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9/11 Truther Ed Asner Offers Conspiracy Theories on The Adam Carolla Show

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Did you know that Ed Asner, of The Mary Tyler Moore Show and Hollywood in general, is a 9/11 Truther? Adam Carolla didn’t seem to when, on his podcast, Asner started to offer his views as to why the government was behind that Twin Towers attack. Here we go.

“No high-rise has ever gone down by fire,” Asner explains. “Those buildings fell at the rate of gravity in ten seconds, flat.” He served up some more supposed “facts” as to why the buildings had to have been brought down by domestically planted explosives rather than internationally hateful terrorists. Carolla tried to debunk the conspiracy theory by asking why the surreptitious government of Asner’s mind, if it was so keen on instigating a war, didn’t go ahead and plant WMD in Iraq. “Because it wasn’t the same department of government,” Asner replied, chuckling at Carolla’s naiveté.

Asner continued:

My bottom line on all of this is that this country—which is the greatest, strongest country that ever existed in the world, in terms of power—supposedly had a defense that could not be penetrated all these years. But all of that was eradicated by nineteen Saudi Arabians, supposedly. Some of whom didn’t even know how to fly.

It’ll be interesting how viewers of CMT, the network on which Asner’s new sitcom Regular Joe will air, starting January, will respond to his beliefs. Listen to Asner’s performance, which includes a bonus conspiracy theory regarding Robert Kennedy, in the clip below (via Breitbart TV):


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  • cjd ohio 1

    what a fool

  • Seeing 2012 From My Window

    Well he’s not alone, the % of dem’s that think 9/11 was an inside job is higher than the entire birther movement. That’s how they roll.

  • tatboy

    What a jacka$$. People like this should be shamed in exile.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Dave-Allen/100000077637523 bohratom

    Just stop by Huffington Post as they have 911 truthers daily on the frontpage. Yesterday it was Michael Moore, day before Van Jones.

    Liberals for some reason by into the 911 truther conspiracy.

  • Big Eddie

    You’ve got spunk , Lou .

  • http://twitter.com/SailRabbits Magister

    Granted, Ed’s liberal leanings came to the forefront during “Lou Grant” and due to the subject matter, it had some effect on ratings, but what do Asner’s views on 9/11 have to do with an upcoming on CMT and should they color the way we watch “Mary Tyler Moore”?

    (Of course, if it hadn’t have been mentioned in the final paragraph, I wouldn’t know about the show)

  • disenlightened

    I thought Asner was dead. I guess I was right.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jon-Martin/43100610 Jon Martin

    I’m going to take the religious approach and say, if you can’t prove that 9/11 wasn’t an inside job, then 9/11 was an inside job.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jon-Martin/43100610 Jon Martin

    Oh and there’s nothing wrong with 9/11 truthers, 9/11 isn’t fully explained…. why should anyone feel shame for questioning 9/11?

    They lied to get us into war, they lied so they could torture people, they lied so they could do a lot of things.

    I’m still open to seeing evidence it was an inside job, I’m not going to get irrationally angry like some of you weirdos. I want to know the truth, I don’t really trust the government like most liberals do. Why do you trust the government? Oh only when it’s Republican XD

    I like how Obama not being a citizen is legit but 9/11 truth is SHAMEFUL

    Imagine if it was an inside job how foolish you would all look defending the people that tricked you. You’d look REALLY foolish :P

  • cjd ohio 1

    jon you are a truther lol

  • cjd ohio 1

    do you think the government could have pulled this off, and keep it secret lol

  • woogiebehr

    Why do you assume that if one “trusts” the government, they are a Liberal?

  • cjd ohio 1

    thousands of people would have to be in on it

  • http://twitter.com/SailRabbits Magister

    Clarification: Though somewhat snarky, my point with my previous comment is that a simple, perhaps italicized “Asner will be co-starring in “Average Joe” starting in January on CMT” would have been a cleaner way to offer the credit without coloring it with a question. Especially, if the rhetorical appears to set the standard that viewership of any product should be limited by how one perceives everything ever uttered by one of the stars.

