Washington Post uses Dirty Tricks to Slime Japanese Legislator, MP Fujita

8:30 AM Posted by com puter

On March 8, the WashPost ran an editorial (see below) attacking Yukihisa Fujita, a member of the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ), for his views on 9/11--views "too half-baked, bizarre and intellectually bogus to merit serious discussion," etc.

The piece casts Fujita as a member of "the lunatic fringe," refers to him as "reckless and fact-averse," and hints strongly that Fujita's party (which is currently in power) ought to shut him up, or purge him, for the sake of "the U.S.-Japan alliance."

That piece, it turns out, is a hatchet job. First of all, it radically misrepresents Fujita's views on 9/11: he has never called it a conspiracy, nor does he believe that controlled demolition brought down the Twin Towers. All he's said is that there ought to be a new investigation of what happened on that day.
http://news-from-underground.blogspot.com/2010/03/mcm-washpost-uses-dirty-tricks-to-slime.html


http://news-from-underground.blogspot.com/2010/03/mcm-washpost-uses-dirty-tricks-to-slime.html

And, more shocking still, it turns out that Fujita was deliberately set up, as Lee Hockster, editorial writer for the Post, arranged and carried out the interview under false pretenses. Below is Fujita's statement on the whole experience. It makes quite clear that the Post's editorial was not only a hatchet job, but a deliberate sting.

In short, this "editorial" was not a frank expression of legitimate opinion, but a stroke of outright propaganda--one more volley in the vast campaign to shut down any and all questions about 9/11 (and whatever other scandals we are not permitted even to acknowledge, much less study honestly).  MCM