Only to clear thinking people apparently as the media slobbers all over them to "get the truth!"
In this post Timeout does some investigating, then writes a letter...
I just wrote this email to the Washington Post ombudsman:
I became curious about these 9/11 victims criticizing Bush's ads. So I spent all of one hour on Google and found out quite a lot about their politics...information that was never mentioned in articles and interviews. Surely your reporters have better search resources than I do. Paul Fahri's WashPost article sympathetically quoted Rita Lazar and Kelly Campbell. Would readers have been interested to know that both women were arrested, with other 9/11 family members, at an anti-war, anti-Bush rally in Washington in March,'03? The Post reported their arrests.
Lazar appears on a website called "Republicans Not Welcome" whose purpose is to organize protests at the RNC convention in New York. Both women are active in "Peaceful Tomorrows", a politically active 9/11 group with funding ties to the Heinz Foundation through the Tides Center for Western Pennsylvania.
Lastly, in Paul Fahri's article he described the political button the 9/11 families wore at last year's protest: "They wear U.N.-blue peace-sign buttons with the vertical line of the peace symbol rendered as the twin towers".
An unbiased press might at least have been curious enough to do the basic research I did. Especially when the info is in its own archives.
I know he reads his email....wait-and-see time.
110 posted on 03/06/2004 8:51:56 AM EST by Timeout (Down with Donks!)