I forget where I first saw this, but apparently Charlie Sheen has decided that being married to a woman who played the nuclear scientist in The World is Not Enough now qualifes him to speak on matters of physics:
Actor Charlie Sheen has joined a growing army of other highly credible public figures in questioning the official story of 9/11 and calling for a new independent investigation of the attack and the circumstances surrounding it.
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Speaking to The Alex Jones Show on the GCN Radio Network, the star of current hit comedy show Two and a Half Men and dozens of movies including Platoon and Young Guns, Sheen elaborated on why he had problems believing the government's version of events.
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"It seems to me like 19 amateurs with box cutters taking over four commercial airliners and hitting 75% of their targets, that feels like a conspiracy theory. It raises a lot of questions."
Thanks for your input, Carlos. Mr. Sheen apparently never had the post-9/11 discussions I had with my friends, when we speculated why nobody resisted the hijackers. I pointed out that, until that day, nobody had any reason to believe they wouldn't release everyone once their demands were met. There existed no precedent for flying a plane into a building until September 11th.
The good news, of course, is that this approach is unlikely ever to work again.
Sheen described his immediate skepticism regarding the official reason for the collapse of the twin towers and building 7 on the day of 9/11.
"I was up early and we were going to do a pre-shoot on Spin City, the show I used to do, I was watching the news and the north tower was burning. I saw the south tower hit live, that famous wide shot where it disappears behind the building and then we see the tremendous fireball."
"There was a feeling, it just didn't look any commercial jetliner I've flown on any time in my life and then when the buildings came down later on that day I said to my brother 'call me insane, but did it sort of look like those buildings came down in a controlled demolition'?"
I don't know much about physics, so maybe someone else can explain how high temperatures cause metal to buckle, which in turn causes floors above the heat source to collapse, and so on, and so on. Wait, I forgot, he was the voice of reason in Platoon (and the vengeful ghost in The Wraith). Carry on.
Sheen then questioned President Bush's actions on 9/11 and his location at the Booker Elementary School in Florida. Once Andy Card had whispered to Bush that America was under attack why didn't the secret service immediately whisk Bush away to a secret location?
By remaining at a location where it was publicly known the President would be before 9/11, he was not only putting his own life in danger, but the lives of hundreds of schoolchildren. That is unless the government knew for sure what the targets were beforehand and that President Bush wasn't one of them.
"It seems to me that upon the revelation of that news that the secret service would grab the President as if he was on fire and remove him from that room," said Sheen.
The question of how Bush saw the first plane hit the north tower, when no live footage of that incident was carried, an assertion that Bush repeated twice, was also put under the spotlight.
"I guess one of the perks of being President is that you get access to TV channels that don't exist in the known universe," said Sheen.
It's possible, I suppose. Bush and Cheney could've completely pulled the wool over my eyes, appearing in public as a half-literate chucklehead who couldn't past the TAAS test and an elderly drunk with bad aim, respectively, when in fact they preside over a cabal as sinister and complex as the Borgias. That still wouldn't explain why our government, which can't even get popular support for its agenda when it controls all three branches, would fashion such a monstrous conspiracy (that no participant has yet come forward to expose) and somehow fail to come up with plausible planted evidence to show that Iraq, the country we're currently at war with in part because of their alleged ties to the WTC attacks, was somehow involved. I think those $2500 a night hookers might've knocked a few synapses loose, Charlie.
And Two and a Half Men is a shitty, shitty show.
Listening to actors spout 9/11 theories is almost as ridiculous as listening to movie reviewers refute them.
I guess it's not a lot different than listening to the star of bedtime for bonzo talk about the dangers of communism and the degeneration of american society. oh yeah that's right he was president for 2 terms. but you're right.....christmas jones husband is a moron.
Listening to actors spout 9/11 theories is almost as ridiculous as listening to movie reviewers refute them.
Yeah, my apologies for forcing you not only to read that same movie reviewer's blog, but comment on it. I am history's greatest monster.
Pete, ridiculous ain't all that bad. Mine was just a general comment on the state of things, not your fine blog. I apologize in turn.
Whew.
I was positive that one of the Perfectly Cromulent Boosters would be forced to mention how a certain poster's first name was conveniently appropriate.
Luckily, we avoided that low road, and maintained our rigid adherence to the virtues of tact, restraint, and class.
Charlie Sheen is one of the strobnger arguments for retro-abortion.
Um....make that "stronger" arguments for retro-abortion.
What I want to know is, who are the idiots at the so-called CENTRE FOR RESEARCH ON GLOBALIZATION who think that the crack-head mimbo Charlie Sheen is a "highly credible public figure"?
Maybe Charlie and Tom Cruise could have a nice discussion about psychiatry. 'Tards.