The pain of 9/11 isn’t a picture of them as they were or as they were burning to the ground but it is the empty space of them on the Manhattan skyline.
I love New York City. I lived in New York in the late eighties and was a bike messenger for a while. The towers were a like a light house while I was in the non gridded part of downtown were I could look up and get my bearings where I was while I was on my bike. I look at the space where they were now and it just pains me. Sure, it isn't a fresh pain but a numb spot where I feel melancholy and anger that this part of the skyline was blown out of the city on 9/11. I felt this pain while looking at the backdrop of the screen in St Paul, the empty space of the towers and the Manhattan skyline. In front of that image was the sneering, condescending Giuliani up on stage. Taking a page from Joseph Goebbels’ playbook on propaganda and using it to a crowd of Republican sheepeople.
It takes a Machiavellian mind, like Giuliani, and his minions, to manipulate that nightmarish day and use it to there own political gain. I expect no less from an opportunist like Giuliani though. He certainly isn’t the only hack among the Republicans to manufacture consent towards their agenda by using 9/11 as a tool to do so. He won’t be the last either.
UPDATE: I missed this when it was aired at the convention. I read about it on a blog and I have gotten this clip through the Internet. This clip reinforces my point and Keith Olbermann can't restrain himself by vocalizing what many watching this live on TV must have been thinking at the time. If you missed this, what the clip and Olbermann's comments afterwards, you be the judge.
6 comments:
totally agree with you! Glad to see Oberman spoke his mind.
As an aside, I thought it was thought it was really thoughtless of the facilities people at work to test the evacuation system at work on 9.11. People are still feel very raw...
The republicans had every right to play that video. Every American should be reminded of the pain they felt on 9/11. If Americans remember that pain it will keep them focused on our goals as a nation. To often do we forget why we fight. Americans who lost a love one will live their lives in pain. They do not have the option of turning a blind eye on the events of 9/11. No American should turn a blind eye to include future presidents.
My objection in using 9/11 as tool manufacture consent towards ones political objects has already been stated. Using Americans "pain" to achieve ones political "goals" is exactly what I am objecting too. I am not advocating turning a blind eye to an event of what a cabal of psychopaths perpetrated on our nation’s iconic landmarks. If that is what you got from this entree you have missed the point I was attempting to make.
The government’s first obligation is to protect its people. Any good politician should convince the American people they will not allow 9/11 to happen again. McCain showed the 9/11 video to tell the American people that he is extremely heartache by what happen that day and he is a president that will protect the people.
I have watched your updated clip of the 9/11 tribute and Keith Olberman's response to this clip. I must say that I absolutely disagree with Keith Olberman and your response. I do remember exactly where I was on that fateful day. I was in spanish class my junior year when the first plane hit. I had moved to Trig/Pre-Calc where we turned on the TV and I watched the second plan crash into the other tower. This invokes anger in me that this was allowed to happen. That the defense agencies were not working together to stop this heinous act prior to it being perpetrated on our nation. It angers me that from the time George Bush took office and settled in during those nine months that his administration did nothin. I am much angrier that the President Bill Clinton during his eight year tenor also did nothing. Even knowing that Osama Bin Laden was a major threat he took miniscule action at best. He shot several missles here and there but made no real effort to stop this man. He was to interested in the overweight interns who were working in the White House to worry about the nations security. I am also disgusted that Al Gore was briefed about Osama Bin Laden claimed that he was unable to pronounce his name and did not deem him a threat to our nation. This policy of doing nothing during the Clinton/Gore years left our nation vulnerable to attack. George Bush fell in on this mess that a democratic party left him and has taken the blame for allowing this to happen to our nation, and for having the backbone to stand up to these terrorists who want nothing more than to kill us for no other reason than we disagree with their religion and their ideals. Those who beleive we should pull out of the middle east and bring our troops home are exactly the ones who need to be reminded of what has happened on that fateful day. They are the ones who have forgotten that we are here because we were attacked. We are not the ones who have committed atrocitites on their soil on their people. It was our nation and our citizens who wer brutally slaughtered that day. You may have also forgotten that George Bush had first demanded that the Taliban hand over Osama Bin Laden. You may also have forgotten that they refused, they would protect him as long as he kept paying them. You may also have forgotten that it was not an immediate invasion of Afghanistan. The invasion of Afghanistan did not occur until the first week of October. We gave them the chance, a chance that so many were not given on 9/11. Also maybe you forgot that unlike the movies on 9/11, there was not ransom nor were there demands. There was only murder, Americans blood ran in the streets of New York, Washington D.C., and Pennslyvania that day. These Americans who want us to pull out, they are the ones who need a reminder like this as they have forgotten. They want a quick war, the K.O. in the first round. Unfortunatly that is not possible and we have to keep fighting. We can not pull out now because that would be forgetting. That would be the first step in a long line of forgetting. It means we have forgotten 3000+ Americans who died on 9/11 and the 4000+ Americans who have died in the war on terror. A war I might need to remind you that was not started by George Bush, but by Terrorists who fired the first shot. I also think that Americans need to know that they will have a leader who will not allow this to happen again. I don't think it was tasteless to use 9/11 as it is an issue. Anyone who thinks otherwise has already taken the first step towards forgetting that day. They don't want to be reminded because they have already started to forget. I challenge you to describe to me as well what the Democratic Party has done for this nation to protect it since 9/11. What steps have they taken but to sit on the sidelines and wait for the Republican Party to take action. Then to criticize what was done, after it had taken place. As we all know hindsight is 20/20. It is so easy to look back on what has been done and see what went wrong. It is difficult to take action though when it is unknown what will actually work. Please tell me though, what have the Democrats done, besides vote to invade two nations who regimes harbored terrorists, besides stand by and let George Bush's administration take the blame for showing the world that this nation will not allow anyone to harbor terrorists that threaten our nation. What is it that Barack Obama is planning to do to make sure that an attack of that magnitude will never happen again? What is he willing to do to make sure that nations do not harbor terrorists and provide support to those that would cause us harm? Will he talk to them? Will he negotiate with them? Is that how he plans to stop people who don't want anything from us, except to see us dead?
Also I just wanted to point out that you have forgotten to let cpoi know he spelt Olberman's name wrong as another poster, whom you attacked for spelling his name the same way did.
YEA!
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