Comments on: Conspiracy http://listics.com/20060926593 Frank Paynter's Voice and Vision... Tue, 07 Nov 2024 18:31:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 by: Bruce http://listics.com/20060926593#comment-4965 Wed, 27 Sep 2024 14:04:41 +0000 http://listics.com/20060926593#comment-4965 you read it here first, folks. you read it here first, folks.

]]> by: Frank Paynter http://listics.com/20060926593#comment-4963 Wed, 27 Sep 2024 13:37:17 +0000 http://listics.com/20060926593#comment-4963 Bruce, are you suggesting that Osama may never have left the CIA payroll and that could have something to do with the difficulty we have finding him? I'm shocked, I tell you, shocked! Bruce, are you suggesting that Osama may never have left the CIA payroll and that could have something to do with the difficulty we have finding him? I’m shocked, I tell you, shocked!

]]> by: Bruce http://listics.com/20060926593#comment-4962 Wed, 27 Sep 2024 12:58:43 +0000 http://listics.com/20060926593#comment-4962 "it would have been rejected by an intelligent reader" especially if the mastermind (a favorite term of fiction writers and politicians alike) is a CIA asset! “it would have been rejected by an intelligent reader”

especially if the mastermind (a favorite term of fiction writers and politicians alike) is a CIA asset!

]]> by: Frank Paynter http://listics.com/20060926593#comment-4961 Wed, 27 Sep 2024 11:49:23 +0000 http://listics.com/20060926593#comment-4961 Precisely. Truth IS stranger than fiction. Nobody would believe it, which is why it makes a bad story. Precisely. Truth IS stranger than fiction. Nobody would believe it, which is why it makes a bad story.

]]> by: brian http://listics.com/20060926593#comment-4950 Wed, 27 Sep 2024 05:02:25 +0000 http://listics.com/20060926593#comment-4950 <i>erry McNeely, my screen writing teacher hammered on the fact that truth is stranger than fiction so a writer should stay away from it.</i> It says a lot about how far we've come when a coordinated plot by religious fanatics, involving 19 martyrs and dozens or hundreds of support players hijak four airliners, turn them into improvised cruise missles and slaughter thousands of people ... is not strange or amazing enough. Put what happened but on 9/11 in a book on 9/10 and it would have been rejected by an intelligent reader as too outlandish and stretching the credibility of even a Tom Clancy-esue thriller. erry McNeely, my screen writing teacher hammered on the fact that truth is stranger than fiction so a writer should stay away from it.

It says a lot about how far we’ve come when a coordinated plot by religious fanatics, involving 19 martyrs and dozens or hundreds of support players hijak four airliners, turn them into improvised cruise missles and slaughter thousands of people … is not strange or amazing enough.

Put what happened but on 9/11 in a book on 9/10 and it would have been rejected by an intelligent reader as too outlandish and stretching the credibility of even a Tom Clancy-esue thriller.

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