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Sy Hersh, Bin Laden, and Media's Missing Follow-Up Questions
from Searching For Bobby Fischer · #81
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5 minTim discusses Sy Hersh's claims about the ISI holding Bin Laden and how interviewers never ask the obvious follow-up questions, connecting it to Patrice O'Neal's joke about burying Bin Laden at sea and his own detached reaction to 9/11.
- 30:31Sy Hersh's book about the Bin Laden raid was largely ignored by the media.
- 30:46Tim's frustration: when people get interviewed with major revelations, nobody follows up on them.
- 31:23In Hersh's interview, the host asks if he felt his story was ignored instead of probing the substance.
- 31:53If the military didn't want interrogators talking to Bin Laden, why hasn't anyone asked why they made that decision?
- 32:24The lack of follow-up questions from interviewers is what turns him into a conspiracy theorist.
- 32:37Patrice O'Neill once asked on air why the Navy would flush Bin Laden's body in the ocean instead of following Islamic burial practices.
- 32:53Tim notes the absurdity of claiming cultural sensitivity to Islam while invading their countries and bombing mosques.
- 33:23People cheered in the streets when the government announced they'd killed Bin Laden.
- 34:47This failure to ask hard questions is why credible journalists and conspiracy theorists like Alex Jones both fill the vacuum.
Sy HershRachel MaddowOsama bin LadenAlex JonesRoger StonePatrice O'NealISITin Fall OutOpie and AnthonyGeorge Soros