Charlie Sheen Questions Official 9/11 Conspiracy Theory
Various | 24.03.2006 01:41 | Repression | World
Charlie Sheen Questions Official 9/11 Explanations; "Young and Restless" Star Weighs in on Political Topics
Aired March 22, 2006 - 19:00:00 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
A.J. HAMMER, CO-HOST: I`m A.J. Hammer in New York City.
BROOKE ANDERSON, CO-HOST: And I`m Brooke Anderson live in Hollywood. TV`s only live entertainment news show starts right now.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
HAMMER (voice-over): On SHOWBIZ TONIGHT, we asked you the question, do you hate other people`s kids? And we could not believe the overwhelming response we got from you: so many e-mails, we`re still reading them. Tonight, we bring back the author of "I Hate Other People`s Kids", so she can respond live to those of you who do hate other people`s kids and those who hate her.
Plus, a Charlie Sheen shocker. Tonight, the actor`s stunning statements on 9/11. Maybe the airplanes did not take down the Twin Towers. And maybe the government is covering it all up.
CHARLIE SHEEN, ACTOR: Taking ever four commercial airliners and hitting 75 percent of their targets, that feels like a conspiracy theory.
HAMMER: SHOWBIZ TONIGHT investigates the startling allegations.
Also, a "Da Vinci Code" debate, live. Tonight, what one religious group is demanding be done to the "Da Vinci Code" movie, and why others believe the demand is downright ridiculous.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Witness the biggest cover-up in human history.
HAMMER: SHOWBIZ TONIGHT deciphers the "Da Vinci Code" controversy, live!
GARTH BROOKS, SINGER: Hey, everybody, I`m Garth Brooks and if it happened today, you can bet it`s on SHOWBIZ TONIGHT.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
ANDERSON: Hi there, I`m Brooke Anderson, live in Hollywood
HAMMER: I`m A.J. Hammer, live in New York City.
ANDERSON: OK. So last night, we asked you, do you hate other people`s kids? And you won`t believe how many letters flooded our in-box.
HAMMER: We were virtually overwhelmed with the e-mail and we are bringing back the author of "I Hate Other People`s Kids" so she can answer e-mails live on the program.
But Brooke, of course, you remember where you were on September 11.
ANDERSON: Absolutely, A.J. I was at work at CNN in Atlanta, and I remember being in complete and utter shock and dismay.
HAMMER: Yes, I was workings, as well, here in New York City and like most people just thinking this is absolutely unbelievable.
Well, there`s another thing that you may not believe about September 11 and what someone is saying. Charlie Sheen, star of CBS`s successful sitcom, "Two and a Half Men", says point blank, 9/11, the Pentagon, the World Trade Center, this is all a cover up. Is this for real? Well, SHOWBIZ TONIGHT has the tape that has people asking, what`s the truth?
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
SHEEN: The more you look at stuff, especially specific incidents, specific events in and around the fateful day, it just -- it just raises a lot of questions.
HAMMER (voice-over): Charlie Sheen has his own questions about 9/11, and SHOWBIZ TONIGHT has obtained the explosive interview from the radio show of fringe journalist Alex Jones.
Sheen normally gets laughs as the bachelor on the hit CBS sitcom, "Two and a Half Men".
SHEEN: Wow, you`re even better than a dog.
HAMMER: But now, Sheen is courting controversy by questioning the official story on 9/11.
SHEEN: We`re not the conspiracy theorists on this particular issue, you know. It seems to me like, you know, 19 amateurs with box cutters taking over four commercial airliners and hitting 75 percent of their targets, that feels like a conspiracy theory.
HAMMER: So what exactly are Sheen`s questions about 9/11?
For one, Sheen is questioning the official story of what caused the World Trade Center clasp, that the impact of the two planes caused fires that weakened the buildings` support columns. In the interview Sheen says he wondered if the buildings could have been brought down by a deliberate - - yes, deliberate -- implosion.
SHEEN: I saw the south tower hit live, that famous wide shot where it disappears behind the building and then we see the tremendous fireball. And there was just -- there was a feeling that it just didn`t look, how do I say this, it didn`t look like any commercial jetliner I`ve flown on any time in my life.
And then when the buildings came down, later on that day, I was with my brother and I said, "Hey, call me insane, but did it sort of look like those buildings came down in a -- in a controlled demolition?"
