Jamaal Bowman, the Trillion-Dollar-Reparations Huckster and Insurrectionist Fire Alarm Puller, Turns Out to be a "9/11 Wuz Inside Job" Conspiracy Theorist

I know what you guys are thinking, because I'm thinking it too.

You're not thinking anything. Because there are no words, there are no thoughts.

You just don't expect this kind of thing from Jamaal Bowman.

The man is the adamantine pillar around which the world spins -- you know, like Darrius "Sweetdick" Honeycum's powerschlong.

Twitchy quotes from the Daily Beast, which, I guess, broke this story because they got wind that someone else was about to do so:

Every entry was deleted sometime before February 2016, but the compositions preserved in archives included 137 lines of free verse from May 2011 entitled 'Recapitulate.' What begins as a meditation on a decade-plus of world events, recollecting anxiety over Y2K and controversy around the 2000 Florida recount, swiftly delves into the world of 9/11 trutherism.

"2001/Planes used as missiles/Target: The Twin Towers," a stanza on the terror attack begins. "Later in the day/Building 7/Also Collaspsed [sic]/Hmm.../Multiple explosions/Heard before/And during the collapse/Hmm..."

Bowman there invoked a favorite, disproven trope of the paranoid fringe: that the collapse of Building 7 was the result of a controlled demolition.

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The poem then pursues even more obscure conspiratorial musings.

"Allegedly/Two other planes/The Pentagon/Pennsylvania/Hijacked by terrorist [sic]/Minimal damage done/Minimal debris found/Hmm..." he wrote.

Hmmmm....

"We blamed Osama/Went to war in Iraq/Captured Saddam/Killed him," Bowman's poem reads.

We blamed Osama. Even the Daily Bitch has a problem with this formulation.

"Bin Laden is Afghan/So we went to war there too." In fact, Bin Laden, who openly took credit for the Sept. 11 attacks, never held Afghan citizenship and was born into a billionaire Saudi family.

The Daily Birch notes that Bowman was following the conspiratorial fevers of two idiots on the internet.

In the poem, Bowman also points to the source of the falsehoods he is propagating--"​​Watch Loose Change/And Zeitgeist," he exhorts.

Loose Change is a viral "documentary" which has become an international laughingstock for positing that the U.S. government carried out the Sept. 11 attacks, based on a range of debunked and nonsensical assertions.

Zeitgeist, similarly a product of the message board and chain email margins of the aughties web, is a 2007 film that goes beyond preposterous fantasies about the 2001 hijackings and argues that a ring of globalist bankers controls the Federal Reserve and periodically contrives national tragedies to compel the U.S. government to embark on wars and take out greater debt

Both Zeitgeist and Loose Change were favorites of mass shooter Jared Loughner, who killed six people and injured 13 more, including then-Rep. Gabby Giffords, in a rampage in Tucson, Arizona in January 2011. And both productions enjoyed the backing of arch-conspiracy hawker Alex Jones: He served as executive producer of the "final cut" of Loose Change, and declared he agrees with "90% of Zeitgeist," further claiming that the movie drew from his own work.

Of course they had to show that Alex Jones also pushed this crap. But I guess that's fair enough. He does believe in All the Conspiracies.

There can be no mistaking that these are the subjects of Bowman's poem: He even refers to Zeitgeist director Peter Joseph by name.

"Shout out to John Perkins/William Cooper/Michael Moore/Peter Joseph/And Adam Curtis," Bowman wrote.

John Perkins is the author of the book Secrets of an Economic Hit Man, and William Cooper was a radio host and hero of the militia movement--and of Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh--known for fevered ramblings about aliens, the Illuminati, and the supposed man-made origin of HIV/AIDS. Cooper died in a shoot-out with law enforcement in November 2001. Michael Moore and Adam Curtis are both left-wing documentary-makers.

I have to admit, the Daily Bitch isn't pulling too many punches here.

Bowman is basically playing the "when I was young and foolish I was young and foolish" card.

Here's the problem:

When he wrote his "Hmmm..." poems, he was a thirty-five year old man responsible for educating children.

Oh, and he says he only explored these strange theories because... he was "debating pursuing a doctorate."

Web archives show that while Bowman was a 35-year-old educator running the Cornerstone Academy for Social Action in the Bronx, he maintained an online journal at Relentless-Strongback.Blogspot.com, where he published poems and brief essays there on personal, political, and pedagogical concerns through 2014.

We'll never know what we missed out on when Jamaal Bowman decided to go into politics instead of academics.

Though... we could probably hazard a guess.

This time, a medical school neuroscientist is on the hot seat for research misconduct at Harvard.

Claudine Gay could at least argue that her academic misconduct wasn't exactly brain surgery, but now that two of the academic scandals are at Harvard Medical School and one includes a neuroscientist, you get the idea.
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It is brain surgery in this case, and it's pretty hard for Harvard to deny that there is a fundamental problem regarding academic integrity at its institution now that four separate scandals have popped up in the period of a few months.

Princeton could use a man like Jamaal.

posted by Disinformation Expert Ace at 01:10 PM

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