And here you probably thought that the tragic death of U.S. Senator Paul Wellstone (D-Minn.) in a 2002 small aircraft crash was, well, an accident.
Nope, two professors explain it all in a new book: "American Assassination: The Strange Death of Senator Paul Wellstone." It actually looks to be a "GOP conspiracy", and Dick Cheney just might be in the in the middle of it all. They want a Senate investigation.
Seems this Lefty Wingnut outburst - of a piece with the vile Bush hatred being peddled by more "mainstream" Dems - is being kept at arms length by the media. Despite the release of the book last week, and a Washington, D.C. presentation yesterday (the second anniversary of Wellstone's death) at the National Press Club by the authors (professors James Fetzer and Don Trent Jacobs, aka "Four Arrows"), media coverage has been scant. As of 10:00 a.m. PST today, a Google News search for "James Fetzer," the lead author, turned up reports only from today's Minneapolis Star-Tribune (free reg. req.), and the illustrious site, onlypunjab.com.
Strange. Or not? If university professors, with a new book detailing their case, held a DC event eight days before the Presidential election, to suggest something equally spurious about, say John Kerry or his party, you can bet the mainstream media debunkers would be all over it. But Nooo, this is just to embarrassing to acknowledge, so it gets ignored. Consider these choice nuggets, via the book's publisher, that onlypunjab.com (link above) just couldn't resist:
Two years ago, all eyes were on the Senate race of Senator Paul Wellstone. In the wake of the defection of Jim Jeffords, the White House hand-picked Norm Coleman to attempt to unseat the populist Wellstone. But Coleman still trailed Wellstone late in the campaign. On October 11th, Wellstone voted against the President’s war on Iraq, despite a dire personal warning of "severe ramifications" from Vice President Cheney.As the result of his vote, Wellstone’s popularity soared. Then tragedy struck. Just ten days before his probable re-election, Senator Wellstone was killed in the mysterious crash of his small aircraft. On October 25, 2002, the American people suffered the loss of a leader for peace and justice. Some folks harbored suspicions. And some remember how the media blamed the weather.
After two years of research, James Fetzer, Ph.D. and Don "Four Arrows" Jacobs, Ph.D., prove that the weather did not kill Senator Wellstone. Nor were the two pilots incompetent, as the final report of the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) claimed. With impeccable logic, these two highly-lauded university professors ask the hard questions: Why the mysterious cessation of communication from the airplane right before the crash? Why did a passer-by experience cell phone interference at the exact time the pilots lost control? How did the FBI arrive at the crash scene, only an hour or so after the first responders, and eight hours before the NTSB?
At the time of Senator Wellstone’s death, 69% of Minnesotans polled said they had a hunch a "GOP Conspiracy" was at play. Now, a new book makes the case that the common people were right all along.
Yep. Michael Moore's got nothing on these guys.
Posted by Matt Rosenberg at October 26, 2004 09:54 AM
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