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To: Lane3 who wrote (208847)	6/18/2007 1:14:53 PM
From: Sdgla	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793851

<Did it ever occur to you that she's just plain nuts? > She is in the publicity/ratings business. Nuts is what sells.

To: Lane3 who wrote (208847)	6/18/2007 1:45:57 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793851

But what is that influenced her to believe that 9/11 was an inside job and America has killed 600,000 Iraqis? Did it ever occur to you that she's just plain nuts? If she were alone, she would be nuts. But she's far, far from alone, as I think we both know. This is a question from a Rasmussen poll last April According to Rasmussen Reports, respondents were asked, "Did Bush know about the 9/11 attacks in advance?" Twenty-two percent replied that he did, 55 percent that he did not, and 22 percent were not sure. According to the poll: "Thirty-five percent of Democrats believe he did know, 39% say he did not know, and 26% are not sure. Republicans reject that view and, by a 7-to-1 margin, say the President did not know in advance about the attacks. Among those not affiliated with either major party, 18% believe the President knew and 57% take the opposite view." mediamatters.org The step from "knew in advance and did nothing to stop it" to "an inside job" is small and easy to take. Many more people than just Rosie have taken it. But I don't see anything that focuses her vituperation at America. It seems like it's directed towards the powers that be or at least at a world view of which she doesn't approve. The "powers that be" just happen to = America, America, America. Or perhaps I should spell it with a "k"? She isn't accusing anybody else of committing massacres - like, say, the people who actually did commit them. It's only America that is to blame. Just like Chomsky cleared his throat on 9/12/2001 and declared that although the WTC attacks may have been bad, America's bombing a Sudanese aspirin factory was worse. These people are utterly, myopically fixated on America and Israel, every bit as much as Ahmedinijad of Iran. Nobody else can act. Listen, and you will hear this as a common theme. America acts, everybody else merely reacts, and very understandably and excusably too. Nobody else can act. Nobody else can take moral responsibility either. So we have moral perversions that blame America more for not stopping the genocide in the Sudan than blame the Sudanese government for committing it in the first place. I think the psychiatrist blogger Dr. Sanity is onto something, when she blames multiculturalism and displacement for the phenomenon. Multiculturalism is the philosophy that says all cultures are equal. In practice, it suspends judgement from any culture that cannot be called "ours" - i.e., Western, European. But since cultures can be judged from within by their relative standards, if you can call it "ours", you can judge it as harshly as you please. This is the philosophical basis for judging America far more harshly for failing to prevent AQ from blowing up marketplaces, than AQ for blowing them up; that subjects "white" Israel to an entirely different standard of judgement than "brown" Palestine, that could care less when Arabs kill each other, etc and so forth. Displacement is the neurotic response that moves a fear from its proper target to some other less threatening and more controllable target. Dr Sanity blames it for otherwise rational people claiming that the real threat to this country is a takeover by radical evangelicals or neo-con fascist storm troopers that Bushitler has waiting in the winger. These people also believe that the threat of Islamist terrorism is essentially non-existent, having been invented to control America with fear. You should read her for more explanation.