<yawn> didnt ruppert just expose these two as having 'alot of influence' in the FBI?
-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Chaconstitutionalist] William Rivers "Money" Pitt: The Words of an Intellectual Coward Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2005 17:01:01 -0000 From: Lisa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Connecting the Dots http://69.28.73.17/thornarticles/williamriverspitt.html William Rivers "Money" Pitt: The Words of an Intellectual Coward by Lisa Guliani "The time has come, bluntly, to get over September 11, to move beyond it, to extract ourselves from this bunker mentality which blinds us while placing us in mortal peril. It happened, and it will never be forgotten, but we have reached a place where fear and obeisance can no longer be tolerated." "Will the final chapter of your story be one of fear, one where you staggered along behind grandiose incompetence because you were too afraid to do anything else?" ~ William Rivers Pitt ~ excerpted from his article, "Nine Eleven" Today yet another example of Internet puke made its way into my inbox, as well as into various political Internet discussion forums, and although I've kept my mouth shut for the most part on this subject up until now, I've finally had enough of this crap. The e-mail excerpted below was authored by a woman named Marsha, who belongs to many political groups on Yahoo. The text was in response to William Rivers Pitt's latest attempt to psychologically and emotionally mug his readers for a hand-out. Before commenting on this woman's message, though, I'd like to illustrate just how persistent William Rivers Pitt is in his requests for money. Unlike other sites that put the tin cup out once or twice a year, Pitt begs for money on a weekly basis via mass-circulated spam e-mails that hound, cajole, and strong-arm his readers for funds. He also uses heavy doses of guilt, which is curious because considering the anemic state of our economy with high gasoline and fuel oil prices, and how the Christmas season is rapidly approaching, Pitt's greediness for your money is appalling. Anyway, Marsha is one of the suckers who was bamboozled by Pitt's ploy, for her e-mail was a plea to help financially support Pitt and his Truthout website for all the good "services" they provide. Get a load of this (in its unedited form): Subj: Re: Imagine a Properly Funded Truthout Date: 10/20/2005 6:45:51 AM Eastern Standard Time "If I won that Power Ball millions I left Ohio and went to Pennsylvania to buy lottery tickets for, you can be sure William Rivers Pitt will get all needed as will many of our VIP's...That's Very Important Patriots and their worthy causes I never buy lottery tickets but so many of our causes need funding so desperately...They need to be able to grow to continue in the delivery of truth to our people everywhere... So I said a prayer and me and a friend rushed off and bought all we could afford." While reading the above words, I nearly choked on my coffee. First of all, what sort of idiot a) keeps falling for Pitt's incessant not-so-subtle panhandling which always seems to include the boring line-up of heart-wrenching, gut-roiling, arm-twisting "reasons" why his readers should continually fork over their money in order to pay his way through life; or b) who in their right mind would actually go out and purchase as many lottery tickets as they could afford for the express purpose of enabling Pitt and those of his ilk to keep milking the free cash cow? She even got someone else to go along with this idiocy. Mind you, Marsha admits that she probably won't win the lottery, but hey - it's only money, right? And hell, who needs the perpetual handout more than this pathetic Internet beggar known as "William Rivers Pitt"? It never ceases to amaze me that people fall for this crap. Not only do I despise reading these arrogant, in-your-face begging letters being circulated by losers who refuse to pay their own bills, but what's even more revolting is that now we've got people like "Marsha" who should know better, positioning herself as an enabler by perpetuating the begging and trying to recruit other people into this crap. I will also add that I think William Rivers Pitt is not simply running an "OPM Racket" (Other People's Money), but he is also an intellectual coward and an elitist hypocrite to boot. What necessary services is he providing us? Let's go over it. Pitt has a website called Truthout.org, at which one can peruse a voluminous amount of decidedly "progressively-leaning" aka "liberal" Internet articles in which he links to mainstream sources and perpetuates the false left-right paradigm. Is this a necessary service his readers must finance? Also to be found at the aforementioned website is a multimedia page consisting of videos and some audio clips of telephone calls he's had with several people. Hmm... Now, I might have been able to ignore Pitt's propensity toward begging (which is occurring with increasing frequency) if I hadn't seen his published biography, which states the following: "William Rivers Pitt is an internationally best-selling author of three books: 'War on Iraq - What Team Bush Doesn't Want You to Know,' 'The Greatest Sedition is Silence,' and 'Our Flag, Too - The Paradox of Patriotism.' He is the Managing Editor and Senior Writer for truthout.org". Mr. Pitt is a political analyst for the Institute for Public Accuracy. He spent several years as a high school teacher of English Literature, Writing, Grammar, Journalism and History, and was a Dean. Mr. Pitt currently resides in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He is 31 years old." Now maybe it's just me (and maybe it's not), but does anything in the above bio give you the impression that William Rivers Pitt is incapable of supporting himself and his website? And, if you scroll back up to the two quotes at the beginning of this article, do you get the distinct impression that Pitt is actually not providing the most vital services needed? Look again at his statement regarding 9-11. "The time has come, bluntly, to get over September 11, to move beyond it, to extract ourselves from this bunker mentality which blinds us while placing us in mortal peril. It happened, and it will never be forgotten, but we have reached a place where fear and obeisance can no longer be tolerated." Is this not virtually a clone of something we were all subjected to by peak oil scam artist Mike Ruppert in months past? Ruppert also tried to spray this kind of vomitus all over the Internet, telling the world and the entire 9-11 community of researchers, activists, and truth-seekers that we should all just "get over 9-11 and move on." Guess what? It didn't flush for Ruppert, and it's not going to flush for Pitt, either. In fact, William has managed to twist some pretty sharp horns with his Nine Eleven article, which, in my opinion, should be framed and prominently displayed at his Alma Mater - Yellowbelly University - as a masterpiece