THE 9/11 WIDOWS Americans are beginning to tire of them (REWIND 4/14/04) by Dorothy Rabinowitz

WSJ Opinion Journal ^ | April 14, 2004 | Dorothy Rabinowitz

[beaversmom]

"I watched my husband murdered live on TV. . . . At any point in time the casualties could have been lessened, and it seems to me there wasn't even an attempt made."

--Monica Gabrielle

"Three thousand people were murdered on George Bush's watch."

-- Kristin Breitweiser

No one by now needs briefings on the identities of the commentators quoted above. The core group of widows led by the foursome known as "The Jersey Girls," credited with bringing the 9/11 Commission into being, are by now world famous. Their already established status in the media, as a small but heroically determined band of sisters speaking truth to power, reached ever greater heights last week, when National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice made her appearance at a commission session--an event that would not have taken place, it was understood, without the pressure from the widows. Television interviewers everywhere scrambled to land these guests--a far cry from the time, last June, when group leader Kristin Breitweiser spoke of her disappointment in the press, complaining to one journalist, "I've been scheduled to go on 'Meet the Press' and 'Hardball' so many times, and I'm always canceled."

No one is canceling her these days. The night of Ms. Rice's appearance, the Jersey Girls appeared on "Hardball," to charge that the national security adviser had failed to do her job, that the government failed to provide a timely military response, that the president had spent time reading to schoolchildren after learning of the attack, that intelligence agencies had failed to connect the dots. Others who had lost family to the terrorists' assault commanded little to no interest from TV interviewers. Debra Burlingame--lifelong Democrat, sister of Charles F. "Chic" Burlingame III, captain of American Airlines flight 77, which crashed into the Pentagon on Sept. 11, did

[beaversmom]

Members of a support group of September 11 widows, from left, Mindy Kleinberg, Krisiten Breitweiser, Patricia Casazza and Lorie Van Auken, pose in New Jersey, Thursday, May 16, 2002. Some relatives of September 11 victims, like Breitweiser, are seething over revelations that President Bush got advance warnings, not shared with the public, that Osama bin Laden's terror network might hijack U.S. planes. Breitweiser said she became convinced shortly after the attacks that U.S. authorities mishandled clues that could have helped avert the carnage. (AP Photos/Daniel Hulshizer)

'After 3,000 people were murdered on his watch, it seems to me that that takes an awful lot of audacity. Honestly, it's in poor taste.' - Kristen Breitweiser, with her husband's ring.

[beaversmom]

Dennis Prager mentioned this article today on his show and I thought it was worth a redo since the Jersey girls are in the news again.

[beaversmom]

Original thread from 2004

The 9/11 Widows
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1117185/posts

[OldFriend]

Total disregard for the hundreds of firefightters EMS and police officers who rushed into the buildings to help rescue the people inside.

The pathetic audacity of these wicked widows is remarkable.

[hsalaw]

'. . .Honestly, it's in poor taste.' - Kristen Breitweiser, with her husband's ring.

And if anyone knows "poor taste," it's the Jersey Girls.

[Mo1]

Many seem to forget what the Jersey Girls have said and done

I haven't

[mrsmel]

Exactly, screw these women and the mockery they make of all the people who lost their lives trying to rescue others,screw them standing on the graves of innocent civilians going about their lives that awful day,to advance their politics.

[Darkwolf377]

The paragraph that, to me, says it all:

One can only imagine how a broadcast of the warning, "Watch out for Middle Eastern men in line near you, as you board your flight," would have gone down in those quarters of the culture daily worried to death about the alleged threat to civil rights posed by profiling and similar steps designed to weed out terrorists. Consider, a veteran political aide mordantly asks, what the response would have been if John Ashcroft had issued a statement calling for such a precaution, prior to Sept. 11.

[Kenny Bunkport]

The pathetic audacity of these wicked widows is remarkable.

Liberalism is a mental illness AND a spiritual pathology.

[JerseyDvl]

These hags are a joke and elicit no sympathy as they are pimped out by the looney left and drive-by media.
Since when has the first amendment been only for Democrat traitors?
I would call them B*$#@es but don't want to insult female dogs.

[queenkathy]

That's right. The world was so different before 9/11. I can't even imagine what the left would have said if the terrorists had been pulled aside that day and searched. Oh my..they would have found a box cutter? Was that even legal on a plane then?

I don't know about that. But I do know that the same people griping today, would be griping about Pres Bush then too. They're being used by the dems and don't even know it.

[mrsmel]

And there are undoubtedly at least some families with right-leaning politics who lost loved ones that day,but I don't know about them,because they're not out using such a terrible situation to advance their politics. Of course,the Left,which likes to pretend that these "ladies" are so unassailable because of who they are,would do a u-turn so fast you'd smell the burning rubber if people from the conservative side did so-they'd be accused of tastelessly "grandstanding. The hypocrisy of the Left strikes again.

[Darkwolf377]

If Bush did these things and 9-11 were prevented, we would see the same people bitching now MOCKING the idea of an attack on the WTC using...BOX CUTTERS?!

Saturday Night Live would make a laughing stalk of the President, with a skit with crazed Christian Fundamentalists trying to take over planes using those little scissors kids use.

Bush would have been booted out in 2004 and the MSM anchors would say "The accepted wisdom is that this administration's claims that it prevented a major catastrophy not from nuclear weapons, but from common household objects, began the descent. But it was its Orwellian spying tactics that..." etc. etc. etc.

[Darkwolf377]

stalk = stock

[CAWats]

That's right. The world was so different before 9/11. I can't even imagine what the left would have said if the terrorists had been pulled aside that day and searched. Oh my..they would have found a box cutter? Was that even legal on a plane then?

Anything short of a machete was legal.

[Kimmers]

"Liberalism is a mental illness AND a spiritual pathology."

I really like that a lot.

I am sad for all the deaths caused by these terrorists on 9/11 on ideas long formed before GW got into office.

How is the death of their loved ones any more tragic than than loved ones lost in non terrorist related event on the day of 9/11 or those lost before or after 9/11.

[vetsvette]

"Oh my..they would have found a box cutter? Was that even legal on a plane then? "

Actually, yes. There were rules pending for a couple of years that would have outlawed them, but they were never implemented as Tom Daschle's wife, a high priced lobbyist, succeeded, with more than a little help from hubby, in holding them in abeyance.

[mrsmel]

I suppose that one-for-one,n a personal level,they're not,but just like people have a reaction to the souls lost on the Titanic,when countless lives were lost in maritime disasters or "man overboard" situations,that no one knows about or talks about,it showed our vulnerability when we thought that we were pretty impregnable. It's shocking. Everyone I know was shocked at the picture of planes demolishing the WTC,and people who just minutes before had been going about their lives in a "business-as-usual" way,being killed in such an unspeakably nightmarish way,or having no decision to make except whether to stay and die or jump and die. It was just horrific and shocking,and should have brought this nation together for the long term,and it's also shocking that it didn't.

[OldFriend]

Wonder what the broads think of the fact that the airlines paid off clinton/bore not to implement the hardening of the cockpit doors on all domestic airlines.

If that had been done, there would have been no 9/11.

Guess that little bit of corruption in exchange for campaign donations is immaterial to the hatred raging thru these creatures.

[PhillyRepublican]

People have been sick of these women for a long time. But the Media will continue to try to force feed the public with their drivvle, especially since Coulter's book. The media will try to extend the Jersey girls 15 minutes of fame some more.