Fox host Napolitano is a 9-11 Truther: "It couldn't possibly have been done the way the government told us"
Yesterday, Fox Business host and Fox News senior judicial analyst Andrew Napolitano revealed himself as a believer in the conspiracy theory that the government is lying about the attacks on September 11. Speaking on a leading conspiracy show, Napolitano said that it's "hard for me to believe that" World Trade Center building 7 "came down by itself" -- a central tenet of 9-11 conspiracy theories -- and claimed that "twenty years from now, people will look at 9-11 the way we look at the assassination of JFK today. It couldn't possibly have been done the way the government told us."Many conservatives have tried to suggest it is wild eyed moderates ( they generally call moderates leftists. It is part of trying to dehumanize their opponents rather than dealing with the facts) are the ones spreading the 9-11 Truther conspiracy theories. The Right thinks to entertain such ideas is horrible enough to deserve being fired from your job. If that were not enough if you have a 9-11 Truther as a friend that makes you guilty also, By Fox News' standards, Napolitano "should be fired immediately" for being a 9-11 Truther
Yesterday, Fox Business host and Fox News senior judicial analyst Andrew Napolitano appeared on conspiracy theorist Alex Jones' radio show and joined Jones in pushing conspiracy theories about the terror attacks on September 11, 2001. Napolitano announced that "twenty years from now, people will look at 9-11 the way we look at the assassination of JFK today. It couldn't possibly have been done the way the government told us."While 9-11 truthers are a misguided bunch lacking hard evidence that does not mean they and anyone that has ever had lunch with them is guilty of some crime and should lose their income. That is unless you're Faux News. When you're a paid of member of the conservative right-wing kool-aid drinkers like Napolitano, Fox gives you a pass. When values are contradictory are they values anymore.
In the past, we've noted that Napolitano has lent his credibility -- and, by extension, Fox News' -- to Jones' show by helping Jones promote bizarre anti-government conspiracies. Jones is widely recognized as one of the leaders of the "9-11 Truth" movement. He also, among many other outlandish theories, believes a "New World Order" is going to exterminate 80% of the world's population.
While Napolitano's appearances with Jones have been problematic in the past, his foray into pushing 9-11 Truth conspiracies should - but, based on the network's refusal to reprimand on-air talent, likely won't - spell the end of Napolitano's Fox News career.
Back in September, during the five-alarm freak out over the planned Islamic community center in lower Manhattan, Fox News (and many other conservatives) attacked Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf over the fact that one of his "former associates" is a 9-11 Truther. Nevermind that Rauf himself had repeatedly and explicitly stated that the 9-11 attacks were perpetrated by extremist Muslims; Fox News found the mere fact that he used to work with someone who held that belief worth attacking him over.
Attacking Rauf on ABC, Bill O'Reilly exclaimed that it "doesn't matter" if Rauf is a truther, because "his pal" was one. Fox Nation proclaimed that Rauf "Pals Around With Truthers." Glenn Beck called for the government to "investigate" Rauf.
