Conspiracy-Theory Bashing Goes Mainstream in 2004

• May 26: Democracy Now
  The New Pearl Harbor: A Debate On A New Book That Alleges The Bush Administration Was Behind The 9/11 Attacks
  
  • Chip Berlet zeroes in on errors in Meyssan, Holmgren analysis of Pentagon attack.
  • Goodman dismisses WTC demolition because Griffin can't cite structural engineer.
• September 13: The Nation magazine
  Executive Secrecy: Conspiracy or Failure?
  
  • Accuses Griffin of "recycl[ing] some of the wilder conspiracy theories".
  • First on list: "that the Pentagon was hit by a missile rather than by American Airlines Flight 77."
• October 7: The Washington Post
  Conspiracy Theories Flourish on the Internet
  
  • Describes Pentagon Strike and its popularization in detail.
  • Implies that "something other than a commercial airliner hit the Pentagon" is the only challenge to the official story.
• November 8: The New York Times
  A Hidden Story Behind Sept. 11? One Man's Ad Campaign Says So
  
  • Second sentence: "no plane flew into the Pentagon"
  • Mention of Building 7 contextualized by proximity to Pentagon claim.
• November 10: Air America
  Interview with David Von Kleist, producer of In Plane Site
  
  • promotes Pentagon no-757-crash theory and South Tower pod-plane.