    If taken to the extreme, scripted programming would be cast only with those who have never said a word about anything. After all should meat-eaters watch anything with Pam Anderson because she’s done PETA ads? Should Democrats not watch anything from Angelina Jolie because she’s perceived as somewhat conservative and should those who oppose legalization or who don’t like architecture stay away from Brad Pitt?

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Phil-Bourekas/1538058627 Phil Bourekas

    cjd ohio 1 said:
    thousands of people would have to be in on it

    No. Jack Bauer probably did it by himself. Or MacGyver with a toothpick, a tampon, a business card, and a half-eaten apple.

    Ed Asner played a journalist on TV. He knows what those guys can do…

  • cjd ohio 1

    thanks phil lol

  • Republitarian

    A fully-fueled wide-body aircraft, flying at close to 550mph squarely strikes a fixed object, and Ed Asner can’t understand why that object ended up collapsing. This is why actors of all stripes should be ignored when they aren’t reading something written by someone else – clearly, they are morons.

    Don’t take my word for it. Popular Mechanics assembled a team of engineers, physicists and other scientist to painstakingly explain the science behind the collapse of the Towers.

    I suppose Popular Mechanics were in on it too. And they say creationists are idiots. Creationists don’t believe the scientific explanation of something that happened 4.5 billion years ago, but Truthers don’t believe the scientific explanation of something that happened while it was being broadcast live.

  • Call_Me_Ishmael

    Well, at least Ed has one thing going for him: senility.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Chris-Ar/100000903987836 Chris Ar

    As someone who worked in the South Tower on that day, the laughable and easily disprovable things Truthers claim as fact just makes me angrier that so many take them seriously.

    Asner harps on a particular frustrating point: no steel framed building has ever collapsed due to fire before. That’s because no steel framed building was ever built like the WTC, and none has been built like it since. The explanation for how the fire compromised the structural integrity is one even a high school science student could understand.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jon-Martin/43100610 Jon Martin

    I think there should be a bigger investigation into what happened on 9/11 because I don’t think there’s anything dangerous about the truth.

    I support wikileaks too.

  • cjd ohio 1

    so jon what is your theory, or ok, what needs to be investigated

  • http://www.anonymousfinch.com AnonymousFinch

    Jon Martin said:
    I support wikileaks too.

    I’m not surprised.

  • Seeing 2012 From My Window

    Hey Jon, Wikileaks said Iraq DID have wmd’s.

  • http://h yr so liberl chuck norris

    Seeing 2012 From My Window said:
    Well he’s not alone, the % of dem’s that think 9/11 was an inside job is higher than the entire birther movement. That’s how they roll.

    Bullshit the biggest 9/11 truther and head of that movement is a conservative, his name is Alex Jones and he worked for the Pat Buchanan campaign. Try again

  • http://h yr so liberl chuck norris

    Jon Martin said:
    Oh and there’s nothing wrong with 9/11 truthers, 9/11 isn’t fully explained…. why should anyone feel shame for questioning 9/11?

    They lied to get us into war, they lied so they could torture people, they lied so they could do a lot of things.

    I’m still open to seeing evidence it was an inside job, I’m not going to get irrationally angry like some of you weirdos. I want to know the truth, I don’t really trust the government like most liberals do. Why do you trust the government? Oh only when it’s Republican XD

    Exactly, it is totally sane to believe that George Soros is part of a Communist conspiracy to overthrow the government or some ridiculous bullshit, but it is nuts to believe that the Bush admistration might not be telling us the whole story, yeah it’s like they were always so honest.

    I like how Obama not being a citizen is legit but 9/11 truth is SHAMEFUL

    Imagine if it was an inside job how foolish you would all look defending the people that tricked you. You’d look REALLY foolish :P

    Exactly, it is totally sane to believe that George Soros is part of a Communist conspiracy to overthrow the government or some ridiculous bullshit, but it is nuts to believe that the Bush admistration might not be telling us the whole story, yeah it’s like they were always so honest.

  • http://h yr so liberl chuck norris

    Exactly, it is totally sane to believe that George Soros is part of a Communist conspiracy to overthrow the government or some ridiculous bullshit, but it is nuts to believe that the Bush admistration might not be telling us the whole story, yeah it’s like they were always so honest.

