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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe Sy Hersh expose and faking the moon landings
Both stories require one to believe that the US government and its representatives managed to pull off a cover up that is impossible in scope and size, that countries that would benefit from US embarrassment suddenly chose to assist in the cover up for no particularly good reason (Soviet Union in the case of the moon conspiracy) and that, somehow, this massive tangled web has held strong over the years without a single person connected to the incidents coming forward to expose it. Keep in mind both stories require literally hundreds of people to be involved in keeping the secret, which is a highly dubious proposition at very best. Finally, both stories require a belief that a lack of evidence to support the cover up is somehow evidence of the cover up.
What Sy Hersh has written is nothing more than the worst kind of conspiracy theory. It saddens me to see what he has become.
Mojorabbit
(16,020 posts)Full court press.
Bonobo
(29,257 posts)RufusTFirefly
(8,812 posts)FlatBaroque
(3,160 posts)Hobo
(757 posts)Hobo
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)be an echo chamber for conspiracy loons is not itself evidence of a larger conspiracy.
NuclearDem
(16,184 posts)Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)And they have to enhance it to sell.
OnyxCollie
(9,958 posts)Last edited Tue May 12, 2015, 02:06 AM - Edit history (1)
The NSA intercepted a phone call which lead them to bin Laden.
On edit: Maybe it was the lie that torture lead them to bin Laden.
Keeping the bullshit separated from the horseshit is hard work.