A Lesson In Push Polling
My friends over at Screw Loose Change have been systematically dismantling the poll that the 9/11 trufers are so proud of.
Since most people aren't that familiar with building 7, it is no surprise that they would answer yes after hearing this lecture. Of course it is a false statement anyway, since the 9/11 commission did not "concentrate their investigation on the collapse of buildings which were directly hit by airplanes", it was focused on intelligence and security failures, it was not an engineering report.
Bizarrely they also cite the New York Times/CBS "16% of Americans believe they have been told the whole truth" poll in a question. Since when does one poll ask people what they think about another poll?
Read it all. AllahPundit has also taken a look at this and points out the demographics of the most ardent converts to the trufer movement.
But when the trufers ask questions like this, it is no wonder they have the following they do:
World Trade Center Building 7 was the 47-story skyscraper a block away from the Twin Towers that housed the mayor's emergency management center, several known space alien cover organizations and offices of the SEC, Secret Service, CIA, a dog-walking service, a nail salon, three newsstands and a gumbo parlor. It was not hit by any airplanes during the September 11th attacks, but still collapsed nearly eight hours later that day after a fire raged in it for all that time. FEMA did not explain this collapse, the 911 Commission ignored it, Jay Leno has not made any jokes about it, Buffy the Vampire Slayer was seen in the vicinity and the promised official study is now 2 years overdue. Given that the airspeed velocity of an unladen African sparrow is the square root of pi times the natural logarithm of 27 when expressed in kilometers per deciliter and that the Grassy Knoll is located in Dallas – at least in this space-time continuum – and that said sparrow actually admitted to killing Cock Robin with a bow and arrow and that this question has now run on with insufficient punctuation or attention to grammer for far too long, did you walk to work or bring your lunch?
We rest our case.
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By Bleepless, September 6, 2007 @ 7:22 pm
Building 7? Consider Area 51. 5+1=6. This is but one away from 7. 6+7=13, which is so secret that it has NO OBSERVABLE SIGNIFICANCE, except to stay in bed when it falls on a Friday, which is another conspiracy entirely. And just what is today’s date, you naive little one?
They are everywhere. Everywhere (ten letters, a brief term which itself contains ten letters).
Twitch, whimper.
By Arturo, September 8, 2007 @ 10:08 am
Poor kids. They don’t understand that a government so sinister and ruthless as to do such a deed would not permit them to comment on it. (Oh, we did see Martin Sheen on national TV with tape across his mouth…that must prove there is censorship.)
By Gaius, September 8, 2007 @ 10:41 am
You’re right, of course. But there you go using logic. That will not penetrate their fantasy world in the least. They see themselves as the brave little Davids up against the evil Goliath. Part of the whole self-image thing. Science, physics and logic mean nothing at all in that little world.