Alex Jones, the controversial talk radio host and operator of conspiracy websites like Infowars.com and Prisonplanet.com, sparked outrage today by publishing an entirely fabricated Q&A interview between President Barack Obama and Two and a Half Men actor Charlie Sheen. For his part, Sheen appears to be a willing participant in this ploy.
Branded as the most explosive information of his career, Jones posted a transcript of the fake conversation on his websites this morning, deliberately misrepresenting it as a 20-minute interview between Obama and Sheen. He later modified the content – after it was presented to the public as being real – to include a disclaimer on the very bottom of the article, which states that this is merely an open letter from Sheen to Obama, and that no such conversation has taken place. One website, AboveTopSecret.com, has since published a cached edition of the original report, which clearly demonstrates how it was initially positioned to viewers.
Sheen’s questions mostly pertain to the flawed
Even with the abovementioned revisions, this report continues to provide misleading information, as it attributes wholly falsified quotes to our President. In addition, its opening summary deceptively positions the conversation as being real; anyone that fails to read the entire document would never know the difference. That said, even though I often disagree with Obama politically – I believe, wholeheartedly – that these actions are completely malicious.
In the end, it is a true shame that people like Alex Jones are most often associated with politically incorrect topics, such as the movement for a new investigation into the events that occurred on September 11, 2001; regardless, above and beyond Jones’ deceptions, there are actually a host of credible experts – including legitimate academics, physicists, former government officials, domestic and foreign intelligence operatives, and first responders (firemen, policemen, EMT workers) – that are willing to go on the record and discuss why they believe the original 9/11 investigation was inherently flawed.As a sizeable number of Americans – including Charlie Sheen, of course – believe that a new investigation into 9/11 is indeed warranted, supporters of this objective would do well to avoid the Alex Jones’ of the world, and instead pursue their cause through other public outlets. That is something we can all surely agree upon.
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This is pure drivel. The above is drivel.
Ooooh, Alex Jones is soooo naughty for doing this. Thank Jesus we have super-sleuths like you and AboveTopSecret revealing such shocking examples of deception. This act of deception by Alex Jones is SOOOO much worse than the false flag attacks of 9/11 themselves.
Thanks for missing the point idiots.
Okay, it wasn't pure drivel, actually the part about credible professionals seeking a new investigation was good. It was the part tearing down Charlie Sheen and Alex Jones I have a problem with. The intention of Sheen's fictitious dialogue with the President, which he wrote himself, was not malicious at all, but was to provide an open letter to Obama asking for a redress of the shoddy white wash results of the 911 Commission Report. He wants a new investigation. So, you get a C-, not an F. Sorry.
I meant a D-
The whole story was meant to get people to read it and see some of the facts and evidence of a 9/11 cover-up. Did you bother reading any of the facts like how sixty percent of the 9/11 commissioners say on record the government story was a lie and there needs to be a new investigation? Have you watched videos of WTC Building 7? So how about actually researching and debunking his evidence. Your article disproves nothing except that your a mindless sheep.
I agree, pure drivel. If you listened to the radio program whilst looking upon the document you would know that this was no hoax. But it was intended to look like that so that the MSM and the sheep would jump on it. Now watch as this thing spreads to the top. If Obama shuns it (which he will), it will just cement the now public information that our government is controlled; our elected officials mere entertainers. In the end it doesn't really matter because the lie is bigger than anyone can believe. We are all about to reap the whirlwind. good luck to my fellow countrymen in the coming storm.
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Yes...I wonder why the article was about Alex Jones and not what the script in-tells. I think it would be a far more interesting and daring article had it been written about what Sheen's script/letter dictates. I find the last minute footnotes to those moments in the script were sadly made less relevant a jab at Alex Jones. I wish Journalist would man up and speak the truth and never mind these school yard behavior. This is a general observation and not a poke directly at Tim Barello.
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Hey Tim,
What makes a request to investigate a crime politically incorrect? I don't it get man? What don't you get about a fictitious letter? What's the problem there? You did mention there was a disclaimer. Don't miss the point. Are you jealous that YOUR career is all hype? Where is your objective journalistic integrity? Please try to report real news in real fashion. The people are sick of snide remarks made by you and others that consider themselves reporters. What would your mother think?
Now we know Tim Barello has no spine
The technology to enable cell phone calls from high-altitude airline flights was not created until 2004, and even by that point it was only in the trial phase. Calls from cell phones which formed an integral part of the official government version of events were technologically impossible at the time.
