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It turns out that Debra Medina, the Tea Party activist and candidate for the Republican gubernatorial nomination in Texas who clarified remarks yesterday that seemingly presented her as a 9/11 Truther, later that same day gave an interview in which she dignified both Trutherism and the Birthers.

"The 9/11 Commission report, you know, great sections of that are redacted and they're top secret," Medina said. "That makes us all wonder, 'well what's happening back there?' The same is true with the birth certificate thing. I think it's healthy that people are asking questions."

Yesterday, Medina had issued a statement that flat-out declared: "I have never been involved with the 9/11 truth movement, and there is no doubt in my mind that Muslim terrorists flew planes into those buildings on 9/11." At the same time, though, she added: "The real underlying question here, though, is whether or not people have the right to question our government." So while she might not be a Truther or a Birther, she fully respects the interest that people have in questioning the government about these things.

Here's an excerpt from her TV interview yesterday:

(Via Ben Smith)

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February 12, 2010 5:49 PM   

Insane. Just plain insane.

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February 12, 2010 7:06 PM   

This is good news for Medina's campaign. She's officially in the sights of both RINO and DINO media and has taken hits from Beck, Matthews, and now TPM in less than a week's time.

Honestly though y'all are going to need to throw muck at this woman from a different angle. The independents and more centrist minded people know they've been played for fools by both Obama and Bush's cronies. They know their government is lying to them and stealing from them, and frankly they want to see people asking questions!

Sons, the golden one just extended an undeclared war across three different countries and handed out trillions of dollars to the top 1% of this country. There is no trust in your party and no trust in the media right now. You think what happened in Massachusetts was nuts?? You think that was just a bunch of angry Republican tea baggers??? Those were AMERICANS standing up for themselves and throwing out the trash. Texans are about to do the same.

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February 12, 2010 7:27 PM    in reply to matty

Who are you throwing out in Texas? Isnt that state dominated by right wing christianists?

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February 13, 2010 12:10 AM    in reply to matty

Brown was not trash?

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February 13, 2010 1:37 AM    in reply to matty

Throwing out the trash? Huh? Remind me who the incumbent was in that election?

No, they simply voted in the less obnoxious of two very obnoxious candidates. Only a frothing teabagger could possibly interpret it as the 'start of a revolution'. Gimme a break.

Coakley was a crappy candidate by every measure. Only in Sean Hannity's fevered mind does the Mass Senate election represent a referendum on anything.

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February 13, 2010 8:50 AM    in reply to matty

After a question is answered conclusively -- as with the "Birther" nonsense -- one doesn't continue asking the same question.

Unless one is dishonest and or unintelligent.

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February 13, 2010 2:17 PM    in reply to matty

You are evidently not capable of (or unwilling to) differentiate President Obama from Bush and his cronies. Frankly Bush and his cronies stole from us with their no bid contracts that fostered impure drinking water to US troops and built inferior structures for our military. The corporate media would not allow criticism of Republicans during the Iraqi war or even now, but they readily solicit stories critical of President Obama. Your partiality is showing!

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February 12, 2010 7:11 PM   

Medina? Ain't that sumplace in Islamorabia?

We need to check her out.

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February 12, 2010 9:08 PM   

After watching (painfully I might add) the so called Gubernatorial debate, I thought that she came across as just slightly more intelligent than Palin. I know that's not exactly saying much. Then there was K Bailey....... Oh to live in Texas!

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February 12, 2010 9:34 PM   

For the gubernatorial hopeful or others who think that there is a secret 9/11 Commission report out there that would rise to the mythic conspiracy theory gold standard of The Warren Commission Report, please realize that current classification directives pretty much relegate the redaction of documents to those things that are related to intelligence sources and methods, ongoing classified programs, and mundane privacy act information. If one were to read declassified cold-war documents on Cuba, Tonkin Gulf, MACVSOG, or Reagan-Gorbachev; you would have a good idea of the types of information that have been withheld from the general population about 9-11. It doesn't matter if you're from Texas or Maine, real life ain't no Tom Clancy novel.

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February 13, 2010 8:55 AM    in reply to What_Me_Worry

Exactly.

