Spectator to Palin: Do you support a new investigation of 9/11?
posted at 9:45 pm on October 29, 2008 by Allahpundit
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13,000+ views on YouTube and counting thanks to her surprise answer: She does indeed support it. Has the ‘Cuda gone Rosie on us? Nah. Her reasoning:
I do, cause I think that helps us get to the point of never again. Anything we can do to keep that reminder out there.
I.e., sure, because it’ll help us stay vigilant about jihadism — which of course isn’t at all what this guy has in mind. Consider this a case of a newbie not recognizing the agenda behind a question because she hasn’t been exposed to it long enough to know the code words. Note to S.P.: If anyone asks you whether you think fire can melt steel, the correct answer is, “It doesn’t have to melt it. It only has to weaken it.” Trust me.
The YouTube comments are, predictably, comedy gold. Exit quotation: “She’ll say anything guys. These are the people who Ok’d the attack for god’s sake.”
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Xnk9aqih8o
This is a direct from the Obama campaign Your Tube video. Saw it on NRO. It’s wonderful!!!! Just ignore their message and look at the images.
Marcus on October 29, 2008 at 9:50 PM
Weaken steel! Brilliant!
Vatican Watcher on October 29, 2008 at 9:50 PM
Sarah OK’d the attack? C’mon, Lefties, is she stupid/naive, or evil-insider?
jgapinoy on October 29, 2008 at 9:51 PM
Not watching.
Not worth giving the Troofers any time.
Dr.Cwac.Cwac on October 29, 2008 at 9:51 PM
lulz.
Pent. on October 29, 2008 at 9:51 PM
I call for an immediate investigation into the transformation of so many American brains into pea soup.
Elizabetty on October 29, 2008 at 9:51 PM
Ugh. These people will never stop.
D0WNT0WN on October 29, 2008 at 9:53 PM
Sarah could never be Rosie, even if she were a Truther.
It's Vintage, Duh on October 29, 2008 at 9:53 PM
I was around nine when JFK was killed and I can remember a rumor going around that LBJ had a file about Kennedy’s death that could opened only after his daughters passed away. I am surprised there isn’t some stupid story like that going around. Give the truthers something to live for. People love conspiracies.
Cindy Munford on October 29, 2008 at 9:54 PM
One of her Secret Service guys looks a lot like Biden. I mean, I know he is majorly crushin on her, but jeez, STALKER!
surrounded on October 29, 2008 at 9:55 PM
Truthers.
I hate those guys.
Slublog on October 29, 2008 at 9:57 PM
I doubt if Sarah Palin really knows how many crazy people there are out there. If she did, she might go back to Alaska and hunt moose and say to hell with all this.
Terrye on October 29, 2008 at 9:59 PM
Obama has “steel” in his spine, but it’s quickly melted by hot air from dictators.
SouthernGent on October 29, 2008 at 10:02 PM
How long till Team Obama chops the first two words of her answer into an ad?
BadgerHawk on October 29, 2008 at 10:02 PM
Yeah. The whole 9/11 attack was planned in Palin’s city councillor’s office in 2000. But the MSM won’t tell you that. Bastards.
CanadianGuy on October 29, 2008 at 10:05 PM
???? Oh boy….
Dritanian on October 29, 2008 at 10:05 PM
Me, I think another examination of the 9-11 commission would be a great idea….just how does Jamie Gorelick manage to get into the middle of so much trouble all the time?
cthulhu on October 29, 2008 at 10:07 PM
Depends on if they have any more surprise infomercials planned
Tacitus_SGL on October 29, 2008 at 10:07 PM
Correct answer Palin to Spectator: Why would we do that?
highhopes on October 29, 2008 at 10:09 PM
Do all the Truthers go to an annual convention….in, like, you know, one building?
Patrick S on October 29, 2008 at 10:11 PM
Troofers are the best….they can deny the existence of mettalurgical knowledge known since the bronze age with such aplomb debasing their nueroses *almost* feels like a tragedy….
sven10077 on October 29, 2008 at 10:14 PM
I like and fully support your thinking!
highhopes on October 29, 2008 at 10:15 PM
Truthers still exist?
lorien1973 on October 29, 2008 at 10:16 PM
Looks like the Bush Paradox will simply become the Palin Paradox.
The Bush Paradox is the left’s insistance that Bush is both a total bungling idiot while at the same time being the world’s most formidable and menacing evil genius.
Makes sense to the morons on the left…and the tinfoil hat wearing, John Birch Society, Coast to Coast Right.
