R i g h t a r d i a: 9/11

Monday, December 28, 2009

Mary Matalin falsely claims "Bush inherited" 9-11 attacks and recession

The 9/11 attack occurred 8 months after Bush was inagurated and Bush received warning of the impending attack. 9/11 was not an intelligence failure: it was a political fialure.

There was a brief recession in March 2001, but it only lasted three months and it also occurred during the Bush presidency. The US had not had a recession since 1991 when George HW Bush was president.

See http://mediamatters.org/research/200912270001 for the complete story.

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Monday, August 24, 2009

Conservatives upset that 9/11 will no longer be 'a day of fear'

You might think that President Obama and Congress designated Sept. 11th as a "National Day of Service" in order to commemorate the people who lost their lives in the terror attacks of 2001, and the spirit of volunteerism that followed.

But Matthew Vadum has a different view. In an article for the American Spectator titled "Obama's Plan to Desecrate 9/11," he says he knows what is really happening:

The Obama White House is behind a cynical, coldly calculated political effort to erase the meaning of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks from the American psyche and convert Sept. 11 into a day of leftist celebration and statist idolatry.

This effort to reshape the American psyche has nothing to do with healing the nation and everything to do with easing the nation along in the ongoing radical transformation of America that President Obama promised during last year's election campaign.

The president signed into law a measure in April that designated Sept. 11 as a National Day of Service, but it's not likely many lawmakers thought this meant that day was going to be turned into a celebration of ethanol, carbon emission controls, and radical community organizing ....

The plan is to turn a "day of fear" that helps Republicans into a day of activism called the National Day of Service that helps the left. In other words, nihilistic liberals are planning to drain 9/11 of all meaning.

"They think it needs to be taken back from the right," said the source. "They're taking that day and they're breaking it because it gives Republicans an advantage. To them, that day is a fearful day." ....

It's really not worth spending much time debunking this -- Vadum did a fine job of making the story totally unbelievable all by himself -- but it probably is worth noting that victims' families had been asking for just this kind of day since 2003.

I would imagine the right wing would want to see marching militias, armed men and women walking the streets, 21 guns salutes, fighter aircraft fly overs and fascist rallies that would make Dick Cheney smile. Perhaps we could even lynch a few terrorists.

I would imagine even Vadum could come up with some sort of volunteer work that wouldn't "desecrate" 9/11.

Yes, that's the ticket. We need to make sure 9/11 remains a 'day of fear.'

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