  • remoriah

    Some years back and by accident I was listening to Bill Moyers on PBS interview this fool. I was shocked when the interview turned into a pity party as to why communism had not prevailed in the land of free. It almost seemed that Moyers was lamenting that same fact. I just didn’t know that Asner was a communist sympathizer.

  • WildMan

    I thought old Ed died 35 years ago. Dang, he must be 118 years old by now. No wonder he is so goofy. Oh well, I guess he is harmless…

  • timzank

    Seeing 2012 From My Window said:
    Hey Jon, Wikileaks said Iraq DID have wmd’s.

    Excellent point!

  • timzank

    Jon Martin said:
    I think there should be a bigger investigation into what happened on 9/11 because I don’t think there’s anything dangerous about the truth. I support wikileaks too.

    So you’re an upper west side Manhattanite that somehow missed seeing those 2 planes? Were you out of town that day?

  • equaljustice4u

    Sad to see a guy’s mind turn into mush right before your eyes.

    If he’s on life support I hope the plug is pulled….you are doing him a favor, believe me people want to remember Asner/Assner/Asswit as a funny guy….not a lunatic!

  • http://h yr so liberl chuck norris

    equaljustice4u said:
    Sad to see a guy’s mind turn into mush right before your eyes.

    If he’s on life support I hope the plug is pulled….you are doing him a favor, believe me people want to remember Asner/Assner/Asswit as a funny guy….not a lunatic!

    watch out

  • Dem4Ever

    Call_Me_Ishmael said:
    Well, at least Ed has one thing going for him: senility.

    He actually has two things going for him.  He can hide his own Easter eggs too.

  • Dem4Ever

    yr so liberl chuck norris said:
    Exactly, it is totally sane to believe that George Soros is part of a Communist conspiracy to overthrow the government or some ridiculous bullshit, but it is nuts to believe that the Bush admistration might not be telling us the whole story, yeah it’s like they were always so honest.

    Hey Ed – Is that you?

  • http://twitter.com/CRZ CRZ

    I always wondered how he and Aaron McGruder crossed paths!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Dronetek-Bulk-Vanderhuge/100000918732763 Dronetek

    Seeing 2012 From My Window said:
    Well he’s not alone, the % of dem’s that think 9/11 was an inside job is higher than the entire birther movement. That’s how they roll.

    Thats’s because unlike the birther movement, the media and Democrats have played up the truther conspiracies to sew distrust against Bush/Republicans. The Democrats actually invited Moore to their 2004 convention!

  • Cancon2

    3 words. Bat shit crazy.

  • Judge Mental

    Seeing 2012 From My Window said:
    Well he’s not alone, the % of dem’s that think 9/11 was an inside job is higher than the entire birther movement. That’s how they roll.

    Jonathan Scott said:
    Bullshit the biggest 9/11 truther and head of that movement is a conservative, his name is Alex Jones and he worked for the Pat Buchanan campaign. Try again

    A course in logic would do you good.

  • Bill Mahwer

    Judge Mental said:
    Seeing 2012 From My Window said:
    Well he’s not alone, the % of dem’s that think 9/11 was an inside job is higher than the entire birther movement. That’s how they roll.

    A course in logic would do you good.

    It would be easier for an inefficient government to pull off a birther scenario than truther.
    Truther is what Communist China and old Soviet Russia type countries could actually pull off not a country who can’t issue a drivers license properly.

  • plep

    “But all of that was eradicated by nineteen Saudi Arabians, supposedly. Some of whom didn’t even know how to fly. ”

    Uh … they only needed four.

  • FredCPA

    Lou Grant: Mary, I don’t want you to take this wrong, but you’re a jerk.
    Mary Richards: How could I possibly take that wrong?

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Chris-Kelly/720731075 Chris Kelly

    I’ve known Asner is far-left for a long time, so score one against Ray Rahman. Score another against Ray Rahman for not understanding the correct way to discuss this issue:

    http://24ahead.com/n/9455

    Calling anyone who has questions a “truther” is equivalent to saying that we’ve been told the complete truth about 9/11, which is clearly not true.

