Ann Althouse has the rundown of 9/11 denier Kevin Barrett, the UW-Madison lecturer, and his interview on Hannity and Colmes. After watching the video of this guy, I don't see how any reasonable person could possibly conclude that Kevin Barrett is anything other than a complete nutcase.
Be sure to read Ann's detailed account of the interview.
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What the hell is making the... (Below threshold)1. Posted by J.R. | July 11, 2006 2:26 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
What the hell is making these mental midgets crawl out of their basements lately?? This guy is obviously a loon, I mean, he KNOWS 9/11 was an inside job, he knows it. Everyone else is believing conspiracy theories. Ridiculous.
1. Posted by J.R. | July 11, 2006 2:26 PM |
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Posted on July 11, 2006 14:26
2. Posted by mesablue | July 11, 2006 2:32 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
I don't see how any reasonable person could possibly conclude that Kevin Barrett is anything other than a complete nutcase.
Lee?
Oh right, she said any reasonable person.
This guy is considered mainstream by the DU, KOS Kids group.
But then, the rest of us are just blind sheep following a corrupt, evil president.
I personally love the fact that these types are crawling out from under their rocks to see the light of day -- spotlight even.
The more the far left associates itself with these nutjobs, the more rational, decent Democrats will realize how far the leadership of their party has disassociated itself from reason and join the rest of us "blind sheep" in common sense land.
2. Posted by mesablue | July 11, 2006 2:32 PM |
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Posted on July 11, 2006 14:32
3. Posted by Kat | July 11, 2006 2:36 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Oh, yeah, definitely looooooney-tunes! I love his statements at the end about 60% (or whatever) supporting him and his right to teach.
Good lord, what has America come to, that FACTUAL TRUTH is determined by polls?!
Excuse me while I go puke in the corner over there...
-- Kat
www.CatHouseChat.com
3. Posted by Kat | July 11, 2006 2:36 PM |
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Posted on July 11, 2006 14:36
4. Posted by cate s. | July 11, 2006 2:39 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Unfortunately, this guy may be a loon but he's becoming the norm on a lot of college campus'. I have a friend who took her daughter on a couple of campus tours this year and she said that her daughter was amazed at the anti-Americanism that seemed to dwell there. She has decided to go to Purdue and her folks told her just to keep her mouth shut and her head down when dealing with these "learned" types.
I went to college in 1982 and there were a few hairbrained profs but nothing like there seems to be now. Of course the only class I ever failed in my life was a Poli Sci class where I knew I was doomed when I told my prof that I thought Ronald Reagan would go down as one of the greatest Presidents that we ever had. I made a freshman error in the third week of class. However, I found out the hard way to keep my opinions to myself.
4. Posted by cate s. | July 11, 2006 2:39 PM |
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Posted on July 11, 2006 14:39
5. Posted by Skeptic | July 11, 2006 2:41 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Total nut case. Claimed that he KNEW the truth and everyone one else was being duped by the evil BushChimpyMcHitlerHaliburton empire.
I wish that they would use a mute button on filibustering people. He kept interrupting Hannity before he could even start a question.
This man should NOT be teaching anywhere except an institution with white jackets with very long sleeves.
5. Posted by Skeptic | July 11, 2006 2:41 PM |
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Posted on July 11, 2006 14:41
6. Posted by Gringo | July 11, 2006 2:49 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
So all the terrorist attacks after Bush was elected are part of the U.S. conspiracy, but all the attacks pre-2001 were actual terrorist attacks?
You know, I'm not entirely convinced this guy isn't just a bush hater.
6. Posted by Gringo | July 11, 2006 2:49 PM |
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Posted on July 11, 2006 14:49
7. Posted by ed | July 11, 2006 2:52 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Hmmm.
To really get the full flavor you need to watch the that part of H&C. He comes across as a mouth-foaming madman psychologically held together with tape.
7. Posted by ed | July 11, 2006 2:52 PM |
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Posted on July 11, 2006 14:52
8. Posted by VagaBond | July 11, 2006 2:52 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
There have always been 9/11 conspirators. I think they are being given exposure now is because of the mid-term elections coming up.
You have to plants seeds of doubt early to get ready for the harvest in November.
8. Posted by VagaBond | July 11, 2006 2:52 PM |
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Posted on July 11, 2006 14:52
9. Posted by langtry | July 11, 2006 3:00 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Kevin Barrett reminds me of RFK, Jr.: never let anyone get in a word in edgewise. It's like Batsh*t .. er, Barrett ... is giving the Lefty equivalent of putting his fingers in his ears and saying "LA-LA-LA-LA-LA-LA-LA".
