October 07, 2004

It’s a Conspiracy, Man!

The Washington Post ran a goofy article today about conspiracy theories, centered around this stupid belief lots of people seem to have that a plane didn’t really crash into the Pentagon on 9/11. Like all those “people scared about the draft” stories, the piece finds such theories inherently worth writing about, for no reason other than “people are talking about it.”

Worst of all, no where in the story does the author even bother to, say, debunk the theory that the Pentagon crash was faked. Or, oh I don’t know, ask the question of why the plotters of such a hoax would bother to stage an explosion while simultaneously making an entire airplane disappear. I guess it’s a sad day when we know we can trust Snopes more than the Washington Post.

Posted by Stephen Silver at October 7, 2004 06:01 PM
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