wherein the self delusion of a 9/11 Truther forces me to side with Dick Cheney
From Sander Hicks’s book
Slingshot to the Juggarnaut: Â Total Resistance to the Death Machine Means Complete Love of the Truth, published 2012
pages 301-304
Then they lined us up for the Chney meet and greet. Â I asked Cheney during our photo op, “What do I say to all these people who tell me 9/11 was an inside job?” Â I was smiling when I said it, leaning over him and grinning at the camera. Â In the moment when they shutter cliked, he heared the joy in my voice. Â I think it angered him. Â [note: Â “I think?”] Â You can see some glumness in the photo.
[note: Â I can see glumness in any photograph of Cheney, 9/11 Truth question or not.]
Calmly, he turned his whole body and gave me this wave of cold energy. Â [what’s the difference between Cheney warm energy and Cheney cold energy?]Â Â “Just look at the evidence,” he said evenly. Â “It’s not true.”
Cheney’s calm was eerie. Â He sounded like he was trying to project confidence, but really there was a deep sandess inside him. Â [Was there?]Â His spoke softly. Â [sic] Â He was trying to exude “cast iron strength.” Â He wasn’t strong as iron, but he was cold the way iron is, the way it takes heat out of your hand. Â It all seemed an act. Â [It is a fundraiser photo op and signature, which is the same thing.]Â His faced looked translucent, like that of someone in the hospital. Â [Yes, Cheney’s health problems are the stuff of legend. Â So?] Â I could see tiny veins in his puffy cheeks and nose. Â [You’re standing way too closely.]
I felt greasy and siorintaed for twenty-four hours after that moment. Â Most people react with dramatic emotion when you bring up the “9/11 is an inside job” talk. Â [Personally I react with a bit of an eye-roll, and can imagine Cheney would too.]Â Cheney wasn’t surprised at all. Â He knew it all. Â [Huh?]
Cheney wasn’t surprised some guy had just popped up in the $5,000 donors’ photo-op line at a GOP fundraiser and started talking about 9/11 being an inside job. Â [Or maybe he was, but didn’t think it was worth disrupting the steady flow of party supporters?]Â Â He didn’t detail what “evidence” he had to the contrary, or where one could fin dit to prop up his besieged official sotry. Â [Not enough time, and not worth disrupting the steady flow of party supporters.]Â Â He didn’t care what I thought I knew. Â [I imagine he thought he knew what Hicks thought he knew.] Â He didn’t want to hear what “all these people” were saying. Â [Wasn’t he told what all those people were saying?]Â Â He had a quick answer prepared and was ready for the next photo. Â [Yes. Â That’s the way this works. Â It would be the same if he was queried on Abortion or Iraq or –?]