Hero 9/11 Firefighter Defends Bush Ads

NewsMax ^ | 3/5/04 | Limbacher

[Tumbleweed_Connection]

Hero New York City fighter Mike Moran, whose words of defiance against Osama bin Laden helped rally the nation in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, said Friday that he finds President Bush's campaign ads invoking the attacks "inspirational."

"I think they're inspirational," Moran told number one radio host Rush Limbaugh. "They remind me of how lost I felt on 9/11," explained the hero smoke-eater, whose brother John, also a firemen, perished when he rushed into World Trade Center Tower Two to rescue stranded New Yorkers that day.

"Seeing on the news when George Bush went down to the Trade Center to put his arm around that firemen - the words he spoke - they were inspirational," Moran told Limbaugh. "They made me feel like, wow, this isn't just going to be another terrorist attack where we sit back on our a - - - - and do nothing."

Moran criticized family members of other 9/11 victims who have complained about the ads, saying, "It's nothing less than slimy." He said too many Americans seem to want to forget some of the images from that day that appear in the Bush ads.

The famed fireman also weighed in on rebuilding efforts now ongoing at Ground Zero, saying he'd like to see the Towers reconstructed just as they were before, with one modification.

"I think we should build them bigger, the same way . . . . [but] name one tower Mecca and one Medina, and [announce] that as long as those towers are standing those cities will stand," he told Limbaugh.

Moran rose to national prominence five weeks after the attacks, when he mounted the stage at Paul McCartney's "Concert for Heroes." As the show was being telecast worldwide, he spoke the words that resonated with Americans from coast-to-coast:

"All I can say, on behalf of my brother John and the twelve members from Ladder 3 that we've lost ... and all the people from my neighborhood, my hometown, Rockaway Beach, Queens, New York - our friends, our relatives, our neighbors, they are not gone because they are not forgotten."

Then, in one of the most memorable lines to come out of the disaster, Moran added:

"And I want to say one more thing, in the spirit of the Irish people: Osama bin Laden, you can kiss my royal Irish a - - !"

[martin_fierro]

I'm sure he'll be interviewed tomorrow on the Today show by Katie Perky. Not.

[Sunshine Sister]

If I were Moran, I wouldn't be caught dead being interviewed by her perkiness.

[cateizgr8]

I think we should build them bigger, the same way . . . . [but] name one tower Mecca and one Medina, and [announce] that as long as those towers are standing those cities will stand," he told Limbaugh

I love it!!

[Scannall]

That's great. Maybe he'd consider moving to Arizona and running for Congress?

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1091531/posts

Dan

[GailA]

IF some one knows how to resize it please do so.

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[Born Conservative]

[CWOJackson]

"If I were Moran, I wouldn't be caught dead being interviewed by her perkiness."

I think it would be the other way around. I'm sure Moran would love to tell her what he thinks of her and her kind...and I'm sure she knows it.

[Sunshine Sister]

Upon second thought, you might be right!

[Republican Red]

I wish Bush-Cheney'04 campaign would get this great man to do campign ads for them.

He would be a knock-out to the Dem's 9/11 coached "families".

[GreenLanternCorps]

Wasn't John Moran a Freeper?

[CWOJackson]

I'd like to see Moron do some ads for the President. Contrast the man who lost friends and family on 9/11 standing up and defying bin Laden, and that prissy lil' bit@@.

Could you image how average people would compare the two.

[petercooper]

I may just dig out my VHS copy of that concert and watch it. I taped it live so the booing of Hill and Bill are still on it. When Miramax or whomever released it - they edited out all the boos. The bastards

[GOP_1900AD]

"OBL, you can kiss my royal Irish a$#" - right on!

[Timeout]

I did some research on these 9/11 family members.

Bush 9/11 ads: Who are these angry 9/11 victims?http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1091695/posts?page=1

Check it out. Add any info you have....like: who are the women who've been appearing on TV complaining about the ads? I don't have their names.

[NYCVirago]

Gee, I wonder why Mike Moran hasn't been interviewed by the lamestream media about this. Could it be it's because he supports President Bush? Nah, that couldn't be!