From the Washington Times:
Sunday night’s episode of “Tatort,” a popular murder mystery that has been running on state-run ARD-German television for 35 years, revolved around a German woman and a man who was killed in her apartment.
According to the plot, which was seen by approximately 7 million Germans, the dead man had been trained to be one of the September 11 pilots but was left behind, only to be tracked down and killed by CIA or FBI assassins.
The woman, who says in the program that the September 11 attacks were instigated by the Bush family for oil and power, then is targeted, presumably to silence her. The drama concludes with the German detectives accepting the truth of her story as she eludes the U.S. government hit men and escapes to safety in an unnamed Arab country.As ludicrous as it may sound to most Americans, the tale has resonance in Germany, where fantastic conspiracy theories often are taken as fact.
Many Germans think, for example, that the 1969 moon landing was faked, and a poll published in the weekly Die Zeit showed that 31 percent of Germans younger than 30 “think that there is a certain possibility that the U.S. government ordered the attacks of 9/11.”
Another one of those German “thought experiments,†most likely (my favorite is, “what if the Jews were responsible for German unemployment, a flagging economy, and the loss of Germanic pride? Are Gypsies worth feeding? What if we handled the “gay” problem with big pizza ovens?”).
Oh well, let’s cut them some slack. They’re just brave thinkersâ€â€positing fictional scenarios as a way to expand their understanding of how the pragmatic concept of contingency obtains in the shaping and propagating of historiographical interpretations of world events.
And what harm ever came from that….?
(h/t KIP)
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update: WHY ARE YOU SO AFRAID OF THE QUESTIONS?
Hm. That Hitler burned the Reichstag to justify the Holocaust, being that it was a possiblity not based on any evidence, comes to mind.
But hey, that would be flipping their point, now, wouldn’t it?
Not surprising though, that Germans would eat that stuff up. They fell for the Big Lie once; it’s not a shock that they’d develop a neurotic perpetual state of uncertainty about anything.
Hmmmm. Just sounds like an offshoot of the “reality based community.” Now pass the kool aid, please…
Germans swooned over David Hasselhof music. David Hasselhof. Is there anything more they could have done to destroy their national credibility?
They do make one good point though; the Bushco plot to seize mideast oil reserves has worked like a charm! With all this SUPERCHEAP oil fueling our economic machinery, the future dominance of the US is assured!
anti-spam word: money
How do you DO that?
Sure, when crazy Leahy calls the Bush Administration fascistic you kind of laugh it off, when the good volk of the country that perfected it levy (no pun) the charge….well, they’re still a herd of lowing nutters, now we’ve simply ratcheted up the irony meter.
link is worth it for this alone:
THE VEIL, IT HAS BEEN LIFTED FROM THESE JINGOISTIC EYES!
hilarious
I’m guessing that “31 percent of Germans younger than 30” are Muslims.
That poll question is confusingly phrased, I hope it lost something in translation. Does “certain possibility” mean it’s “certainly possible” (which I might buy, anything is possible) or that it’s a pure certainty?
By the way, glad the blog is not defunct. You had me worried after Pappy opened his yap yesterday.
I’m damn near afraid of everything. Including the questions.
*what was THAT!?!?!?
By the way, glad the blog is not defunct. You had me worried after Pappy opened his yap yesterday.
Kos woke me up for a day. But I don’t think I’m long for this particular form of discourse.
Well, that sucks. When you do quit I want the IP address of the guy that shoves you over the edge. Someone needs to pay this time.
speaking of german tastes. the other day when the MJ verdict came out, i was releived to see that it didn’t make the top of u.s. google news, it was kept in the entertainment section. just for fun i checked out some of the other languages that i have a veeeerrrry slight knowledge of (french,german,italian) as well as uk and australia. the german page was the ONLY one at the time that had michael jackson at the top. i chalked it up to the “david hasselhoff factor”
Hmmm.
You know every time a German starts thinking the body count starts rising. Just look at Karl Marx.
Guys, what are you talking about? First of all, nobody in Germany is a D H fan (neither a M J fan). Second, let’s not forget D H is American.