Comments on: The Truth Of Truthiness

Taking Comedy Seriously Is Dumb, A Perfect Job For CBS' Dick Meyer

[marcodele]

I thought it was Mark Twain, not E.B. White, who said "Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog: nobody is interested, and the thing dies in the process."

E.B. White's "The Door" - my favorite prose of all time.

[egresor]

bwright923

how is it that I am participating in truthiness?

what you've posted is old hat.

please indicate any place in that article that explains the presence of molten steel in the sub levels?

they explain that the weakening of the steel by the fuel (and materials) fire could have caused the collapse, but copletely ignore the molten steel. why is that? why don't the experts explain the presence of a substance (molten steel) for which nothing within the building or an airliner (with it's jet fuel) couls cause.

am I therefore engaging in truthiness? or am I asking genuine questions for which no valid explainations have been offered?

truthiness is putting forth a belief as truth in the face of facts that disprove it. I don't deny that it is possible to collapse a steel structured tower by weakening it with less than melting temperatures. only where did the molten steel come from?

those who claim that jet fuel brought down the towers ignore the molten steel. the presence of of which the fuel could not cause. how does PM explain that? how do you explain it? to valid questions is not truthiness!

:)

[bwright923]

here is the main website

http://wtc.nist.gov/

[bwright923]

random_radar

ok, if PM don't do it for ya, how about this:

http://wtc.nist.gov/pubs/WTC%20Part%20IIC%20-%20WTC%207%20Collapse%20Final.pdf

[mrthornman]

Truthiness is not a good description for what Bush does.

Try the word b-u-l-l-s-h-i-t. There is a great little book on this subject by philosopher Harry Frankfurt. It is called "On B-u-l-l-s-h-i-t"

Read it. Then you will understand all.

[crazyivan32]

Mr. Meyer's article reminds me of the quote by E. B. White: "Dissecting humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies."

Of course the posters here will, predictably, turn this into a neocon or liberal bashing excercise. There are some posters here who, if you took away the words "neocon" and/or "liberal" from their vocabularies, wouldn't have any words left. This only proves the beauty of the word Truthiness.

[creeper00]

bwright923:

I thank you for the link to Popular Mechanic's article. It cleared up the questions I had regarding WTC7.

Cover-up? I think not. This one's too big for even Bush to cover up.

[AgentGGG]

Another aspect of truthiness is the complexity of our world, and the science and math skills required to understand what is going on around us.

Perhaps we are experiencing the harvest of our educational system--a populace so poorly educated they collectively mistrust science and intellectuals. The truth is obtained by aligning oneself with the likeminded, never mind the pesky facts. This has a long tradition in American Protestantism.

So when the WTC towers come to the ground at the speed of freefall, if you even ask why the fundamental laws of physics were not observed, you are brandished a consipirator, and a fool. If you try to point out that no scientifically reasonable explanation for the collapse of WTC 1, 2 and 7 has yet been presented, then you are a lunatic.

We are in an Orwellian state, fellow citizens!

[random_radar]

Popular Mechanics' excuses for the World Trade Center building 7 collapse are the ultimate in truthiness.

[bwright923]

egresor,
you are participating in "truthiness". check out this link

http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/military_law/1227842.html?page=1