Comments on: Our Morning Roundup: The (9/11) Truth Hurts

By: Truth Hurts

Truth Hurts — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 01:08:10 +0000

Poor title, Riggs. I know I criticized your Whole Foods blog, but play fair, dude. Or do you want all out war?

By: Mike Riggs

Mike Riggs — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 14:41:31 +0000

@KCinDC: Not Congress as a whole, just the Senate. The House if full of dullards; Senate is a smarter group.

Jones signed a petition that said Bush let the terrorist attacks happen in order to wage a war. Truthers believe the biggest reason to start an unnecessary war in the Middle East is to be closer to the import/export action.

Why else would Jones have signed a petition accusing Bush of letting 3,000+ Americans die? You seem to know more about his motivations than I do--did he sign the petition because he thinks Bush is a sadist who likes watching planes crash?

Re "More prominent positions in their part." Jones works directly for Obama, the prez. How much more prominent can a political position get?

None of this is really worth debating--I was just pointing out that neither side is without douchebags.

By: MN

MN — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 14:34:06 +0000

If you're in charge of green jobs, isn't that what you should think of Republicans? Another classic Washington scandal right - someone gets caught telling the truth.

By: KCinDC

KCinDC — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 13:14:03 +0000

I don't understand your point about congressional staff. We have members of Congress who are themselves birthers (or at least much closer to being birthers than Van Jones is to "believing that your country murdered more than 3,000 citizens in order to fuck with gas prices", which wouldn't be true even if he said he agreed with the petition), but none of them have come close to resigning. If there's a double standard about birtherism and trutherism, it's that birthers are given a lot more media coverage and have much more prominent positions in their party.