BAD PRESS: New York Press really should be ashamed of themselves for running last week's cover story, by Alan Cabal, which rehashes some truly bizarre conspiracy theories about 9/11. While it's certainly worth asking questions about the intelligence failures that failed to prevent that tragedy, all the author does in this case is look up wacky theories from the internet and presume them to be fact.
Cabal, thankfully, does resist the temptation to blame the tragedy on Israel/the Jews, somewhat surprising considering his past sympathy for the "Holocaust revisionism" movement, in addition to comparing Israel to the Nazis on numerous occasions. He does, however, attempt to link the president to the hijackings because, you see, his brother Marvin Bush was on the board of directors of a company that had a contract with Dulles airport, and that's where one of the flights took off from, you see... meanwhile, the head of security for Logan Airport in Boston was Gov. William Weld's former chauffeur, but since his last name wasn't "Bush," that's of no concern to Cabal.
This whole this-person-knows-this-person-who-worked-with-that-person-who's-
cousin-is-that-person-who-knows BUSH is reminiscent of the worst excesses of the Village Voice, and I had always thought New York Press (for which I've written on occasion) was there to counteract that sort of thing. Not anymore, apparently.
But even worse, Cabal endorses the theory that no plane crashed into the Pentagon at all, though he neglects to even try to explain how, exactly, the building was damaged, or where the plane or all the people on it went. And why the Bush Administration would purposely kill, among the passengers, the conservative author Barbara Olsen, wife of Bush's own Solicitor General.
Even in a piece in which Cabal approvingly quotes a 9/11 widow who claims that George Bush "intentionally allowed 9/11 to happen to gather public support for a war on terrorism," the worst of all is this:
The internet is boiling with analyses of the 9/11 event. In Europe, a fair number of people believe the American government was complicit in the attacks. According to recent polls, one-third of young Germans believe this.