This is what happens when you're unattractive to women: makes you bitter and arrogan with a side career in "activism".
9. Posted by langtry | July 11, 2006 3:00 PM |
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Posted on July 11, 2006 15:00
10. Posted by Lee | July 11, 2006 3:25 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Barrett - 1
Hannity - 0
Amazing. Some pissant professor brings Sean Hannity to his knees.
10. Posted by Lee | July 11, 2006 3:25 PM |
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Posted on July 11, 2006 15:25
11. Posted by Paul | July 11, 2006 3:29 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
mesa, Lee can't answer right now... He's busy taking the make-up from his performance.
11. Posted by Paul | July 11, 2006 3:29 PM |
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Posted on July 11, 2006 15:29
12. Posted by Paul | July 11, 2006 3:30 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
HA- He just declared himself the winner
12. Posted by Paul | July 11, 2006 3:30 PM |
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Posted on July 11, 2006 15:30
13. Posted by mesablue | July 11, 2006 3:34 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Lee,
It's amazing how your views filter your comprehension of things.
Actually, it's disturbing. As in disturbed, clinically.
You need some help, bud.
13. Posted by mesablue | July 11, 2006 3:34 PM |
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Posted on July 11, 2006 15:34
14. Posted by Mitchell | July 11, 2006 3:35 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Tough question: who is a bigger nut case, this guy or Lee who spends much of his free time on this board making silly liberal arguments to conservatives.
Both waste their time equally, but not sure who'd the bigger nut.
14. Posted by Mitchell | July 11, 2006 3:35 PM |
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Posted on July 11, 2006 15:35
15. Posted by Lee | July 11, 2006 3:39 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Its amazing to me just how much you guys hinge on my every word.
I don't agree with Barrett's theories, but I do think he handled Hannity extremely well, hence the scorecard above.
But you morons can't read, and just start blabbering as soon as you see my name.
15. Posted by Lee | July 11, 2006 3:39 PM |
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Posted on July 11, 2006 15:39
16. Posted by mesablue | July 11, 2006 3:43 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Lee, we just treat you with the annoyed patience that we extend to any delinquent child whose parents abviously did not give enough attention.
Just found:
Lee when Bush beat Gore.
Lee as he posts on Wizbang comment threads.
16. Posted by mesablue | July 11, 2006 3:43 PM |
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Posted on July 11, 2006 15:43
17. Posted by J.R. | July 11, 2006 3:45 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Well, why not clear things up for everyone here about your opinions on 9/11? Do you believe that Bush had anything to do with its planning? Do you think Bush had any prior knowledge and did nothing about it? Do you believe the planes were hijacked by Islamic terrorists and then crashed in the WTC, the Pentagon, and the field in PA?
Just curious is all and it would clarify a lot for everyone here.
Also, if you believe that good debate tactics include shouting, interupting questions, and spouting off talking points without making sense then yes, your scorecard is correct. Hannity made this guy look like the nutcase he is.
17. Posted by J.R. | July 11, 2006 3:45 PM |
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Posted on July 11, 2006 15:45
18. Posted by Red Fog | July 11, 2006 3:47 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Hannity - 1
Barrett - 0
Lee, you're such a soft target.
Lee, do you have soft hands? Tell the truth, Lee.
Red Fog - 1
Lee - 0
18. Posted by Red Fog | July 11, 2006 3:47 PM |
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Posted on July 11, 2006 15:47
19. Posted by Faith+1 | July 11, 2006 4:01 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
It was more like:
Hannity: 0
Barret: Some imaginary number from a magical land whose absolute value is still less than zero and divisable by zero at the same time.
19. Posted by Faith+1 | July 11, 2006 4:01 PM |
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Posted on July 11, 2006 16:01
20. Posted by Red Five | July 11, 2006 4:05 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
It's not all that surprising that this guy is from UW. Craziness is sorta built-in for Wisconsinites; after all, they are the only state population to have voted a member of the Socialist Party to public office.
20. Posted by Red Five | July 11, 2006 4:05 PM |
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Posted on July 11, 2006 16:05
21. Posted by Big Mo | July 11, 2006 4:11 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
You know that dumb cluck from the Dumbocrat Underground who tried to "prove" the towers came down because of a BushCo plot, using chicken wire, kerosine and a concrete slab?
Seems the fumb duck did an earlier "experiment" that was just as "successful" in proving his supreme idiocy:
http://instapinch.com/blog/?p=196
21. Posted by Big Mo | July 11, 2006 4:11 PM |
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Posted on July 11, 2006 16:11
22. Posted by The Listkeeper | July 11, 2006 4:21 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
That idiot. There's no WAY 9/11 was done by our gov't.
