{"id":294696,"date":"2024-09-12T06:40:06","date_gmt":"2024-09-12T06:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=294696"},"modified":"2024-09-13T07:21:39","modified_gmt":"2024-09-13T07:21:39","slug":"remember-when-matt-taibbi-called-9-11-truthers-hopelessly-stupid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=294696","title":{"rendered":"Remember when Matt Taibbi Called 9\/11 Truthers \u201cHopelessly Stupid\u201d?"},"content":{"rendered":"

VN Alexander \u2013 Off-Guardian Sept 11, 2024<\/strong><\/h1>\n

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I came out as a truther in 2015 with my 9\/11 novel,\u00a0Locus Amoenus<\/a><\/em>. It wasn\u2019t an easy decision. I anticipated being called \u201cclinically insane,\u201d a \u201cdickwad,\u201d promoting \u201crank steaming bullshit\u201d by the likes of Matt Taibbi.<\/p>\n

Among other notable left-leaning 9\/11 truth debunkers, such as Chris Hayes and Noam Chomsky, Taibbi stands out in my memory as being particular angry, nasty, and very sure of himself.<\/p>\n

As Taibbi writes<\/a>\u00a0in\u00a0Rollingstone<\/em>\u00a0in September 2006,<\/p>\n

9\/11 Truth followers will doubtless argue that I am ignoring the mountains of scientific evidence proving that the Towers could not have collapsed as a result of the plane crashes alone\u2026 To which I\u2019ll have to answer: you\u2019re right. I\u00a0am<\/em>\u00a0ignoring it. You idiots. Even if it were not the rank steaming bullshit my few scientist friends assure me that it is, none of that stuff would prove anything.<\/p>\n

Despite his fairly recent road-to-Damascus conversion, finally realizing that \u201cleft\u201d journalism has lost its way \u2014 and now supports the US Empire, the surveillance state and the censorship industrial complex \u2014 Taibbi hasn\u2019t, insofar as I know, reflected much upon the deeds of his earlier self, when he was a rabid attacker of those who would report a few facts about how gravity works.<\/p>\n

I want to point out that, in Taibbi\u2019s infamous above-mention 2006 article, \u201cThe Idiocy Behind the \u20189\/11 Truth\u2019 Movement,\u201d his main \u201cgripe\u201d is that truthers\u00a0aren\u2019t<\/em>\u00a0conspiracy theorists: he complains that, for the most part, they just analyze the physical evidence pointing to the use of incendiaries, and they do not offer, a \u201cconcrete theory of what happened, who ordered what and when they ordered it, and why,\u201d<\/em> which, of course, the engineers examining the physical evidence could not do, no more than the coroner who does the autopsy in a murder case could do.<\/p>\n

As late as July 2019, Taibbi was still\u00a0bashing<\/a>\u00a09\/11 \u201cconspiracy theorists\u201d by associating the movement\u2019s investigators, who had Engineering or Physics PhDs, with \u201cFlat Earthers\u201d and \u201cMoon Landing Deniers\u201d (yawn).<\/p>\n

But within a year\u2019s time, after he got locked down during CoVid, he started noting how the media censored commonsense notions about how best to deal with infectious disease. This time, he started questioning the official narrative. Not long thereafter, this foul-mouthed\u00a0enfant terrible<\/em>\u00a0of journalism, this wannabe Hunter S. Thompson, became the target of his own kind of snark from his former colleagues.<\/p>\n

No longer with\u00a0Rollingstone<\/em>, by September 11, 2021, Taibbi was\u00a0making the connections<\/a>\u00a0between the \u201cWar on Terror\u201d and the \u201cWar on CoVid.\u201d Two years later, he\u00a0repeated<\/a>\u00a0such observations again on Racket News.<\/p>\n

Now<\/em>, it seems to be clear to Taibbi\u00a0why<\/em>\u00a09\/11 happened.<\/p>\n

Although Taibbi is doing useful work these days exposing how government and Big Tech colluded to censor US citizens, he could say a thing or two about that other kind of censorship \u2014 the most powerful kind: name-calling, dismissiveness, bullying. No one wants to be ridiculed in public. No one wants to be put in that hated group, the Truther, the Anti-Vaxxer, the Anti-Semite, the TransPhobe.<\/p>\n

Taibbi was very effective at getting people to stay silent about an important historical event. I can\u2019t help but speculate that, had more people been made aware of the 9\/11 cover up, more people would have been cynical about government authority and fewer people might have taken the shot.<\/p>\n

When is Taibbi going to admit that the 9\/11 truthers were right? It\u2019s not too late for an apology.<\/p>\n

—<\/p>\n

VN Alexander PhD<\/strong> is a philosopher of science and novelist, who has just completed a new satirical novel, C0VlD-1984, The Musical. You can read and follow her SubStack here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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