Jesse ‘The Mind’ Defends Questions About Towers’
Telling Collapse on Hannity & Colmes and National Talk Radio
Programs: "How can two planes bring down three buildings?"
Former Governor Jesse Ventura broke through enemy lines yesterday,
exposing major inconsistencies with the official 9/11 story and
holding his own against some of mainstream media’s most
disingenuous hosts, including Fox News’ Sean Hannity and
Opie
& Anthony from XM Satellite radio.
Ventura’s notoriety as a fiercely independent upstart may
have kept Hannity, for one, from playing his usual dirty tricks.
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As former Governor, Ventura may be the highest level official
in the United States to take 9/11 truth questions seriously, yet
his enduring popularity and success as a celebrity, wrestler,
Hollywood star, Navy SEAL and even Harvard professor make him
more difficult to diffuse and ignore than celebrities who have
previously come forward or Congressmen who have flirted with raising
questions.
The Associated
Press ran a story last week about Ventura’s 9/11 comments
following an appearance on the Alex Jones Show that has now
exploded into a frenzy of coverage as he makes the rounds to promote
his book Don’t Start the Revolution Without Me, a title
that may prove to be more than just rhetoric.
On Hannity & Colmes, Ventura touts his knowledge of (mere
elementary) physics and his experience with explosives in the
Navy Seals– if only to establish that the questions about
the collapses of the Twin Towers and Building 7 are entirely credible
and indeed deserve an explanation– rather than the usual
ridicule.
Indeed, it may have been the first episode of Hannity & Colmes–
or any Fox News program, for that matter– where 9/11 truth
is treated with dignity and respect. Perhaps with Ventura in-studio
towering over him, Hannity realized that his own persona was nothing
more than playing a tough guy on TV.
You can see in the transcript how ‘The Body’ crippled
the weak defenses of his challenger:
HANNITY: The one thing that I read in the book that I totally
found– just alien to me is this idea that you believe
in 9/11 conspiracies.
VENTURA: "Well, let me tell it to you this way: Why is
it that when you ask any question about 9/11, you’re immediately
attacked?"
HANNITY: "I’m not attacking you"
VENTURA: "You’re not. I’m speaking in general.
I’m not saying you guys. But I’ve watched–
people get attacked, people have their credibility attacked.
My problem is, I look at it, and I go: how can two planes knock
down three buildings?"
HANNITY: Pretty easy. It’s 757s– 747s.
VENTURA: But there were three buildings that went down.
HANNITY: There was a lot of fire and there was a lot of damage–
VENTURA: Well, first of all, jet fuel blew up at the start.
Jet fuel is four-fifths– and I don’t want to stay
on this, I’d rather talk other things– but jet fuel
is four-fifths kerosene. It doesn’t burn hot. So, using
the analogy that it could melt the metal, then propane burns
hotter. So if you turn on your camp stove for three hours, shouldn’t
it melt the grates? But it doesn’t, does it?– it
doesn’t.
Hannity, unsure where to gouge at Ventura’s credibility,
drew upon the perceived vulnerabilities of previous celebrities
instead: "He’s going Rosie O’Donnell here–
that’s Rosie O’Donnell."
Colmes’ brief attempt to trap Ventura into placing the
blame on specific government officials resulted in an defiant
explanation that the governor simply doesn’t know, but seeks
to answer:
"I can’t place blame, but I have a hard time accepting
the fact that never before in history has a steel structure
fallen to the ground at the rate of gravity (and the core beams,
how did they go down?)…I’m simply questioning that
it doesn’t add up to me."
"I just have questions," Ventura blurted over their
chatter amidst a detailed discussion about the many inconsistencies
of the government’s official story with the truth, the laws
of physics and etc.
Ventura brought up molten steel at the bottom of the wreckage
and other relevant issues while the hosts tried to explain away
the situation with vague descriptions of wreckage and debris.
The governor critiqued one host when he tried to argue that fires
in the basement were spread from the top floors through the elevator
shaft. “The only one problem was– the elevator shafts
were sealed. They always are,” Ventura corrected.
When the host theorized that burning plane parts had been the
source, Ventura chastised, “You’re getting like Hollywood–
you never run out of bullets.” He pointed out that, in reality,
most of the fuel burned in the initial explosion, diminishing
its ability to bring down the skyscrapers.
Ventura also argued that the fact that NORAD failures and other
intelligence breaches did not result in the firings of ‘inept’
officials because firings would lead to unwanted investigations.
By the end, he resigned in silence– pushing his mike away,
according to Opie & Anthony– unable to reach his hosts
who were ready to explain away the ‘ineptitude’ and
‘futility’ of the government’s details and yet
incapable of facing the big lie staring them in the face.
Reports have also come in of Jesse Ventura stumping for 9/11
truth on a number of other combative radio shows, including Bo
and Jim of KZPS in Dallas.
Richard Greene of Air America– a station that normally
won’t touch 9/11 truth issues– played
extended clips of Jesse Ventura’s comments from the
Alex Jones Show.
