"CHARLIE SHEEN: So we published it online and we let it kind of marinate for about 20 minutes before we added, the following didn't actually take place, but we're hoping one day that it could or that it might. So we did let, kind of, the hysteria build a little bit that people thought, holy hell, man, did Sheen and Obama did this thing actually happen? Because we didn't want to prejudice it with it being a work of fiction right from send. It was a little bit of a manipulation, but so what?"
"He called me and I said, hey, thank you!' And he's like, yeah, that thing that you and your buddy wrote, that meeting you're looking for, never gonna happen,' Sheen said. Those were his words. Never gonna happen. I said, well, that's a shame because it really should.' He said, yeah, alright, good luck to you, have a nice day.'"
Charlie Sheen collaborated with InfoWars founder Alex Jones and in 2009 published a fictional 20-question interview with President Barack Obama centered on 9/11. The interview was left unlabeled as fictional for about 20 minutes to let public reaction build, intentionally prompting controversy. Sheen described allowing that brief deception to create 'hysteria' and attention. Sheen recounted receiving a call from then–White House Deputy Press Secretary Bill Burton, who told him a sought meeting was 'never gonna happen' and declined the request, ending the call curtly.
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