The keeps happening with the JFK assassination: whenever documents are released, they end up filling the holes with the predictable, and even mundane. Holes which until then were plugged with conspirabunk about suppressed documents so deeply suppressed that no one could be cetrain they even existed, though those making those allegations always knew the contents of those mega-suppressed documents.

Which is why they knew they were being suppressed.

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February 13, 2010 5:13 PM    in reply to What_Me_Worry

Yeah, the redacted portions of classified documents are really nothing but the mundane,, irrelevant privacy related stuff. We all know the government never does anything that goes against its own (or international) laws, and officials in the would never, ever redact or destroy documents to cover up their actions. If you don't know about it thats probably because its so boring you don't want to know....except about things like Operation Able Danger which the 9/11 Commission blatantly left out of their report:

http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2005/08/12/911-revisionism-revisited/
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=20050827&articleId=867

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February 13, 2010 10:32 PM    in reply to loudprogressive

Yes Uncle Sammy does lie, historically to cover-up acts of stupidity by the all-too-human decision makers. But from my experience as a sometime inhabitant of the "five-sided puzzle palace", the American people really over estimate the ability of turf-protecting bureaucrats to cooperate effectively enough to generate air-tight conspiracies.

As for Operation Able Danger(constitutionally questionable = stupidity), it was (and still may be) such a highly compartmentalized (SCI) program that few if any 9-11 members were cleared to know details that would have made any difference in the final report.

Most members of the senate and congress, even intelligence committee members, are not cleared for high level access. And there are numerous reasons to be denied such access, including close relationships with foreign nationals, a history of questionable judgment, excessive debt, lying during your background interview (a big no-no), or failing a polygraph.
Yes, I know that politicians are professional lairs.

Here's a fact that will stun "the birthers", Presidents and some of their staff are routinely given high level clearance before the lengthy (1+ years) background check has finished and even before they are ever sworn-in as President.
But they DO get checked.

To quote one of my favorite gurus of circular thinking, Monsieur Rumsfeld, "There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we now know we don’t know. But there are also unknown unknowns. These are things we do not know we don’t know."

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February 12, 2010 9:40 PM   

and... Senator Arlen Specter killed Kennedy. After all, he was the one who came up with the single "magic" bullet theory as an Warren Commission member.

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February 12, 2010 11:00 PM    in reply to What_Me_Worry

Well that would suggest he was complicit in the cover up, not that he committed the actual act.

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February 13, 2010 8:57 AM    in reply to loudprogressive

What cover-up? Your lack of expertise in forensics?

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February 13, 2010 9:42 PM    in reply to What_Me_Worry

Umm... I was trying to be sarcastically funny on the Spector thing. Maybe I should have used a smiley face.

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February 14, 2010 7:10 PM    in reply to What_Me_Worry

Hit the link, for Martin Luther and Coretta King in a snipers nest in Dallas Texas, 22 November 1963!

http://www.dockersunion.com/vb/showthread.php?t=385
The John Kennedy assassination, who's who on the Grassy Knoll

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February 12, 2010 10:56 PM   

Of course she's right for calling for a full investigation into 9/11, but the birth certificate remark is simply damage control to stay in the tea baggers good graces.

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February 13, 2010 12:01 AM   

Medina huh? ok if we check your birth certificate too, or is that only healthy for Democrats?

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February 13, 2010 12:22 AM   

Anyone jnow ask her what she thought regarding the inquiry into GWB's time in the Air National Guard? Does she have questions about McCain being born in the Panama Canal Zone? Does she have an opinion about Sarah Palin's ethical violations as Alaska's Governor? Why is it that we keep on seeing candidates who we cannot take seriously? Is there that big of a brain drain in the US of A?

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February 13, 2010 1:39 AM    in reply to KevinCT

"Is there that big of a brain drain in the US of A?"

How the hell do you think this country supported GWBush for as long as they did???

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February 14, 2010 1:01 AM    in reply to KevinCT

I agree and I have been thinking this for a couple of months, now. Is this the best we can do? Is this really it? Have we finally faced our second rate selves as a nation? I don't want to believe it, but I have a horriable feeling it is true.

