Boy if this doesn't look like trouble...
A HUGE thanks to the MuscleHeads that showed up to help us pass out the "The REAL Truth Behind 9/11" pamphlets at Ground Zero this evening. Between Alarming News Karol's 5-6 blog friends, 4-5 of my listeners and MKH and camera guy we had a blast and unloaded 1000 pamphlets right at the Ground Zero Port Authority train line.
I think MKH got lots of great interaction between normal people and Truthers who were more than mildly irritated that we showed up. Sure to show up this weekend on HamNation.
Never one to be shy as soon as Karol had broken open the box I began shouting at the top of my lungs - two feet away from the Truther section, "Get the shocking real TRUTH behind 9/11, it WAS the hi-jackers that crashed our planes into our buildings, and fire really does weaken steel."
Three of the Truthers attempted to engage us endlessly in discussion so as to prevent our unloading the pamphlets - and in part to keep me occupied and prevent my loud-speaker effect from drowning out the Truther dudes who probably had been there the better part of the entire day. Even though there were only about 10 of us and for the most part it was about 7 of us passing the fliers out, we had a blast.
Some of the more irate Truthers came over about the time I ran out of fliers and began to attempt to dress me down on the following "proofs" of trutherism...
1. Where's the proof that the hi-jackers were on board the planes... (Hey I see your eyes rolling but I'm just telling you the ones they laid on me...)
2. If steel only liquifies at 2800 degrees and airplane fuel could only produce and inferno of 2000 degrees - then the buildings had to be imploded from within. (Of course as MKH pointed out today: "Steel weakens at as low as 400 degrees. At 980, it’s at only 10 percent strength, according to industry experts. As the core steel columns weakened, load-bearing was transferred to the building’s shell. As the fires continued to burn, multiple floors weakened, sagged, and pulled on the outside structure causing total collapse."
3. Where's the proof that United 93 crashed in Shanksville?
4. Why didn't the feds scramble jets before the flight hit the Pentagon given that it hit roughly 50 minutes after the second jet hits the Twin Towers.
What was really far more fun for me than enduring these inane theories that have long since been credibly debunked by Popular Mechanics, was to turn the tables on the Truthers and force them to answer questions.
Nearly all of which the refused.
Simple things like:
If it wasn't the actual planes... where did we hide 4 Boeing Jets and all the passengers?
If the terrorists weren't on the planes, how did their voices end up on the 911 calls from United 93 as well as the black box/com systems?
If they believed that the Pentagon and the Shanksville flights WERE Government planned - would the Truther at least cede the Twin Tower flights as terror attacks - since we have gads of actual footage of the planes going into them?
Most disturbing of all, according to Zogby (hts to MKH and HotAir), 42% of Democrats now believe at least SOME of the Truther theories concerning 911.
My day was a long one today. It started by me finishing up the final touches on the NEVER FORGET video at 3am. I did radio in Columbus on the commemoration of 911. Did my normal broadcast AND still made it to Ground Zero in time for the 5pm Anti-Truther TRUTHER protest. Then reported live for Frank Pastore in Los Angeles on KKLA concerning 911, and the Truthers.
Sorry we didn't blog more today, but if you missed the broadcast today, I would really recommend not just listening to it - but downloading the entire podCAST and keeping it. Classic footage of President Bush, Dr. Billy Graham, and many special moments with New Yorkers reflecting on 911.