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Spike Lee's Censored 9/11 Documentary and Gaslighting on Building 7
from #266 - Lightfoot Strikes Twice | The Tim Dillon Show · #266
14 min
Tim and Ben discuss Spike Lee's HBO 9/11 documentary that originally included 9/11 truther group Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth, how HBO quietly cut 30 minutes after a New York Times backlash, and Tim argues asking questions about Building 7 shouldn't be treated as gaslit insanity; includes a phone cameo from podcaster Jessa Reed and a riff on Woody Harrelson and Charlie Sheen's shelved 9/11 truther movie.
- Spike Lee's HBO 9/11 documentary was supposed to include architects and engineers skeptical of the official narrative.
- Spike explains his reasoning: steel doesn't melt at fire temperatures, and Building 7's collapse resembles controlled demolitions.
- Tim on gaslighting: asking rational questions about Building 7 gets you lumped in with vaccine skeptics and moon landing deniers.
- The broader 9/11 narrative is strange—15 Saudi hijackers seamlessly attacked the world's biggest military power, which then invaded Iraq and Afghanistan.
- The 9/11 Commission chair said they were set up to fail, lacked resources and information, and the president would only testify with the vice president present.
- Why can't we ask questions? When people shut down questions, you can't get to answers—that's how great art works.
- HBO cut 30 minutes from the final episode after media pressure, excising all segments featuring the conspiracy group.
- An 8-hour documentary about 9/11 with no mention of conspiracy theories is just useless.
- Tim's actual position: he doesn't believe anyone possesses all relevant knowledge about 9/11, including most conservatives he knows.
- Woody Harrelson and Charlie Sheen were supposed to make a movie called September Morn questioning 9/11's official narrative, but it never materialized.
- That movie probably would have hurt the truther movement—Charlie Sheen and Woody Harrelson starring in it is almost a CIA operation.
- Tim compares a Charlie Sheen truther film to Lori Lightfoot doing pro-vaccine PSAs—counterproductive messenger defeats the message.
Spike LeeJessa ReidArchitects and Engineers for 9/11 TruthLori LightfootCharlie Sheen9/11 conspiracy theoriesAwakeningAlex JonesWoody HarrelsonMartin SheenHBO