'Horrifying Fraud': A view from France

Washington Times ^ | 6/28/02 | R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr

[kattracks]

It is summer reading time, and I have a perfect book for Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, New York Democrat, to bring to Martha's Vineyard, that posh resort where she and husband Bill always find a nice captain of industry to loan them a cottage with servants and golf clubs. The book is a modern French masterpiece, "L' Effroyable Imposture," by France's next Jean-Paul Sartre, Thierry Meyssan, a sleepy-eyed moderate leftist, whose title, translated into English, reads "The Horrifying Fraud."

[muawiyah]

Yessirree, doggone it, that "Vast Right Wing Conspiracy" really does exist. For instance, R. Emmett Tyrrell is some sort of relative of mine, and our Great Grandfathers were business partners in Nashville and Seymour, Indiana.

Then, when I once became an employee of the federal government, G. Gordon Liddy swore me in.

I work for a religiously motivated and conservative guy who also uses only the first initial of his first name, just like E. and G. above!

January a year ago I attended a big party with Ann Coulter and Bob Barr (and Jim Robinson, et al), and it just goes downhill from there!

Funniest thing, though, when that airplane came over a hard-core Democrat friend of mine's house and took off her TV antenna, her being too poor to pay for cable, she became a Republican before it got to the Pentagon! And she's staying that way too!

My cousin (and E.'s cousin, too) was on the 5th floor of the outer ring in the Pentagon and that plane slid in under where he was. Colonel Murphy saved him and others. Their eyewitness accounts were that the pieces and parts they saw were those of an airplane.

The USPS Board of Governors was meeting on the 11th floor at L'Enfant Plaza at the time. They saw the plane crash into the Pentagon.

There so many eyewitness accounts of the event that the only people who could possibly believe this preposerous French story are brain dead, or they use illegal chemicals, or they are rabid America haters who should be barred from entry.

[JZoback]

50 years from now our children will be throwing rubber bricks at their T.V.'s because some revisionist cheese eating surrender monkey is talking about this book on "Hannity & Colmes" (The early bird edition)

[DB]

The truth is out of fashion in France these days.

[SkyPilot]

_{Pentagon undergoing reconstruction after impact}

I attended aircraft accident investigation course a few years ago in Texas. The guy who taught it (Mike Grost) was very experience, having investigated hundreds of accidents.

He taught us to recognize debris fields, trajectories of impact, etc. When I first heard about this "Where is the plane if the Pentagon was really hit by one?" junk---I thought it was a prank, a bad joke, a game.

An aircraft traveling that fast and deliberately hitting a building the size of the Pentagon does not leave much in the way of wreakage intact. Look how much of the Pentagon it did destroy--and that building is made of reinforced concrete and limestone.

Tinfoil aside, even this one would be laughable if it were not so tragic.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Where is the plane if the Pentagon was really hit by one?

This was actually debated by the tinfoil hatters on FR. The answer was, of course, "in smithereens."

[Jumper]

In America there are no demonstration against foreign heads of state, we treat them with respect in spite of our differences....

But leftists in America denounce our leaders, as do the European's who are considered more left than "right". The European Left always whipped up by the press over there seems to find lots of people who draw government benefits without work to do to come out and demonstrate against American leaders.... 'nuff said!

[Palmetto]

For instance, R. Emmett Tyrrell is some sort of relative of mine,

Hmmm.....did a m00se once bite your sister? If so, then there can be no doubt...

[Robert357]

If the French believe this I now understand why their culture has died a slow death. The ability to separate fact from wishful thinking is a critical cultural survival skill.

I wonder if the French also believe that the streets of NYC are paved with gold?

[TADSLOS]

Any fool can look at the famous "red zone" on the U.S. map and understand that there is a vast right wing and we don't need to resort to conspiring. The Clinton's did that themselves and went into deflection mode. Conspiracy is what the French live and die for. Their whole history is based on it. What a bunch of loons!

[muawiyah]

Remember the law they busted Bridgette Bardot under? That same law could be used by an agrieved American against the writer, in France. Or we cold ask "W" to send a wave of B-52s over Paris dropping assorted surplus atomic warheads.

[muawiyah]

Napoleon should inspire Americans. He was, after all, our ally and friend. He sold the Louisiana Territory for peanuts and managed to ship all his relatives (who weren't caught, tarred, feathered and tossed into the Marne by the Brits) to New York State.

No doubt if he'd had it to do all over again he'd become a bargeman on the Ohio!

[neutrino]

I attended aircraft accident investigation course a few years ago in Texas. The guy who taught it (Mike Grost) was very experience, having investigated hundreds of accidents.

But, see, you're bringing in facts and logic. How can one possibly have a decent conspiracy theory if you insist on doing such things?