KSFO's Sussman offers to bet that "Obama believes [9-11] was an inside job," but Obama has said it was Al Qaeda
SUMMARY: San Francisco radio host Brian Sussman suggested that "[Sen. Barack] Obama believes" the September 11 attacks were "an inside job." In fact, Obama has repeatedly noted that Osama bin Laden and other members of Al Qaeda were responsible for the September 11 attacks and are still at large.
On the September 11 broadcast of San Francisco radio station KSFO's The Lee Rodgers Show, guest host Brian Sussman suggested that Sen. Barack Obama believes the September 11 attacks were "an inside job." Sussman quoted from Obama's statement on the seventh anniversary of the 9-11 attacks -- in which Obama said: "Let us remember that the terrorists responsible for 9-11 are still at large, and must be brought to justice" -- and later stated: "I bet you a buck, man to man, that Obama believes this was an inside job." Sussman later added: "Yeah, we haven't gotten [Osama] bin Laden yet, to our knowledge, but you know what I wonder if what he's saying right here: 'Let us remember that the terrorists responsible for 9-11 are still at large.' I just told you: Some of them are dead, some of them are behind bars, et cetera. I'm wondering if he's saying the terrorists responsible for 9-11 are Bush and Cheney." In fact, Obama has repeatedly noted that bin Laden and other members of Al Qaeda were responsible for the September 11 attacks and are still at large, a fact Sussman did not mention.
For instance, in his August 28 acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention, Obama said: "I argued for more resources and more troops to finish the fight against the terrorists who actually attacked us on 9-11, and made clear that we must take out Osama bin Laden and his lieutenants if we have them in our sights." Additionally, in a September 9 speech in Ohio, Obama said: "[T]he central front in the war on terror is not in Iraq, and it never was -- the central front is in Afghanistan and Pakistan, where the terrorists who hit us on 9/11 are still plotting attacks seven years later."
From the September 11 broadcast of KSFO's The Lee Rodgers Show:
SUSSMAN: Barack Obama has come out with a statement. He said: "On 9-11, Americans across our great country came together to stand with the families of the victims, to donate blood, to give to charity, and to say a prayer for our country. Let us renew that spirit of service and that sense of common purpose." And then he said: "Let us remember that the terrorists responsible for 9-11 are still at large, and must be brought to justice."
This is a guy whose pastor said, "Americans' chickens are coming home to roost." His pastor believed this was an inside job. I bet you a buck, man to man, that Obama believes this was an inside job. And when he makes this ridiculous statement -- "Let us remember that the terrorists responsible for 9-11 are still at large" -- what is he really saying there? I've got news for you. The terrorists that were in the planes are dead. There are actually people who are behind bars that were associated with this plot, and a lot of them have been killed in Iraq and elsewhere. Yeah, we haven't gotten [Osama] bin Laden yet, to our knowledge, but you know what I wonder if what he's saying right here: "Let us remember that the terrorists responsible for 9-11 are still at large." I just told you: Some of them are dead, some of them are behind bars, et cetera. I'm wondering if he's saying the terrorists responsible for 9-11 are Bush and Cheney, because --
OFFICER VIC (co-host Tom Benner): Oh, interesting point.
SUSSMAN: -- a lot of the people who are supporting this guy are the types who are saying: "The blood is on their hands; 9-11's an inside job. It's them."
Ah yes, more reading of people's minds again and as to what they're really saying.
Sussman, I can't believe you're smart enough to remember to breathe on a daily basis. Why? You know what he was saying when Obama was talking about the terrorists being responsible for this are still at large, as in Osama Bin Laden, you know, the guy that planned these attacks? You want to catch him right? I have another thing for you. The people most closely responsible for this were nowhere near Iraq. The people that funded this attack on 9/11/01 are probably living snug and safe in Saudi Arabia. Obama never said anything about this being an inside job. Things like that are for nutters like yourself.
Haven't we heard enough from these morons to realize that expecting to hold them to reasonable journalistic standards is akin to considering the Creation Museum for a Nobel prize?
SUSSMAN: -- a lot of the people who are supporting this guy are the types who are saying: "The blood is on their hands; 9-11's an inside job. It's them."
This is a very special kind of stupid by Sussman. People who think that the US Gov't was behind the attacks on 9/11 simply don't vote.
Judging from the past 8 years this administration would never be competent enough to do 9/11.
Actually I wouldn't trust them to mop the floors at a 7-Eleven. I've worked there. I know what it takes. They don't have it.
I'm willing to bet that McCain thinks black people shouldn't be President. Surely there are people who believe that who are supporting him, right?
Good analogy.
Unlike your jest, I do think Whoopie was serious when she asked her super-smart slave question on the View today.
Dex,
I saw that, but I think Whoopi said the slavery comment when McCain was saying how he would like the Constitution to be interpreted the way it was when the Founding Fathers wrote it. As you know, slavery was legal then. I think that's why she included that statement.
Those Bastards!
I've never believed that 9/11 was an inside US Government job. If it was, why in the hell would Dubya' sit there like a scared rabbit... reading My Pet Goat... instead of hitting his marks and making stirring pronouncements about 'bringing the evil doers to justice'? Why would he then up and flee from one part of the nation to another in Air Force One, leaving the American people without a leader to rally around? Why would he reveal himself to be a coward in the moment of his nation's greatest need?
Inside job my ass.
I don't think it was an inside job, but I'd disagree that w's pants-pissing paralysis on 9/11 is proof of that. I've never really thought W was in the loop with most of the grown-up business. I think that's more Cheney & Rove and the other thugs, Bush is just the goofy likable spokesmodel with the phony cowboy accent.
That's also why I think Grampy has become such a shell of his former self, he's being prepared for the role of Republo-puppet.All of the "man" is being knocked out of him in case the GOP wins.They don't want some Mavrick asking a bunch of questions, and even McCain's gotta realize that he could be "disappeared" pretty easily if they've got that piece of Play-Dough from Alaska next in line.
Huh. So that whole Afghanistan thing and the little Iraq deal.... those had nothing to do with the terrorists responsible for 9-11? Wow. Sussman sounds like some kind of far-out liberal.