So the Truthers invented their own equal time response opportunity. "New rule: buildings do not collapse into the path of most resistance at anything close to freefall speed," Kurtzman counters on video, referring to claims by some that only a controlled demolition would allow for such a fast collapse by the Twin Towers. "Go back to kindergarten and play with blocks until you figure that out," she tells Maher, aping the host's finger-wagging delivery.
Kurtzman also raised questions about the collapse of the World Trade Center's building seven, which fell despite not being struck by a plane. "Two airplanes can't slam into two buildings and knock down three," she says, punctuating the point by flipping Maher off. Stewart Howe, Kurtzman's co-star in the clip, says in the video that Sept.
11 was part of an orchestrated plan that fulfilled a host of Bush administration goals. "They wanted to go to war with Afghanistan and Iraq. They got it.
They wanted to make billions of dollars for their corporate friends. They got it," Howe says, adding that widely accepted explanation of the events of 9/11 helped increase executive power and convinced Maher himself to "parrot the official story." "Didn't they manage to accomplish all of this?
Absolutely they did," he continues, adding that "it doesn't look like incompetence to me Bill, it looks to me like 'mission accomplished." "Bill Maher is doing what most of the mainstream media is doing. All they can really do is attack the messenger," Howe told RAW STORY.
"If they allow it to become a rational debate, they'll lose every time. It's just not debatable." Although the video format didn't allow the group to delve into the swirl of 9/11 facts and figures they say supports their case -- they point to an online documentary called "9/11 Mysteries" and a number of websites as representative of their views -- it did give them a chance to stick up for themselves.
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