of intellectual cowardice. Does Pitt's refusal to touch the issue of 9-11 - and particularly the voluminous and credible research regarding the WTC controlled demolitions - say anything significant to you? Even after we and others have repeatedly asked him to make this information available to his readers (whom I presume are adults capable of making their own decisions), Pitt manages to completely skirt around the topic. Here's what the good folks at Serendipity.com had to say to Mr. Pitt on this subject: Note by Peter Meyer: The most offensive sentence in William Rivers Pitt's article Nine Eleven is: The time has come, bluntly, to get over September 11, to move beyond it, to extract ourselves from this bunker mentality which blinds us while placing us in mortal peril. So in other words: Don't concern yourselves with what really happened on 9/11. Don't think about who really planned the attacks on the Twin Towers and the Pentagon, and the consequent traumatization of the American people. Don't even consider the possibility that perhaps it was really the work of elements within the U.S. government, as a ruse to enable them to declare war on the rest of the world and to turn American into a totalitarian police state. No! Be good little sheep and give no thought to the direction in which we are heading as a result of the bogus "war on terror" created by those who committed mass murder on 9/11. William Rivers Pitt, like Noam Chomsky, Amy Goodman and other formerly respectable commentators, has shown himself by his statements to be complicit in the cover-up of the crimes of 9/11. You can read the entire e-mail exchange at this link: Shame On You, William Rivers Pitt!!!! Okay, so let me get this straight. William Rivers Pitt is too chicken-shit to tell his readers the truth about the WTC controlled demolitions, or even let them know the research is available to them. What he is capable of doing can be summed up in short order: He manages to squirt out some lame and very familiar Kyle-Hence-style-poo as to why people aren't ready for this information and how they just wouldn't be willing to accept it, further adding his endorsement of the official government conspiracy theory regarding 9-11. He is also apparently targeting the most suggestible liberals, er, I mean progressives, in his articles, thereby perpetuating the false right-left paradigm. Add to this the obnoxious, never-ending boatload of begging letters which he shamelessly circulates with abandon and what do you have? I'll tell you what you have. You have a guy with a racket, milking his readers for money he should damn well be earning, instead of mooching off of the generous, genuine people who patronize his website and believe in him. Remember the bio you read a few minutes ago? Well, it mentions that William Rivers Pitt is a political analyst for the Institute for Public Accuracy. I read something interesting on the IPA website that might be of interest here. Background on the Institute for Public Accuracy "The Institute for Public Accuracy was founded in mid-1997 by its current executive director, Norman Solomon, with the support of a two-year $100,000-per-year Public Interest Pioneer grant from the Stern Family Fund. IPA opened its national office in San Francisco in October 1997. Several months later, IPA established its media office in the National Press Building in Washington, D.C. It is a 501(c)(3) organization. IPA increases the reach and capacity of progressive and grassroots organizations (at no cost to them) to affect public policy by getting them and their ideas into the mainstream media." So, allow me to submit this to you. William Rivers Pitt is a political analyst for IPA, which states on its own website that one of its purposes is to increase the reach and capacity of progressive (liberal) and grassroots organizations AT NO COST TO THEM. Also, IPA's founder and director, Norman Solomon, is another notorious Left Gatekeeper who was exposed long ago as one who carries water for the government. Considering his role within IPA (a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization) whose purpose is to "increase his reach and capacity" to get him and his ideas into the mainstream media at no cost to him, why does William Rivers Pitt need so damn much of your money? It appears he already has the world by the shorthairs, with free assistance from IPA. I also can't help but wonder if his connection with IPA has anything to do with the fact that Pitt refuses to touch the truth about 9-11 with a 10-foot pole. It certainly shouldn't be casually dismissed, should it? $100,000 is a lot of money. Just ask Amy Goodman. She gets the same kind of grant money, and she too refuses to speak the truth about 9-11. Coincidence? I don't think so. So, are we to believe that Pitt's ongoing, deliberate silence and willful refusal to inform his readers or to correct their misperceptions of reality are the "necessary services" for which we are supposed to feed him more money? What is behind Pitt's intentional public misdirection and endorsement of the "official line" of 9-11? (By the way, the government's "official" version of events for 9-11 happens to be the ORIGINAL conspiracy theory.) When I see a journalist in the alternative media consciously suppressing important information that his readers have an absolute right to know - in essence, lying by omission - I don't feel obligated to either respect this person, nor do I find his "services" (whatever they are) to be even remotely "necessary" As a matter of fact, my position on William Rivers Pitt is crystal clear at this point. I'm calling you out, Pitt, as an intellectual coward and a hypocrite who refuses to hold himself to the same standard that he preaches to others. I'm also calling you out as a traitor and a war criminal for complicity with the enemies of America by perpetuating the lies of 9-11. I charge you with willful deceit of your readers, many of whom actually buy into the whole bogus OPM racket and don't see you for the intellectual coward you are. Suppression of information regarding the WTC collapses is an unforgivable sin in my book, and when the truth finally corners and overtakes you, the clueless progressives to whom you preach, and the rest of the sleeping majority, know this: You will be counted among the guilty for being a 9-11 Gatekeeper who is preventing the truth about 9-11 from ultimately being known. Again, this is an unforgivable sin. Anybody who throws you a penny is nothing but a sucker. Lastly, here's a tip: maybe you should change your website's name from Truthout.org to Handout.org! Yahoo! Groups Links ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Fair play? Video games influencing politics. Click and talk back! http://us.click.yahoo.com/VpgUKB/pzNLAA/cUmLAA/vseplB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Complete archives at http://www.sitbot.net/ Please let us stay on topic and be civil. OM Yahoo! 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