[Carlhole]

9/11 Debunkers Hide From Slam Dunk Evidence Of Controlled Demolition

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('911blogger', '[')b]Electron microscope analysis of steel spheres from WTC site proves thermate, proves collapse of twin towers was an act of deliberate arson

Professor Steven Jones presented brand new and compelling evidence for the controlled demolition of the twin towers and WTC 7 recently, but the 9/11 debunkers and the corporate media are loathe to tackle it because it represents a slam dunk on proving the collapse of the buildings was a deliberate act of arson...

[NoLogos]

I don't need no stinkin' piece of paper to become an expert in anything I choose to be an expert in. I need time, good info, and the ability and desire to do the work, whatever it may be.

I have read some of Griffin's work, and the man is correct. He has done the work. Evaluate the work on it's own merits. The universe doesn't care if you like the conclusions. Denying the ugly facts will not help you or those around you to survive.

[NEOPO]

Hey Carl.

Think back to the beginning, when grown men would make small tomato plant cage replicas of the wtc's and then plop a cinder block down on it in a feeble attempt to disprove or prove whatever theory that they were supporting

The internet use to be littered with total crap about 911.
The initial offerings were so full of it as to make even the most die hard CT turn away and of course most all of these poor examples of shill were easily debunked.

As they say "You've come a long way baby"

[PraiseDoom]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('NoLogos', 'I') don't need no stinkin' piece of paper to become an expert in anything I choose to be an expert in.

[Carlhole]

Lewis Lapham of "Harper's" magazine is reading "Debunking 9/11 Debunking"

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('911Blogger', 'O')n Sunday June 3, Lewis Lapham was featured on a 3-hour program on C-SPAN's "In Depth" program. The program focused on Lapham's intellectual life and times, and took calls from the live C-SPAN viewership. During the course of taking calls, one caller asked about Lapham's views on 9/11 as being something other than the Official Conspiracy Theory. Here is what Lapham had to say;

"As to the question of what happened at 9/11, I am reading at the moment a book by a man named David Griffin, on the debunking of the 9/11 debunking, and he raises a number of sharp questions... which I think deserve further questioning and investigation, but I am not as yet prepared to think that the bringing down of the... trade towers was the work of the Bush administration."

Harper's magazine reflects the current political and social thinking of a segment of America's elite, namely, a segment that reads. It is also a magazine for the reading American public that consider themselves "progressives" generally. Harper's was one of the first publications to print a long critical essay about the 9/11 Commission's Final Report, that still resonates today; Whitewash As Public Service by Benjamin DeMott.

When a serious thinker, writer, and shaper of the American cultural soul is reading David Ray Griffin, I would have to say that progressives and Leftists who will have no truck with questions about 9/11 need to pause and reflect on this. Knee-jerk time is over. It's time to pick up Griffin's books and become familiar with them, and become familiar with the serious aspects of 9/11 skepticism. Lapham is reading Griffin. After Gore Vidal's endorsement of "The New Pearl Harbor", an open-minded Liberal really has no excuse not to give 9/11 skeptics like Griffin a fair shake anymore. This means actually reading the books, not just snarking at them.

See the stream from the C-SPAN archive - approx. 53 minute mark;
http://www.booktv.org/feature/index.asp ... chedID=491

[bobcousins]

Well, congrats to Carlhole et al for turning another Peak Oil forum into a propaganda tool for 9/11 lunatics and crazies.

Lunatics 1, credibility 0.

[Carlhole]

You're welcome.

[Carlhole]

This is the kind of lunatic that finds David Ray Griffin's "Debunking 911 Debunking" to be credible and informing. Insult away!

Who Is Lewis Lapham

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Wiki', 'L')ewis Lapham (born January 8, 1935) was the editor of the American monthly Harper's Magazine until 2006. Most recently, Lapham has founded a quarterly publication on history entitled Lapham's Quarterly. He has also written many books on politics and current affairs.

Lapham was born and grew up in San Francisco. His grandfather, Roger Lapham, was mayor of San Francisco, and his great grandfather was a founder of Texaco.

Lapham was educated at the Hotchkiss School, Yale University, and Cambridge.

Lewis Lapham served as editor of Harper's Magazine since 1976 (with a hiatus from 1981 to 1983). He was managing editor from 1971 to 1975, after having worked for the San Francisco Examiner and New York Herald Tribune. He is largely responsible for the modern look and prominence of the magazine, having introduced many of its signature features including its famed Harper's Index. He announced that he would become editor emeritus in Spring 2006, continuing to write his Notebook column for the magazine as well as editing a new journal about history, Lapham's Quarterly. Lapham has also worked with the PEN American Center, sitting on the board of judges for the PEN/Newman's Own Award. This February, he will be inducted into the American Society of Magazine Editors' Hall of Fame.

Author Bio: Lewis Lapham is the author of "Fortune's Child" (1980), "Money and Class in America" (1988), "Imperial Masquerade" (1990), "The Wish for Kings" (1993), "Hotel America" (1995), "Waiting for the Barbarians" (1997), "The Agony of Mammon" (1998), "Lapham's Rules of Influence" (1999), "Lights, Camera, Democracy!" (2001), "Theater of War" (2003), "30 Satires" (2003), "Gag Rule" (2004), "With The Beatles" (2005), "Pretensions to Empire" (2006).