Controversial Charlie Sheen 9/11 interview begins to attract media attention

84% of Americans believe that the attacks on 9/11 was a US government ‘inside job.’
by Ron Brynaert, Raw Story

An interview with actor Charlie Sheen regarding his controversial views on 9/11 has started to garner some mainstream media attention.  And it appears that most of America agrees with him.  CNN’s poll shows that 84% of Americans believe the 9/11 attacks was a US government ‘inside job.’

On Monday, Sheen, star of the CBS sitcom “Two and a Half Men” and the multiple Oscar-winning film Platoon, talked with GCN Radio Network’s “The Alex Jones Show,” and explained why he had trouble believing the “official 9/11 story” advanced by the Bush Administration and the 9/11 Commission (link).

“It’s like they want to pigeonhole all of us into conspiracy nutbags when we’re not debating things that are related to UFO’s bringing down the towers or Building 7 or the Pentagon and so its feels like there’s things in there that we’re not the conspiracy theorists on this particular issue,” said Sheen. “It seems to me like 19 amateurs with box cutters taking over four commercial airliners and hitting 75 percent of their targets: that feels like a conspiracy theory.”…

CNN’s Showbiz Tonight played extended segments from the Sheen interview Wednesday night (Windows Media video link), then followed it up with an extended discussion on some of the “unanswered questions” with a producer of a National Geographic documentary on 9/11 and the Media Coordinator of 911Truth.org.

“I’m one of these people who believes that anyone who takes everything that has been spoonfed to us by the government, from wherever, about what happened on 9/11 is being naive,” Showbiz Tonight anchor A.J. Hammer admitted during the broadcast. “When I say this to people sometimes, they look at me like I’m kind of nuts.”

Earlier Wednesday, Jones complained of a “mainstream media blackout” on the Sheen interview.

“Despite a huge reaction amongst the alternative media to Charlie Sheen’s comments on 9/11, in part due to a brief link on the Drudge Report which was mysteriously pulled after a few hours, newswires and entertainment outlets have actively sought to impose a blackout on the story,” Jones and Paul Joseph Watson wrote at Prison Planet.

According to Jones and Watson, a major wire service expressed interest in running an article, but Jeff Williams of the LA Associated Press office allegedly informed them “I know all about Charlie Sheen and I don’t care what he says” before cutting off the phone call.

The Sheen story ran at a few conservative Websites on Wednesday including Human Events Online and Red State, referring to Jones’ radio show as “left wing” or “liberal.”

Sheen’s interview has started to become fodder for the gossip columnists. Thursday’s edition of the New York Post contains a Page Six item on Sheen (link), though The Defamer, an online gossip site based in Los Angeles, first wrote it up on Tuesday.

“Charlie Sheen has joined the 9/11 gone-bonkers brigade,” reads the Post. “The “Two and a Half Men” star gave a bizarre interview on GGN Radio Network’s conspiracy-minded “The Alex Jones Show,” in which he suggested that the federal government was covering up what “really” happened.”

Also on Thursday, the Boston Herald took note of the story, in its “Inside Track” section (link), calling Sheen the “estranged husband of Denise Richards, who is better known for his affinity for prostitutes and gambling than his Homeland Security credentials.”

Many outlets may be shying away from the interview due to fear of being associated with the controversial Alex Jones, who has written extensively about a purported plot by several governments to compose a “New World Order.” According to Wikipedia, Jones rejects being labelled a “conspiracy theorist” and prefers to be known as an “independent investigative journalist.”

“Let me say that I’ve been a fan of yours for a long time,” Sheen told Jones in the interview. “I’ve been a fan of your documentaries. Your research is tireless and it’s interesting because a lot of these guys you sort of look behind their notes and you start to discover their inconsistencies in a lot of the claims they are making which torpedoes the credibility of most of their substance, but with you that is not the case.”

Additional excerpts from the Sheen interview taken from a transcript made by Human Events Online:

“There was a feeling, it just didn’t look any commercial jetliner I’ve flown on any time in my life and then when the buildings came down later on that day I said to my brother ‘call me insane, but did it sorta look like those buildings came down in a controlled demolition’?”

“Everybody is now familiar with the famous Andrew Card/Bush ear whisper at the elementary school, that whole incident is problematic to me. It was broadcast three days in advance — his schedule. So conservatively, if that event was broadcast live, how many people in the state of Florida knew where he was at that specific point in time? If he was being informed — the second plane hit, America was being attacked — isn’t he then putting everyone in his immediate circle at a great risk? It seems to me upon the revelation of that news that the secret service would grab the president and remove him as of he were on fire from that room.”

“Because strategies don’t go together overnight for a major invasion, they are very well calculated and very well planned, at least in this governmentin a statement that Bush made following, “What did you think when the first plane hit?” and he said he was watching it like everyone else.”

“I guess that’s one of the perks of being president, you get access to TV channels that don’t exist in the known universe.”