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now has been diagnosed with bronchitis possibly caused by chemicals from 9/11 blah blah...
OMG! Bronchitis after NOT being killed in a massive terrorist attack! What to do! Sue! Complain! With this kind of attitude she'll be coming down with a headache as well... sheeesh.

now has been diagnosed with bronchitis possibly caused by chemicals from 9/11 blah blah...

NOW she has bronchitis. The article fails to mention how long she's had it. Since the beginning? Since last September? Since February? Since last week? You'd think the timing of the onset of this chronic condition would be a crucial nail in Bush's coffin, wouldn't you?

I had a nasty case of bronchitis this winter, too, and so did a lot of other people. Since it seemed to be contagious, I assumed it was caused by the usual thing: secondary infection from a real bad cold.

Gee, if I only lived a few dozen blocks further to the south, I could be portrayed as a victim on NBC too...

Google is my friend.

She's been coughin' since 9/11, she says.

But does anyone besides me think it's VERY ODD that NBC failed to mention that Kathryn Freed was City Councilman for that district on 9/11? And a community & environmental activist? I mean, she was featured on the national news, and they made her look like just another resident of the neighborhood, when she was actually part of Nadler's Ground Zero task force...

But Councilwoman Kathryn Freed, whose district includes the site and who now has bronchitis, hammered away at the agency heads to look at the cumulative effect of even low levels of toxins in the air. (Nov. 2001)

Too many people who have never had respiratory problems in their life are now coming down with full-blown asthma," Freed said. "We need an agency that will listen to us, that will try and deal with our problems. The same kind of massive dollars and movement that you saw to deal with the destruction of the World Trade Center we believe should now be used to try and answer our health questions."

Jan 2002: "I have a hunch that they unfortunately probably should have evacuated most of us and kept most of us away for quite some time, and they obviously decided that they couldn't do that economically. But I'm afraid that we may find out, as we get older, that we are paying the cost of their rush to normalcy," she says.

So much for her "influencing people to stay"...