Rosie O'Donnell Gets Sucker Punched

Is it now the case in America that we are not allowed to think, even erroneously, lest we be branded a traitor? So says the writer of the article:

For God sake we have enough stupid people in government saying stupid things
, wake up sir! Then you are saying what's wrong with yelling fire in a
theater...its my given right to speak out!.....makes no difference if 911
happen the way it did or not, or whether there are people inside the theater.

There a lot of us that look up to celebrities, but sweet Jesus when you hear
and see an individual pop venom off on any issue and with out any kind of
evidence.

When don't you ask Sheen and Rosie when was there last medical check up? One more question, if those people that shoot blindly from the hip were commoners like me, would anybody listen to them?

Frank

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Matt Hutaff's Rosie O'Donnell Gets Sucker Punched was quite possibly the
best commentary I have ever read on the subject of media pundits and how
they fail to debate things intelligently and professionally. I, like Matt,
acknowledge that I do not know the truth about what happened on that day but
it is vitally important for me to find out what happened; there's no other
way to do that than to ask questions and investigate, and who in their right
mind could have a problem with that?

As a Canadian, I'd never heard of The Simon before, but I assure you, I plan
to take a good long look in the hopes that it is one of those rare media
outlets that tells it like it is and isn't afraid of the truth -- always and
forever.

Thanks Matt,
Steve

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Why is it an absurd notion that no plane hit the Pentagon? There was no
wreckage,the hole in the building was too small,and plenty of military
people reported seeing helicopters  before the incident and still more
reported smelling cordite an explosive.Investigate further my friend and
people like odonnell wont have to do the work the journalists are supposed
to.

RL

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Nice article, you just won a new reader. WTC7 is the key that woke me up
a few years ago. NIST has still not released their final report! I guess
they are trying to come up with their 6th excuse that might actually
stick.
Thanks,

AJ

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Good article! - Amazing! Shades of Nazi Germany? 1984? government
propaganda stormtroopers are in attack mode. I am a conservative and I
don't agree much with Rosie but she does have a right to say what she
thinks. I wouldn't put it past our present government to pull something
like 9-11. Look how our rights were stripped from us by puppet
politicians who cared more for the RNC than the USA using 9-11 as their
battle cry. What a power grab by the feds! Amerika has become divided in
many ways. Here's another one. Most government school educated americans
have no idea what the constitution is about. I took a philosophy course
on Logic. You point the fallacies out very well.
Thanks,

John

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Matt: thanks for sticking up for Rosie.
I wouldn't be too sure about a  passenger plane hitting the Pentagon. How about you telling us your thoughts in what really happened and what is bogus. For starts--911 / Anthrax killings were not done by  arabs. --Guess who really did it?
Cheers !

George

This is How We Deal with Earthquakes: Living and Having a Life

I suppose I am a veteran of several earthquake tours beginning with the
Sand Canyon quake of 1971.  I was in Catholic grade school at the time
and remember three things.  1)  The hardwood floors vibrated under our
feet as we scrambled out of bed wondering what the heck was going on.
We were all new to this earthquake thing.  2)  School was closed for the
day and since I don't live in the snowy east, this didn't happen often.
3)  The news continually showed a section of the 2 Freeway dropping off
into nowhere.  It was in the process of being completed but looked like
the scene from Planet of the Apes when a character stumbles upon the
Statue of Liberty half buried in the sand.  

Since then there's been the Whittier Quake, the Bay Area Quake during
the World Series and the Northridge Quake and a host of others too
numerous to list.  All have had the eerie quality of a hideous, sleeping
giant and all have been relegated to somewhere back in the mind.  I was
on business in the Bay Area for three weeks prior to that quake
regularly traveling from Oakland to the City on the freeway that
collapsed over the Bay Bridge that lost a section.  To this day, I feel
lucky to have concluded business when I did or I might have been one of
those pancaked people suffering the worst commute fate of all.  After
the Northridge quake, the neighbors gathered out in the street to assess
the damage.  There was virtually none.  But, due to a citywide blackout,
we had a reminder that the lack of stars in the sky is not so much
because of air pollution, but because there is so much ambient light
from this vast expanse of community.  So many stars shone that darkened
night.  A day or two later, I was trimming trees and was up in one with
a chainsaw when an aftershock hit.  I recall the large picture window in
the house above us rattling first then the tree swaying back and forth
as I nervously tried not to cut off one of my limbs.  That was actually
kind of fun.  Another quake preceded a trip I had to take down to the
Imperial Valley which is somewhere between Mexico and hell.  I actually
changed the route to avoid going near the epicenter.  Why do this after
the fact?  Who the hell knows?  It just freaked me out.  But on the
drive, every over pass I traveled on, suspended 150 feet above the
concrete, seemed suddenly unstable and just waiting to collapse.
Creepy.  

Anyway, all is quiet now and my biggest worry is not whether I'll have
enough water or food in the event of a major quake.  No, it's having a
large enough arsenal to hold back my neighbor who inevitably won't be
prepared and will be trying to borrow or steal mine.  Yes those
earthquakes are most often out of sight but not quite out of mind.

Kevin

Alan Greenspan: How Ya Like Me Now? 

So Greenspan bites his bragging from Wyclef?  That's cute.

More seriously, I think you might have gotten your salary comparison backwards in the third paragraph: from a quick Google, I gather Greenspan made about $180,000 from his job in 2005.

Tim