Maddow slams right-wing mainstreaming of crackpots like Alex Jones

[DonViejo]

By David Ferguson
Thursday, April 25, 2013 10:17 EDT

Wednesday night on MSNBC’s “The Rachel Maddow Show,” host Rachel Maddow chided the right for giving credence to the crackpot conspiracy theories of Alex Jones and bringing the most extreme fringe thinking to the front and center of the Republican Party.

Maddow began the segment by talking about the 9/11 Commission Report, a book and graphic novel about the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, which attempted to spell out exactly what happened that day and in the days leading up to it.

She also recommended the Popular Mechanics volume Debunking 9/11 Myths, which attempted to debunk the misinformation about the collapse of the World Trade Center towers and refute some of the “9/11 truther” theories about the attacks being planned by the U.S. government.

“Of course it didn’t work,” Maddow lamented. “The 9/11 conspiracies have stood up to the facts disproving them. The 9/11 conspiracies have not gone away because they’re too ideologically and, I think, emotionally satisfying to the people who espouse them.”

The same people, apparently, who believe that the 9/11 attacks were engineered by the government are applying the same “false flag” theory to the Aurora, Colorado shooting, the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Connecticut and now the Boston Marathon bombing. Some have even gone so far as to disrupt press conferences by public officials in Boston.

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[Cooley Hurd]

1. Oh, c'mon. Everyone knows WTC7 was brought down by photon rays...

...generated from the torch of the Statue of Liberty!

...and here comes the Truthers in 3,2,1...

[HappyMe]

3. I thought that The Black Helicopters

and King Kong were involved somehow.

I find it kind of funny that they call themselves 'truthers'.

[Eleanors38]

5. Nah, nah, it was a Romulon Plasma Anomaly outta Kenya!

As the mass media model collapses, you too can join the scramble for Legitimacy, Inc.!

[get the red out]

2. The mainstreaming of Alex Jones

Has been worrying me for some time.

[cynatnite]

6. Seems RW media has conveniently blocked out the truther BS. n/t

[get the red out]

7. They appear to use what they need

Cognitive dissonance is nothing new to them. They don't have the attention span of your average puppy.

[jakeXT]

4. I know only of one representative, who said 911 was an

inside job.

That was Cynthia McKinney, Ron Paul and Kucinich never really went that far.

Cenk, Phil Donahue and Jesse Venturea demonstrated how not to behave on MSNBC.