That's why they call it "fisking"

A British blog, 26h, responds to Robert Fisk's "I'm not a conspiracy theorist, so here are several 9/11 conspiracy theories" column, and wonders why Fiskie actually wrote it:

...It just doesn’t seem particularly feasible, for instance, to think that an experienced journalist like Fisk could have written such a straightforwardly error-ridden and innuendo-laden article due to incompetence alone. Further, he’s also reasonably well known for both fostering and manifesting a Westerner’s self-loathing of the most wretched kind. So, it seems at least possible that Fisk wrote this piece for purely ideological reasons: To spread misinformation and doubt about the core premise for some of the United States’ least popular actions – to groundlessly and cynically call 9/11 itself into question.

Screw Loose Change hypothesizes that Fisk simply wrote it to get the wingnuts off his back, which in my opinion gives him way too much credit.

Damian P.

Posted by damian at August 27, 2007 07:19 AM