Charlie Sheen Explains it All for You

“Two and a Half Men” star and burgeoning political dilettante Charlie Sheen will narrate an expanded version of “Loose Change,” a popular YouTube screed arguing that the U.S. government masterminded the 9/11 attacks with an unerring efficiency before the Administration ran utterly off the rails and abandoned all skills remotely resembling the sinister precision required on that day.

Talking to “Extra” about this, Sheen said, “It’s a story that needs to be told. It’s a story about the truth and the truth needs to be exposed.”

On the other hand, when asked whether the U.S. government had a hand in any sort of 9/11 conspiracy, Sheen says, “I don’t have any answers to that, but we deserve better than what we’ve been force-fed.” He added, “It’s not just me… not just the Hollywood community, but the social community that is standing up saying what you have given us doesn’t make sense. We just want better answers.”

So, wait: Sheen calls a film about U.S. complicity in the 9/11 attacks “a story about the truth,” but when asked whether the film’s suppositions are indeed true, replies, “I don’t have any answers to that”? One must echo his other sentiments: “What you have given us doesn’t make sense. We just want better answers.”

And Sheen isn’t the only one buying into the conspiracy theory: Rosie O’Donnell offers her own pointed thoughts on the subject in semi-poetry form in her blog. Of course, a few entries away, she posted a bunch of photos of a squirrel, with this addendum: “i have named him shady” (sic).

On the other hand, New York magazine investigated the 9/11 conspiracy fringe a while back and, after initial skepticism, came away not so assured that certain elements of the argument didn’t bear further scrutiny. Hard to tell whether all this comes as a result of people willing to believe anything bad about the government or simple nostalgia for a time when the government, for better or worse, could execute its programs with a nominal amount of competence.