  • Jelperman

    Once again Media Shite gets its material from a race-baiting website. Nice going.

  • http://none pyrope

    Some years ago I felt that Ed Asner had lost all credibility with his antics and rants, now I feel he has borrowed some more credibility to lose.

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  • Nahu Tuk

    pyrope said:
    Some years ago I felt that Ed Asner had lost all credibility with his antics and rants, now I feel he has borrowed some more credibility to lose.

    It’s always the same with these has been liberals, as they go to seed in a moldy corner away from the limelight, they struggle to remain relevant by saying increasingly outlandish things. Assner is no different than the rest, but it was truly sad to see Paul Newman do that—at least he had some talent.

  • pakattak

    I consider myself a liberal, but I think the “9-11 Truthers” movement is hands down retarded.

  • pakattak

    A friend of mine made a good analogy.

    Trying to hide something like a 9-11 conspiracy is like trying to hold a bunch of sand in your hands. Grains will get through no matter how hard you try to stop it. If 9-11 was indeed a government inside job, then why hasn’t there been anyone — ANYONE — to be a horn blower for the event? Something at this scale has to require the silent cooperation of hundreds of people.

  • Some_Dude

    Didn’t he crash his house into a building in Up?

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  • psikeyhackr

    It’s 41 years after the Moon landing and the nation that put men on the Moon can’t tell the entire world the TONS of STEEL and TONS of CONCRETE that were on every level of buildings designed before 1969. Find a picture of the CN Tower in Toronto. Why is it shaped like that? Skyscrapers must be designed to handle gravity and the wind.

    A 200 ton airliner could not TOTALLY destroy a building that big in less than 2 hours.

    9/11 is the Piltdown Man incident of the 21st century.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caATBZEKL4c

    It’s grade school physics. Conspiracies are irrelevant.
    .

  • njoy-d-ride

    Ed Asner a truther – who would have thunk it!

  • justanotherconservative

    maybe some arricept would help.

  • psikeyhackr

    {{{ A fully-fueled wide-body aircraft, flying at close to 550mph squarely strikes a fixed object, and Ed Asner can’t understand why that object ended up collapsing. This is why actors of all stripes should be ignored when they aren’t reading something written by someone else – clearly, they are morons. }}}

    There goes another moron with that FULLY FUELED crap again, like the plane was a tanker.

    The maximum capacity was 25,000 gallons and it only had 10,000 gallons on impact so it was only 40% fueled. But how much did the building move because of the impact? When are we ever told that information? YOu have to compute it from data in the NIST report.

    15 INCHES!

    Hit by a very large airliner at 550 mph and it only deflected 15 inches and then oscillated for FOUR MINUTES.

    But we are supposed to believe the whole thing could totally collapse less than one hour later. That is what is known as CARTOON PHYSICS.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTqwXb98giY
    .

  • mystery_train

    Is the 9-11 Commission Steering Committee a bunch of conspiracy theorists because they do not believe or accept the Bush Admins version of events?
    Is Max Cleland a conspiracy theorist for quitting the Commission and citing a cover-up?
    Is Bob Kerry (9-11 commissioner) a conspiracy theorist for referring to 9-11 as a 30 year old conspiracy?
    If you have one question regarding the official 9-11 story, does that define you as a conspiracy theorist?

  • nrgetick

    Jon Martin said:
    Oh and there’s nothing wrong with 9/11 truthers, 9/11 isn’t fully explained…. why should anyone feel shame for questioning 9/11?

    They lied to get us into war, they lied so they could torture people, they lied so they could do a lot of things.

    I’m still open to seeing evidence it was an inside job,?

    heres a good place to start

    http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/archivos_pdf/activethermitic_911.pdf

  • Jonathan Pollard

    We’d never seen anything like 9/11. Except we had, and didn’t recognize it. We needn’t go back to Operation Northwoods, the Lavon Affair, or the other false flag conspiracies of suppressed history. Just two summers before, nearly identical mechanisms of terror and control were deployed upon the Russian people to consolidate the transfer of power to Vladimir Putin, who was facing his first election, and to provide the pretext to invade Chechnya.