HAMMER: Sheen is also questioning how a commercial airliner could have hit the Pentagon.
SHEEN: Show us this incredible maneuvering. Just show it to us. Just show us, you know, how this particular plane pulled off these maneuvers. What was it, a 270 degree turn at 500 miles per hour, descending 7,000 feet in two and a half minutes, skimming across tree tops the last 500 meters off the ground?
ALEX JONES, RADIO TALK SHOW HOST: You can`t hold...
HAMMER: Sheen also jumped on a favorite target of 9/11 conspiracy theorists: President Bush([search]). Sheen questions why the president, after an aide told him about the attacks, continued with his Florida school appearance.
SHEEN: It would seem to me that, upon the revelation of that news, that the Secret Service would grab the president and remove him as if he were on fire from that room.
HAMMER: Ever since that horrible day, conspiracy theories about the attacks have spread far and wide through the Internet. As writer Webster Tarpley tells SHOWBIZ TONIGHT, Sheen is not alone in his opinion.
WEBSTER TARPLEY, AUTHOR, "9/11 SYNTHETIC TERROR": There was a Zogby poll carried out last August, actually August of 2004, by now, which showed that about 50 percent of the people in New York City believed that top government officials had knowledge in advance of what was going to happen.
HAMMER: Still, it`s safe to say that most experts and most Americans place the blame for 9/11 only on Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda, not the U.S. government. Even Sheen knows his comments may not go over well with many people.
SHEEN: And I`m sure I`m being demonized across the nation by, you know, all of the people that do that sort of thing.
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0603/22/sbt.01.html
CNN Produces Balanced Piece On Sheen 9/11 Comments
911 Blogger | March 23 2006
Comment: We are amazed and flabbergasted by how fair this piece is and it should help encourage other high profile figures in the public eye like Charlie Sheen to come forward.
http://prisonplanet.com/articles/march2006/230306Sheen_CNN.htm
But the NYP didn't!
SHEEN: WHAT 9/11 HIJACKERS?
http://www.nypost.com/gossip/pagesix/65825.htm
Google Caught Censoring Charlie Sheen 9/11 Story
Quickly re-indexes pages during live radio discussion
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/march2006/230306googlecensoring.htm
Aired March 22, 2006 - 19:00:00 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
A.J. HAMMER, CO-HOST: I`m A.J. Hammer in New York City.
BROOKE ANDERSON, CO-HOST: And I`m Brooke Anderson live in Hollywood. TV`s only live entertainment news show starts right now.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
HAMMER (voice-over): On SHOWBIZ TONIGHT, we asked you the question, do you hate other people`s kids? And we could not believe the overwhelming response we got from you: so many e-mails, we`re still reading them. Tonight, we bring back the author of "I Hate Other People`s Kids", so she can respond live to those of you who do hate other people`s kids and those who hate her.
Plus, a Charlie Sheen shocker. Tonight, the actor`s stunning statements on 9/11. Maybe the airplanes did not take down the Twin Towers. And maybe the government is covering it all up.
CHARLIE SHEEN, ACTOR: Taking ever four commercial airliners and hitting 75 percent of their targets, that feels like a conspiracy theory.
HAMMER: SHOWBIZ TONIGHT investigates the startling allegations.
Also, a "Da Vinci Code" debate, live. Tonight, what one religious group is demanding be done to the "Da Vinci Code" movie, and why others believe the demand is downright ridiculous.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Witness the biggest cover-up in human history.
HAMMER: SHOWBIZ TONIGHT deciphers the "Da Vinci Code" controversy, live!
GARTH BROOKS, SINGER: Hey, everybody, I`m Garth Brooks and if it happened today, you can bet it`s on SHOWBIZ TONIGHT.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
ANDERSON: Hi there, I`m Brooke Anderson, live in Hollywood
HAMMER: I`m A.J. Hammer, live in New York City.
ANDERSON: OK. So last night, we asked you, do you hate other people`s kids? And you won`t believe how many letters flooded our in-box.
HAMMER: We were virtually overwhelmed with the e-mail and we are bringing back the author of "I Hate Other People`s Kids" so she can answer e-mails live on the program.
But Brooke, of course, you remember where you were on September 11.
