The Independent Sentinel is a group blog, but one of their writers is Sarah Noble. Sarah describes herself as a political independent but if you take a look at the contents of the blog, it’s a lot of bad stuff about how President Obama “betrays” his friends, how gun control is bad and how NASA is a waste of money.
Anyway, Sarah posted this piece about how American Federation of Teachers (AFT) organizer Shaun Richman is a 9/11 conspiracy theorist – or as she called him – a Truther. She posted a lot ‘stuff’ she calls evidence for this. I’m not going to go into all of it here, but if you want, you can read the critique we gave her on the James Randi Educational Foundation 9/11 conspiracy forum here.
Sarah is just wrong. She uses quotations that were made by Richman about 9/11 in October 2001, but then quoted by right-wing political sources in 2008 and 2012. That’s right, they were made before anyone knew anything about what had happened and then dragged up for the 2 Obama elections. Good choice of neutral sources there Sarah. If you scroll down to the bottom of her blog post, you’ll find that Sarah has been kind enough to respond to my remarks. I appreciate this very much. Unfortunately, she seems unaware of the mistakes she’s made. It will be interesting to see where she goes from here.
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