SuperCool on October 29, 2008 at 10:17 PM
Sarah’s a truther? Say it ain’t so, Joe!
Typhonsentra on October 29, 2008 at 10:17 PM
Stop underestimating her and assuming her ignorant.
Consider this a case of the political savant. It takes skill to turn a question born of malice into an answer of love of country.
Spirit of 1776 on October 29, 2008 at 10:18 PM
After the McCain/Palin win in ‘08…..
I would love to see a 9/11 redux commission…………
……… this time with Jamie Gorelick under oath.
Next……
The commission into the economic disater perpertrated by the CAR act, Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, Barney Frank, Chris Dodd, Barak Obama, and oh yeah, there she is again Jamie Gorelick…… all under oath……..
……. this will not go away, even if it becomes the story that I tell my son, to tell his son, to tell his son, this is not going to go away.
Seven Percent Solution on October 29, 2008 at 10:18 PM
Truth to power,Truthers have Moonbats lose in their
belfrys me thinks!
They seems to miss the ballistics of a very large
jet coming in really fast,and blowing off the fire
insulation off the steel girders for starters!
This is the same ilk of Alex Jones!
And Alex Jones should forget the NWO,and pay attention
to Dorhn and Ayers who are Obama’s buddies!
Obama’s buddies are the idiots that are really trying
to overthrow America!
Akex Jones,you moron,are you taking notes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
canopfor on October 29, 2008 at 10:20 PM
I love Mozart’s Requiem. Too bad the nutz are trying to use it to create a haunting image of Palin.
shick on October 29, 2008 at 10:21 PM
Oh crap,thats Alex,not Akex!
canopfor on October 29, 2008 at 10:21 PM
Whatevs. I’d rather talk about the cupcakes on the Obama girl in the Caesar’s Palace ad on HotAir’s right margin.
Dude.
Jaibones on October 29, 2008 at 10:22 PM
American Spectator is like so friggin ’90s. Gimme a break.
Coronagold on October 29, 2008 at 10:26 PM
Gorelick will be “Vince Fostered” before that ever happens.
highhopes on October 29, 2008 at 10:27 PM
Dude
Jailbones on Oct 29,2008 at 10:22PM.
Jailbones: Dude,I see hamburgers and flowers?
Wait a tick,where did the hamburgers go!!!
haha.
canopfor on October 29, 2008 at 10:28 PM
YOU FRICKIN’ IDIOT — WHY ARE YOU WASTING OUR FRICKIN’ TIME WITH STUPID, DIVISIVE, IDIOTIC POSTS LIKE THIS?!!!!!
WHY DON’T YOU CHAIN YOURSELF TO A STOP SIGN AND SET YOURSELF ON FIRE – THAT WOULD HELP AMERICA!!!!!!!!!
grtflmark on October 29, 2008 at 10:29 PM
I got hosed with a stupid FTD ad. I want cupcakes.
BadgerHawk on October 29, 2008 at 10:35 PM
Hey,, here’s something worthy of a post,,,
http://wizbangblog.com/
JellyToast on October 29, 2008 at 10:35 PM
I think Obama will be the next Edsel.
JellyToast on October 29, 2008 at 10:38 PM
Don’t be an idiot conspiracy theorist, its so unbecoming of an otherwise normal, rational person that you should be.
wise_man on October 29, 2008 at 10:38 PM
Speaking of Florida:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vg8B7fSlJeY
Bishop on October 29, 2008 at 10:38 PM
That bodes very well for next week.
BadgerHawk on October 29, 2008 at 10:38 PM
Looks like the Paulnuts will finally vote for the McCain/Palin tick ;-P
DethMetalCookieMonst on October 29, 2008 at 10:42 PM
Feel the love, Allah. Feel the love.
Personally, I’m hoping for a Palin win and a return to UFO
videos.
Mister Ghost on October 29, 2008 at 10:44 PM
W00T!
Sekhmet on October 29, 2008 at 10:45 PM
That bodes very well for next week.
BadgerHawk on October 29, 2008 at 10:38 PM
Yes indeed, when the full weight of people who don’t want to run around bragging, “I voted for Obarky!” show up to kick his ass to the curb.
McPalin win.
Bishop on October 29, 2008 at 10:45 PM
And the slandering, blood-sucking profiteering, ignorant, and anti-Semite 9/11 “truthers” all shouted in unison:
That’s because we make them wear that silly hat while in public.
Sergeant Tim on October 29, 2008 at 10:52 PM
We have Rules About Silly Hats and they are Very Serious.
