9/11/01: Where Was George? (Alterman 'Bush-hating' alert)

The Nation ^ | 09/18/03 | Eric Alterman

[Theyknow]

"I don't have the answers to these questions. But why is no one asking them?"

"Because they're dumb."

Who is dumb, the folks not asking?

[Allegra]

Fine. Call the posting police & have me arrested. Until then, chill.

I, for one, think we always need to keep one eye on what the Nasty Ones are spewing. Forewarned is forearmed. This post had the requisite "ALERT" in the title.

As for Alterman...this is just more mounting evidence of how increasingly desperate the Dems are becoming.

[bitcon]

I think Al Gore did too, along with all the RATS.

[A Broken Glass Republican]

Good post. Always good to see how the enemy is thinking.


Alterman and the rest of his America hating buddies think one of two things...

"LIHOP". This stands for "Let it happen on purpose". Meaning, the Bush administration knew something was going to happen on 9-11 (All they knew was that some kind of terrorist attack was gonig to take place) and didn't do anything because they knew it would save his "Sagging ratings".

"MIHOP". This stands for "Made it happen on purpose". Meaning, the Bush administration was in cahoots with those who attacked us on 9-11. (Again, to boost his "Sagging ratings". Of course what goes along with this crackpot theory is that the plane that hit the Pentagon was not a plane, but a missle. Also, fighter jets were told to stand-down when they could have done something.

Either way...President Bush is responsible for the terrorists attacks taking place.

Of course they refer to the Bush administration as "TBFEE", meaning "The Bush Family Evil Empire". Part of this is that the Bush Family and the Bin Laden Family are old friends and have worked together for years.


Freaky stuff. And some of these clowns actually believe this tripe. These America hating scum are ready to lump President Bush in with Osama Bin Laden as far as harming America goes.

Words can't describe what kind of lowlifes these people are.

[Reagan Man]

First off, Alderman is a liberal arse. Nuff said on that.

There was a two hour CBS special on the President's actions and remarks on 9-11. It was hosted by reporter Scott Pelly and recently replayed on The Learning Channel. It was unbiased and a fair and honest documentary that included everone from PresBush, to Condi Rice to Andy Card, to Karen Hughes and many others, giving the blow by blow account of events tied to Presidents entire day.

Excellent documentary.

[Mo1]

And, I do know that memory changes with time. Until I read that sentence, I assumed that we all saw the footage of the plane on the day it happened, and then realized my error.

And that is what this idiot Alterman is hoping many on the left will do .. forget the events as the happened

Oh and the line he wrote about Tent .. he got that from Bob Woodwards book .. just one problem .. it's not the exact quote from the book .. Alterman just spun it to his liking

Bottom line .. Alterman is LYING AGAIN

[MattAMiller]

It is true. It seems to me that Bush meant was speaking about seeing the damage done by the first plane.

[Mo1]

I, for one, think we always need to keep one eye on what the Nasty Ones are spewing. Forewarned is forearmed.

I agree 100%

I don't watching Chrissy Mathews because I like screaming at my TV

I do so to see what lies the Liberals are spewing

[JoJo Gunn]

"This is false. Nobody saw the jetliner crash into the first tower on television until a videotape surfaced a day later."

I'll never forget seeing that piece of tape later that same day, and my rage at that ghoulish CNN for plastering "exclusive" in the top left corner.

[CyberAnt]

He lied in the first sentence - he said there was no examination of Bush's or the admin's behavior on the morning of 9/11. I've seen at least 4 or 5 "examinations" of that morning. The guy is just a sore loser - his book is a total flop - and Ann Coulter's BOOKS have been on the best seller list for weeks and weeks. His personal revenge is so telling .. how small and liberal of him.

[Vladivostok]

why is it so hard to get a simple story straight?

Inconsequential things are always hard to get straight because no one really cares. As I recall, I watched someone walk up to Bush when he was in front of the class of kids, whomever it was whispered in his ear and you could see his eyes steel up - then he spent a short time acting normally in front of the kids while the team wired up a TV in the next room.

