# Bobby Fischer speaks out to applaud Trade Centre attacks **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 2, 2001, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bobby-fischer-speaks-out-to-applaud-trade-centre-attacks/96513 "2001-12-02T22:52:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Muad\_Dib](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/35a633/32.png) [@Muad\_Dib](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muad_Dib)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2001, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bobby-fischer-speaks-out-to-applaud-trade-centre-attacks/96513/1 "2001-12-02T22:52:08Z")
Ya know, I think I am going to chalk this one up to him simply being a nut job. Bobby Fischer speaks out to applaud Trade Centre attacks By David Bamber and Chris Hastings (Filed: 02/12/2001) _Article deleted for copyright reasons. Read the link - CF_ [http://www.portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/12/02/wfisc02.xml&sSheet=/news/2001/12/02/ixhome.html](http://www.portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/12/02/wfisc02.xml&sSheet=/news/2001/12/02/ixhome.html) [Edited by Coldfire on 12-02-2001 at 06:37 PM] ---
**Author:** ![CRorex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dfb087/32.png) [@CRorex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CRorex)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2001, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bobby-fischer-speaks-out-to-applaud-trade-centre-attacks/96513/2 "2001-12-02T22:58:16Z")
Wow, someone in the world thinks bobby fisher is important enough to listen to. Man, why am i not famous? ---
**Author:** ![BoBettie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@BoBettie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BoBettie)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2001, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bobby-fischer-speaks-out-to-applaud-trade-centre-attacks/96513/3 "2001-12-02T23:30:12Z")
I can never figure out why we’re supposed to care what these “famous” people think. Bobby Fischer? For all I care he can shove his Queen up his ass and yell “checkmate” over and over in a nuthouse. Why does his anti-American crap matter any more then the next guy’s? To me, it’s like saying: “Totally unknown man, Joe Joverson applauds WTC attacks. Yep, no one knows me, but I think it’s great”. No one would pay attention to this idiot (except maybe the FBI), so why do we care? Zette ---
**Author:** ![Shayna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shayna/32/17976_2.png) [@Shayna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shayna)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2001, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bobby-fischer-speaks-out-to-applaud-trade-centre-attacks/96513/4 "2001-12-02T23:47:53Z")
Thanks for sharing the article, **Muad’Dib** , however, by reprinting it in its entirety, you’re in violation of copyright laws. See the [Terms and Conditions](http://www.portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;%24sessionid%24RR2W4YQAABXJPQFIQMGCFGGAVCBQUIV0?view=TERMSCONDITIONS&grid=P9) from the linked site, which say, in part: > [@](#): > > Users are permitted to copy some material for their personal use, but may not republish any substantial part of the data either on another website or as part of any commercial service without the prior written permission of Telegraph. And since it also puts you in violation of the rules of this board, I’d suggest emailing a moderator or administrator and asking them to delete the text and merely refer people to the link. As for the content of the article, Fischer may be a moron with no grasp whatsoever of the facts, but he’s hardly the only one who holds the opinions he expressed. And that’s what’s truly frightening. * * * I really appreciate your consideration in avoiding stepping on my penis - **Spiny Norman** [sup][sub][sym]©[/sym][/sub][/sup] Jeg elsker dig, Thomas [sup][sub][sym]©[/sym][/sub][/sup] ---
**Author:** ![IzzyR](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/2acd7d/32.png) [@IzzyR](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IzzyR)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2001, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bobby-fischer-speaks-out-to-applaud-trade-centre-attacks/96513/5 "2001-12-03T00:15:25Z")
Previous thread [here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=93837) (BTW Shayna, I don’t think BF is a moron or anything close to it. He is, however, a person with a lot of mental problems). ---
**Author:** ![Muad\_Dib](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/35a633/32.png) [@Muad\_Dib](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muad_Dib)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2001, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bobby-fischer-speaks-out-to-applaud-trade-centre-attacks/96513/6 "2001-12-03T00:16:17Z")
Oops, sorry about that. A few of the reasons why it is a bit significant what Fischer says are: 1. He is not just a nameless nobody. During the late 60’s early 70’s the guy was on the front page of every paper in the country and considered a national hero. he met with presidents and premiers and was actively used as a major piece of pro-America propaganda against the soviets. 2. The guy is a major recluse, to the point where most folks thought he was dead until 3. So that he went out of his way to publicize this is noteworthy in and of itself. 4. He is (supposedly) a genius. ---