Tim Barello really missed the point here. Charlie Sheen has presented well researched and documented evidence about a cover up of 9-11 and Tim Barello is focused on denigrating it. I will not be paying attention to anything Mr. Barello writes in the future.
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Who are you working for Tim? The American people or the people who perpetrated this crime. Look at the evidence.
Proof:
1. evidence sufficient to establish a thing as true, or to produce belief in its truth.
I will agree that Alex Jones was wrong in posting the article the way he did. I do beleive that a new investigation needs to take place. American's need to know the TRUTH!
Oh Tim...you better wake up or pick a side
"Alex Jones, the controversial talk radio host and operator of conspiracy websites like Infowars.com and Prisonplanet.com, sparked outrage tod.."
Are his websites like those or are those his websites?
What other "conspiracy websites" does he operate?
Hey Barello, it got the Examiner to give it some ink and the 20 points are all fact based challenges to the official fairytale. Could you pick up the phone and get Sheen to have you over his house for six days?
I like the Reuters spin better....AUSTIN, Texas, Sept. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- According to syndicated talk show host
Alex Jones, actor and television star Charlie Sheen has publicly requested a
meeting with President Barack Obama to urge him to reopen the official
investigation into 9/11; in light of the fact that the majority of the 9/11
Commission members have now publicly gone on record to express their
conviction that the government agreed to lie about the official story.
Sheen will appear live on The Alex Jones Show on Wednesday and Friday to
discuss the content of his "20 Minutes With The President" piece and how he
plans to move forward with this exciting new initiative. You can listen free
here or subscribe to prison planet.tv to watch live streaming video.
I support a second official investigation in light of the fact that six out of the ten members on the 9/11 commission later came forward and said we were lied to about the events that day.
-Tim
I thought the letter was well written and portrayed Obama in a positive light. Don't see malicious intent in any of this... confusing, maybe, malicious, no.
Keep showing the lack of journalistic integrity by steering well clear of most of the actual facts raised in the document while AT THE SAME TIME doing the great service of publicizing this for those of us who want the truth to come out.
Cheers mate. LOL (Idiot)
Meanwhile, Is it a "must have" during journalist training that such mainstream career journalists have no integrity and no capability to actually probe what is the content and the facts rather than take cheap shots in an attempt to discredit?
Anyhow, thanks again mate. Doing a great job! :-)
No, we can't all agree, Tim. Alex Jones has proved himself to be more trustworthy than any of the mainstream media or corporate wannabe journalists like yourself.
Anyone with any critical thinking skills would know that the "interview" was hypothetical because Obama was way too smooth and we all know the man can't talk without a teleprompter.
Don't miss the point. Check out Mr. Sheen's claims for yourselves.
Hey Barello, it got the Examiner to give it some ink and the 20 points are all fact based challenges to the official fairytale. Could you pick up the phone and get Sheen to have you over his house for six days?
I like the Reuters spin better....AUSTIN, Texas, Sept. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- According to syndicated talk show host
Alex Jones, actor and television star Charlie Sheen has publicly requested a
meeting with President Barack Obama to urge him to reopen the official
investigation into 9/11; in light of the fact that the majority of the 9/11
Commission members have now publicly gone on record to express their
conviction that the government agreed to lie about the official story.
Sheen will appear live on The Alex Jones Show on Wednesday and Friday to
discuss the content of his "20 Minutes With The President" piece and how he
plans to move forward with this exciting new initiative. You can listen free
here or subscribe to prison planet.tv to watch live streaming video.
The link on AboveTopSecret.com is a copy-paste of TEXT which can clearly be manipulated to remove the Authors note.
Tim, I applaud you for having the courage to say this. "regardless, above and beyond Jones’ deceptions, there are actually a host of credible experts – including legitimate academics, physicists, former government officials, domestic and foreign intelligence operatives, and first responders (firemen, policemen, EMT workers) – that are willing to go on the record and discuss why they believe the original 9/11 investigation was inherently flawed."
I do listen to Alex Jones and I was mad (at first) over the ploy. But as someone else pointed out, it at least got you to talk about the questions surrounding 9/11. 3,000 Americans died and the media simply hasn't done it's oversight job. So if pulling a prank is what it takes for this to happen....
Wow, Tim! According to these comments, looks like 99% of your readers are in favor of this move by Alex Jones and Charlie Sheen. Maybe you should take a second look and revise the tone of your article.
"LiquidUbuquity.com says:
The link on AboveTopSecret.com is a copy-paste of TEXT which can clearly be manipulated to remove the Authors note."
I read and copied the "earlier" version of the Sheen story this morning and there was NO disclaimer. They manipulated nothing.
