Greg Palast apologizes to Dr. Steven Jones: "An apology and hope for reasoned discourse"
Guess what, Greg? Not all of us are as nice and forgiving as Dr. Jones (much to his credit) was in this dialogue with you. So let's say you haven't been knowingly complicit in the coverup--that means that you are, instead, an ass and a moron. The fact that it took the threat of a lawsuit for you to admit that you are an ignorant buffoon shows that you are also a weasel. Playing the anti-semite card as your sole defense aside from pleading ignorance also says a lot, I think. What are we to make of you, Greg? After all, didn't you go to school with some of the neocons you claim to oppose? Could it be that just maybe you have been playing controlled opposition this whole time? Hm? Maybe?
Greg Palast apologizes to Dr. Steven Jones: "An apology and hope for reasoned discourse"
Greg Palast responded to me on 9 Aug 2007: "An apology and hope for reasoned discourse " For the record, here is the exchange (in brief – several people had input to Greg and I including Peter Phillips, David Ray Griffin, Jack Blood, “Galenâ€, and Ron Rattner).
1. Dr. Jones email to Greg Palast (12 June 2007):
Dear Mr. Palast,
On May 10, 2007, in an INN TV interview, you made statements which were blatantly defamatory when you called me, by name, a "complete and utter fraud" and a "fruitcake." I demand either a retraction or substantiation of your accusations -- publicly.
A lawyer friend affirms that your statements, available here: http://youtube.com/watch?v=r2oFTiEpIBQ , constitute "malicious defamation."
You taunted: "Mr. Jones, come at me!"
Here I am.
I am ready to respond to your specific objections to my papers, or issues you wish to raise which support the "official story" of the Bush/Cheney administration, after you have first verified that you have actually read what I have written on the subject of controlled demolition at the World Trade Center:
http://journalof911studies.com/volume/200704/JonesWTC911SciMethod.pdf
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"Greg Palast Has Entered Rehab"
That's what the headline should be -- because isn't that what people do these days when they are forced to admit that they have stepped over a line from which there is no return? When they are, as my kid would say, "BUSTED!" ?
Says Greg: "I am quite disturbed that commentary on the September 11, 2001 attack has become so poisoned; and as a result, reasoned discourse is just impossible." Now whose fault is that? Hmmm? Nasty, mean-spirited, ad hominem-inclined ogres like Dr. Steven Jones?
Is is just me or is the
Is is just me or is the "apology" almost as patronizing as the initial outburst? And where's the refutation of Jones' work? He finds it "unconvincing". How come? Speak up Greg, I can't hear you over the sound of a hundred miniature violins playing in honor of your hurt feelings for receiving an anti-Jewish email. This is his response? what a joke.
discussion of 9/11 has become poisoned?
because starting out by blaming Arab Muslims on the basis of planted "evidence" was what--antidote? kinda sucked for Afghanis when the discussion bombed them back to the stone age when they asked for evidence of bin Laden's guilt, eh Greg? And when the discussion shifted to Iraq's complicity, well, at least it was the air, water, and land that were poisoned (oh and some people) and not the discussion! But now, alas, the discussion has been poisoned by noxious appeals to reason and toxic insistence on verifiable facts and evidence. You're a smart guy, Greg, do we REALLY have to spell it out? OK, one more time for Mr. Palast...
GREG!
you chose... poorly. no eternal life or magical healing of gunshot wounds for you! this round goes to Dr. Jones!