I was walking to the YMCA on Thursday when I notice a vehicle in the parking lot had a bumper sticker that read, "Remember 9/11. The left has already forgotten."
I usually ignore such obviously partisan nonsense but this particularly defamatory one stuck in my craw.
Frankly, I'm not sure how anyone who watched the second plane crash into the tower live on television could forget what happened. Anyone who heard the stories of people randomly flocking to Manhattan just to do whatever they could to help, I'm not sure how they could forget what happened. I watched the towers collapse live on television with a colleague whose aunt lived literally around the block from them; do you think I will forget her hysterical screaming? The moron with the bumper sticker does.
Apparently the images of 9/11 and their exploitation for partisan politics are now private property of the Republican Party.
And I'm also not sure how anyone could forget 9/11 considering Bush and his team mention 9/11 every 32.1 seconds and use 9/11 to justify everything from tax cuts to the Big Brother program to the president's preference for Kleenex (TM) brand facial tissues.
I'm not sure which is more sad: that people would resort to this sort of libelous demagoguery or that many people actually believe it.
2 comments:
Absolutely! You are correct in your assertions.
Greetings, Brian, from a fellow Upstate NY blogger.
I'm compiling a list of UNY blogs..I'll be sure to add yours to my blogroll when I post it.
Jude
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