Super majority of Americans now think 9/11 inside job or gov let it happen

In the New York Post:

By ANDY SOLTIS

November 24, 2007 -- Nearly two-thirds of Americans believe the federal government had warnings about 9/11 but decided to ignore them, a national survey found.

And that's not the only conspiracy theory with a huge number of true believers in the United States.

The poll found that more than one out of three Americans believe Washington is concealing the truth about UFOs and the Kennedy assassination - and most everyone is sure the rise in gas prices is one vast oil-industry conspiracy.

Sixty-two percent of those polled thought it was "very likely" or "somewhat likely" that federal officials turned a blind eye to specific warnings of the 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon.

Only 30 percent said the 9/11 theory was "not likely," according to the Scripps Howard/Ohio University poll.

I would love to see the methodology for this "poll". This is utter nonsense. I bet I could go talk to ten people right now and find at the most two who genuinely thought the gov was behind it or "let it happen". Even whack job Bill Maher dogged out these kind of nutters. So did Clinton. The New York Post should be utterly embarrassed to run this poll, it is obviously junk.

I am going to try and find out more about this poll and update later.

BTW, I have said this before but it deserves repeating. I once saw a news piece on polling and how they run polls. This particular one was phone based. They said they had a machine that place calls at random. Completely utterly random with no human intervention. Then they said all they do is give it an area code and it starts dialing.

No problem at all with the fact that a San Fransisco area code will give you a completely different type of responder than say Atlanta or Oklahoma City.

I am guessing that for this poll they gave the machine the area code for Ron Paul's district.

Comments

[John]

It does seem awful suspicious that they do not list the actual questions asked. I mean, if the question was whether the government had any intelligence information about 9/11, you would probably find 60% of people answering yes (cue Ms. Rice "I believe the title was, "Bin Laden Determined to Attack Inside the United States."). If the question was more specific to what the post is insinuating in the article -- that the government allowed the attack to take place, I would hope the number of responders in the 'yes' group would be under 1%.

That the post framed it to sound like an inside job by the government, or that the government had actual forewarning about the attack is ludicrous. Probably needed to fill space in their VERY impressive conspiracy graphic.

[Ray Robison]

Exactly what I suspected. Did the gov have evidence an attack was being planned? That would cause a bunch of people to say yes, but I couldnt find any info on the questions.