Tim's article is right on. He is not attacking anyone who wants a new 9/11 investigation, he is pointing out the same deceptive tactics we have all been fighting against. Jones knows the hoax he participated in and knows it was wrong. Otherwise why would they have later posted the disclaimer.
YOU DO NOT FIGHT FOR TRUTH BY SPREADING LIES. Right is right. Alex and Charlie both know this and should make a formal apology because this was plain and simple, wrong. Celebrate their courage and bottomless hard work yes, but be careful you do not become the monsters you fight against. Peace.
Where did anyone lie puppetgov?
Yeah, Alex is bad. Let's focus all of our attention on Alex Jones instead of the crimes of 911.
This is the anniversary week.
Friday is September 11th.
8 years later.
Didn't Obama give a 20 minute speech to the school kids today?
Think someone googling that will stumble upon the truth? No, they will see how Alex Jones deceived everyone by not having a disclaimer posted for the first 30 minutes. Which was probably human error anyways. Good grief! I mean come one, get over it. The document is a perfect "wake-up guide" to 911, and that's where the attention needs to be directed.
Great job Charlie and Alex! Keep fighting the good fight!
The plan was to fool the media into picking up the story so they would spread the facts about the 9/11 cover-up. If you're feeling tricked or lied to, get over it wimps! It's all about the spreading the FACTS to people who would other wise not be exposed to truths very often, i.e the public.
Hey Barello, can you get me a job there? I am a certified liar and and a false flagger for the zionists. I can lick Rothschilds' old anuses if needed too.
THEY DID IT TO FORCE YOU ALL TO READ THE 20 BULLET POINTS. LOOK AT THE 20 BULLET POINTS! THEY ARE 100% IRREFUTABLE EVIDENCE OF 9-11 BEING AN INSIDE JOB. IR-RE-FUT-ABLE.
Alex Jones has directed and produced over 25 films. His latest full length film "THE OBAMA DECEPTION" has over three million views on one video. International bankers are in control now but not for long. Great man Charlie Sheen, a man with popularity and wealth who chooses to do good.
The interview wasn't fake - I watched the video of it you moron.
You gettin' all this, Timmy ol' boy?
Here are some critical facts to add to your paradigm:
1) Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
2) Politicians routinely LIE to the people in order to get voted into office. (Very few exceptions to this exist.)
3) The government is NOT your friend (or mine, for that matter).
If you apply these basic precepts to all your articles before you do your final draft, I think it'll make you a much better journalist, one that wants to bring the facts to the people rather than one who licks the hind end of the government.
No Tim we can't all agree that it would be best to steer clear from Jones. He just revived the 9/11 truth movement with this one act of his. Alex Jones is simply playing hardball against the mainstream media. What he did with Charlie Sheen was genius and that's more than what I can give this article of yours.
If it tricked millions of sheep to view it it, GOOD!!
Amongst the garbage out there called entertiament news, individual views are scarce, and bottom line, are cohersed and sometimes fabricated to get a view accross like propoganda for the masses.
What Alex and Charlie did was great, and it worked. And most of all it found a way of getting the bullet points accross, points that are NOT CONSPIRACIES but actual documented irrefutable fact.
The need to investigate for the sake of the families, the dead firemen and policemen and the whole global family, has never been more important than now. Do we wait till documents are declassified in 25 years, and are to old to care, like the Tonkin Incident, or do we band together and demand a real investigation?
If you dont, why? dont you want the truth, or are you so brainwashed to think that simple facts of 911 like tower beams cut at 45 degree angles, according to the commission is possible with burning jet fuel. Get a grip, investigate.
CHARLIE YOU ARE THE BRAVEST PERSON I EVER MET, BESIDES MY FATHER, LIEUTENANT IN THE AMRY DURING WORLD WAR TWO WHO FOUGHT IN BOTH THEATERS. GOD BLESS YOU AND PROTECT YOU. AND THOUGH MY FATHER HAS LEFT THIS WORLD, I KNOW HE WOULD BE PROUD OF YOU AND YOUR ATTEMPT TO PROTECT OUR FREEDOM AND REPUBLIC THAT HE DEFENDED SO BRAVELY WITH HIS LIFE. MAY WE FIND A NATION ARISE WITH ONE STRONG VOICE AND DEMAND JUSTICE FOR OUR FALLEN BROTHERS AND SISTERS MURDERED ON 911.
Exactly how many minutes did Alex Jones deceive his readers (all, or most of whom are his regular readers)? Unlike Obama, Jones admmitted the faux hoax pretty quickly, yet Obama has proven himself ro be a champion liar equal to Cheney after only 7 deceptive months in office. And he never fesses up to his scores of bold-face lies.
