BBC Newsnight: A wave of cynicism hits the blog (terror scare)

[CJCRANE]

"It turns out yesterday was a good day to open up the Newsnight blog: 150+ people have weighed into the debate on yesterday's alleged terror plot. As you saw on Newsnight last night, and as the BBC's Asian Network found on its phone-in this morning, there is a wave of cynicism and mistrust about what the government is telling us in the wake of the attacks. It is not confined to Muslims; also it is completely absent from American viewers/'readers. But it breaks down into three positions:

1) Some people believe that yesterday's alleged plot was staged by the British state - they also believe that 9/11 and 7/7 were carried out by the security services of the west, or Israel.

2) Others, remembering Forest Gate and the shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes, doubt the ability of the Metropolitan Police to get the right people; fear that innocent people may have been caught up in yesterday's arrests. A variant of this view is that it is "all too convenient" that John Reid makes a speech on terror one day and the next day a major terror plot is discovered, right in the middle of a politically damaging war in Lebanon....

3) A third view laments the fact that while US security sources seem to be spewing out detail (an alleged suicide tape; and alleged wire transfer of money; names of the accused; deep detail about the Pakistan connection) the UK police and broadcast media are locked in a conspiracy of silence."

More here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/newsnight/2006/08/a_wave_of_cynicism_hits_the_blog.html

[Joanne98]

1. We've come to the "credibility tipping point"

Everybody in the world is waking up EXCEPT the dumbest most retarded people, as shown in this sentence, "it is completely absent from American viewers/'readers", which is not surprising. I bet even uneducated cannibals in the jungle know BS when they hear it. But NOT in "Murka" land of the brain dead.

[leveymg]

2. There's no lack of skepticism in the US Blogosphere re: RED ALERT

That's just dead wrong. By the way, this commentary frames the issues to make criticism of the terrorism plot to be "cynical." We've learned the whole operation was engineered by police double-agents and the timing of the bust was pushed forward by the Bush White House.

And they call Americans either underly-cynical or overly-trustful? Quite the opposite, at least around here.

[CJCRANE]

4. Agreed.

The article also mentions that some bloggers blame Israel for 9/11 but none of the comments reflect that opinion.
It's the usual RW/MSM slur trying to imply that the LW are anti-semitic conspiracy theorists.

[Ecumenist]

3. I am murkin and I only have four words to say...

I DON'T BUY IT. That's it PERIOD.

[leesa]

5. Well..it WAS a copy-cat of Bojinka and Bojinka was led by a guy the CIA

let go...just sayin'

Sorry, just too bogus and too conveeenient.