With the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on America just around the corner, the folks at CNN in Atlanta have announced that,as part of their 9/11 anniversary coverage, they intend to rebroadcast their actual on-air coverage from that fateful morning to the exact minute five years later on 9/11/2006. This airing is scheduled to take place on their online platform called "CNN Pipeline."
Normally, I am not a fan of CNN for several different reasons....not the least of which is their blatently one sided presentation of material on a wide range of subjects and even more blatent attempts at times to rewrite history so it better serves their underlying liberal agenda.
But this time, I believe that replaying the actual video of planes flying into the World Trade Center Towers, the subsuquent attack in Washington and the coverage from the farm in Pennsylvannia where United Flight 93 went down will be powerful enough by itself that any accompanying CNN "present day" commentary will be barely noticed.
Another reason that I feel that this an excellent move by CNN (I can hardly believe I just said that) is that in the five years following the attacks, much has been said and written about those attacks. Much of what happened on that day has politicized and seemingly commercialized with numerous documentaries, movies, and primetime tv dramas that have chosen to include the events of 9/11 as part of their storylines.
The re-airing of these events, on the anniversary in real time, will no doubt be painful for many. At the same time though, it will re-enforce the fact that 9/11 was a real event. A real attack on America that affected real people in real ways that so many of us have never experienced. It, I believe, will remind those who watch that the underlying issues still exist and the people who hate western society and America in particular are still out there. Hopefully, it will remind Americans with any common sense whatsoever that terrorism and terrorist are not problems to be treated as politicalweapons but as a human problems that need to be dealt with in an honest, straightforward, bipartisan manner. Because in the end the events of 9/11 and any future similar events effects everyone.....not just liberals or conservatives. Hopefully, Americans will pay attention to this history lesson from an unlikely source.
5 comments:
I am so tired of conservatives WHINING about the "liberal media" - actually the media is Conservative!
Let's see so Liberal CNN gave non-stop coverage of the Monica Lewinsky scandal to help Clinton? Yet, all the many Bush lies just get a one day 2 minute clip & then are quickly forgotten.
ANY TIME Bill Clinton got caught in some rumor they covered it & covered it. But, Bush just gets away with stuff. Perfect example was when Kerry did one thing PERFECT in the debate -> He called Bush on his B.S. he told quoted Bush saying "Bin Laden dead or alive" & then a few months later Bush said "he doesn't think much about bin laden"...Bush responded with a smirk "I don't remember saying that, guess that's another exaggeration". Yet, right after the debate they played a video tape of bush & Kerry quoted bush 100% correctly. Also bush made fun of Kerry logging company comment bush said "wanna buy some wood" - again Bush lied/or didn't know what he was talking about & Kerry was right.
If you want to see REAL BIAS - watch Fox News! CNN reports the truth - they are not biased! I think anytime a conservative hears a reporter say something that is not the opinion of Rush limbaugh they assume they must be a liberal! LOL.
To educate yourself read Al Franken's book on Rush "Rush Limbaugh Is a Big Fat Idiot", & his book "Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right".
Anyway on to the 9/11 comments:
I just hope everyone knows by now that SADDAM did NOT do 9/11 - BIN LADEN did it! NONE of the terrorists were IRAQI! Most were Saudi!
Now, of course I don't want any Americans to die from another terrorist attack, Hell I don't even want any Americans to die from health problems - that's why I support health insurance being provided to people by the govt. You know no one has to PAY for police insurance or military defense insurance - why health? I'm more likely to get sick then attacked!
Keep this in mind when you speak of "people who hate western society and America" - too many of those don't just hate us because of our Constituion, morals, traditions, religions, or freedoms. Many hate America because of the HORRIBLE things our govt. has done throughout history. http://www.isometry.com/usahate.html
Here are 5 things in history that the USA has done that might get some mad:
1. Ethnic cleansing of native Americans
2.Massive war crimes in Vietnam war
3.Embargo of Cuba but not China or Saudi Arabia
4.Removal of the freely elected democratic government of Chile by the CIA
5.Support for Iraqi war crimes and weapons of mass destruction
Yes people need to pay attention to history!
Al Franken is a TWIT. (and you can spell that with different vowels!) Mark, you are right on the money. I am so happy to live somewhere I don't have to rely on CNN for news!
Monday August 28, 2006 - 09:33pm (EDT)
Oh, please...did this guy just fall off the turnip truck? First of all, comparing Bush's efforts to protect our country from further attack to Clinton's philandering in the white house is absolutely absurd. Let's not forget that ole Bill LIED about it to protect himself. "I did not have sexual relations with that woman". Of course it was covered by the media constantly. Our whore of a President was on the verge of being impeached for his kinky cigar habits. What a total embarassment to this country. While we are at it, let's not forget that if he had finished the job in Iraq the first time we might not be there now. Please.
When will people learn to look at the big picture and not sound bites that are misquoted or misrepresented by people like Hillary Clinton and John Kerry, both of whom constantly stick their foots in their mouths and say things that demonstrate just how stupid they really are. George probably wasn't worried about Bin Laden. Think about it. He can't really accomplish a whole lot while he's hiding in a cave somewhere hooked up to his portable dialysis machine.
Anyone who thinks that we went into Iraq just because of 9/11 is about as bright as a dead firefly. We are not retaliating for 9/11. We are fighting global terrorism. There WERE weapons of mass destruction. Funny how that little fact was just sort of overlooked even though the proof was finally doled out for the public to see. The media just sort of glossed over it and we continue to hear Bush lied. He hasn't lied about anything and WMD isn't the only reason we are in Iraq. There are so many reasons to have gone into that country. Mass genocide, harboring terrorists, funding terrorism, diverting money that should have gone to help the citizens, war crimes...you name it. People can sit around and yell we went in there under false pretenses all they want but I know what progress has been made for the people in Iraq. All the media reports are the bad things that happen. I talk to the men and women there who tell me what good people are there and how they are so happy we are there to help them. All people want to dwell on are the bad things that happen there but they don't take a second to consider the opportunity that awaits the formerly oppressed people of Hussein's evil regime. Stabilizing that country will be the best thing we can accomplish to thwart terrorism and build a central location in the middle east for furthering democracy and a more human, modern way of life.
The problem is that no one "gets it". No one understands that there are horrible people out there that are hell bent on destroying anyone unlike themselves. These people are flocking to Iraq to do their part to further Islam by sabotaging our troops and their fellow man...isn't that convenient? Seems to me that us being there just shows that G.W. Bush might just be a little smarter than anyone gives him credit for. Let them go someplace away from the homeland where we can deal with them without putting our citizens in the middle of it. Let them come to us while we pick them off little by little. Hmmmmm...what a concept.
Monday August 28, 2006 - 06:56pm (PDT)
If there were no weapons of mass destruction then how did they commit genocide on their own ppl years prior?...answer: chemical weapons were used!
...yep, you wanna see my pictures of it? I got video feed if you like to see the clothes in tack with skin and meat gone under socks shoes and face gas mask! mask still in tack and sock and clothes still in tack..but skin and faces and under clothes eaten away like maggots got inside them! Oh thats rt, maggots were inside them soon after...i got pics wanna see em? Bush saw them too...So are you saying there were no chemical weapons (mass destruction)in Iraq and then when they decided to attack the usa they first got rid of the really bad weapons?...ahahahrofl.
Just dropped by to say hello and have a good one Marc...jd
Tuesday August 29, 2006 - 04:46am (BRT)
Well stated. Anytime you attract the kooks you did a good job.
Hugs
Donna
Wednesday August 30, 2006 - 10:00am (CDT)
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