What can I say? It’s just reality.
Bonanno: OK, two more questions about the movie. Then I really would like to get into your opinion on this election because I also have some opinions and I’d like to know if they line up with mine.
I read two reviews. One pretty good review and the other, The Village Voice, I think it was, which describes “The Reflecting Pool” as just an extension of your personal opinion and you’re trying to get your political agenda across.
One thing they said that really upset me, at least, was that Building 7 is the 9/11 Truth’s “Area 51”.
Now, I know I’ve never seen Area 51 on television.
I don’t know what you think about that but, to me, that analogy is absolutely empty.
Kupsc: The analogy is pretty obvious. When you do a hit piece on any 9/11 Truth oriented issue, there’s a check list you have to follow. The first and foremost thing you have to say is that the 9/11 Truth Movement is basically the same thing as confirming that extraterrestrials are flying flying saucers around Area 51. The first point they always make is, “This is straight out of “The X-Files”, these are the moon landing conspiracy theorists.
They immediately group you with things that are so outlandish and preposterous that, by default, you associate the 9/11 Truth Movement with craziness, with tinfoil hats. That’s their favorite slogan. “These tinfoil hat wearing people” and “You have to tip your tinfoil hats to these people.”
Another thing they do is to group you with Anti-Semitic, Holocaust deniers. Every negative review we’ve ever had from the mainstream basically grouped us with sci-fi or Anti-Semitic rhetoric, which is unfortunate. That’s the check list they have to use.
It’s not just our movie. There have been other individuals, even on MSNBC, that were questioning 9/11. They would immediately bring in their “experts” who would start their commentary by saying, “Yes, this is straight out of “The X-Files””.
It’s something we have to deal with. It makes me laugh, personally, because I know how counterintelligence works and what they have to do to make people ridicule us. We just have to get beyond that. We have to be smart enough not to let it bother you and counterpoint it with an intelligent argument.
Bonanno: I think that a very important part of “The Reflecting Pool”, Jarek, is where you present people that are like that. There’s the guy who has the show called “Bare Facts”. I can’t for the life of me think of who he reminds me of. I’ll have to think about that just a little bit more. It’s a mystery to me.
Kupsc: Bill O’Reilly, perhaps?
Bonanno: Oh, yeah, ok. It sounds a little bit like him.
You have the guy at the end who is from Mechanical Science, which, I presume, is Popular Mechanics.
You have the guy in the garage with the hologram theory.
