Truther dare

September 12, 2011 | Filed under 9/11,WTF? | Posted by

Yesterday evening, after a long day of working on an RCIA presentation that’s due in about a week and squeezing in some Redskins football, I logged into the Brutally Honest admin dashboard and noticed that Fr. D. had a draft post ready for publication.  I read the first couple of paragraphs or so, found an appropriate image, published the piece and moved on.

Imagine my surprise this morning when I find that Fr. D. had put up a comment to his piece, and in it, he was addressing none other than Ann Barnhardt, who had left her own comment about an hour earlier.

I was initially confused.  Where in heck did references to truther conspiracies get posted that would garner Ms. Barnhardt’s rightful and righteous smackdown?

Right here… on my blog… by a guest blogger who has been publishing sermons nearly weekly on Sundays for two years… un-freaking believable:

TruthersWhen the 9/11 itself was over, there followed, of course, several more days of fire fighting and rescue efforts, and then a massive clean up and repair effort. As the time went by, the tensions of the day began to subside, little bit by little bit. But the big questions of How did it happen? Who did it? Why did it happen? all remained to be answered. This led us in the period, continuing right up to the present day, that I think of as the Great Cover–Up. This event had literally thousands and thousands of witnesses, each with some bit of evidence to contribute. The official report simply ignores the evidence of most of those witnesses and leaves unaddressed a lengthy list ofquestions. It says to the American people, “trust us, this is what you should believe if you know what is good for you.” What foolishness! To think that Americans would ever accept such instructions is really foolhardy, and they have not. There is strong evidence that points to an inside job, indicating that the lease holder of the World Trade Center had to have been at least complicit in the destruction of the buildings. This suggests that the US Government was also involved to allow the Pentagon attack to happen.

I initially felt the blood drain from my head, only to return quickly, most quickly.  My first reaction was to put up a comment followed immediately by a decision I knew I had to make.  And so I updated Fr. D.’s post:

UPDATE: It is with some alarm, with lots of surprise but with firmness and resoluteness that I do two things this morning.  Confess that I published this post from Fr. D. without fully reading it… and announce that as of this moment, Fr. D. has published his last guest post at Brutally Honest.  I’m an open-minded guy who will listen to perspectives that I don’t agree with… however… there are limits to that oppenness and Fr. D. with this post has breached those limits.  To suggest that 9/11 was an inside job, to suggest that the American government was somehow complicit in the atrocities, and to do so on my blog as a guest blogger is to cross a line one cannot simply step back over.  

Carry on.

-Rick

That decision stands.  Fr. D. asked in email if he could put one last post up and I refused.  I told him to post a comment and he has… with more nonsense… complete nonsense.

Ann followed with a promise to send me something that rebuts the nonsense and I’ve put that PDF here.

To say that I’m stunned by this turn of events is to not give that stunning its due.  Fr. D., an Anglican (not Catholic) priest has, to my knowledge (and here again I confess to not reading every one of his sermons fully) never brought this subject up before.  He had reached out to me in email two years ago and asked if he could post his sermons and after reading a sampling, I agreed.

And two years later, he decided to take a figurative dump right in the middle of my figurative living room.

I sit here tonight incredulous… and wonder how I might’ve been so trusting.

The only silver lining in it all is finding out that Ann Barnhardt stopped by my little ole place.  Hope she plans on doing so again.

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  • Jeff Blogworthy

    There is no reasoning with a Truther. They are completely divorced from reality. Chesterton nailed it when he wrote of the madman as one who has not lost his reason, but everything except his reason. Chesterton describes the Truther mindset:

    “The last thing that can be said of a lunatic is that his actions are causeless. If any human acts may loosely be called causeless; they are the minor acts of a healthy man; whistling as he walks; slashing the grass with a stick…It is the happy man who does the useless things; the sick man is not strong enough to be idle. It is exactly such careless and causeless actions that the madman could never understand; for the madman…generally sees too much cause in everything. The madman would read a conspiratorial significance into those empty activities. He would think that the lopping of the grass was an attack on private property. He would think that the kicking of the heels was a signal to an accomplice. If the madman could for an instant become careless, he would become sane. Everyone who has had the misfortune to talk with people in the heart or on the edge of mental disorder, knows that their most sinister quality is a horrible clarity of detail; a connecting of one thing with another in a map more elaborate than a maze. If you argue with a madman, it is extremely probable that you will get the worst of it; for in many ways his mind moves all the quicker for not being delayed by the things that go with good judgment.”

  • Sid Stebbins

    Rick,

    Share this with Fr. D. Even the reliably lefty bats*** crazy Ted Rall gets that the truthers are fools:

    http://www.rall.com/rallblog/2011/09/12/syndicated-column-the-truth-about-truthers

  • Anonymous

    Sucks to get stabbed in the back, especially by a someone that turns out to be a truther.
    They are so insane that it beggars belief as to the BS they spout.

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/EU5DQWQTTHTPO4A4ZYSL3AAV2U Adjoran

    It’s just the latest outlet for the nutters.  The conspiracy folks have always been around, but they used to be concentrated on “one world government” and “Trilateral Commission” stuff.  They would talk about people in whispers – “Did you know he was on the Council for Foreign Relations?” as if it were some secret society.

    You absolutely cannot reason with such people, they have blown a fuse or something and cannot accept anything which conflicts with their paranoid fantasies, even the most obviously wrong assertions.

    Recently I saw a music video of a truther song, and one of the verses was about how fire can’t melt steel.  You might thing all the ridicule Rosie O’Donnell took over that stupid assertion would have caused it to be quietly dropped from the list, but they can’t let go.  You could take the idiots to a steel foundry and show them and they would swear you worked for the gummint and had faked it.

  • Anonymous

    The cover-up of 9/11 was of the extent of Saudi official support and involvement.

    The anthrax attacks is where the real dirt likely lies.   Who really did them and why?