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February 14, 2010 12:57 PM    in reply to morriganinoregon

I've asked the same question many times over. How can we be so blind and lacking of any critical thought process? I work with folks that believe ANYTHING that is produced and shared among the internet to be gospel. Fox News, and many others exploit our inability to apply any critical thought process to the stories that are played day in and day out. It's snowing, so that in itself makes global warming a myth. Along the same lines, I guess penicillin is bad for you since eating moldy bread makes you sick. It's sad to live in an age where people view science as "myth" even though backed by pretty substantial evidence. Lies are "fact" as long they are repeated time and time again. It's just sickening. My dad lost a brother in WWII. We often wonder what he would have to say in this day and age. He fought a war to rid the world of a madman. Hearing Obama compared to Hitler just makes me ill.

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February 13, 2010 1:26 AM   

Let's see this clown produce HER birth certificate!

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February 13, 2010 11:46 AM    in reply to Joe

Doesn't have to. She has the wrong skin color for that requirement.

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February 13, 2010 10:40 AM   

Tea Party candidates sound like a great idea, until they open their mouths to the press and start talking like this Medina..

Why do you think the Palin "braintrust" has sealed off public sound recordings and video from her appearances?

They know that their "ideas" stink to high heaven and people will not support them.

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February 13, 2010 11:41 AM   

Healthy? For her, this is no doubt true. The woman suffers from an affliction common among tea baggers -- Ideological Tourette Syndrome. She needs to periodically vent her delusions, lest her head explode.

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February 13, 2010 11:53 AM   

Tea Party - what a joke! what a fraud! They don't know when they are being used. They have been used since before this country got established.

So many different ideologues have added themselves to the Tea Party the party is more of a stinking cesspool stew. The original idea was as clear as water - hate the gov. That it was so vacant (and wrongly aimed) it allowed the addition of 'the Birthers'. Then the 'Radical Bigots' joined. Sprinkle on the 'Anit-health Care Screamers'. Dick Armey and his corp. machine (the real enemy!) mucked up the original intent so it WOULDN'T catch hold. Don't believe that, well the next step in this recipe involved the corp. interests shutting out the rabble from their own national convention. Cha-ching$$$$

And just to keep the Tea Partiers gazing at the hook, big money dangles a little Sarah Palin bait hoping to get you folks out to the poles and vote for your favorite Repub...uh, Tea Bag Rep.

Fraud in, fraud out.

To any Dems who got suckered in at first. Its cool, your heart was in the right place. I am disappointed with much of what Obama is doing, though I still support him. We do need to change things, we need to organize but we need good information. We need leaders. We need to start in our own neighborhoods. Think locally, act nationally (to paraphrase). Bottom up is where true green roots start.

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February 13, 2010 1:31 PM   

I hope the President gets the message not to take reactions to this stuff for granted. It's not that he has to do the dozens with them but just keep outing them like when he met them last week. These guys cannot fight in the mainstream, because they are too stupid and fearful to talk sense. Rational argument is their bête noire.

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February 13, 2010 5:08 PM   

Well gosh, Deb Medina & y'all friends of Deb Medina, I thought it was really healthy way back when (a very few years ago) to ask questions about Georgie Bush's military service, too.

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February 13, 2010 6:22 PM   

Deb might have some splainin' to do about Deb, no?

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February 13, 2010 7:07 PM   

The Mind of Medina:

On Sanford's Argentinean "escapade" and a strange leap in logic encompassing Jim DeMint:

"would I like to recommend that we never let Jim DeMint go to Argentina? Yeah, yeah. Do I think he's going to be, you know, do you think he's got some babe on the side in Argentina? No. But I didn't think Sanford did, either!"

On policy priorities:

"we've got to understand first what protects freedom and what destroys it. And I believe that the two essential elements of freedom are private property ownership and gun ownership. They are as essential to freedom as air and water are to life. We don't own our property in Texas."

http://www.glennbeck.com/content/articles/article/196/36197/

So, Sanford didn't have an affair, and folks in Texas don't own their own property. My, my, the things I learn from Tea Party Republicans!

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February 13, 2010 8:03 PM   

For what it's worth today I viewed a video in which Sarah Palin says she endorses the idea of another investigation into the events of 9/11. Has her friend Glenn Beck overlooked this similarity to Medina's 9/11 view?