**Author:** ![Shayna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shayna/32/17976_2.png) [@Shayna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shayna)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2001, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bobby-fischer-speaks-out-to-applaud-trade-centre-attacks/96513/7 "2001-12-03T00:33:47Z")
Please allow me to clarify my statement with regard to Bobby Fischer being a moron. IQ aside, anyone who believes the U.S. had this coming, actually applauds, and is _happy_ about, this violent terrorist act against thousands of innocent civilians and then spouts off about some “international Jewish conspiracy” is a bloody moron. ---
**Author:** ![Zenster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/cdc98d/32.png) [@Zenster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zenster)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2001, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bobby-fischer-speaks-out-to-applaud-trade-centre-attacks/96513/8 "2001-12-03T02:49:08Z")
What a dipstick fuckwit. Chess genius or no, he just dropped off the civilized world’s A list. ---
**Author:** ![BlackKnight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/eb8c5e/32.png) [@BlackKnight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlackKnight)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2001, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bobby-fischer-speaks-out-to-applaud-trade-centre-attacks/96513/9 "2001-12-03T03:04:18Z")
The only reason I’d ever listen to anything he said would be that he’s just so damned interesting, psychologically. Someone should put him in a cage and study him. ---
**Author:** ![Violet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/ebca7d/32.png) [@Violet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Violet)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2001, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bobby-fischer-speaks-out-to-applaud-trade-centre-attacks/96513/10 "2001-12-03T03:16:26Z")
I guess he has an axe to grind because he lost his U.S. citizenship. Of course, he did it to himself: [http://www.ishipress.com/bobby-in.htm](http://www.ishipress.com/bobby-in.htm) The bottom of the above site has some interesting links about him. I doubt if he’d sing the same tune if he’d been injured at the WTC or Pentagon on Sept. 11th. What a waste of what appears to be a brilliant mind! :rolleyes: He’s a criminal and doesn’t appear so naive. After all, there seemed to be big monetary gain for the man. ---
**Author:** ![Una\_Persson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/una_persson/32/346_2.png) [@Una\_Persson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Una_Persson)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2001, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bobby-fischer-speaks-out-to-applaud-trade-centre-attacks/96513/11 "2001-12-03T04:14:47Z")
> [@](#): > > "In his interview on September 11 with Radio Bombo in Baguio City, Mr Fischer said: “This is all wonderful news. It is time to finish off the US once and for all.” Another piece of human scum. I wonder if someone will step forward to defend him? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![CRorex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dfb087/32.png) [@CRorex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CRorex)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2001, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bobby-fischer-speaks-out-to-applaud-trade-centre-attacks/96513/12 "2001-12-03T04:18:43Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Zette \* > **I can never figure out why we’re supposed to care what these “famous” people think. Bobby Fischer? For all I care he can shove his Queen up his ass and yell “checkmate” over and over in a nuthouse.** Umm if you read the article I think he is. ---
**Author:** ![CRorex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dfb087/32.png) [@CRorex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CRorex)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2001, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bobby-fischer-speaks-out-to-applaud-trade-centre-attacks/96513/13 "2001-12-03T04:26:16Z")
I just read his account of being tortured by the police. Couldn’t stop laughing my ass off. I really hope that was supposed to be a joke. ---
**Author:** ![Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/50afbb/32.png) [@Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duck_Duck_Goose)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2001, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bobby-fischer-speaks-out-to-applaud-trade-centre-attacks/96513/14 "2001-12-03T04:32:42Z")
Hey, warning, that Telegraph link has a GONZO delayed popup for something called a Mini, is that a car? The screen goes dark and this seemingly-naked flesh-toned mummy guy (you realize it’s a mummy after a minute) comes out and parades around and a text box flashes. I thought I had a virus. * * * Do a Google search for “bobby fischer Bombo”. Evidently he’s been giving them interviews for a while. [http://www.kasparov.f2s.com/fisher9.html](http://www.kasparov.f2s.com/fisher9.html) > [@](#): > > [On September 18] The irrepressible Fischer, the most celebrated world chess champion and a self-styled American outlaw, surfaced in Baguio recently to denounce a conspiracy between the US government and the international Jewish community for stealing and tainting some of his best chess ideas. > > \ > > [Pablo Mercado, Bombo Radyo manager in Baguio] asked Fischer to comment on speculations that a series of gene-mapping activities by Europe were dedicated to patenting the human genome signature of the Ifugaos and other indigenous peoples of the region. > > This matter actually reached the UN indigenous peoples’ desk in 1996. > > Fischer immediately attacked gene mapping. > > ‘‘I heard something over in India, saying something similar. They talked about herbal cures, and then the mega-Jew corporations come in and they claim it’s theirs, they patent it . . . it’s ridiculous. Same with me . . . eventually they’ll patent some kind of special air and you’ll have to pay them for breathing . . . they take it. That’s their style. (The) Jews are fierce,’’ he said. I think we’re talking “major nutjob” here, people. ---
