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Originally posted by GoodOlDave
Originally posted by Orion7911
hold on there disinfodave, if i didn't know better, i'd say you're mixing and twisting the facts again... but you're welcome to correct me... you seem to be mixing the two testimonies together... so are you talking about minetas testimony about FLIGHT 77, or 93? Can't wait to hear this one.
Well, then, I guess you don't know better, becuase if you had read Norm Mineta's testimony to the 9/11 commission you would have known his testimony was about both flight 77 *AND* 93. They weren't two separate testimonies. It was one continuous testimony, and he clearly said he didn't know what "the order still stands" was at the time but subsequently learned it was a shoot down order, and he clearly said that becuase of that order, he originally thought flight 93 had been shot down:
MR. [LEE] HAMILTON: We thank you for that. I wanted to focus just a moment on the
Presidential Emergency Operating Center. You were there for a good part of the day. I
think you were there with the vice president. And when you had that order given, I think it
was by the president, that authorized the shooting down of commercial aircraft that were
suspected to be controlled by terrorists, were you there when that order was given?
MR. [NORMAN] MINETA: No, I was not. I was made aware of it during the time that the
airplane coming into the Pentagon. There was a young man who had come in and
said to the vice president, "The plane is 50 miles out. The plane is 30 miles out." And
when it got down to, "The plane is 10 miles out," the young man also said to the vice
president, "Do the orders still stand?" And the vice president turned and whipped
his neck around and said, "Of course the orders still stand. Have you heard anything
to the contrary?" Well, at the time I didn't know what all that meant. And --
MR. HAMILTON: The flight you're referring to is the --
MR. MINETA: The flight that came into the Pentagon.
MR. HAMILTON: The Pentagon, yeah.
MR. MINETA: And so I was not aware that that discussion had already taken
place. But in listening to the conversation between the young man and the vice president,
then at the time I didn't really recognize the significance of that. And then later I heard of
the fact that the airplanes had been scrambled from Langley to come up to DC, but those
planes were still about 10 minutes away. And so then, at the time we heard about the
airplane that went into Pennsylvania, then I thought, "Oh, my God, did we shoot it down?"
And then we had to, with the vice president, go through the Pentagon to check that out.
MR. HAMILTON: Let me see if I understand. The plane that was headed toward the
Pentagon and was some miles away, there was an order to shoot that plane down [?]
MR. MINETA: Well, I don't know that specifically, but I do know that the airplanes
were scrambled from Langley or from Norfolk, the Norfolk area. But I did not know about
the orders specifically other than listening to that other conversation.
MR. HAMILTON: But there very clearly was an order to shoot commercial aircraft
down.
MR. MINETA: Subsequently I found that out.
All you need to do is look at Mineta's testimony where he reports that fighters were scrambled from Langley to come to DC to put the "no fighters were scrambled" nonsense to rest. If you want to play these childish games and call me a disinformation agent in order to keep your conspriacy stories alive, go right ahead, becuase it doesn't bother me in the least. At the end of the day, you STILL need to show why anything I'm saying here is incorrect.
Originally posted by Lillydale
Have you seen the promos for the show? Have you seen him promote it? Have seen the actual show? He does not even pretend to be interested in anything but getting to the bottom of the conspiracy. Obviously that is not fair and balanced. It is television. It is made to entertain. Sometimes some truth sneaks in.
I know you debunkers really enjoy telling people that they ignore your sources so Merry Christmas. I will not listen to Howard Stern tell a doctor the only antivenom that could cure me. Call me biased or whatever you like but if the OS movement is going to hold up Howard Stern as any kind of pinnacle of anything then you lost already.
Ah, so you really do not know much of Jesse Ventura. Perhaps you should scan the channels in the car once in a while. It is well know, well I thought it was, that he is a conspiracy minded person and finds that sort of thing very interesting. You know he was governor once and that was long before 9/11. Read up on it some time.
Originally posted by GoodOlDave
Then if that's the case then he's done a horribly BAD attempt at it, becuase yes, I HAVE seen it. I'm not going to come here and criticize something when I don't even know what it is I'm criticizing.
He makes statements which simply are not true, he passes on unsubstanciated and improbable information, and he keeps askign questions that, if he had actually read the 9/11 report that he claimed he did on the show, he would have known already. The supposed commando raid he pulled on hanger 17 was dressed up like there was some secret black op going on was 100% theatrics, and the hack job he did with the Van Romero segment on Thermite was about as perfect a description of "comparing apples and oranges" as it gets.
He's not pretending to get to the bottom of anything. He's repeating everythign those damned fool conspiracy web sites are putting out almost word for word, to get people to believe there's a conspiracy going on, regardless of what the truth actually is.
