Buzzfeed Loses to Donald Trump, Eric Bolling over 9/11
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by Joel B. Pollak 2 Dec 2015
Buzzfeed’s Andrew
Kaczynski is a talented researcher with a flair for finding old videos and
documents that often contradict what politicians claim today. Yet he
has lost an argument over Donald Trump and
9/11 by a key news video that he managed not to find.
Trump claimed that he had seen reports of “thousands” of
Muslims celebrating the 9/11 terror attacks on rooftops in Jersey City, New Jersey.
On Tuesday, Eric Bolling, co-host of Fox News’ The Five, went
further, saying there were media reports that people in Jersey City had
been tipped off to watch the attacks.
Buzzfeed spent days trashing Trump, and Kaczynski painted
Bolling as a bigot.
Where are these
reports about Muslims in New Jersey being tipped off to watch 9/11 you reference
@ericbolling? pic.twitter.com/DmHBmlmZxX
— Andrew
Kaczynski (@BuzzFeedAndrew) December
2, 2015
Others on Twitter piled on, accusing Bolling of
“Islamophobia.”
Now, a local news report that aired Sep. 16, 2011 on WCBS-TV in New York has
surfaced. Journalist Pablo Guzmán reported that eight men
were “cheering on the roof” of a building as planes hit the World Trade
Center–a building “swarming” with suspects.
Guzmán added that investigative sources had told him:
“They saw something else: a model of the Trade Center on the roof, along with
sets of binoculars–the kind of model used by an architect or engineer for
a presentation, an investigator told me. They knew that the planes were
going to hit, and they wanted a ringside seat.”
Trump’s source has likely been identified, Bolling has been
100% vindicated, and Kaczynski has embarrassed himself.
On Tuesday, Kaczynski posted an article under the headline:
“Fox News Host Floats New Muslim
Smear, Then Loses It On Twitter.” He reported:
A Fox News host
Eric Bolling made the startling claim on Tuesday that there were reports of
Muslims in New Jersey being given advance notice of the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks
so they could watch the attacks from their Jersey rooftops.
The claim is a new spin on Donald Trump’s — false —
insistence that New Jersey Muslims celebrated the attacks.
Kaczynski went on to report, triumphantly, that he had
beaten Bolling: “I then noted the comments in a series of tweets….And then
Bolling kind of lost it.” Towards the end of his article, he hit Bolling for
citing a New York Times article that conspiracy theorists often
cite in order to claim that Israel was behind the 9/11 attacks.
But Bolling was correct that there had been “news reports.”
The CBS report is video proof.
None of this is to say that the underlying, substantive
claims are true. For instance, here were eight men seen cheering in Jersey
City, not thousands. But in Trump’s case–assuming the WCBS report is indeed the
one to which he has been referring–it is easy to see how reports of “swarms” of
suspects in the building could have been misinterpreted as referring to large
crowds on rooftops.
Perhaps if Kaczynski had spent less time preening on
Twitter, and more time doing his job, he would not look so foolish today.
BuzzFeed
Kenneth
B. Lerer is the chairman for BuzzFeed,
an advisory board member for Everytown
for Gun Safety, and was the chairman for the Public Theater.
Note: Everytown
for Gun Safety is a “Gun Safety, Gun
Control” group for guns.
Michael R.
Bloomberg is the founder of Everytown
for Gun Safety, was the New York
(NY) mayor, the chairman for the National
September 11 Memorial & Museum at the World Trade Center, a benefactor
for the Harlem Children's Zone, and a
donor for the Robin Hood Foundation.
Richard S. Fuld
Jr. was a benefactor for the Harlem
Children's Zone, a director at the Robin
Hood Foundation, and is a trustee at the New York-Presbyterian Hospital.
Brian Williams is
a director at the Robin Hood Foundation,
and was an anchor for WCBS-TV.
David
H. Koch is a trustee at the New
York-Presbyterian Hospital, an emeritus trustee at the Johns Hopkins University, a trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank), and supported Christopher J. Christie’s 2012
presidential bid.
Benjamin S. Carson
was a director of pediatric neurosurgery at the Johns Hopkins University, and is a presidential candidate for the 2016 presidential election.
Maurice R.
Greenberg was a benefactor for the Harlem
Children's Zone, is a director at the National
September 11 Memorial & Museum at the World Trade Center, and a director
at the Police Athletic League of New
York City.
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Harlem Children's Zone, the Robin
Hood Foundation, the Aspen Institute
(think tank), and Media Matters.
George Soros
was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society, a
benefactor for the Harlem Children's
Zone, and is the founder & chairman for the Open Society Foundations.