I think most of us want to know the truth. What government tells us should never become an article of faith. In fact the great majority of Americans (84%) reportedly do not believe the official version of the horrific events of 9/11. Is it because we have seen so many movies  in which an evil cabal wields control over the CIA, the White House, etc. or are these movies hits because we already so distrust government? It may turn out that a majority of voters will resonate with Medina's willingness to have people question government. It's part of what the Tea Party spirit is all about.

On Fox News Sunday Wall Street Journal columnist and Deputy Editor Dan Henniger said that Debra Medina is "the new Sarah Palin," by which he meant that Medina is the new champion of the Tea Party movement.

While opponents and media figures will invariably try to tell voters what to think about Medina, these days it is easy for voters to get a sense of who she is for themselves -- on YouTube. There are many hours of Medina on the stump, in interview, and in the debates with Perry and Hutchison. Here are two videos made by a supporter:

We Texans - 18 Days Till Victory
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7It34k8Pks

We Texans - 19 Days Till Victory
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahNfvFQFnKg&feature=player_embedded

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February 14, 2010 7:04 PM    in reply to McClarinJ

Most progressives aren't so shallow. The Bush admin played that game for so long (having a bin laden impersonator release a tape parroting the positions held by dems on an issue in order to taint it) that most are immune to this tactic.

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February 13, 2010 8:14 PM   

Medina is trying to have it both ways. She's giving a shout-out to the tea baggers on Glen Beck, and then she walks it back a little (but not completely) when talking to the MSM to reassure the independents that she's not one of those nuts.

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February 13, 2010 10:46 PM   

Here are 1,000+ "healthy" architects and engineers who will be holding a press conference on Feb. 19:

http://michaelfury.wordpress.com/2009/05/29/wake-up-show/

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February 13, 2010 10:49 PM   

Barry Jennings was "asking questions", but for some reason he is no longer "healthy":

http://michaelfury.wordpress.com/2008/09/17/barry-jennings-speaks/

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February 13, 2010 11:24 PM   

It IS healthy to question items like this. What is NOT healthy, however, is to not be able to leave Disneyland once it is proven to be a fantasy and closes for the day...
IMHO

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February 14, 2010 8:22 AM   

RETARD

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February 14, 2010 8:59 AM   

Surely Democrats, if they're smart, will giver this woman as much closet support and campaign cash as they are allowed. Maybe push her all the way to a presidential bid in 2012?

http://www.sunstateactivist.org/ssablog

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February 14, 2010 11:20 AM   

When I was a kid, everyone thought the worlds biggest idiots were all hatched in Alabama. Now you can find them in Texas, South Carolina, Minnisota, and lots of other places. This is the success of Republican diversification!

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February 14, 2010 12:16 PM   

Another Teaparty, I mean Republican, crackpot.

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February 14, 2010 5:17 PM   

What is with all the questions?
Can't we all just get along,
get on our knees and pray to Obama
and except his orders and suffer like good gettto dwellers.

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February 14, 2010 5:27 PM   

Ah, it seems to be working here! If you really want to make something like a truthful investigation about 9-11 really unpopular with the (allegedly) progressive crowd, simply "tea-bag" it!

And as far as Barry's birth certificate, Medina apparently didn't say "prove" or "disprove" it, she simply said "talk about" it. You know, she IS in Tejas, and she is playing politics among that (mostly) religiously insane group.

In the meantime, you posters above are talking about Texans much like early 20th century Klan-appeasers used to talk about "Jews" (they're all so vile and evil).

Shoe, other foot, and all that kind of crap.

DanD

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February 14, 2010 7:06 PM   

Whatever Medina or anyone else says, this pic proves that it was an inside job,

http://i49.tinypic.com/2gwue8i.jpg

Hit the link for a cruise missile slamming into the Pentagon on 911, kinda shoots the notion that it was a Boeing 757 don't it!

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February 15, 2010 7:37 AM   

It is absolutely right that americans should question their government. We should ask about 9/11 and Obama's birth.

But that doesn't go far enough. Texas has one of the highest abortion rates in the world, we should demand Medina's gynecological records so folks will know that she is a true American conservative!

Why hasn't she released them?

What is she hiding?

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