BBC helping Russell Brand sell his new book, hes open minded about conspiracy theories surrounding 9/11 terror attacks. Russell Brand caused outrage today after he admitted being ‘open-minded’ about whether the United States was behind the 9/11 attacks and asked: ‘Do you trust the American government?’ The comedian, 39, told BBC’s Newsnight he believes there is an ‘interesting’ relationship between the families of former US president George Bush and Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden. He was pressed by presenter Evan Davis on comments in his new book, Revolution, because in it he describes the 9/11 attacks on the Twin Towers in New York as ‘controlled’. He said: ‘We have to remain open-minded to any kind of possibility. ‘Do you trust the American government? Do you trust the British government? What I do think is very interesting is the relationship that the Bush family have had for a long time with the bin Laden family. ‘What I do think is very interesting is the way that even the BBC report the events in Ottawa to subtly build an anti-Islamic narrative. I think that’s very interesting.’ He then appeared abruptly to change tack, saying that he did not want to discuss ‘daft’ conspiracy theories. Twitter users were a mix of bemused and upset over his comments. Brand has courted controversy over 9/11 in the past and was sacked by MTV after turning up for work dressed as Osama bin Laden on the day after the attack that killed 3,000 people. In his autobiography he described being around colleagues on September 12 as: ‘And there’s me standing beside them, still dressed as Osama bin Laden. I thought: “It don’t get any better than this.” In the tense interview last night Brand said the BBC ‘shamefully sabotaged’ the Scottish Referendum for the No campaign and Mr Davis he was ‘mates with like CEOs and big businesses’ and spent time ‘cosying up’ to London mayor Boris Johnson. When Mr Davis pressed him about his views he shouted over the presenter: ‘Mate, I don’t want to follow you down blind alleys about silly administrative quibbles.’ At one point Mr Davis pleaded: ‘I’m trying to take you seriously.’ Davis then tried to show the actor a graph showing wage levels in Britain, but he responded: ‘I don’t want to look at a graph mate, I haven’t got time to look at a bloody graph.’ After the show Twitter users started sending graphs to Brand to rib him over the outburst. He replied: ‘Cheers for the graphs.The 5 richest families in UK have as much money as the poorest 12 million people. Do us one for that’. It was Brand’s second appearance on Newsnight after a now notorious interview with Jeremy Paxman, where the comedian said he had never voted because he regarded politicians as untrustworthy and irrelevant. The multi-millionaire also said that ‘profit is a dirty word’, in response the the Prime Minister who said it wasn’t.
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