    Four apartment complexes had been bombed and 300 killed. Putin promised to “liquidate all terrorists.” He proclaimed Russia was facing a war between “good” and “evil.” “It’s our boys,” said Putin, fanning war fever and hysteria, “against terrorists” belonging to an “international Islamic conspiracy.”

    Residents in the city of Ryazan discovered a huge bomb in their basement and called the local police. Initially, federal authorities claimed terrorists had been thwarted, but when the perpetrators were apprehended shortly thereafter by Ryazan police, and found to be agents of Russia’s security service FSB, the story changed: it was now claimed to have been an “exercise,” and the sack of explosive hexogen was said to have contained nothing but “sugar.” In 2002, an incurious Duma voted against a parliamentary inquiry into the bombing campaign.

    The war in Chechnya is ongoing. 10% of the Chechen population is dead. Thousands of Russian conscript soldiers are dead.

    Disbelief, a documentary regarding the bombings and the revelation of state guilt, may be viewed here: http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=7658755847655738553&q=Disbelief

    Not only by history’s precedence, but by current events, 9/11 isn’t really that extraordinary.

    It’s interesting to note how Western pundits who would likely dismiss as nonsense the mere suggestion of a 9/11 conspiracy have no problem at all assessing the Russian apartment bombings as state terror. David Satter, a fellow of the Hoover Institution and the Hudson Institute and former Moscow correspondent for the Financial Times of London, wrote “The Shadow of Ryazan” with funding from the Smith Richardson Foundation, an abbreviated version of which was published by The National Review: http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/comment-satter043002.asp

    It’s funny how easily the generalized dismissals of conspiracy, such as how it “meets a psychological need,” or that “something so big couldn’t be kept a secret,” vanish into one’s political blind spots. That is, to the opinion makers, conspiracy can be the most reasonable explanation of events, so long as it’s OVER THERE, and it’s something THEY do. Satter finds the FSB guilty of waging a false-flag terror campaign against the Russian people, but don’t expect him to be called a kook in a tinfoil hat for it.

    And just as in Russia’s 9/11, THE AGENTS ASSIGNED TO BLOW UP ONE OF THEIR TARGETS IN THE USA ON 9/11 WERE CAUGHT IN THE ACT BUT LATER RELEASED DUE TO A SUCCESSFUL GOVERNMENT COVERUP.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CHq6JocvDM&NR=1

  • timb1

    Hey Jonathon. As to your video, it doesn’t provide evidence for the claim you make. Regarding the claim about Russia, I’m agnostic about it, but maybe you could give some indication of how many people would need to have been involved in the alleged FSB bombing, and compare that with how many people would need to have been ‘in on’ 9/11 if that was a conspiracy by the government. From what I can tell, one small unit of Russian soldiers/special forces etc. could have done those bombings.

  • Jonathan Pollard

    Timb1, according to BYU physics professor Steven Jones, 10 men each carrying 40 pounds of charges making 10 trips would be enough to bring down one of the twin towers.

    The Operation Northwoods conspiracy, which included the intention to “blow up a US ship in Guantanamo Bay and blame Cuba” and the development of “a Communist Cuban terror campaign in the Miami area, in other Florida cities and even Washington” would have involved a fair amount of people, yet nevertheless all of the Joint Chiefs of Staff gave their approval for that operation.

  • http://www.ae911truth.org Jonathan Pollard

    timb1 said:
    Hey Jonathon. As to your video, it doesn’t provide evidence for the claim you make..

    Yeah, because the FBI classified all evidence connecting Israelis to 9/11, as it admitted to FOX NEWS.

    http://whatreallyhappened.com/IMAGES/israelis_fox.jpg

  • Robert Konkin, P.E.

    The Popular Mechanics rebuttal, while well researched, fails to explain the collapse of the central core in WTC Buildings 1 &2. When you study their explanation and video model, you see that the core still stands while all the floors “pancake” to the ground. Popular Mechanics, as well as the 9/11 Commission Report were unable to explain how the core collapsed, as well as how World Trade Center Building 7 collapsed at free-fall speed. In fact, 85% of Americans are unaware that a third WTC Building collapsed on 09/11/2001. http://www.consensus911.org

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