Topic: Seditious Rosie
Well... slow news week, except for Rosie O'Donnell apparently being the latest candidate for the media firing squad.
I'm sure most of you have seen or heard Rosie's comments on The View by now, or at least heard about them from some other talking head.
Her assertion was that World Trade 7 was the first time in history that fire had brought down a steel structure. It's curious why she'd think that, with Towers 1 and 2 having fell the same way hours before.... oh right the planes.
Estimates are that 30 million people watch The View, so this has got to be a little eye-opener to a lot of people who wouldn't otherwise have heard about WTC7, probably prompted quite a number of searches about it.
I can't decide if this is a limited hangout allowed by tptb, or if this is her view alone in the matter. If it was her opinion, and she held back somewhat the other details and evidence in order to make her statements more appetizing to the clueless dolts, then I understand.
But, naturally O'Reilly and his ilk are using this as an example of what happens when a celebrity goes against the grain, to try and discourage any rational thought, to make everything emotion-driven. A video site I frequent posted the clip- they have a comment section, and normally the comments on any particular video runs 3-500. The Rosie clip has at last check garnered nearly 6 THOUSAND comments.
I've seen poll info in the last few weeks about whether the American public believes the official story of 9/11, and it was running about 20% according to results. SO, 4/5 of Americans DO NOT believe the official story. If I am to go by the comments the Rosie clip got, however, then I would have to believe that it is more like 50/50, at best.
Yes I know there are plenty of thumbsuckers who register on those sites just to have an opportunity to be profane and stupid, but there were surprisingly many who had good info and links to 9/11 data pages, and were coming at it from a calm and educated angle. Didn't seem to matter much, the overall consensus was that "conspiracy theorists" should die and such.
So it was a little sad, seeing how so much of the youth, and even not-so-youth were armed with nothing but hateful and ignorant remarks. Yes, public education has indeed served its purpose on this issue, anything said in doubt of governmental authority and wisdom will be met with fire breathing vitriol.
My question is, do you think this will have any overall impact, or will she go the way of Charlie Sheen?
She is of course a known lesbian, so almost all of the negative comments are personal attacks, I don't remember there being as many personality trait- type comments directed at Charlie, but that one just sort of faded, and interestingly, her comments came almost exactly one year after Mr. Sheen's, is this all we get? One celeb per year, one conspiracy theory poster child to laugh at?
.......sigh J