The 9/11 Widows

OpinionJournal.com ^ | 4.14.2004 | Dorothy Rabinowitz

[NYC GOP Chick]

Americans are beginning to tire of them.

Wednesday, April 14, 2004 12:01 a.m.

"I watched my husband murdered live on TV. .

[Diver Dave]

I say again: we need our OWN talk show!

Sounds good to me...I nominate you to be the moderator but only if you can overcome your shyness. :)

[kcvl]

By Kristen Breitweiser

Sept. 8, 2003 |

The film "DC 9/11: Time of Crisis," which premiered Sunday night on Showtime, is a mind-numbingly boring, revisionist, two-hour-long wish list of how 9/11 might have gone if we had real leaders in the current administration. This film is rated half of a fighter jet -- since that is about what we got for our nation's defense on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001.

Despite the title, the film only budgets approximately 10 minutes to the actual morning of 9/11. Most of the movie is spent cataloging the myriad cabinet-level debates as to whether to declare "war" against terrorism and how to effectively sell that to the American people.

It is understandable that so little time is actually devoted to the president's true actions on the morning of 9/11. Because to show the entire 23 minutes from 9:03 to 9:25 a.m., when President Bush, in reality, remained seated and listening to "second grade story-hour" while people like my husband were burning alive inside the World Trade Center towers, would run counter to Karl Rove's art direction and grand vision.

Remember the aircraft carrier photo-op? Bush is a man of action; in fact, he is an action hero. Except, of course, when it really counts, like in those early morning hours when this country was under attack and our Commander in Chief was drinking milk and eating cookies with second graders. Can you imagine one of those second-graders years from now when they are asked where they were on the morning of 9/11? They will simply say, "I was sitting with the President reading him a story."

[texasbluebell]

"her husband might have escaped from the South Tower if the facts about the Aug. 6 "PDB" memo had been shared with the public."

I was flipping through the channels tonight and saw Jim Thompson, one of the commissioners on one of the shows with that creep BenVeniste.

Thompson said, "I have to say something that will probably get me in trouble, but I'm going to say it anyway. I've had enough of this..." then something to the effect that the PDB of Aug 6 really has nothing in it, and he's tired of it being hung around President Bush's neck.

[Howlin]

Ann Compton with ABC News looked at her watch when Andy Card came into that classroom and wrote down the exact time: 9:07 a.m.

The New York Times said that Bush left the classroom at 9:12 a.m., and the Tampa Tribune said between 9:39 and 9:16.

Quite simply, she is a LIAR.

[onyx]

I landed on the pavement; and looking at the broken bolt, I just laughed: "All I can say is wow!"



Happy comments from you.
Very good to see.

[nuconvert]

"I'm sorry for their losses, but no way does that entitle them to demand that lower Manhattan essentially be turned into a necropolis on which nothing can ever again be built.'

I agree.

[Howlin]

Now that is funny!

[kcvl]

Mrs. Breitweiser, who was a lawyer

[nuconvert]

BTW - Try the link in # 113

[dougherty]

These Wicked Widows need to point the finger of blame at the man responsible: Osama bin Laden. A part of me thinks they just don't want to fade from the public eye and another part of me thinks they are looking for yet another payday off of their loved ones' deaths. Shut up already people, you are not the only ones to have ever lost a loved one to a tragic death, lots of us have. At least they know why their loved ones died and who was responsible, and despite their wanting to expand their fifteen minutes, they know damn good and well who was responsible. I am sick and tired of these whiners.

[kayak]

A sentence that really jumped out at me from Ms. Rabinowitz' excellent column is this one:

The venerable status accorded this group of widows comes as no surprise given our times, an age quick to confer both celebrity and authority on those who have suffered.

She has put in words something that has bugged me for a long time ... long before the attacks on 9/11 ... that I couldn't quite verbalize.

Why have some in our society decided that certain people, simply because they have suffered a traumatic loss, are authorities on anything about which they choose to speak? All of us have dealt with tragedy in our lives in one form or another. But that doesn't make us special ... it simply means that we are part of the human race.

The media, in elevating these people to super-star status, does not only them a great dis-service (actually using them for ratings and financial gain) but helps to break down the moral fiber of our nation.

I can't help but think of the pioneer women who would see half of their families wiped out by an epidemic or killed by Indians (excuse me, native Americans) and yet they had to keep on trudging. They had to keep the fields tilled, the clothes washed, water hauled from the river ... they had to continue to work if they wanted to continue to live. They didn't have the luxury of becoming victims in perpetuity. They buried their dead and grieved as they carried on with their lives.

The softness of a nation that celebrates professional victims causes me great concern.

/rant

[Howlin]

This is what I got:

[Howlin]

Well, I'll try!

[kayak]

Well said!!! Bravo!!!

[Mo1]

?????

I admit I'm dead tired and that went right over my head

Could ya give me a hint?

[Howlin]

You watch, when you see film of any of these women, they ALL have Richard Clarke's book in their laps!

[daybreakcoming]

Done....both email and fax. Thank you for your assistance with the numbers,etc.

[onyx]

This "thing" is what I got!
Your turn, M2C, what did you get?

[Howlin]

GFP, November 26

This week, 9/11 Victims' Families spokesperson Kristen Breitwieser, became part of a campaign by many 9/11 activists: Breitwieser should replace former Sen. Max Cleland on the Kean Commission.

Among other suggestions: Lori van Auken, Mindy Kleinberg, Patty Casazza (all 9/11 "Jersey Girls"), Eleanor Hill (2002 9/11 Hearings) and Cynthia McKinney.

[Mo1]

Mrs. Breitweiser, who was a lawyer

She's a lawyer???