RushBaby on October 29, 2008 at 11:02 PM
I firmly believe that we need a new 9/11 investigation to find the real truth about the government plot – right after our lead investigator finishes looking into those pesky crop circles.
fred5678 on October 29, 2008 at 11:02 PM
My first thought was that she did a great job turning the question around. Then I read AP’s take and I was thinking… Whaaaaa? Where does he get this stuff?
pugwriter on October 29, 2008 at 11:05 PM
Well, I am the chief enforcer of tin-foil hat wearing when it comes to those particular slime balls. For me, it is personal.
Sergeant Tim on October 29, 2008 at 11:07 PM
AP got it exactly right.
Sergeant Tim on October 29, 2008 at 11:09 PM
I am disappointed in this thread. First, it’s Allah basically calling this guy a Truther. I watched the video and nowhere did he sound like a truther.
He asked about the sick first responders, a reality that cannot rationally be denied.
If I missed something, somebody correct me.
Second, there’s this:
There was no insulation to blow off. During the construction of the towers, the plans called for the steel support beams to be coated with an asbestos paste (like a broken arm cast). But the environmentalist wackos either sued or threatened to sue because of the hazards of asbestos to the workers. They ran the problem back to the designers who concluded that a fire in the tower probably could not get hot enough to matter. So they ditched the asbestos.
When the planes hit the towers, the thousands of gallons of jet fuel proved that they had not done sufficient “what if” scenarios when deciding the asbestos issue.
Had the towers been built the way they were originally designed, it is unlikely that either one would have fallen.
So when you think of environmental activists as just harmless users of the First Amendment, think again. They have a lot more blood on their hands than the guys who club baby seals.
Anecdotal tale has it that even Osama was surprised at the towers falling. He should know – he’s got at least one American engineering degree in the construction field.
We need to stay on track if we ever expect to keep the loonies at bay.
platypus on October 29, 2008 at 11:12 PM
First, I do not endorse the burning of AP. I hope that remark is retracted if that was the intent. AP does drive me nuts over the poll fetish, but hey, what would HotAir be without AP torturing us with loon polls. This however, was noteworthy.
LOL! + 1 from me! Loved this.
And I second the Jamie Gorelick comment! Start with her regarding 9-11 and end with her at Fannie Mae! Woman should be in jail!
freeus on October 29, 2008 at 11:16 PM
Al Gore and the Granola Munchers killed the space shuttle as well….
sven10077 on October 29, 2008 at 11:18 PM
I had crop circles in my carrot patch but they were from the dumb neighbor kid doing donuts with his dirt bike.
whitetop on October 29, 2008 at 11:18 PM
lol whitetop
johnnyU on October 29, 2008 at 11:25 PM
So, after her initial response, she asks the guy, compassionately, if he was affected by 9/11 and he went into his talking points, at which time she gracefully blows him off.
So why is this blog worthy?
pugwriter on October 29, 2008 at 11:31 PM
There’s a lot of bad info in the 9/11 Commission Report. The release of The Path to 9/11 would help clear some of it up.
Connie on October 29, 2008 at 11:36 PM
There never was any space travel, man. It was a conspiracy filmed on the same sound stage where they pretended to kill Elvis and JFK. Al Gore is Elvis. It’s the man making it happen, man.
Laura in Maryland on October 29, 2008 at 11:44 PM
It can very credibly be argued that Gorelick’s actions and decisions as Clinton’s Assistant Attorney General, specifically in her creation of the “WALL” betwen the FBI and CIA, resulted in a greatly reduced intelligence capability-one that most likely would have sniffed out the plot before it was completed.
It can also be credibly argued that she should have been questioned under oath by the 9/11 Commission. Instead, she was made a member of the Commission itself. If she had been an Assistant AG in a Republican Administration, would that have happened?
And as you all may or may not remember, during the 9/11 hearings when the evil John Ashcroft noted that the WALL was built by this member of the Commission, the Leftist college kids in the gallery shouted him down.
And remember, after she created this wall, she went to and plubered Fannie Mae. She’s obviously the one in DC with the pictures of Bill and Hillary Clinton having sex with each other.
Can’t make this stuff up, folks.
Del Dolemonte on October 29, 2008 at 11:45 PM
Perhaps it would. Yet while much of what is in the 9/11 Commission’s report has been politicized, most of what is there was written as factually as possible. There is much we can never know for we’ve killed many terrorists who could fill in blanks and knowing secrets that have since kept us safe (what works and doesn’t) we are better off not knowing. If some things were deliberately changed to conceal methods and operations, good on them.
