MSNBC poll: Do you believe any 9/11 conspiracy theories?

[rman]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14727720/

47% Yes. The government has left many questions unanswered about that day.

46% No. These theories are absurd and disrespectful -- especially to those who lost their lives on 9/11.

6.6% I'm not sure.

[Blue Belle]

1. Done!

[yodermon]

2. WOW. higher than I expected. n/t

[MrPrax]

3. Done...

It is surprising since the negative is attached to an emotional response and not a rational one...

[biscotti]

4. Done

Do you believe any of the conspiracy theories suggesting the U.S. government was somehow involved in 9/11? * 34888 responses

Yes. The government has left many questions unanswered about that day.
47%

No. These theories are absurd and disrespectful -- especially to those who lost their lives on 9/11.
46%

I'm not sure.
6.6%

[bdamomma]

5. done and I don't particularly care for the wording

what just because you question your government you are being labeled absurd and disrespectful, what BS I thought at one time we could question our government, now if you do you are labeled absurd and disrespectful, and they invoke those who losted lives.

geez, they have that propaganda machine cranking up I hope it blows up in Rove's face.

[ProdigalJunkMail]

as with about 95% of polls the wording sucks

and leaves you with no answer you can really select. No, I don't believe the gov't had anything to do with the attacks. Yes, I KNOW there are many unanswered questions. Those two things are NOT mutually exclusive as this poll's wording implies.

sP

[coalition_unwilling]

46. I understand where you are coming from. David Ray Griffin, in

"The New Pearl Harbor," points out early on that the 9/11 victims have become invested with a sort of sacred quality, such that any attempt to question how they became victims itself becomes sacriligious.

I prefer to take an "agnostic" position. I have long said, since 9/12/01, that America will face an epistemological "crisis," whereby we question not only what we know, but how we come to know it. There is no one in America now with the unimpeachable stature of an Earl Warren, save perhaps for Ralph Nader, and we all know there was no way the BFEE was going to allow Nader's Raiders anywhere near its crime(s) of the century.

[pacalo]

6. Ha! Notice how many were influenced by the term "consipiracy theories".

47% think the government has explained everything to the American people in full -- no unanswered questions about what happened that day.

[Kurovski]

7. Many of the families who lost loved ones on 9/11

don't think it's "disrespectful".

They're asking for some real answers and accountability.

The poll question is slanted and emotionalized, but then that's not too surprising, now is it?

[Benhurst]

8. "disrespectful" ???? Bottom line: Don't question authority. What

goose-stepping idiots!!

[htuttle]

9. Isn't the official story a conspiracy theory?

Namely, that there was a secret conspiracy involving a guy living in a cave, some mysterious go betweens, and some secret agents of that conspiracy here in the US (who were miraculously able to disable our entire air defense system by themselves, something not even the Soviet Union was ever able to do?).

[file83]

15. Considering that even the 9/11 Commission members themselves admit

that both the FAA's and NORAD's testimonies to the commission were FULL of contradictions, false statements, and convoluted timelines...how could the official account be considered anything BUT a conspiracy theory?

[longship]

10. I can't answer this one. Poor framing.

I do not accept the 9/11 conspiracy theories. In fact, I find them worse than anything that the Repukes are doing. They totally undermine any attempt to get to the bottom of the affair by opening the door to accusations that the 9/11 truth movement are a bunch of kooks.

There are many problems with the 9/11 Commission Report. But none of the problems will be solved by all these wild, implausible conjectures.

[bobthedrummer]

11. The real absurd and disrespectful theories are "coincidence theories"

[IChing]

12. Voted still 47% K/R n/t

[file83]

13. 36040 responses, still 47% YES to 46% NO

[WA98070]

14. The most absurd and disrespectful conspiracy theory is the "Official"

conspiracy theory.

[ItsTheMediaStupid]

17. Welcome to DU!

I said almost the same thing, pretty much at the same time.

Glad you're here.:hi:

[ItsTheMediaStupid]

16. The theory of Vince Foster's "murder" was absurd and disrespectful

Most of the RW tripe about Clinton while he was in office was absurd and disrespectful

Thinking critically about how a fire in the 90th floor of a modern steel-framed building makes it fall straight down, almost into its footprint is not absurd. Wanting to know how and why the 9-11 victims died is not disrespectful.

The 9-11 whitewash performed by this administration is disrespectful.

Believing anything W says is absurd.

[ComerPerro]

32. Even the more-often-than-not RW site Snopes.com says

that the "Bill Clinton victim list", which includes the supposed murder of Vince Foster, is complete RW bullshit.

[ItsTheMediaStupid]

37. So far as I can tell, Clinton's only crime was lying about a BJ

Yes, he signed NAFTA and that horrible "Welfare Reform" bill, but given the circumstances he did a great job.

I had the feeling then that regardless of the compromises, Clinton tried to do what was best for the country. I do not have that feeling about the gang of crooks currently running the country.

[bonito]

18. 48% yes

[Oceansaway]

19. .

Do you believe any of the conspiracy theories suggesting the U.S. government was somehow involved in 9/11? * 37992 responses

Yes. The government has left many questions unanswered about that day.
48%

No. These theories are absurd and disrespectful -- especially to those who lost their lives on 9/11.
46%

I'm not sure.
6.5%

[Erika]

20. done n/t

[Nimrod2005]

21. This is amazing.....!

[DemExpat]

22. Love it!

Done.

