Conspiracy theorists of all stripes, and especially those of the 9/11 sub-species, are elated that Publisher's Weekly, America's most influential book review magazine and web site, selected a recent book by the dean of 9/11 tin-hatters, David Ray Griffin, as its "Web Pick of the Week" yesterday with a starred review.
Is this a sure sign of the apocolypse?
The Griffin tome in question is his The New Pearl Harbor Revisited: 9/11, the Cover-Up, and the Expose, published in September by Olive Branch Press. Its appearance in Publishers Weekly marks the first time that one of Griffin's 9/11 works has received a mainstream review.
And what a review it was. PW writes:
[Griffin] "addresses many points in exhaustive detail, from the physical impossibility of the official explanation of the towers’ collapse to the Commission's failure to scrutinize the administration to the NIST’s contradiction of its own scientists to the scads of eyewitness and scientific testimony in direct opposition to official claims.
"Citing hundreds, if not thousands, of sources, [Griffin’s] detailed analysis is far from reactionary or delusional, building a case that, though not conclusive, raises enough valid and disturbing questions to make his call for a new investigation more convincing than ever."
For 136 years, America's book industry (including booksellers and librarians) have relied upon Publisher's Weekly to guide their purchases and recommendations. Regardless of where you come down on this controversial issue, the fact that a 9/11 CT book has broken through to the mainstream publishing industry is news of some sort.
For some the news is gratifying; other progressives like Howard Zinn see the ongoing, terminally obnoxious 9/11 Truth movement as a distraction from real work that needs to be done in the present and fodder for the wingnuts to call progressives "crazy."
Will the Obama victory takes some of the wind from the sails of the 9/11 Truth movement, which claims that polling shows that 40% of Americans doubt the official account of that day?
History suggests that it will. Like the Kennedy assassination, America seems ready to "move on."