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Geller on Sadam's hideout

I certainly hadn't seen it; good catch. It's sad that all Geller has to do is make a wacky statement and the press still run with it as a "cat stuck up tree" type story. Perhaps they don't realise the weight that they lend people like Geller by just paying him any attention at all, and by using the usual "all viewpoints are valid" neutral reporting angle. "Humanities graduate" syndrome strikes again. I suspect most care little either way, and fall either into the "casual sceptic" or "keep an open mind" category.

When they say "critics say" that he just uses tricks, they mean "po-faced closed-minded killjoys say". It's all a bit of fun, blah blah yackety-schmackety. Hack journos are the life-support machine for Geller's career!
 
Geller makes an unsupported claim. What else is new?

Hans
 
Good grief, will this clown not give up?

I love the 'I worked for the CIA during the cold war' schtick he's used in this one, a brilliant move on his part since it both validates his wild claim that they used remote viewers to find Saddam while at the same time lending him an air of mystery which is completely unprovable.

Interviewer: "There's absolutely no evidence you worked for the CIA in any capacity, Mr Geller"

Geller: "Of course there isn't, it was all top secret! You'll never find the evidence, they'll see to that."

Interviewer: "Go away."
 
The entire story boils down to a single sentence: "Celebrity pyschic Uri Geller says the US military used a clairvoyant to find the Iraqi leader."

Even Sky News should feel ashamed of themselves for running this 'story'.
 
When they found Saddam, all the spoons in my home mysteriously bent!
 
Maybe Uri or his mysterious pals can find O.Bin Laden. He has a nice price tag on his head. I think Uri's specialty is finding suckers to rip off though :)
 
Jimmy Hoffa
Glenn Miller
Amelia Earhart
Lord Lucan
Osama Bin Laden
Flight 19
Crew of the Mary Celeste
Judge Crater
D. B. Cooper
The Princes in the Tower

And many, many more! Sing along with me to the recently update Simon & Garfunkel classic: "Still missing after all these years..."
 
it is on another thread - where a suggestion was made that Geller be sent to Iraq to use his mystical powers to cloud mens' minds or whatever to find the remaining Saddamites still in hiding. With lots of publicity. and with no military support (his mystical abilities will allow him to evade bad guys and teleport away if they get too close. I like that!!
 
Errm?

http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/12/15/sprj.nirq.saddam.reward/index.html

In recent days, U.S. officials pulled in former Saddam bodyguards and members of Tikriti families close to his regime for intense interrogation. Information extracted from one person led to another and then eventually to the former Iraqi leader.
Click to expand...

Edit to add: How dumb are these reporters, If the first hit of the first serch I type into google gives me this story?
 
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This morning I looked at the News Desk on an MB, catching up on the items there, and one of them said, "Pyschic 'spotted' Sadam". This might look all right, and your brain will have corrected the typo, but my screen reader, which reads faithfully everything there, read 'pisschick' instead!
 
I'm not sure that this deserves a whole thread, but I'd never seen it before:

www.zem.demon.co.uk - a Uri Geller "bibliography".

This email in particular interested me - Geller as mentalist.

This one is along similar lines (the bottom half).

It makes you wonder how many claimed psi types are actually "undercover" professional mentalists. Ian Rowland's book hints at this too.
 
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Coincidentally, a friend phoned me today to say that she went to a show by Uri Geller just recently where he did some of his trademark spoon bending.
 
Sure they used a clairvoyant. The clairvoyant told them they'd find Saddam "near the ground" and also "I'm seeing rocks".
 
I love how every single time someone refuses to comment or declines an interview, the reporters have to make it seem ominous or evil, sometimes with clips with evil music in the background of their decline and those stupid lines like "the people have a right to know!" and so on (which is false, the press has freedom to report whatever they can get ahold of but that does not translate to the entire populace having a right to everyone else's data with or without their consent).
 
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