Open
Society Foundations was a funder for the Atlantic Council of the United States (think tank).
Robin Hood
Foundation raised money for Hurricane
Sandy relief.
Hurricane
Sandy New Jersey Relief Fund is a relief organization for Hurricane Sandy.
Mary Pat
Christie is the chair for the Hurricane
Sandy New Jersey Relief Fund, the president of the Drumthwacket Foundation, and married to Christopher J. Christie.
Drumthwacket
Foundation maintains the governor's mansion for the New Jersey state government.
Donald
Trump was a donor for the Drumthwacket
Foundation, is a director at the Police
Athletic League of New York City, and a presidential candidate for the 2016 presidential election.
Christopher
J. Christie is married to Mary Pat
Christie, an honorary chairman for the Drumthwacket
Foundation, the New Jersey state
government governor, a presidential candidate for the 2016 presidential election, and Charles G. Koch, Stanley F.
Druckenmiller & Kenneth G.
Langone supported his 2012
presidential bid.
Stanley F.
Druckenmiller supported Christopher
J. Christie for his 2012 presidential bid, a contributor for the Right to Rise USA, and is the chairman
& benefactor for the Harlem
Children's Zone.
Kenneth G. Langone
supporter Christopher J. Christie
for his 2012 presidential bid, and is a trustee at the Harlem Children's Zone.
Michael R.
Bloomberg was a benefactor for the Harlem
Children's Zone, a donor for the Robin
Hood Foundation, the New York (NY)
mayor, the chairman for the National
September 11 Memorial & Museum at the World Trade Center, and is the
founder of Everytown for Gun Safety.
John
J. Mack was a benefactor for the Harlem
Children's Zone, and is an advisory board member for Everytown for Gun Safety.
Everytown
for Gun Safety is a “Gun Safety, Gun
Control” group for guns.
Kenneth
B. Lerer is an advisory board member for Everytown for Gun Safety, the chairman for BuzzFeed, and was the chairman for the Public Theater.
Stephen A.
Feinberg is a trustee at the Public
Theater, Martin Feinberg’s
father, the CEO for Cerberus Capital
Management L.P., and was a contributor for the Right to Rise USA.
Martin Feinberg
is Stephen A. Feinberg’s father, and
a Newtown (CT) resident.
Newtown
(CT) is the location of the 2012
massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School.
2012
massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School was a mass shootings where 28 were killed, including the gunman.
Cerberus
Capital Management L.P. is the owner of the Remington Outdoor Company.
Bushmaster
Firearms is a Remington Outdoor
Company brand.
Michael P.C.
Carns is a director at the Remington
Outdoor Company, and was a director at the Atlantic Council of the United States (think tank).
John
C. Whitehead was a director at the Atlantic
Council of the United States (think tank), and a director at the National September 11 Memorial & Museum
at the World Trade Center.
Bruce
E. Mosler was a director at the Atlantic
Council of the United States (think tank), a contributor for the Right to Rise USA, and is a director at
the Police Athletic League of New York
City.
Right to Rise
USA is supporting the 2016 Jeb Bush
presidential campaign.
Jeb
Bush is the candidate for the 2016
Jeb Bush presidential campaign, and a presidential candidate for the 2016 presidential election.
Donald
Trump is a director at the Police
Athletic League of New York City, a presidential candidate for the 2016 presidential election, and was a
donor for the Drumthwacket Foundation.
Media Matters monitors
Fox News.
John
Stossel is the host of Fox News,
and was the forum speaker for Americans
for Prosperity.
David
H. Koch was a donor for Americans
for Prosperity, supported Christopher
J. Christie’s 2012 presidential bid,
is a trustee at the New
York-Presbyterian Hospital, an emeritus trustee at the Johns Hopkins University, and a trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank).
Benjamin S. Carson
was a director of pediatric neurosurgery at the Johns Hopkins University, and is a presidential candidate for the 2016 presidential election.
Bloomberg
Family Foundation was a funder for the Aspen
Institute (think tank).
Michael R.
Bloomberg is the founder of the Bloomberg
Family Foundation, the founder of Everytown
for Gun Safety, was a benefactor for the Harlem Children's Zone, a donor for the Robin Hood Foundation, the New
York (NY) mayor, and the chairman for the National September 11 Memorial & Museum at the World Trade Center.
Everytown
for Gun Safety is a “Gun Safety, Gun
Control” group for guns.
Kenneth
B. Lerer is an advisory board member for Everytown for Gun Safety, the chairman for BuzzFeed, and was the chairman for the Public Theater.
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