What pi**** me off is the “truthers” peddling their conspiracy crap while speaking for me. Their wild statistic that something like 77% of family members and first responders want the investigation re-opened is pure B.S. The political hack family members, a couple profiteering survivors, and those BS’d by both those groups want it re-opened, that’s all.
Sergeant Tim on October 29, 2008 at 11:53 PM
I thought it was the Illuminati/neocons/Larry Sliverstein/NYPD/Bush/Cheney/Wolfowitz/The Joos/Republicans/New World Order.
I’ve been following these trolls closely for years, and I still can’t figure out what the hell they think happened.
:-s
Good Lt on October 29, 2008 at 11:56 PM
a comment at utube from smitty to a truther
too funny
these truthers are going to fall off the edge of the earth
abinitioadinfinitum on October 29, 2008 at 11:59 PM
It’s the phone cops, man. They’re everywhere!
This is going to get so twisted up by the MSM and Obambi. Fearmongering anyone?
Laura in Maryland on October 30, 2008 at 12:00 AM
DD, while Gorelick deserves the lion’s share of the blame for the Wall, read chapter 7 (if memory serves) about the FISA court judge who instigatigated it and the chain of command that drove her policy writing. Who I hold most responsible for the Wall is Janet Reno. I don’t have the footnote close at hand but I believe she received two reports (1999 and 2000), prior to 9/11, on its ill effects on intelligence sharing and should have torn it down based upon them. If you email me through my web site, I will gladly provide you chapter and verse. But in addition to the Wall and Fannie/Freddie, Gorelick was also instrumental in the Boumediene decision.
Sergeant Tim on October 30, 2008 at 12:09 AM
If another investigation gets rid of homeland security department, brings the head of the CIa, FBI, and NSa up on charges of groos neglicence of duty and gets us to protect and secure our borders I’m all for it. If it is just another whitewash to increase the size and power of government like the last one was i’ll pass
unseen on October 30, 2008 at 12:15 AM
I wouldn’t be so quick to place the newbie tag so quick on Cuda. She could just be brushing off the obviously loaded question and spinning it as, “sure, let’s never forget”, and move on to the next relevant question.
Kini on October 30, 2008 at 12:27 AM
I like the earlier comment about BO being the next Edsel. Maybe someone can do a nice photoshop of that.
I think the truthers blame the government because it is not as frightening as believing that there are really (at least) a billion people out there who want to kill us. Bush the baby eater will go away one day and everything will be all better. It’s an easier fear for them to live with.
deewhybee on October 30, 2008 at 12:54 AM
Yeah, I’d kind of like a new 9-11 investigation… As long as it is structured like this:
I’d like them to find an explanation on: How could Jamie Gorelick be a major, directly culpable and obvious part of the two biggest American disasters in the last 40 years, and never even be called to defend her actions?
LegendHasIt on October 30, 2008 at 1:24 AM
These are the people who Ok’d the attack for god’s sake.”
Yeah. The whole 9/11 attack was planned in Palin’s city councillor’s office in 2000. But the MSM won’t tell you that. Bastards.
CanadianGuy on October 29, 2008 at 10:05 PM
Yes they have the tape of the meeting, but promised their source the wouldn’t release it. :)
N4646W on October 30, 2008 at 1:25 AM
Only one question for all you Truthers out there. Why ain’t you dead? If Bush could pulloff the 9/11 thing he shouldn’t have any trouble getting Jason Bourne out of retirement to off all you pesky peckerwoods to keep things quiet.
djaces on October 30, 2008 at 1:38 AM
+1
and no Richard ben Veniste on the panel either.
funky chicken on October 30, 2008 at 1:41 AM
Shhh! Our hunter-killer teams will strike them on 11/9. Don’t tell anyone; it is a secret and them being the paranoid types, if they knew we were about to come for them, they’d be afraid, very afraid.
Sergeant Tim on October 30, 2008 at 1:45 AM
She did handle it really well. I might prefer Bill Clinton’s reaction to the troofers from last winter, but to keep things positive at a campaign rally, Palin couldn’t have done much better. She is extremely impressive.
funky chicken on October 30, 2008 at 1:46 AM
I got a little PO’d at a troofer on a job last year. They were on about the fire/steel thing, and I gently corrected them. They brought it up again five minutes later, I corrected them again, and told them they could look it up if they wanted to.
The next day, I overheard him saying it again, so I yelled form the next room “Dude, what the **** do you think they use to melt steel, water?”
A round of laughter later, I didn’t have to listen to that particular line of BS again.
