Pundits Expoit 9/11

The liberals don't miss a beat. On the 5th anniversary of the September 11th attacks, liberal members of the press bring out tired arguments against the President.

Of course, the truth was anything but. Even on Day One, some of us -- too gently, in hindsight -- wondered about Bush's strange behavior on the actual 9/11, flying from remote airbase to remote airbase while Dick Cheney was running the show. Quickly, it because clear that any doubts about our commander-in-chief were flat-out forbidden. At least two journalists were fired for writing such stories. For example:

Tom Gutting, city editor for the Texas City Sun was fired in September 2001 after writing a column in which referred to President Bush as a "scared child seeking refuge in his mother's bed after having a nightmare" for not returning to Washington DC immediately after hearing about the attacks on September 11th.

The tone was set at the very top, when White House press secretary Ari Fleischer said famously that "[t]here are reminders to all Americans that they need to watch what they say, watch what they do, and that this is not a time for remarks like that. It never is..."

Not to be outdone, the Right Wing bloggers bad mouth their villians.

For one day can we just stop attacking the other side? Just for one day can we reflect and mourn our losses? I guess not.

Posted by psugrad98 at September 11, 2006 05:42 PM | TrackBack