet this "non inside job" was done in less than a half a day.

2)News accounts of the plane that crashed in Pennsylvania reveal that one of the plane's engines was found a couple of miles from the crash site - witnessed by a Pennsylvania state trooper who guarded it - clear evidence consistent with eyewitness accounts claiming the plane was shot down.

3) The names of the 19 alleged hijackers were announced very soon after the incident but nearly half were found to be alive and living on the other side of the planet during and after 911 - their passport identification apparently stolen and subsequently used by the FBI.

4) Numerous members of the Saudi royal family were flown out of the country - the day that all commercial flights were grounded.

5) Sizeable pools of molten metal were discovered by wrecking crews on the WTC site long after the buildings fell - suggesting the presence of thermite - a material used in the intentional demolition of buildings.


No Slick Slime Ball - how dare you question a US citizen's right to accuse his government of conspiracy, murder, and theft on a grande scale.

[Professor73]

While I don't typically agree with President Clinton, he was absolutely correct on this issue. Anyone that thinks the government pulled down these buildings on 9/11 is an idiot.

[coyote4]

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[motherissue]

watch the whole damn embarassment of Slick Willie being Slick Willie at www.wearechange.org

[VictorLudorum]

Deaf Dumb and Blind they were rendered by the 600 thousand dollar job.. It was Dan Rathers yearly pay in 1982 .Heart Attack? .Where were you in tose days!

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[mystic]

"How dare you?"
How dare you, Mr Clinton, bring down this nation with your disgusting behaviour and lies?
You're a proven liar, so is it not ironic that you should try to smear someone who questions the government for the truth? After your treasonous behaviour (because you did harm to this country's reputation), you are saying it's OK for any president to lie (think WMD) but don't dare question anything that cries out for explanation? Your desperate attempt to shield your wife who you harmed is pathetic.

[Swift2]

You know, I have the idea you're nothing but a Republican shill. How's that? Prove you're not.

[watchingthings]

I would like to hear Bill explaine how attacking an innocent country [Iraq] is justified when Saudi people were quickly spirited out of the country right after the attack. Nobody was allowed to fly in US airspace except the Bin Laden family and Saudi citizens. One would think many questions should have been asked of the Saudis since the attacks were planned and carried out by Saudis. Yes, Bin Laden is a Saudi too.

[Ramirez]

Urban legend.

Despite widespread belief, the Saudis were not allowed to fly in US airspace during the general ban on air travel, and the Saudis did not leave the country until national airspace was reopened on Sept 13, 2001.

http://www.snopes.com/rumors/flights.asp

[Waitaminute]

Why did you make that up. Since you did, you must believe us so-called conspiracy theorist. OTHERWISE WHY DID YOU LIE ABOUT THE DATE THE SAUDI FAMILY FLEW OUT ON!!

[Swift2]

Bill doesn't support the war in Iraq, and he was out of office when that happened. On the other hand, he can understand how politics happen much better than you or Art Bell can.

[knerd]

We need an independent investigation, but we will never get it.

There are some anomalies that have never been faced and there are many others that make no sense whatsoever.

Whether it was a conspiracy or not, a full and intensive investigation is needed.

Michael Moore--that fat slob who nevertheless showed us lots of raw footage of President Bush that the so-called "liberal" news media never aired--was quoted as saying that he would like to find out more about the events surrounding the 9/11 tragedy. I think his mind was changed after he saw the collapse of World Trade Center Building 7--which looks like a planned demolition but has never been seen on mainstream media television. In fact, the report from the 9/11 Commission did not even include the collapse in its final report!

That fact alone should be investigated.

[Waitaminute]

How dare you? How dare you? How dare you?

That says a lot about you bill clinton huuummm...

Only suckers, chumps or blazing idiots believe 9-11 was not an inside job.

I DON'T GIVE A F**K WHAT BILL CLINTON AND BILL MAHER THINK, OR WHAT THE OFFICIAL LIES THEY ATTEMPT TO PUSH OFF ON US. Don't insult me with your terrorist did it bullshit.

[Lelu]

My last teeny, tiny, little bitty hope is that these two Bills are actually staging these things to put attention on the issue without any responsibility themselves­...I doubt it but it's a thought.

[Waitaminute]

sheeech????? Be very quiet...

[coyote4]

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Mr. Bill Clinton:

We were brought to Iraq on false pretenses; that much is now obvious. But those false pretenses were born of 9/11.

