Showing posts with label Absurdity. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Absurdity. Show all posts

Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Really?

Via Andrew Sullivan, here's a fascinating celebrity delusion. Charlie Sheen won't drop the 9/11 truth bollocks. I have a question for Charlie Sheen (I won't pretend to interview him). In the minds of the 9/11 truthers, the attack was all government pretext for the invasion of Iraq and the broader crusade in the Middle East. So, Mr. Sheen: if 9/11 was staged to go to war with Iraq, and our own government couldn't come up with anything linking "staged" 9/11 attacks to Iraq, why didn't they write the conspiracy to actually implicate Iraq? Couldn't they have had some fake Iraqi hijackers? Or heck, throw in some Iranian ones to get that war going too.

CS – Mr. President, I implore you based on the evidence you now possess, to use your Executive Power. Prove to us all Sir, that you do, in fact, care. Create a truly comprehensive and open Congressional investigation of 9/11 and its aftermath. The families deserve the truth, the American people and the rest of the free world deserve the truth. Mr. President -

(He pauses. We shake hands).

CS – Make sure you’re on the right side of history.

(The President breaks the handshake).

PBO – I am on the right side of history. Thank you Charlie, my staff and I will be in touch.

(I watch as he strides gracefully out of the room, the truth I provided him held firmly by his side; in the hand of providence.)

You know who else were obsessed with being on the "right side of history" and thought they were doing providence's work too? The dreaded "neoconservative cabal." (They also both probably liked Red Dawn.) Please stop attempting to influence public affairs.

Furthermore, there is a dependent clause after that semicolon.