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E-mailSomebody, please! 'Rescue Me' from 9/11 conspiracy theories!
Next week, the FX TV drama "Rescue Me" begins its fifth season. The show, starring Denis Leary, revolves around a fire house filled with dysfunctional firefighters, a large number of them Irish American.
At its best, the show has proven to be not just groundbreaking, but also one of the more interesting (and controversial) depictions of New York City Irish life.
When the new season begins on April 7, we are going to be introduced to a character who believes 9/11 was an "inside job."
Perhaps, by now, you've come across one or two versions of these conspiracy theories. There are people who believe, say, the Bush administration knew about 9/11 beforehand and did nothing to stop it.
Or who believe it was actually cloak and dagger types who, at the behest of the Bush Administration, planned and pulled off the 9/11 attacks.
Why? Who knows? Presumably so America would have a reason to invade Afghanistan and Iraq, so we could control not just the region's oil but the region as a whole.
You can see how well that's been working out.
Before I go on with this, let me note that I understand this is just a TV show.
It could be that when the second episode of the show airs and the 9/11 conspiracy plot line gets underway, that the whole thing is played for laughs, or mentioned casually and then dropped. But I don't think that will be the case.
After all, the Rescue Me actor (Daniel Sunjata) whose character will be voicing a belief in an inside 9/11 plot believes "100 percent" in the conspiracy.
The weird thing is, Leary is not the first Irish American to be linked with some of the most extravagant conspiracy theories of our time.
The actor/talk show host/professional loudmouth Rosie O'Donnell has been out front proudly proclaiming that the attacks were some kind of inside job.
And, of course, the mother of all 20th century conspiracy theories is the assassination of the nation's first Irish Catholic president, John F. Kennedy.
You know the argument. Oswald had nothing to do with killing JFK.
It was the mob. Or Lyndon Johnson. Or Fidel Castro. Or all of them! There are similar beliefs about Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King.
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