The HonestReporting 9/11 Counter-Poll
September 7, 2011 13:48 by Pesach BensonTim Marshall flagged one heckuva poll on the Press TV web site. Iran’s government-funded news channel wants your views on 9/11. Here’s the loaded question along with the even more loaded answers.
Here’s my counter poll.
Why did Press TV’s 9/11 Poll happen? It happened in order to be used as . . .
- an excuse to whitewash Al-Qaida for the biggest mass murder in US history
- an opportunity to downgrade 9/11 to a mere ”incident”
- an effective way to delegitimize the war on terror
- propaganda tarnishing the image of the West
- a cheap attempt to reinforce all of the above
Post your answers in the comments section.
This is all par for the course at Press TV, which has been censured for complicity in torture (you read that right) and Israel-bashing; it even had it’s UK bank account frozen.
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7:08 pm
Sep 07, 2011
6. An attempt to elevate 9/11 conspiracy theories from the “crackpot” arena to a more “respectable” mainstream arena.
(My point being: Their wording of “it happened in order to be used as…” implies that the person or persons who created the poll think that 9/11 was done by some parties other than Al Queda to further some nefarious agenda, in short, they believe in 9/11 conspiracy theories. Now, considering that I don’t consider PressTV a legitimate or mainstream media organization, it is not really surprising.)
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Moshe Flam
7:18 pm
Sep 08, 2011
Turn it into a real poll and you’ll get a large turnout.
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Steve Mann
7:57 pm
Sep 09, 2011
They left one question out-
“So that Press T.V could ask some infantile, stupid questions for a poll”.
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Sara
9:17 pm
Sep 09, 2011
I’m sorry to point this out, but this is the second time in this one e-mail message that you guys used the word “it’s” instead of “its.” (“Press TV had it’s UK bank account frozen.” You had the same error in the part about Turkey.) “It’s” means it is and is a contraction; “its” is a possessive adjective that means belonging to it. I love Honest Reporting, but I would really appreciate it if someone would check for and correct these kinds of grammatical errors. Thanks.
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Len Kurtz
6:27 pm
Jun 03, 2012
Does Al Qaeda really exist? What is the proof?
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steve mann
7:17 pm
Jun 03, 2012
Try 9/11 followed by a body buried at sea-
More conspiracy theories- !
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Len Kurtz
7:23 pm
Jun 03, 2012
How do you know he was buried at sea? How do you know he was really killed that day? You mention 9/11; How do you know he was responsible for it? The FBI said they had no proof he was responsible; so he was not even put on their ’10 most-wanted’ list for 9/11. He was implicated in previous African bombings however.
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steve mann
7:29 pm
Jun 03, 2012
People with train of thought make me realise I am sane-
So-Carnage in New York, Washington, London, Istanbul, Bali, Beslan, Buenos Aires, Jerba, Jakarta, Madrid, Mombassa, Moscow, Mumbai,
Yemen, Dafur, Nigeria, Kashmir, Zhengzhou, either never happened or who do you think were responsible-
I know Mossad to make the Jihadis look bad!
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