It went off with only minor problems, it was on time, and it was under budget.
22. Posted by The Listkeeper | July 11, 2006 4:21 PM |
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Posted on July 11, 2006 16:21
23. Posted by Lee | July 11, 2006 4:24 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Off topic - This is for Red Five, Mesablue, and J.R. only - the rest of you - don't bother...
Heh.
23. Posted by Lee | July 11, 2006 4:24 PM |
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Posted on July 11, 2006 16:24
24. Posted by J.R. | July 11, 2006 4:59 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Lee,
More handwaving on your part. Once again you evade questions about your actual beliefs and point to something meaningless.
I was just posting a question as to what your actual beliefs are. For most comments, the commenters views can be implied from their comments. You just speak with snark and as if you occupy some sort of moral high ground that the rest of us are incapable of attaining.
I guess it's our fault for actually challenging your assertions instead of catering to them.
24. Posted by J.R. | July 11, 2006 4:59 PM |
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Posted on July 11, 2006 16:59
25. Posted by Red Fog | July 11, 2006 5:10 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
"the rest of you - don't bother..."
Okay, Lee, thanks for the guidance. I'd be less inclined to listen to you in person, let alone lend you $20, because of those ever-present festering lip herpes you picked up down at the docks. Lee, don't be afraid of the big bad conservative juggernaut ...
25. Posted by Red Fog | July 11, 2006 5:10 PM |
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Posted on July 11, 2006 17:10
26. Posted by Lee | July 11, 2006 5:11 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
J.R. - I admit I ignored your question - sorry, but I don't take questions from morons. You're repeated troll attempts puts your squarely in that category.
Just because you're dumb enough to jump through the hoops I hold up for you -- don't assume the opposite is true. I'd scroll up and look at one what you wrote, since I skipped over it the first time, but I have more pressing things to do - like yawning.
26. Posted by Lee | July 11, 2006 5:11 PM |
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Posted on July 11, 2006 17:11
27. Posted by Lee | July 11, 2006 5:12 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Red Fog - see comment above reference "hoops". lol
27. Posted by Lee | July 11, 2006 5:12 PM |
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Posted on July 11, 2006 17:12
28. Posted by mesablue | July 11, 2006 5:45 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Lee,
Why would I (in reference to what was in the linked post) do anything that you tell me to? None of us are here for your amusement -- me, least of all.
Like Red Fog said, you are a soft target, not really even worth the effort.
But, you've become like black mold, insinuating yourself into every thread just to disrupt it. And ruining it in the process -- thus acheiving your sick goal.
You don't have the ability to engage, so you spew crap and loose moobat bits all over the place, never answering a question and not able to venture even inches off the last netroots talking points memo.
But, the best part, and it really is the best part...
You do more damage to any of the things that you say you believe in by your actions here. You remind everyone day after day just how whacked out you and all of your little buddies are.
Annoying insignificant little gnats that no matter how much they shout, kick, bite or scratch can only succeed in driving people farther and farther away.
Every time you open your mouth our type a single keystroke -- you lose.
It's like watching someone kill themself over and over again. But they still have to stick their finger in the socket -- over and over.
Doh!
28. Posted by mesablue | July 11, 2006 5:45 PM |
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Posted on July 11, 2006 17:45
29. Posted by J.R. | July 11, 2006 5:45 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Well stated Lee!
You really showed me and everyone for that matter. You're the best.
-Moron
29. Posted by J.R. | July 11, 2006 5:45 PM |
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Posted on July 11, 2006 17:45
30. Posted by VagaBond | July 11, 2006 5:48 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
One thing I don't understand about the pancake theory to the Twin Towers and WTC 7 is why go to so much trouble and do that? The demolitions I see on TV involved removing and weakening of the superstructure in order for the building to go down. And they didn't pancake. They kinda fell into each other.
Maybe I'm wrong but wouldn't the Twin Towers and WTC 7 have to have had thousands of holes drilled in it with miles of exposed wire to detonate the explosives?
30. Posted by VagaBond | July 11, 2006 5:48 PM |
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Posted on July 11, 2006 17:48
31. Posted by Deb Frisch | July 11, 2006 5:54 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Lee,
Keep up the good work!
You make me go all moist and stuff.
Especially since Lee is androgenous and I can fantasize about all kinds of things.
Deb
P.S. I really wish you would get back to me about the job thing -- my parents just cut me off, again.