**Author:** ![CRorex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dfb087/32.png) [@CRorex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CRorex)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2001, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bobby-fischer-speaks-out-to-applaud-trade-centre-attacks/96513/15 "2001-12-03T04:39:20Z")
[http://www.anusha.com/gamble-o.htm](http://www.anusha.com/gamble-o.htm) I found this because it was a link on the page about Fisher losing his citizenship… Read it, its really really screwed up. Part of it is about a guy trying to track down his kid, which is left for 4 years on two peopel who were only suppsosed to be watching her for 1 year and about his wierd ass marrage and other strange stuff. ---
**Author:** ![AwSnappity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a3d4f5/32.png) [@AwSnappity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AwSnappity)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2001, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bobby-fischer-speaks-out-to-applaud-trade-centre-attacks/96513/16 "2001-12-03T04:43:05Z")
Speaking of celebrities voicing their opinions on the events surrounding 9-11… Charlotte Church (the teenage opera singer) supposedly disagrees with the fact that firemen are being treated like “stars”. It’s something that she “just doesn’t agree with.” What a filthy little bitch. They don’t deserve the star treatment, yet she does. (I heard this on SNL’s Weekend Update. Naive girl that I am, I believe all of the news they present to be true [to an extent; I _can_ identify the punchlines]. I really hope that someone corrects me on this, that this girl did _not_ say something as mean-spirited as that.) ---
**Author:** ![Shayna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shayna/32/17976_2.png) [@Shayna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shayna)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2001, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bobby-fischer-speaks-out-to-applaud-trade-centre-attacks/96513/17 "2001-12-03T05:35:44Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by FireUnderpantsBoobs \* > \*\*I really hope that someone corrects me on this, that this girl did _not_ say something as mean-spirited as that.) \*\* Unfortunately, it’s true. [Link](http://www.smh.com.au/breaking/2001/11/30/FFXZ27YJMUC.html) [Link](http://www.nypost.com/seven/11292001/news/regionalnews/35433.htm) > [@](#): > > The prodigy sniffed to the Times of London that she disapproved of the fact firefighters have now climbed the ladder from anonymous heroes to American superstars. > > “They are even invited here to present television awards, which I just don’t agree with,” the paper quoted the classical soprano as saying. There’s more, but it’s all just too disgusting to reprint. What a self-centered skank. ---
**Author:** ![Asylum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/53a042/32.png) [@Asylum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asylum)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2001, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bobby-fischer-speaks-out-to-applaud-trade-centre-attacks/96513/18 "2001-12-03T05:53:25Z")
[Her homepage](http://www.charlottechurch.com/charlottechurch/noflash.html) with, what strikes me as, a lame attempt at spin. _Of course_ her comments were taken out of context. Seeing as how most people aren’t self-abosorbed ego-maniacal bitches we couldn’t _possibly_ understand what she meant. ---
**Author:** ![PhiloVance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e19adc/32.png) [@PhiloVance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PhiloVance)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2001, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bobby-fischer-speaks-out-to-applaud-trade-centre-attacks/96513/19 "2001-12-03T05:55:53Z")
Good Grief, the kids 15 years old; give her a break. Haven’t we all said stupid things when we’re young. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![waterj2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/858c86/32.png) [@waterj2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/waterj2)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2001, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bobby-fischer-speaks-out-to-applaud-trade-centre-attacks/96513/20 "2001-12-03T05:58:30Z")
I’m inclined to cut her a little(_very_ little) slack on account of being 15 and probably just really sticking her foot in her mouth, rather than expressing any carefully considered opinion that presenting awards on TV is too great an honor for the men and women of the FDNY. Bobby Fischer has no excuse. What a vile and repulsive human being. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bobby-fischer-speaks-out-to-applaud-trade-centre-attacks/96513.md?page=2)