Oh… I was gonna defend you on “the same thing” as “made sure the burial site wasn’t identifiable” to prevent it being used as a shrine. “Much the same thing.”
I generally respect Hersh as a journalist and thank him for things like his My Lai expose, but he does sometimes get ahead of himself, especially when talking.
You may think of Opus Dei as either old, Italian widows (those were the ones I knew) or albino assassins from The da Vinci Code and the Knights of Malta from pretty much every conspiracy theory involving the Illuminati, but Hersh believes they have inveigled their way into the highest reaches of the US Military:
I do not automatically accept what Seymour Hersh says as fact before I see his sources, and he’s not always forthcoming with those.
Al Qaeda is part of the global Jewish media conspiracy? Man, that is some deep, deep cover.
Hersh wouldn’t have sold a dozen books if he hadn’t made that statement. Now he’s got people lined up to read his nonsense.
If nobody ever said it before, I will say it, “Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public”.
Go ahead, buy it and read it. Chat it up. Hype it for him. I’m going to bed.
I have this mental image of Gack walking down the street and of his Jaw constantly dropping at everything he sees: " totally unprecedented … preposterous ideas … that is preposterous."
Life must be hard…
waiting to figure out what the chicken expirement will be - maybe a ‘burial at sea’ test using the toilet?
I’m guessing that he was eaten by a creature living under a bridge.
Yes. I’m surprised you hadn’t heard about it, it was in all the papers.
“The public has a right to know”?
“The public has a right to know”???
WAKE UP, MAN!
“THE PUBLIC” IS PART OF THE CONSPIRACY!!!
Osama bin Laden sleeps with the fishes.
EXACTLY!!!
This is all deeper than anybody has guessed. According to U.S. Census figures (not that they can be trusted either) there were at least 42,127,616 people on the Grassy Knoll on November 22, 1963.
Wheels within wheels, man. Wheels within wheels.
The SEALS were hungry. Really hungry.
Gack, have you considered looking into the Billy Meier UFO photos? I think they might be right up your alley.
There’s even a thread on the dope about it right now if you would like more information.
Orcs ate it. Look for orc shit.
Obama is actually a mech piloted by squirrels.
Gack, is there any conspiracy theory that you don’t believe in? If so, how do you make the distinction?
I don’t think we can answer this question until we know what Oprah thinks about it.
So your point is that there is not sufficient evidence to believe the claim.
Wait, so your point is that there is too much evidence to believe the claim.
I dunno. Maybe they just have small televisions in Pakistan. Or in other words… What?
Claiming you have evidence is not the same as providing evidence. See also Bush and Obama’s use of secret legal memos to justify torturing or murdering people without any sort of due process; just because you say you have proof doesn’t mean it’s true.
Seymour Hersh deserves a little more respect than to be so airily dismissed with a light wave of the hand and a mocking jest. His track record of investigative journalism is second to none. This isn’t some crackpot right-wing blogger. He may have something, he may not. He’s earned the right to be taken seriously, even by the water-carriers for Obama in the media and on this board.