Tony Bennett: "We caused" Sept. 11 attacks

AP ^ | 20/9/11

[Eleutheria5]

CBS) While promoting his new album of duets, "Duets II," on Howard Stern's radio show, Tony Bennett made the assertion that the United States was responsible for the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, D.C.

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"They flew the plane in, but we caused it," Bennett told Stern, according to the New York Daily News. The "they" in his statement is presumably terrorists.

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[lonestar]

I like it...as far as jazz singers go! Let the recently departed RIP.

Any Winehouse was a jazz singer....big admirer of Dinah Washington and Ella Fitzgerald...I always thought she was a rocker, because of the drugs.

[jonrick46]

Tony has been living too long on the unicorn farm in a fantasy world.

[Dr. Scarpetta]

It’s getting harder and harder to escape liberals. Now we have to hear this from Tony Bennett.

I have liberals in my family, and it causes tension. Recently someone in the extended family told me she watched one of obama’s speeches and agreed with EVERYTHING he said.

[raccoonradio]

Perhaps after being informed by his agent that his comments might lead many to NOT buy his albums or see him in concert, he has rolled out am “I’m sorry if people mis-interpreted what I said” type of statement (kinda), acknowledging that terrorism
is bad and so is war (hello? If you hate war, admit that they did an unprovoked attack on us)

His facebook is full of comments, many of which are fans who support him. Some say screw you and/or “freedom of speech means others have the freedom of speech to disagree with
you” (as the Dixie Chicks found out)

[SoldierDad]

This morning it was reported that Tony issued a written statement apologizing (sort of) for his comments. Too damned little, too damned late Tony, you liberal cretin.