ANDERSON: Absolutely, A.J. I was at work at CNN in Atlanta, and I remember being in complete and utter shock and dismay.
HAMMER: Yes, I was workings, as well, here in New York City and like most people just thinking this is absolutely unbelievable.
Well, there`s another thing that you may not believe about September 11 and what someone is saying. Charlie Sheen, star of CBS`s successful sitcom, "Two and a Half Men", says point blank, 9/11, the Pentagon, the World Trade Center, this is all a cover up. Is this for real? Well, SHOWBIZ TONIGHT has the tape that has people asking, what`s the truth?
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
SHEEN: The more you look at stuff, especially specific incidents, specific events in and around the fateful day, it just -- it just raises a lot of questions.
HAMMER (voice-over): Charlie Sheen has his own questions about 9/11, and SHOWBIZ TONIGHT has obtained the explosive interview from the radio show of fringe journalist Alex Jones.
Sheen normally gets laughs as the bachelor on the hit CBS sitcom, "Two and a Half Men".
SHEEN: Wow, you`re even better than a dog.
HAMMER: But now, Sheen is courting controversy by questioning the official story on 9/11.
SHEEN: We`re not the conspiracy theorists on this particular issue, you know. It seems to me like, you know, 19 amateurs with box cutters taking over four commercial airliners and hitting 75 percent of their targets, that feels like a conspiracy theory.
HAMMER: So what exactly are Sheen`s questions about 9/11?
For one, Sheen is questioning the official story of what caused the World Trade Center clasp, that the impact of the two planes caused fires that weakened the buildings` support columns. In the interview Sheen says he wondered if the buildings could have been brought down by a deliberate - - yes, deliberate -- implosion.
SHEEN: I saw the south tower hit live, that famous wide shot where it disappears behind the building and then we see the tremendous fireball. And there was just -- there was a feeling that it just didn`t look, how do I say this, it didn`t look like any commercial jetliner I`ve flown on any time in my life.
And then when the buildings came down, later on that day, I was with my brother and I said, "Hey, call me insane, but did it sort of look like those buildings came down in a -- in a controlled demolition?"
HAMMER: Sheen is also questioning how a commercial airliner could have hit the Pentagon.
SHEEN: Show us this incredible maneuvering. Just show it to us. Just show us, you know, how this particular plane pulled off these maneuvers. What was it, a 270 degree turn at 500 miles per hour, descending 7,000 feet in two and a half minutes, skimming across tree tops the last 500 meters off the ground?
ALEX JONES, RADIO TALK SHOW HOST: You can`t hold...
HAMMER: Sheen also jumped on a favorite target of 9/11 conspiracy theorists: President Bush([search]). Sheen questions why the president, after an aide told him about the attacks, continued with his Florida school appearance.
SHEEN: It would seem to me that, upon the revelation of that news, that the Secret Service would grab the president and remove him as if he were on fire from that room.
HAMMER: Ever since that horrible day, conspiracy theories about the attacks have spread far and wide through the Internet. As writer Webster Tarpley tells SHOWBIZ TONIGHT, Sheen is not alone in his opinion.
WEBSTER TARPLEY, AUTHOR, "9/11 SYNTHETIC TERROR": There was a Zogby poll carried out last August, actually August of 2004, by now, which showed that about 50 percent of the people in New York City believed that top government officials had knowledge in advance of what was going to happen.
HAMMER: Still, it`s safe to say that most experts and most Americans place the blame for 9/11 only on Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda, not the U.S. government. Even Sheen knows his comments may not go over well with many people.
SHEEN: And I`m sure I`m being demonized across the nation by, you know, all of the people that do that sort of thing.
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0603/22/sbt.01.html CNN Produces Balanced Piece On Sheen 9/11 Comments
911 Blogger | March 23 2006
Comment: We are amazed and flabbergasted by how fair this piece is and it should help encourage other high profile figures in the public eye like Charlie Sheen to come forward.
http://prisonplanet.com/articles/march2006/230306Sheen_CNN.htm But the NYP didn't!
SHEEN: WHAT 9/11 HIJACKERS?
http://www.nypost.com/gossip/pagesix/65825.htm Google Caught Censoring Charlie Sheen 9/11 Story
Quickly re-indexes pages during live radio discussion
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/march2006/230306googlecensoring.htm
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