Though I almost slugged the SOB when he went off on “Jewish bankers.”
Paulnut, if you hadn’t guessed. The only other Paulnut on the gig was pretty much the same way, only lazy and incompetent and subsequently unemployed shortly thereafter.
Merovign on October 30, 2008 at 2:07 AM
Of course fire can’t melt steel. It naturally comes out of the ground in the shape of spoons, gears, car doors, rebar, etc.
fusionaddict on October 30, 2008 at 3:07 AM
I keep expecting these “truthers” to get a clue and slink away in shame and disgust at their own rank stupidity, but they keep hanging on to their (repeatedly) disproven theories and contentions. They really need to cover that turd of an idea with kitty litter and move on.
SKYFOX on October 30, 2008 at 5:38 AM
Well AP, either Palin’s answer was a noob answer like you suggest, or perhaps it was a machiavelian masterstroke. Think about it, by answering as she did she completely disarmed and turned the truther’s question around. He couldn’t shout at her that she was covering up because she said yes to a new investigation. He also can’t claim that she believes as he does because she stated her reasons, and they are different from the truthers. She pwned him.
wolfva on October 30, 2008 at 5:56 AM
Yeah, I totally agree.
JellyToast on October 30, 2008 at 7:36 AM
Troofer vote locked up! woot!
lodge on October 30, 2008 at 7:36 AM
Wait, wasn’t it all done under the direction of Trig? I think that’s what Andrew Sullivan believes.
rbj on October 30, 2008 at 7:59 AM
Idiot troofers need to go back to poking around Roswell and watching Star Trek reruns, instead of trying to mix with actual people.
NoDonkey on October 30, 2008 at 9:04 AM
Whizzman, considering the amount of froth you spew everytime someone posts something vaguely critical of your candidate, you’re the last person that needs to lecture anyone about being rational. Go sit in the quiet room and let the grown ups talk.
Kinda funny…all the abuse of power shenanigans going on by Obama supporters (state employees, media, ect) just to get him elected, and no one cares. It’s all just part of the game. But there are still people who think George Bush has a crew of ninjas on standby to kill Americans only, and Dick Cheney has his x-box that can remote pilot cruise missiles that look like airplanes. And that’s 20% of our population believes some version of that garbage. Barking mad these people are.
austinnelly on October 30, 2008 at 9:10 AM
I had a student teacher the last 9 weeks…he was a truther. A science teacher.
Oh my gosh.
Bob's Kid on October 30, 2008 at 9:48 AM
LOL @ austinnelly. At least I don’t go off on idiotic rants like you do and accuse someone who quoted a line from a video of being a pervert like you did to me here. At least askheaves and CCRWM tried to set you straight. Well, that obviously didn’t happen. You know when you participate in this type of projection, accusing me of the things that you suffer from, and other people laugh at you … it’s very embarrassing. For you. Please seek help. Therapy can do you a lot of good.
wise_man on October 30, 2008 at 10:18 AM
Well Allah consider this a case of a “newbie” locking up all the votes in one fell swoop:
a) You, because voting against her, would keep her out of the limelight.
b) The conservative/Republican/military/war hawk vote.
c) The truther vote.
d) If in doubt about any “remaining voting matrix”, refer to a)
Mcguyver on October 30, 2008 at 10:29 AM
I think you might both be right, actually.
Sarah Palin is really fascininating to me. I like her a lot, and I’m not afraid of her, but I can start to empathize with people who do, and I don’t mean that in a trash-talking kind of way.
In this quote she shows enormous political talent the way she answers the question with literally no hesitation and yet comes up with the perfect response. That is an enormous amount of power that in the hands of someone who didn’t have good intentions at heart, would be pretty freaking scary.
Combine that with 8 years of telling themselves “KKKarl Rove and Dick Cheney are planning to put us away into camps” and you can see the fear.
Even if you aren’t ordinarily paranoid about things, if you sense that she has this talent and are worried about her ultimate motives, I can see why it would be unnerving.
RINO in Name Only on October 30, 2008 at 11:22 AM
I hate me.
RINO in Name Only on October 30, 2008 at 11:24 AM
I have a question:
Does fire melt Twoofers?
That is an experiment I would subsidize…
catmman on October 30, 2008 at 11:38 AM
fixed…
BHO: “my Muslim faith”
CapedConservative on October 30, 2008 at 11:42 AM
A bit of an over-reaction, no?
platypus on October 30, 2008 at 11:51 AM
I agree. I think she knew exactly what the questioner was getting at. Good on her.
InCali on October 30, 2008 at 12:28 PM
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