On the contrary, Jesse Ventura went to Howard Stern specifically becuase Ventura knew Stern had a gigantic audience to pitch his conspriacy stories to. I'm not the one who's bringing Howard Stern into the mix. Ventura is.[\quote]
huh? When did I talk to Jesse? I would swear I was replying to you bringing up Howard Stern. Are you sure you did not bring Stern up? I checked and I did reply to you and it was your screen name. Jesse sure is tricky.
I only mentioned it as an example of Ventura being a 9/11 conspiracy groupie long before his television show came out.
If you knew as much about him as you are trying to profess, you would know that there are many many many places to find evidence of that. You could have even gone with that popular O & A clip that was so popular a couple of weeks ago. You could have gone with something slightly less offensive on the other hand as well. There is plenty out there.
So, what's good for the goose is good for the gander: if Ventura believes a radio show featuring every whackadoodle from alchoholic midgets to people who get off on transvestites vomiting on them...and I'm not even making that up... is actually a legitimate outlet to express his conspiracy theories, then he's lost already. You're not holding a double standard on your values, now, are you?
I guess you will have to remind me what my first set of standards was? You seem to think I have professed Jesse as a hero of mine. Did I?
Did YOU even watch his conspiracy show? He peddled the fact that he used to be governor of Minnesota every chance he got in his show in an attempt to gather more credibility for himself. Problem is, the governor of MY state was sent to prison for corruption, so he's coming to the wrong person to try that stunt.
Ummmm....yes. Your point? When did I say he did NOT mention it or when did I say that made him the man in the know?
I am not sure what you read but I was simply pointing out that anyone familiar with him even a little should have known what to expect. Anyone that has ever watched television should have known what to expect. TRU tv has more comedians on staff than anything else. You seemed to think you were providing some great revelation by explaining to simple folk like me that JV thought 9/11 was an inside job and that his tv show came off like a tv show. Thanks.
Originally posted by Orion7911
WRONG... this issue has to do with flight 77 and the pentagon. STOP TRYING TO TWIST THINGS and divert the issue. you're a clever agent to give a misdirection and alter the key issue that has nothing to do with what you're trying to claim was not 77 but a scrambled military jet heading to the pentagon. cheney was talking about flight 77... If thats false, prove it.
again this is yet another CLEAR example of your mind games and disinfo tactics diverting attention from whats blatantly obvious about this aspect of the 9/11 conspiracy that clearly implicates cheney as having directly given a stand-down order on a rogue "plane" that had locked onto a heading toward the pentagon.
Originally posted by Lillydale
You might want to check that then. You seemed to think you were educating me that Ventura has a side about 9/11. You seemed to have just realized from this show starting that he is biased.
You seemed to have no clue that he has been all over talk radio for oh...about 8 years talking about this. You really seemed to have no idea that it was kind of already known that he was a conspiracy nut and thought 9/11 was an inside job. I guess that is just how I read it though.
That really sounds more like an opinion than anything else. That is not fair when all he ever says about you are nice things.
huh? When did I talk to Jesse? I would swear I was replying to you bringing up Howard Stern. Are you sure you did not bring Stern up? I checked and I did reply to you and it was your screen name. Jesse sure is tricky.
I guess you will have to remind me what my first set of standards was? You seem to think I have professed Jesse as a hero of mine. Did I?
Originally posted by GoodOlDave
Lillydale, I just finished telling you that Ventura was talking about 9/11 conspiracies on the Howard Stern show a few years back so I did not "just find this out". The only thing I "just found out" is that he was going to be pushing all these other conspiracies, as global warming is another topic I follow.
Originally posted by Lillydale
I am not really sure what this rant is on about and I really do not care anymore. This is some personal thing between you and JV. I knew he was not fair and balanced, I knew he thought 9/11 was an inside job, I knew he was dramatic, and I knew he was sniffing up conspiracies long before 2001.
Originally posted by GoodOlDave
Yes, my criticisms ARE about Jesse Ventura. The subject of this thread is, "Jesse Ventura conspiracy theory episode two", so you're not going to find too many discussions about apple pie recipies here.
So if you're apparently agreeing with me on most of my points, then what are you even arguing about?
Originally posted by Lillydale
Ahem. -I am not really sure what this rant is on about and I really do not care anymore.
Originally posted by GoodOlDave
Originally posted by Lillydale
Ahem. -I am not really sure what this rant is on about and I really do not care anymore.
Well I must admit this is a new one on me. Up until now, every OTHER poster here said they either supported JV, opposed JV, or wanted to know more about what JV was saying. You're the first person who came here to post that you don't have any opinion to post, or didn't know what people posting to a forum called "Jesse Ventura conspiracy theory episide two" were talking about.
The next obvious question is, why are you here, then?