Look at What They've Done (Anna Quindlen Alert)

Newsweek ^ | Issue of 6/3/02 | Anna "Weepy" Quindlen

[GeneD]

The site is as tidy and anonymous now as a hospital room after the patient has left, or died. The slabs of pale concrete look like the beginning of something, not its end, as though at any moment workers, whistling, carrying lunch, will begin to raise the girders and frame the walls as workers have done in New York City for as long as anyone can remember.

It does not look like a mass grave. It does not look like a crime scene. It does not look like a historical site. It is all of those.

[GeneD]

Honest, what will Anna do without the Oprah Book Club?

May I make a suggestion? Click on the link or visit the Newsweek or MSNBC site to look up this column. Scroll to the bottom and the MSNBC Viewers Top 10 poll ("Would you recommend this story to other viewers?"). Click on "1" -- "not at all." I know it doesn't mean anything, but at least you'll feel better.

[weikel]

Oh god I hate Anna Quindlen and Tom Oliphant more than any other columinists.

[hobbes1]

Even more than Mo Dowd, Frank Rich, Anthony Lewis and Paul Krugman ?????
(The Four Whoremen of the Leftist Apocalypse...)

[weikel]

Yep they are worse.

[dead]

Boy, the anti-capitalist luddites are going to be all over the redevelopment effort.

I'll bet Anna would like to see a marshy bird swamp down there, or a giant swing set made from melted guns. Or just a big open pit as a tribute to America's folly in not being sensitive to other peoples of some color or another.

At least she managed to eek out a column without mentioning the fact that she is a mother for the eighteen thousand billionth time.

[weikel]

Anna Quindlen is the avatar of the evil, emotion before logic, commie, soccer mom goddess.

[dead]

Not a fan, huh?

Me neither.

[dead]

Are we a people so pinched of heart that we would trade memory for real estate? If so, the terrorists really have won.

If I have to read one more trite emotional cliché from this silly typist, then the terrorists really will have won.

[weikel]

Its all about heart to her stupid liberal soccer mom followers never about the head.

[Cyber Liberty]

Good Lord...that woman's gotten even uglier over the years. She's hit every branch on the way down off the Ugly Tree.

[Armando Guerra]

She's hit every branch on the way down off the Ugly Tree.

LOL!

[fourdeuce82d]

Bugger Quindlen, and bugger the terrs & islamo-facists. Michael Moore had a similar panty twist over wall street workers going back to work immediately afterward. He's an idiot- this is a conflict between civilization and barbarism, and one advantage we have is our ability to create things of value, and generate wealth. Every transaction, every bit of profit, every investment is thumb in the eye of those who would bring us down. Whatever we build should exhibit that same defiance.

I want something that says "phooq you 'till you bleed- WE AINT QUITTING"

I want the goat humping scab chewers to bang their heads in fury at how we bounce back- I want to rub their chancre covered faces in what we can build, in how little we have learned whatever lesson they were trying to teach us-

"Is that it? Is that all you got, oh boinker of little boy's bottoms? This is what civilization builds, this is what a free, capitalist country can do, you off whose chin have bounced the testes of many donkeys. My dog leaves works of greater arhictectural splendor & beauty than anything you and yours will ever build, oh copraphagous laver of syhplitic lesions..."

They are offended by our grandeur? They perceive our success as arrogance?

Let's do everything we can to make them choke on it. I mourn the victims, but let's avenge them by showing the pus guzzling little maggots how little they can really hurt us, and how quickly we can bounce back.

Let's build FOUR towers- screw this moping about.

[AmishDude]

If Anna Quindlen continues to write, then the terrorists have already won.

[linn37]

people are out of work in NYC because of this attack lets not pile it on them by taking all those acres and let them sit idle. Put them back to work thats a slap in the face to Osama and all the Osama wannabees

[driftless]

I can't believe she wrote an article without mentioning abortion rights and how they were under attack by crazed Christian conservatives who want to turn back the clock. I guess I should reread it to make sure. Quindlen is Susan Sontag lite.

[dead]

Great rant! The perfect antidote to this weepy herbal tea sipping mopefest.