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Monday, July 6, 2009 12:00 AM

The craziest thing you'll ever read

MTV reality stars go on a conspiracist radio show, talk 9/11 Truth and the government's birth control plot

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Monday, July 6, 2009 03:05 PM

Great career move

No doubt this will have LOADS of resonance with the MTV crowd.

Monday, July 6, 2009 03:17 PM

Thanks for playing

And you just gave them the audience that they crave for their performance art by publicizing this. When will you guys learn?

Monday, July 6, 2009 03:20 PM

Whoa Dude

That is some seriously messed up stuff. Let's hope the conspirators are successful in getting birth control into their fluoride free water so they don't reproduce.

Monday, July 6, 2009 03:21 PM

No, they're just retarded, like most of you

They're just stupid. And for the record, Megan Fox is bar none, the dumbest person on earth. She may really be slightly retarded.

Monday, July 6, 2009 03:26 PM

In case you were wondering who these Palin supports are they keep referring to.

Look no further.

Monday, July 6, 2009 03:29 PM

What bothers me.

What bothers me about these believers of "end times" is that they disregard the ramifications of their own personal actions. They feel persecuted and that alone justifies their own outlandish

prejudices. They like the persecution because it reinforces their righteousness. Just cant trust those kind of folks.

Monday, July 6, 2009 03:41 PM

The Offical Conspiracy Story of 9/11 is a Lie

Notice how none of the "educated" comments to this article discuss the merits of the Official Conspiracy Story of 9/11.

The Official Conspiracy Story of 9/11 is a Lie - Millions of people around the world realize this. There are absolutely too many holes in the Bush/Cheney/NORAD version of the events of that day.

9/11 was the pretext for the War on Terror, mass traumatized the American People and remains at this point the most criminal event in U.S. history.

Monday, July 6, 2009 03:52 PM

It was shortly after 9-11 when this same virus tagged me...

it was all about "cui bono?" who benefitted from it all and what about the Bush-Ben Ladn family connections ... well, duhh, oil...

And I was trying it on for size and as much fun as it was, it just didn't fit .. and in discussing it with a friend, an older man who's been blind since childhood (that's relevant, since he doesn't get to see the illusions involving false smiles and sleight-of-hand) and he -- knowing me a long time, and knowing I've enjoyed playing with conspiracies, even floating a few absurd ones for fun -- he reminded me of something I'd pointed out a long time ago about conspiracies -- if there's actual evidence, it's a big AHA! and if there's NO actual evidence, it's a big "AHA! THEY"VE DESTROYED THE PROOF! -- and he said:

"It's not that they WERE involved (Bush-Cheney-Rumsfeld) that bothers you -- you know they weren't and even if they were, there will never be any proof -- what bothers you -- and me --it's knowing that these men are CAPABLE of being involved in a monstrous crime like this --- that is what is so disquieting."

So Heidi Montag and her hubby are doing a huge service to America -- because when people who are discernibly stupid and possibly deranged (well who isn't?) run about espousing their beliefs, it really makes it clear that it's time to look in the mirror -- because if people like that believe something that, if you also believe it would make them like you and be your friends, you'd better worry about who you are.

So thanks to those two for reminding us of the difference between investigation and insanity, the difference between guard dogs and mad dogs.

Monday, July 6, 2009 03:54 PM

Wow. Just Wow.

It is amazing how the human mind can create misinformation from coincidental patterns. It is even more amazing that some people will embellish and spout this misinformation to other people. What is quite incredible is how a broadcaster will carry said wingnuts on the air so thousands or millions of others might be convinced of that misinformation.

Alex Jones believes the real world is one great big lie and that a New World Order is upon us. Sadly, if enough morons like the reality stars believe him, he will have created enough panic from his misinformation message that a NWO of idiots will have emerged. What tripe!!

Monday, July 6, 2009 03:54 PM

@kozandaishi

Is it really that much of a stretch to believe that Bush and Cheney were/are incompetent and overconfident boobs who were caught with their pants down on 9/11? Really?

That they capitalized on the event is no big surprise, but the idea that there's this secret cabal of elites who manufacture events like these - and that an idiot like GW would be a part of this group - is too much.

Occam's razor FTW.

Monday, July 6, 2009 03:54 PM

How and Why

How and why do people like this even get air time? In my life, in all of my daily interactions with every day people, I find most to be reasonable, fairly articulate and informed. I mean, if I were at the local grocery store and someone started talking like this, most folks would walk the other way. How is it someone with such paranoid delusions can not only get air time but make money also? My wife and I gave up television a few years ago so we miss most of the slop, and we've wondered what might happen if a majority of people just stopped watching. Completely stopped watching for several months or even a year. Turning the crap off for a day means nothing. But I suspect if there were a majority who turned it off for a significant period of time there might be some sort of change, a move away from such outlandish and kooky "realities."

Monday, July 6, 2009 03:55 PM

these people

are human parasites. They engage in whatever stunt seems convenient at the time in order to keep the tabloids paying them for their non-stories and lousy pictures.

Note the use of the word parasite. The relationship between these scumbags and the population at large is not a symbiotic one, and if people had any sense whatsoever they would stop buying the magazines and reading the "news" stories that pay their income. Let these talentless nobodies actually work to put bread on their table, for pete's sake.

Monday, July 6, 2009 03:58 PM

There are times I'm really glad I don't watch TV.

This is one of them.

Has anyone considered the idea that "reality television" is an oxymoron?

Monday, July 6, 2009 04:05 PM

@saintperle, gesellig

Truthers present physics along with a host of rational arguments. if you're going to disaparage them, please come up with something more compelling than a blind man's logic and the old Bush-is-too-stupid. They stole two elections, took away your freedoms, transferred TRILLIONS of dollars from the U.S. treasury to their cronies, for starts. What a bunch of fuck ups!

I won't hash through the 9/11 argument here. You know where to find them on the internet, and you should be able to quickly distinguish the loony from the serious. And no, I don't rely on Alex Jones for my information. And no, it's not based on cui bono.

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