Posted on 10/22/2004 3:59:21 AM PDT by Entrepreneur
KRISTEN BREITWEISER READIES SENATE BID
The "Jersey Girls" who got so much airtime and fawning attention from the MSM represent somewhere between five and 12 families. HUNDREDS of other families of 9/11 victims have a different view, which was overlooked by the MSM (of course)...
Before Breitweiser was blaming Bush for not preventing 9/11 or reading with children while her husband was dying, she was upset because the money wasn't flowing fast enough to 9/11 survivors. I'm not unsympathetic to her plight, but this wasn't the government's fault. I mean, what if her husband was killed in a mugging instead on 9/10? She claimed that she was unable "to mourn, to exhale (because) since September 11, we've been holding our breath" over money since the government hadn't compensated the survivors for economic and non-economic damage...
Families of Terror Victims Anxiously Await Unveiling of Federal Aid
Read the transcript from her Hardball interview and you can see how she transferred her loss and grief into animosity towards President Bush and the entire administration, believing that 9/11 could have been prevented...
Kristen Breitweiser On Hardball - Transcript
She led the Jersey Girls protest that Bush was exploiting 9/11. As Dorothy Rabinowitz noted in the Wall Street Journal, people were growing tired of the Jersey Girls...
The 9/11 Widows Americans are beginning to tire of them.
I feel for her and for everyone who lost someone on 9/11 or in Iraq or any other time. It seems clear to me, however, that this is a very bitter woman who started blaming the president to overcome the cognitive dissonance over losing her husband senselessly.
She is rarely quoted blaming the terrorists. In this, she has the classic liberal mindset (i.e., don't blame the criminal, blame society or the gun or the GOP). She appears to be driven by emotion over reason, though this might not be fair, given the experience of losing a loved one.
Nevertheless, if anyone is exploiting 9/11, it's Breitweiser. Appearing in the Kerry ad, for example, is pure exploitation. Claiming that the 9/11 Commission found that Americans are less safe is an out and out lie. Claiming that because of the 9/11 Commission, she decided to back Kerry is inconsistent with her earlier statements that the Republican National Convention convinced her to support Kerry.
I could go on. All in all, I feel sorry for her.
BTW, I don't feel sorry for her anymore. She a willfully ignorant menace.
Good find. Nevermind that it's old news. That's why we're blogging away, to inform each other. Thanks.
Maybe Christopher Reeve's widow will compete for the seat in the primary. I don't know which is worse: Heinz Kerry golddigging or those who use death and disability for political opportunism. The latter category includes Carnahan from Missouri, the Wellstone family, and Sarah Brady.
Nothing like using your deceased husband for political gain. Geez.
What she does need is a time out so she can begin to think rationally about her loss. IT is WRONG to use her loss as a club to pound the lefty's agenda. I can't believe she sat through the hearings and wound up like this.
I wouldn't be angry if she was up to speed on national security issues as she claims to be. But she isn't. And the info is out there. And she chooses to remain ignorant.
There's no way to know whether she really voted for Bush in 2000, but it should be possible to discover what party she and her late husband registered under that year. I'd take serious odds it wasn't republican. If they were indies, she may yet pull this off; if they were dems, she's got a lot more 'splaining to do.
Well, unfortunately for Ms. Breitweiser and Lurch, the truth is out there. And not everyone is choosing to wear blinders.
It's only her word that she voted for Bush...and seeing her track record, that staement is very suspect.
I christened them the 9-11 Hags during the 9-11 Kangaroo Commission and I stand by it more each day.
If she's serious about the Senate seat, her biuggest problem will be the NJ Dem primary...with all the shenanigans there the last few years..Torricelli, Lautenberg..McGreevey..will Corzine step down to run for Gov..there are abotu 2 dozen NY Dem pols who've be waiting for their chance..i.e. Menendez...and the entire NJ Dem house delegation wants to get out of the House ..they won't just step aside for this lady...
I don’t presume to speak for the widows and the widowers from 9/11, but I have spoken with more than a few and they would like to point out to everyone that this dim bulb doesn’t speak for all of them. How many are endorsing Kerry; 4 or 5?? Well The ones I’ve spoken with do not want Mr. “terror is a nuisance” as their president. They are backing Bush but only wish he would do more.
I seem to recall a Gail Sheehy article in Vanity Fair about a year or so after 9/11 on the "Jersey Girls" in which Breitweiser mocked her dead husband's Republican politics. I think she's been a Demo all along, despite her protestations of having "voted for Bush". If someone could find this article, I seem to remember it directly contradicts her current statements.
They will if the Dem establishment tells them to do so. But Breitweiser, as far as I can see, is just another disposable useful idiot. And after the election, she'll disppear down the Dems' memory hole and won't be able to get anyone to even take her phone calls.
Here is what I have been waiting for. It took less long than I thought.
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