Paul Joseph Watson's article entitled "Charlie Sheen Requests Meeting With Obama Over 9/11 Cover-Up" which is also on infowars and prisonplanet told everyone ahead of time that the transcript between Sheen and Obama was fictitious.
Second Paragraph of the article:
"Sheen’s request takes the form of a letter to the President in the context of a fictional meeting between the two entitled “20 Minutes With The President,” published exclusively on radio talk show host Alex Jones’ Infowars.com and Prison Planet.com websites."
If the author of this Examiner piece got misled by Sheen's open letter, now they feel my pain every time I read mainstream news. I read articles, start to finish, and then form my opinion. I also fact check everything in the article using other sources. If you do what my screen name says, then you learn how to fact check news the easy way.
I look forward to a point by point assessment of Sheen's assertions, that would better than reading your characterizations of Sheen and Jones. Good on them to get the debate kicked into gear, regardless of the tactic (it's darn site more honest than our governments' tactics for sure).
What? Alex Jones caught concocting yet another fraud? Wow - that's a shocker, LOL!
"Alf says:
I look forward to a point by point assessment of Sheen's assertions"
I look forward to a point by point assessment of Orson Welles' "War Of The Worlds" radio broadcast hoax while he's at it!
It says right in the article that Alex Jones posted that it is NOT real. And moreover, its pretty obvious that its not real, I mean Charlie Sheen requests a private interview with the president to talk about 9/11 and GETS IT?! Hahah, you'd have to be really slow. Not only that but several news releases went out today announcing that Charlie Sheen had issued an open letter to Barack Obama called "20 Minutes with the president". The writer of this article is either slow, ignorant, or both.
From the Original
"Author’s Note: What you have just read didn’t actually happen… yet.
This is an open letter to the President requesting a new investigation.
Charlie Sheen."
"razeleft says:
It says right in the article that Alex Jones posted that it is NOT real."
Sorry, Razeleft, but the truth is that Jones tried to push this latest hoax as _FACT_ before he was exposed and was forced to confess to the hoax by _later_ adding a note at the extreme bottom confessing that the whole thing was just a feverish fantasy of a d-list celebrity's insane imagination.
abovetopsecret (dot) com has the screencaps of it before Jones confessed to it being nothing more than a fantasy and then tried to sanitize it - including the hilarious awe-struck comments of the gullible, slack-jawed dupes. Great, funny reading - he played them for total suckers and this latest fraud of his has angered and opened the eyes of even many of the (now "former", after this whopper of a lie) diehard CT addicts.
"In the end, it is a true shame that people like Alex Jones are most often associated with politically incorrect topics, such as the movement for a new investigation into the events that occurred on September 11, 2001"
politically incorrect topics indeed.
I am not an Alex Jones Fan but I must say this is brilliant of Sheen and Jones. This is a sure way to get the President to do an interview. They are not that stupid to post something like this by accident or fraudulently without an ulterior motive.
9/11 was an inside job. well done on this. This is an open letter of what they think will happen. Sheen wants to get 20mins with Obama. this is a good way to get him to hear it.
Bravo, Sheen and Jones!
The audacity of the 9-11 murders must be with equal amounts of persistence, ingenuity and courage by the people.
WE ARE CHANGE
It was a interview posed as real in the morning, to GET media to pick it up and to get their readers to read it. And guess what, it worked. The main reason was to get coverage for the readership to get the main BULLETPOINTS, things that need to be investigated.
We owe it to the dead, the families, the firefighters and the police and the hundreds of first responders who have later died or are dieing of Aspestosis because Gulliani and the EPA lied about the air quality.
The realisation that media are now pulling the story adds credence to Jones and Sheens story, and the need for the truth. It was intended, if you feel betrayed, get over it. You read it right?
Edmond says:
"Sorry, Razeleft, but the truth is that Jones tried to push this latest hoax as _FACT_ before he was exposed and was forced to confess to the hoax by _later_ adding a note at the extreme bottom confessing that the whole thing was just a feverish fantasy of a d-list celebrity's insane imagination."
I went to abovetopsecret and they're saying that it was posted for 90 minutes without a disclaimer and when his radio show went live they added the disclaimer, probably due to the amount of people that were calling in and posting thinking it was real. I still don't see how anyone in their right mind would think this was real. I read the article without hearing anything about it being a scripted open letter to the president and instantly knew it wasn't something that had actually happened as soon as I saw it was Sheen and Obama in a private meeting.. and talking about 9/11 nonetheless! Ha!
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