Therefore, there is one very important issue we as a nation have completely failed to address:
Considering that spy services from other nations were seemingly aware of the 9/11 plot, if the American security and defense agencies were caught almost COMPLETELY UNAWARE, then;

--if after spending BILLIONS $$$ on spy and security agencies;
--if America was caught completely with her pants down.

....does this not become an issue of overriding, pervasive, massive and SERIOUS INCOMPETENCE of our Security, Defense and Intelligence Institutions?

Billions upon billions of dollars wasted on incompetent Defense and Intelligence Institutions?

And Americans are merely shrugging their shoulders? Dolts!

--if America was caught completely with her pants down......­.........D­OES THIS NOT BECOME AN ISSUE OF MASSIVE INCOMPETENCE of our Security, Defense and Intelligence institutions?

Shouldn't there have been a purge? Somebody,at a minimum, should have been found to be responsible in each institution and fired.

BUT.......­........ no heads rolled; and folks were even PROMOTED; and folks retired with full pensions and honors; and heads of spy agencies were GIVEN MEDALS and Presidential rewards and FAT retirement pensions!

Don't you think that Americans should be wondering WHY:
--if BILLIONS $$$ of security completely failed to prevent or even to properly warn of impending 9/11 attack, and if the Air Force failed to properly scramble fighter jets even though a Military exercise was being conducted at the same time......­..

--WHY is this not interpreted as MASSIVE INCOMPETENCE, and
--WHY -- NO -- HEADS -- ROLLED ???

Common sense demands that a witch hunt should have followed complete with tons of mea culpa's and resignations .......Ins­tead of a purge of incompetents we got
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PRESIDENTIAL MEDALS? Promotions? Awards? Pensions?
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WTF?

[coyote4]

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part 2
If we are to allow that such an extreme level of incompetence surrounds 9/11 and is NOT investigated EVEN SIX YEARS LATER, but is instead REWARDED in America, then IS THIS NOT PROOF that America is wasted, her citizen's decadent , her culture in decline?

I mean: why else would Americans not rise up in anger that their tax dollars were wasted on such total incompetence, EXCEPT THAT THE AMERICAN PEOPLE OURSELVES ARE INCOMPETENT.

Why else would we not rise up with our pitch forks and shovels and drive these fools from the places of power? Common stupidity? Laziness? Too fat?

Incompetence. Americans are incapable of maintaining LIBERTY and democracy.

Mr. Clinton: Is this what you would prefer to have us to believe: that America is decadent, incompetent and in decline; her people incompetent to their civic duties and responsibilities?

Don't the Conspiracy Theorists save us from this damming assessment by offering us a more plausible explanation for such overriding 9/11 INCOMPETENCE?

My argument here is simple: The 9/11 myth is that no one saw this coming; and therefore nothing could be done to stop it. Yet we also know that the security agencies of other countries knew and alerted us.

Therefore, if we eliminate conspiracy, then the only conclusion is that of MASSIVE AND OVERRIDING INCOMPETENCE.

If we accept that incompetence -- that of being asleep at the wheel of our mega billion$$$ security and defense apparatus -- as the only logical explanation, then why did not a purge take place?

And much more importantly: why has the American citizen not risen up in anger to demand a PURGE. (Why do the Clinton's not demand culpability?)

If this is so, then the American citizen herself is incompetent from the least citizen and apparently also to the most, as the Clinton's have thus demonstrated.

This proves that America is rotten to the very core of our citizens. Obsolete. Shame.

Shame!

[dotmafia]

What about why the flight passenger lists for all 4 crashed planes on 9/11 have been seriously flawed and misreported by all news agencies and investigative committees?

Why are there no Arabic names on the lists?

Why are there many discrepancies as to the number of people on each flight?

Why are some of the flights, as documented by the BTS, show no record of having taken off on 9/11?

Why is there no master list anywhere which includes final, detailed information about all passengers and including the supposed hijackers?

Why did so few families of supposed victims on the flights file for compensation?

Why are there this many questions about information which should be easily and readily available?

If there is no conspiracy, why the innumerable discrepancies and the apparent desire to hide information from the public by this "administration"?

Too many questions, very little answers.

I'm not a big believer in conspiracy theories, but something smells seriously wrong.

The public is told to believe without question, because the alternative is unthinkable.

And like sheep, they believe.

http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2004/05/288505.shtml
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[hubcap halo]

9/11 TRUTHERS! I AGREE WITH YOU. ESPECIALLY WITH ALL THE QUESTIONS BROUGHT UP IN PRESS FOR TRUTH.

