Perhaps if ABC and the rest of the MSM is so concerned about reality, they could show the Twin Towers falling..........but of course that might just feed American's un-justified distrust of Arabs and other CRIMINALS (like the Mexicans, perhaps) who are in our country NOW.
Perhaps if ABC and the rest of the MSM is so concerned about reality, they could show the Twin Towers falling
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Listening to a talk show host this morning say "nine eleven" I was struck by the lack of force those words evoke. "Pearl Harbor" brings to mind the images we have seen so many times of (albeit black and white) planes bombing our ships and airfields in Pearl Harbor.
Since "nine eleven" or "nine one one" has a previous meaning to Americans --- call for help--- it does not have the punch of stimulating our resolve to crush the terrorists, but rather of making us feel helpless, in need of outside help.
Those numbers have become a shorthand to refer to the attacks of that day, but we need to refer to what happened on September 11 more forcefully. Some people use the word "tragedy of 9/11" -- again a weak, passive word. It was the Attack of Muslim Terrorists on New York and the Pentagon.
If Americans saw images on a regular basis of the Towers falling or of people falling out of the Towers, our antiAmerican media would not be able to shape public opinion into the apathy that so many feel now.