:kick:

DemEx

[Qutzupalotl]

23. It doesn't take a widespread government conspiracy.

It really only takes one man, provided that man is Dick Cheney.

He knew the attacks were coming and scheduled NORAD training exercises for that day. Told a couple of people to keep quiet and that was all the help the hijackers needed.

[AtomicKitten]

24. 48% yes -- put THAT in your mockudrama, ABC

eom

[orleans]

25. you should cross post this in the september 11 forum (or not?)

poll is yes at 48%

[dreamsvsnightmares]

26. The yes question should read has this

administration left most questions unanswered about that day

[yurbud]

27. Done 48 yes, 45 no--click yes just to fuck with Bushies even if you don't

believe all the stuff floating around, you know at the very least they ignored the warnings.

[OneBlueSky]

28. the "No" responders believe in the most fantastic conspiracy theory . . .

of all -- the one promulgated by BushCo and peddled as the truth to a gullible citizenry . . .

[specimenfred1984]

29. I'm a Conspiracy Realist

I believe in real conspiracies, like election fraud, WMD lies, outing a CIA agent, torture, faked intel, fake terror alerts, etc.

Fck this "theory" bullsht.

[ComerPerro]

30. Fuck, I believe the OFFICIAL story is a conspiracy theory

because it is far fetched, sounds completely ludicrous, and you'd have to be a kool-aid drinking cultist to believe it.

[ItsTheMediaStupid]

38. I wouldn't put it that bluntly but.......

I don't believe that an airplane hitting the 90th floor of a modern skyscraper caused it to fall straight down.

I don't believe that all the fighter pilots on the East Coast had that day off.

Nobody has explained the collapse of WTC7 all that well either. It wasn't hit by a plane but fell straight down, just like the other two.

[Jacobin]

31. proud lihoper here

[MamaBear]

33. Done. Looky here.

Do you believe any of the conspiracy theories suggesting the U.S. government was somehow involved in 9/11? * 41439 responses

Yes. The government has left many questions unanswered about that day. 49%

No. These theories are absurd and disrespectful -- especially to those who lost their lives on 9/11. 45%

I'm not sure. 6.5%


Paranoia is the new sanity.
Tinfoil hats are the new seatbelts.
Steal a lot of ketchup.

[Seen the light]

34. I want one person to attempt to explain to me the use of "disrespectful"

I don't believe most of the conspiracy theories surrounding 9/11, if any really, but I've heard more than once that it's disrespectful to those who lost loved ones on that day to question what happened. How does that make any sense at all? Anybody? I don't care if you agree with it or not, can anybody even play devil's advocate on that and help me understand it?

[ItsTheMediaStupid]

39. It's just a rhetorical trick to stop people from looking into it.

It's like responding to a peace activist with yellow ribbons and Support Our Troops stickers. The implication is that you can't be pro-GI and pro-peace at the same time, which is bunk.

[City Lights]

35. done - yes at 49%

[kerry-is-my-prez]

36. They Changed it to: "No, that's ridiculous."

not a WHOLE lot better.

[corkhead]

40. a friggin push poll. Is * a great pResident or the greatest pResident

the way the question is worded implies that if you "believe" it is like you believe in santa claus or the easter bunny

[helderheid]

41. done!

Yes. The government has left many questions unanswered about that day.
49%
No. These theories are absurd and disrespectful -- especially to those who lost their lives on 9/11.
45%
I'm not sure.
6.4%

[GetTheRightVote]

42. up to 49% believe it's all fishy in the stories surrounding 9/11

:kick:

[me b zola]

43. done!

Do you believe any of the conspiracy theories suggesting the U.S. government was somehow involved in 9/11? * 42864 responses

Yes. The government has left many questions unanswered about that day.
49%

No. These theories are absurd and disrespectful -- especially to those who lost their lives on 9/11.
45%

I'm not sure.
6.4%

[kerry-is-my-prez]

44. It's being freeped - now only 36% Yes

n/t

[rman]

45. odd - here it's still 49%

[yurbud]

47. 50 yes, 44 no--keep going!

[madokie]

48. yes 50%

[helderheid]

50. WOW!! That's amazing!

[Melissa G]

49. Done

[leesa]

51. No doubt in my mind the government was involved, especially Cheney

Bush and the rest of the PNAC gang. Only question is whether it will ever be prosecuted. I think it's a tad MORE disrespectful to those dead to know that their own government did it to them to get their wars on.

[OhioChick]

52. Done Yes 53% n/t

[rman]

53. 54%

[Raksha]

54. Done - YES is up to 54% now!

This poll has got to be striking fear into the hearts of the Bush mafia like nothing else in the world. NOW they see what "reaping the whirlwind" means, but no way can they ever take it back. Even if the cancel their propaganda extravaganza, it's STILL too late.

I wonder if they'll have the guts to announce the results on the air tomorrow. That will only give momentum to the trend, just like the fact that they posted this poll gave momentum to it. The avalanche is headed downhill!

[zcflint09]

55. Done--up to 54% to 40% to 6% and the 6 makes it 60-40 if you think about i

The undecided 6% are basically saying that they have thier suspcions about the government's role in 9/11--which more or less makes it at a 60-40 vote. I'm shocked--but glad so many people are coming to realize the truth.

[andlor]

56. done

[rman]

57. 55%

[rman]

58. 57%

[Rainscents]

59. Done!

[tiptoe]

60. done! 57% Yes. 37% No

[rman]

61. 58% - Poll closed