The Huffington Hoax
By Bob Fox
Like many liberals/progressives in this country, I was very happy when The Huffington Post was launched on the web in 2005. The left needed a voice on the internet and Huffpo provided it. Being a writer, I also engaged in posting my opinions on many articles at Huffpo over the years as the site became a force on the internet.
But then I started to see some troubling practices at Huffpo. For one, out of every five posts I would submit, I would only have two posted after the moderators at the site looked at my posts. The subject matter involved usually was about the JFK assassination or the events of 9/11. It got me to the point that where I stopped posting at all on the site and rarely visited the site anymore.
In addition to that, I started to see articles in Huffpo that were very disturbing and very similar to the way the mainstream media has reported events like the JFK assassination. Articles like this one for instance. What a bunch of malarkey. That particular story was torn apart by many experts including this excellent retort by Jim Fetzer and Jim Marrs.
At the same time I also read this article by Jim DiEugenio and a pattern was evolving. Then earlier this year I heard Governor Jesse Ventura and Dick Russell on Black OpRadio with Len Osanic. Jesse had been promoting his great book American Conspiracies: Lies, Lies, and More Dirty Lies that the Government Tells Us, and he told another very troubling story about what happened with Huffpo. Ventura and Russell wrote a story for Huffpo asking for a new investigation about what really happened on 9/11/01.
The story was posted by Huffpo and then was removed. The post was removed because according to Editor at Huffpo, “The Huffington Post’s editorial policy, laid out in our blogger guidelines, prohibits the promotion and promulgation of conspiracy theories — including those about 9/11. As such, we have removed this post.” This is rather astonishing when you consider that the “official account” of 9/11 involved a conspiracy (among 19 alleged hijackers and their control and command by a guy off in a cave in Afghanistan). So Huffpo appears to be telling the world that 9/11 is “off limits”!
Are we seeing a pattern yet folks? Then recently, I saw this outrageous article in Huffpo as well. Shermer doesn’t have much credibility as he proved when he debated Fetzer in September of 2007 talking about 9/11 as you can listen tohere. I have also written about how ridiculous the “lone nut” theory is. But Shermer’s “expert”opinion ended up in Huffpo. Why? Because Huffpo doesn’t want to get out the REAL truth about what happened on 11/22/1963 OR what really happened on 9/11/2001.
More insight about Shermer’s “agenda” can be found in a recent column he wrote for scientificamerican.com, of all places. Shermer suggests that conspiracies involve superhuman powers and the knowing involvement of large numbers of persons. That scenario did not take place when John Kennedy was assassinated. It also didn’t take place when Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated. In addition, it also didn’t take place when Robert Kennedy was assassinated. And it certainly didn’t take place with the events of 9/11.
These conspiracies involved human powers and varying numbers of participants. Each case has to be evaluated on its own terms. Shermer is offering an exaggerated conception of what it takes to have a “conspiracy”, while also trying to minimize the chances that they actually take place. It’s an old trick folks. It’s called disinformation. While he comes across as a personable fellow, most of his comments about conspiracies are simply wrong. As one of his commentators observes, they are factually challenged and poorly reasoned.
That is why he was given the forum of Huffpo to state his “opinion”. Because when it comes to the JFK assassination and 9/11, Huffpo only allows people that side with the government explanation as to how those events transpired. It is truly astonishing that a publication like this would “moderate” those who have important points to make that are contrary to its tacit positions. Perhaps they don’t want Huffpo to advance understanding of these issues as the commentaries in scientificamerican.com have turned into a tutorial about 9/11!
Yes…I know that Huffpo does some nice work. In the world of politics, it exposes a lot of the lies that permeate the United States and the world today. That is good. But Huffpo also keeps the lid on the two biggest lies ever perpetrating on the American people. That is NOT good.
The MSM (including The Huffington Post)as a whole does not want the truth of the JFK assassination or the events of 9/11 ever to come out. Why? Because they are almost as guilty as the forces that truly committed those heinous crimes. Why? Because they helped cover up the true facts about what really happened during those events. It’s too late now to come clean. That is why the Discovery Channel has put out their attempt at disinformation with recent shows about the JFK assassination on the network.
Luckily, these feeble attempts have been ripped to pieces by critics here, here and here. Those are just three examples. There are many more. So why is the Discovery Channel and why is Huffpo covering up the truth about the JFK assassination and also the events of 9/11. Demographics baby! The Huffington Post and the Discovery Channel fall into the demographic group that includes many younger people in this country. My 19 year old son is included in that group, as he is an avid viewer of Discovery Channel (though not the JFK assassination junk thankfully).
The MSM is trying to infiltrate into the younger minds via Huffpo and Discovery, as they know they are losing the battle with the American people as a whole regarding the JFK assassination and the events of 9/11.Only about25% of Americans believe that the Lee Harvey Oswald was the lone nut assassin in the JFK murder. Even FOX News said that. At least a third of the American public believe that the events of 9/11 happened because of an inside job by the U.S. government as well. That group is growing everyday.
The internet is the reason why the truth is growing in this country. Sites like Black Op Radio and The Real Deal with Jim Fetzer educate people about real facts and not the disinformation that many in the MSM try to feed you. The government and the MSM are trying very hard to suppress the internet as well. Examples are here and here. This past week we also saw the FCC rule on Net Neutrality, which will not help things at all.
I have faith that most of the people in the United States see through this charade, especially the young people. Yes, FOX News, Rush Limbaugh and others will continue to “dumb down” America with their disinformation and rhetoric, but most see through their efforts. What isn’t so easy to see are the efforts by Huffpo and the Discovery Channel as they and so many in the MSM try to hide and lie away the two darkest secrets that have ever occurred in America. That is almost as criminal as the events that actually occurred on 11/22/1963 and 9/11/2001.
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Bob Fox has been a writer for http://packerchatters.com/?p=21871, has done work regarding the JFK assassination: http://www.ctka.net/2010/perry.html, and has been on Black Op Radio with Len Osanic and The Real Deal with Jim Fetzer. He is currently a moderator at JFK Murder Solved.com at http://www.jfkmurdersolved.com
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May,2010
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What are “superhuman” powers?
the huffpost must have had a moment of forgetfullness.. and posted an article about 9/11 here..
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/11/24/andrew-napolitano-fox-bus_n_788219.html
huffpost rules state they wont publish comments to do with the 9/11 conspiracy theories.
A lot of my comments were censored, but put back when i complained the offical version of events, is a conspiracy theory!
close to 11,000 comments .. before people got fed up being censored, in the end, i coulnt get even the mildest comment published.
i gave up.. i only signed up to comment on that story.. useless huffpost
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I would propose an obvious notion: the Huffington Post is nothing more than another Leftwing Gatekeeper. Among the major Leftist Gatekeepers, most of whom are controlled by the donations/grants upon which they rely such as the Ford Foundation, etc., would be Noam Chomsky, Amy Goodman and Democracy Now, Alexander Cockburn, Antiwar.com, CounterPunch.org, and far too many others to list. These Leftist Gatekeepers are just as destructive to American freedom as are O'Reilly, Hannity, Limbaugh, and the Neo-Cons on the Establishment Right who love war and imperialist expansion. When you see both sides working together to cover-up 911 Truth and the assassination of JFK…there is a serious problem.