All American Crazies: Professor Claims Newtown Never Happened
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A barking mad communications professor from Florida Atlantic University (FAU) isn’t backing down from his ludicrous theory that the mass killing of 20 children in Newtown, Connecticut may have never happened.
FAU professor James Tracy
Writing on his Memory Hole blog last month, Professor James Tracy asserted that it was “not unreasonable to suggest the Obama administration [had] complicity or direct oversight of an incident that has in very short order sparked a national debate” on gun control.
“While it sounds like an outrageous claim, one is left to inquire whether the Sandy Hook shooting ever took place—at least in the way law enforcement authorities and the nation’s news media have described,” he declared, noting that no surveillance video of photos of bodies had been released by authorities.
“Moreover, to suggest that [President Barack] Obama is not capable of deploying such techniques to achieve political ends is to similarly place ones faith in image and interpretation above substance and established fact, the exact inclination that in sum has brought America to such an impasse.”
On Tuesday, WPTV caught up with Tracy, who also doubts the official versions President John F. Kennedy’s assassination, the Oklahoma City bombing, the Sept. 11 terrorists attacks and the mass shooting at a theater in Aurora, Colorado last year.
“In terms of saying that Sandy Hook — the Newtown massacre — did not take place, is really an oversimplification of what I actually said,” he explained. “I said that I think that there may very well be elements of that event that are synthetic to some degree, that are somewhat contrived. I think that, overall, the media really did drop the ball. I don’t think that they got to the bottom of some of the things that may have taken place there.”
As for the deaths of 20 elementary children, the professor said, “I think that most likely that took place.”
A spokesperson for Florida Atlantic University on Monday tried to distance the school from Tracy’s views.
“James Tracy does not speak for the university,” media director Lisa Metcalf told the Sun Sentinel. “The website on which his post appeared is not affiliated with FAU in any way.”
Well, that notwithstanding this guy needs to be fired. This nut job is teaching America’s college kids? No way should that happen.
Article courtesy of TheExaminer.com
Bill Formby
January 11, 2013 at 2:00 am
Some people will do anything for attention. Seeing as how he is teaching people about communications I guess he is trying to tell us that the media lies to us all the time. Hey, is that Fox News I hear calling?
James Smith
January 11, 2013 at 7:08 am
It is a freedom of speech issue. Anyone can say stupid thi8ngs if they do not mind being made to look like a fool.
My first question to him would be the ever popular, “How do you know?” Then I would follow with a request for independently verifiable proof.
bitcodavid
January 11, 2013 at 8:25 am
1. I’m assuming he’s tenured. Therefore they can’t fire him.
2. If he’s not tenured, then it is not a freedom of speech issue, but rather an employment at will issue. I got a dose of this medicine, when I wrote about Angela McCaskell being suspended from Gallaudet. Whether or not, the school was right in suspending her, they were within their legal rights to do so.
3. It could be argued that he’s simply making use of controversy as a way to keep his views up. The teevee interview (which just fuels the fire, anyway) did say that he’s gone viral. If honest writing was as easy as blatant yellow journalism, we’d all be rich – isn’t that so, MadMike?
Michael John Scott
January 11, 2013 at 6:58 pm
That’s so David
bitcodavid
January 11, 2013 at 8:30 am
Oh, hey! Congrats on fixing your “edit” thingy!
Michael John Scott
January 11, 2013 at 6:58 pm
Thanks David. Took a while but it’s a handy tool.
Jim Moore
January 11, 2013 at 12:41 pm
Republican-style rhetoric taken to the extreme. Redefine reality as you see fit and then act on that as if it’s true.
Les Carpenter
January 11, 2013 at 11:51 pm
Wondering why the media or ANYONE would take this dude seriously.
Les Carpenter
January 11, 2013 at 11:55 pm
Wondering why the media, or ANYONE, would give this dude any press. Seriously.
bitcodavid
January 12, 2013 at 8:30 am
Well, last night he made it to CNN. Next step is “Dancing with the Stars,” followed by his own reality series. cah-ching.
Bill Formby
January 12, 2013 at 1:30 pm
Either that or someone’s dumbest list.
Tao Speaks
January 12, 2013 at 9:39 pm
I think he needs to be scrutinized the same way Ward Churchill was after his comments in regards to 9/11.
But then again, Ward Churchill was a crazy leftist speaking out under a conservative President….it does make a world of difference.
This is a really interesting comment:
“Moreover, to suggest that [President Barack] Obama is not capable of deploying such techniques to achieve political ends is to similarly place ones faith in image and interpretation above substance and established fact, the exact inclination that in sum has brought America to such an impasse.”
Based upon this comment he believes that the financial meltdown of 2008 was something that Obama created to benefit from and he should also think that 9/11 was a conspiracy that Bush cooked up to go to war; and I doubt if he would agree to the last one.