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Kevin Barrett's TV and Video Appearances

For the Record with Neil Heinen, broadcast July 2006: click here or here or here.

Second For the Record with Neil Heinen, broadcast December 2007: Available on DVD here.

Hannity and Colmes interview: click here or here.

CNN Interview July, 2006: click here.

Kevin Barrett Questions Amy Goodman on Building 7: click here.

Smarmy Bill O'Reilly Patronizes Kevin Barrett's Student (fall 2006): click here.

Kevin Barrett on the O'Reilly Factor: click here.

CNN Anderson Cooper 360  interview transcript:

ROBERTS: A guest lecturer at the University of Wisconsin is gaining worldwide attention. He's teaching a class on Islam. It includes a few lessons on his 9/11 conspiracy theory. 
He believes that the attacks of September 11 were an inside job, a sinister plot by the U.S. government -- strong words, followed by strong outrage. CNN's Keith Oppenheim reports. 

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

KEITH OPPENHEIM, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Twice a week, Kevin Barrett heads to class...



KEVIN BARRETT, UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON LECTURER: Hello.



OPPENHEIM: ... teaching what would seem like a pretty benign subject, "Introduction to Islam."



BARRETT: The message of Islam is that you absolutely have to submit. 



OPPENHEIM: But a description he wrote under his department photo suggests something not so benign. It reads, he enjoys gardening, music, and bringing down fascist regimes in his spare time. 

And he isn't talking about other countries. Kevin Barrett believes the U.S. government itself probably orchestrated the September 11 attacks. 

(on camera): What would have been the incentive for the Bush administration to have allowed for the death of 3,000 people? 



BARRETT: To trigger a war that had been preplanned. It was a new Pearl Harbor. 



OPPENHEIM (voice-over): In academic articles, Barrett writes, 9/11 was a planned excuse for war, "intended to set the American empire in stone for at least 100 years, perhaps even to found a new imperial 1,000-year reich, like the one the Nazis dreamed of."

He believes the Twin Towers were knocked down by explosives planted in advance. 

(on camera): Most people, I don't think, believe that those buildings came down because there were explosives put in the buildings ahead of time.

BARRETT: And that's because most people haven't looked at the  evidence. But the evidence is widely available. And I urge your viewers to look at the videos of these buildings collapsing.

OPPENHEIM: Most people, when they hear that, would think that that's crackpot stuff. 



BARRETT: Until they actually look at the evidence.



OPPENHEIM (voice-over): He says his evidence includes questions about why the U.S. military never intercepted the hijacked planes, and how unlikely it is 19 men with box-cutters could pull off the sophisticated attacks. Others call that nothing but speculation. 



SCOTT SUDER (R), WISCONSIN STATE REPRESENTATIVE: It's offensive not only to America, but it's offensive to the victims of 9/11. 



OPPENHEIM: Scott Suder is one of 61 Wisconsin legislators who signed a resolution demanding Barrett be fired, arguing, Barrett's ideas have no academic merit. 



SUDER: To teach those students on the taxpayer dime, this has become a nationwide embarrassment for Wisconsin. 



OPPENHEIM (on camera): Are you teaching political ideology? 



BARRETT: Not in my class. But, on my blog, I sure am. 

We now have, in the university...



OPPENHEIM (voice-over): Barrett says he doesn't discuss his personal writing in class, but does quote others who question the official explanation of 9/11. 



PATRICK FARRELL, PROVOST, UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON: Clearly, people read into that whatever they like. 



OPPENHEIM: University officials don't like the kind of attention Barrett is bringing, but they're backing him. 



FARRELL: None of his apparent ideology has found its way into the classroom. And that was the gist of our discussion over the summer, and has been in every discussion he and I have had.



OPPENHEIM (on camera): Are you sure that's true? 



FARRELL: Am I sure that's true? I have not through the class. I have never even been to the class, no.



OPPENHEIM (voice-over): Barrett showed us his lecture notes. They do present mainstream ideas about 9/11, but also quote other academics who claim the CIA has been funding al Qaeda for years, a claim the CIA, of course, has denied. 

Some of Barrett's students say they haven't made up their minds yet. 

(on camera): You're thinking twice about it? 



JAMES THEESFELD, UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON STUDENT: Yes, I'm thinking twice. There's some influence. But I don't know enough to -- to -- to vote one way or the other, really. 



AARON ZWICKER, SOPHOMORE, UNIVERSITY OF UNIVERSITY: It's scary that we could lose a good professor like Professor Barrett, who I consider to be my best lecturer right now.



OPPENHEIM: Why is he?



ZWICKER: Because of stuff that he hasn't really talked that much about in class. 



OPPENHEIM (voice-over): Still, the university is under intense pressure. More than 1,000 alumni have spent e-mails opposing Barrett. Some say they'll stop donating. 



BARRETT: An example of the ego...



OPPENHEIM: But for now, the university is standing up for the right of Barrett and any professor to teach controversial ideas. 

Keith Oppenheim, CNN, Madison, Wisconsin. 

(END VIDEOTAPE)


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