BUT YELLING AND INTERRUPTING BILL MAHER AND BILL CLINTON HURTS THE CAUSE. I WILL SAY IT AGAIN---YOU''RE HURTING THE CAUSE BECAUSE YOU'RE PLAYING RIGHT INTO THE MEDIA'S HANDS AS "NUT CASES."

YOU HAVE THE TRUTH ON YOUR SIDE BUT AS LONG AS YOU ACT LIKE JACKASSES AT PUBLIC EVENTS YOU KILL THE MOVEMENT'S CREDIBILITY IN THE PUBLIC EYE. AND THAT'S WHO WE NEED TO CONVINCE.

SHOUT DOWNS ARE RIGHT WING TACTICS. BE BETTER THAN THAT.

[coyote4]

UHmmmmmmmm­mmmmm.....­.........y­ou are 'SHOUTING DOWN' and 'YELLING' right now, son....

[nochickenhawk]

I'm no democrat nor republican. But, Clinton has the nerve to stand up at a podium and "dare" an American citizen? He did nothing about the growth of terrorism against this country and due to his disgusting and undignified actions in the Oval Office caused Al Gore to lose the election in 2000 when it should have been a landslide for him given what he was running against. Clinton wants all to think of him in the mode of Washington, Lincoln, Roosevelt, and Eisenhower. Clinton is third tier at best and right there with our present "Village Idiot". It is time to stop perpetuating the myth that Clinton was a successful president.

[JAWIWA]

A. Sex between consenting adults is neiither disgusting nor undignified.
B. Compared to the scandals of Reagan and Bush I (Iran Contra) or Bush II(EVERYTHING!), an extramarital dalliance (no matter where it occured) is nothing.
C. Al Gore lost the 2000 election due to electoral fraud, mass disenfranchisement of minority voters, and US Supreme Court meddling (Clinton had a 60% approval rating when he left office)
D. Eight years of peace and prosperity leading to extraordinary surplusses and almost negligible unemployment, advances in Civil Rights protections and almost universal admiration and respect around the globe.
E. Weekly meetings on the Al Quaeda threat and bombing raids against their training camps (all to Republican chants of "Wag the Dog") during Clinton; bupkus during Bush until August 2001, even though they were warned by Clinton, Gore, Dick Clarke, et al.
F. Sure you're not a repugnican.

[naschkatze]

A. I expect a higher standard from a president of the United States.
B. The Clintons are just as corrupt as the Bushes.
C. Clinton's behavior did contribute to Gore losing the election. Remember? "I'm going to restore dignity and honor to the White House."
D. NAFTA, dotcom bust, black men's health declined, Clinton introduction of extraordinary rendition, 10,000 Yugoslavs dead to detract from his personal immorality.
E. Oh my, weekly meetings. I'm bowled over. First WTC bombings, African embassy bombings, USS Cole bombing--Clinton did zilch.
F. Sure you're not a paid Clinton shill?

[coyote4]

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[demsrnuts]

Democrats have hoped the Enron scandal would tar the Bush administration, but as investigators dig deeper it's the Clinton administration and the Dems who are emerging as the villains of the piece.
The Washington Times reported Thursday that the Clinton administration coughed up more than $1 billion in taxpayer-subsidized loans to Enron Corp. just when the energy giant was kicking in almost $2 million for Democrat causes. And as we have previously reported, to help persuade then-President Bill Clinton to push the disastrous Kyoto Protocol, Enron gave $420,000 to Democrats.

Times reporter Patrice Hill writes that, according to the Export-Import Bank and the Overseas Private Investment Corp., the agencies that provided the subsidies, the Clinton administration turned down only one out of 20 Enron projects to build power plants, natural-gas pipelines and other "big-ticket energy facilities" between 1993 and 2000.

Moreover, the Clinton administration, "which lauded Chairman Kenneth L. Lay as an exemplary 'corporate citizen,' granted about $200 million worth of insurance against political risks for nine Enron projects in such politically volatile areas as Argentina, Venezuela and the Gaza Strip, according to documents the agencies provided to the Senate Finance Committee.­"

[dotmafia]

And what criticism do you have for the massive corruption and criminality from the Bush "administration" cronies and Republicans?

I'm curious to hear your views.
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[Alvin4NY]

Look, if the Clinton's end up being in bed with Bush politically, I want to know. Get rid of these lying assholes, and PROSECUTE them. I am stunned that the American Media has become what it is: PATHETIC! We as citizens have allowed this to happen. I'll take my fair share of the blame. Clinton is a diplomat, he knows how to get things done. He's also been proved to have bad judgement.