31. Posted by Deb Frisch | July 11, 2006 5:54 PM |
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Posted on July 11, 2006 17:54
32. Posted by LoveAmerica Immigrant | July 11, 2006 6:20 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
We just had a long thread on 9/11 denial.
Here is Lee's post directing at another poster, kathy.
http://wizbangblog.com/2006/07/05/teaching-911-denial-at-the-university-of-wisconsinmadison.php#278039
Which engineers are those, Kathy? This is the first I've heard that there were engineers involved in the planning of the 9/11 attack.
Here is how Lee was caught red-handed denying the obvious
http://wizbangblog.com/2006/07/05/teaching-911-denial-at-the-university-of-wisconsinmadison.php#278302
Engineers in al-Qaeda?
Hmm, you mean like Khalid Shaikh Mohammed?
What's that, he never got an engineering degree? Hmm, that's not what wikipedia, the Washington Post, or the LA Times discovered, when they were doing research on him.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khalid_Shaikh_Mohammed#Professional_career
And that's after an exhaustive, two-minute Google search of "Khalid Mohammed engineering."
32. Posted by LoveAmerica Immigrant | July 11, 2006 6:20 PM |
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Posted on July 11, 2006 18:20
33. Posted by Big Mo | July 11, 2006 6:23 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Vagabond - "wouldn't the Twin Towers and WTC 7 have to have had thousands of holes drilled in it with miles of exposed wire to detonate the explosives?"
YEP.
Which would, of course, have required tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of witnesses to this little conspiracy be kept silent.
In other words, lefties that believe the towers came down by controlled demolition are the stupidest, dumbest, mind-numbingly idiotic numbskulls on the planet.
33. Posted by Big Mo | July 11, 2006 6:23 PM |
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Posted on July 11, 2006 18:23
34. Posted by cirby | July 11, 2006 6:28 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Vagabond:
We've seen so much controlled demolition on TV over the years, people tend to think that's the only way to make a building fall down. They use a lot of explosives, very carefully placed, in order to get a very specific result. Minimal shrapnel, targeted collapses, lower sound volumes, et cetera.
If you just wanted to knock the towers down, it would take a lot less explosives (a piece of C-4, shaped correctly, around each column you want cut), and the building would still fall, and would usually fall in a fairly small footprint.
However (and that's a huge however), it would still take hundreds of pounds of fairly high-powered explosives, placed precisely, or a couple of thousand pounds, placed somewhat less carefully, to knock down pretty much any tall tower. It would take some time to set up (hours to days), and people would notice.
A lot of people would notice, or at least note whatever operation you devised for the cover-up.
There's also the "why bother with a huge, complicated 'planes into buildings'" fraud, when you could just blow up the buildings directly and blame it on the same folks... You know, some folks with connections to people who tried to blow them up once before.
The Big Monster Conspiracy Nuts want us to believe that the planners of the attacks are simultaneously supremely evil, extraordinarily devious, and very, very stupid, and had no worries that their very complicated plan would be foiled by, say, a janitor walking into the floor at the wrong time.
34. Posted by cirby | July 11, 2006 6:28 PM |
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Posted on July 11, 2006 18:28
35. Posted by epador | July 11, 2006 6:52 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Hannity: Poor control and poor preparation - a little of the well researched and published DEBUNKING of the controlled demolition theory, and a good retort to the reference to Osama running 9/11 from a cave in Afghanistan being a more ludicrous conspiracy theory, would have left this piece of cowbell dung defenseless.
35. Posted by epador | July 11, 2006 6:52 PM |
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Posted on July 11, 2006 18:52
36. Posted by Violenceworker | July 11, 2006 6:55 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Ya know, if we can't even keep secret how we track the terrorists from the New York Times, how in the world do you suppose we could keep something like this secret?
VW
36. Posted by Violenceworker | July 11, 2006 6:55 PM |
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Posted on July 11, 2006 18:55
37. Posted by Lee | July 11, 2006 7:04 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Hannity: Poor control and poor preparation
Exactly. Barrett walked all over him.
37. Posted by Lee | July 11, 2006 7:04 PM |
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Posted on July 11, 2006 19:04
38. Posted by cirby | July 11, 2006 7:23 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Exactly. Barrett walked all over him.
Stumbled drunkenly, maybe.
Barrett basically walked all over himself, loudly and stupidly, firm in his conviction that his half-learned knowledge is The Truth.
So he's what, your role model or something?
38. Posted by cirby | July 11, 2006 7:23 PM |
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Posted on July 11, 2006 19:23
39. Posted by Totally Matt | July 11, 2006 8:46 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)