According to the “The Left Gatekeepers Phenomenon”:
“The most prominent Left media icons have been employed to bash the 9/11 “conspiracy theorists”. The attackers have relied on a formula of pschpathologizing their opponents, failing to articulate the strong arguments for official complicity while highlighting specious claims, and exploiting common misconceptions about how insiders would have engineered the attack.”
“The denial that 9/11/01 was an inside job is nowhere deeper than in the traditional Left and the established Left media. Respected commentators for the Left, such as David Corn of the Nation, pooh-poohed challenges to the official story of the attack, or at most suggested complicity of the Bush administration by pointing to Saudi connections to the Bush family, all while staying within the confines of the official myth of the hijackers, crumbling skyscrapers, etc.
“The causes of the Left gatekeeper phenomenon are, no doubt, complex. It may be that, because of their political marginalization, writers on the Left tend to be more defensive about their credibility. Furthermore, many Left publications are dependent on foundation funding, and those relationships may compromise objectivity on conscious and unconscious levels. It is also probable that many left icons are co-opted by covert disinformation programs such as Operation Mockingbird that target the Left media precisely because people expect challenges to the official story to come from that quarter.”
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“The Left Gatekeepers Phenomenon”
http://911review.com/denial/gatekeepers.html