Even if my own memory is slightly faulty here - I can't imagine why I'd care - because, as someone else mentioned, I just said to myself silently, "Thank God Gore isn't in."

[JoJo Gunn]

Alteredman is just another dime-a-dozen Leftist microcephalic, who follows the lead of one of his fellow travelers, Richard Cohen. Cohen echoed the same sort of nonsense from the liberal Fax of the Day in this piece back in November of 2001:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A45080-2001Nov5?language=printer

I've said it many times already, but brain dead Leftists will never listen to common sense and logic - if Al Gore had been the President, the same protective rules, (whatever they were), would have been in effect.

I've not held my breath waiting for a representative of the Secret Service, CIA, FBI, NORAD, FAA, NSA, FEMA or whatever government alphabet we haven't heard of come a knocking on my door eager to ease my enquiring mind. I'm not a fantastically mentally disturbed Leftist who wants and expects our secrets to be made public.

[.cnI redruM]

Ted Kennedy tried the Original 'Where Was George' screed at the '88 Democratic COnvention.

The consensus reply was 'Dry, sober and home with his wife.'

[Conservative til I die]

Alternman is consistently one of the most hateful writers out there. True hate.

[geedee]

Hey, Eric . . .

[StriperSniper]

I watched someone walk up to Bush when he was in front of the class of kids

Andy Card.

[onemoreday]

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Yes, but the quote of what he said, which I have seen on the white house web site....reported him commenting that he saw the (first) plane hit the tower and that he thought, "what a rotten pilot." Also, the time ( app. 8:45) was consistent with such an interpretation.

I'd rather see the whole country united behind a plausible story than to see us divided into the "lib/conser" dichotomy here.

Also, as has been noted, the whereabouts of the air force leave questions too real for me to be satisfied that we have some lib-plot on our hands.

[habs4ever]

If only he had a good orthodontist when a young man, could we have been spared all his vitriol....

[RDangerfield]

Pan_Yans Wife: quoting: This is false. Nobody saw the jetliner crash into the first tower on television until a videotape surfaced a day later.
Is this true?

      There was no live video coverage of the first plane hitting the tower at 8:48 a.m.. There couldn't be. French filmmaking brothers Jules and Gedeon Naudet were filming a documentary about a rookie fireman from Manhattan's Engine 7, Ladder 1 company. One of them heard a roar, turned with his camera, and filmed the airplane hitting the first tower. Sometime after noon one of the brothers was able to get back to the firehouse and he released his film to a local media crew.

      However, for some reason, nearly three months later, President Bush made a strange claim at his news conference: Dec. 4 press conference

QUESTION: One thing, Mr. President, is that you have no idea how much you've done for this country, and another thing is that how did you feel when you heard about the terrorist attack?
BUSH: Well... (APPLAUSE) Thank you, Jordan (ph). Well, Jordan (ph), you're not going to believe what state I was in when I heard about the terrorist attack. I was in Florida. And my chief of staff, Andy Card -- actually I was in a classroom talking about a reading program that works. And I was sitting outside the classroom waiting to go in, and I saw an airplane hit the tower -- the TV was obviously on, and I use to fly myself, and I said, "There's one terrible pilot." And I said, "It must have been a horrible accident."

      No one has been able to explain why the president told such a falsehood. He was standing outside the classroom when the first plane hit. But he did not see any such videotape. And Ari Fleischer and others remember that he was first informed by Andy Card, while he was reading to the schoolchildren, as we all saw on TV. His story on Dec. 4 was not an accidental slip, however. He repeated the same story in a press conference a month later. The White House has never responded to inquiries about the president's statement. I wish some day they would. It's strange.
--Raoul

[jd777]

Yes. The first crash is only seen in personal video tapes and photographs. Although, he might have meant he had seen the smoking building which had just been hit. Cameras rushed to the scene within 5-10 minutes. The first collision wasn't seen right away. But maybe he saw the damage it caused.

The real question is why did he sit there reading a story about "a pet goat" to those children after hearing about the second crash? Why didn't he immediately excuse himself and see what was going on? Wouldn't you? That really bothers me more.