Posted on 09/10/2002 7:45:05 AM PDT by oldvike
John Leo has an excellent point in his column, "Rage Is Not the Rage." He's exactly right. There just isn't enough anger and rage out there associated with the anniversary of September 11th, and there is way too much memorializing and wallowing yes wallowing in victimhood.
I discussed this in length in my third hour monologue on Monday, which started when a caller asked if the EIB Network will follow the lead of many in the rest of the media and run commercial free on September 11th. We will not. The EIB Network will not do what everybody else is doing and will not participate in the over-memorializing of September 11th. You can hear it all in the audio link below as well as my response to another caller in which I reveal my reasons for rejecting an interview request from NBC on 9/11.
Following that third hour monologue, somebody sent me an e-mail with a great line: Too many people in this country have season tickets to Oprah. This guy could not be more right. We are just so overly sensitive these days that we don't even have the ability to be righteously angry at what's happened to us. Instead, we're struggling to understand those who did it. Well, that's easy to understand! I stopped giving a rat's rear end about understanding them when they started killing us. When they start killing us, then that's war.
I don't understand why there's not more anger about this. I think we're patting ourselves on the back too much, I think there are too many American flags being waved around, I think there are too many ceremonies going on, and it's all too morbid. That attack on 9/11 should make us angry, and spur us on to action, not make us sad and introspective.
Rush's impassioned hour 3 monologue on 9/11 memorials
Rush reveals his reasons for rejecting an NBC 9/11 interview to Jackie
Rush agrees with a caller named Lily, who is sick of 9/11 tributes
I'm with Rush, the constant 9/11 tributes we've seen over the past year seem to be nothing more than "pity-parties". I thought it was great for he first few months, but now it's just constant and neverending victimhood on parade. Let's move past the mourning stage and on to the anger/action stage.
Flame suit on!!
September 11, 2001 needs to be avenged, not memorialized.
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For my part, I plan to avoid watching any of the televised proceedings. I completely agree that there's too much victimhood and not enough anger. It's time to kick Saddam's Butt and get revenge.
My tin-foil theory is that the leftists want to saturate the masses with plastic flag patriotism so that come September 12, everyone will try to put all of this flag waving nonsense behind them and move on with important things like the Kyoto treaty and calling Bush a moron.
For the most part I agree with you. However, there is a small minority of people (people in the media and politicians) who have turned memorializing 9/11 into a religion (I believe that jacka** Norman Mailer said something similar a few days ago....I can't believe I'm in agreement with something that prick said). I am not exagerating when I say that at least once a day I hear somebody in the media say that "ground zero" is "holy ground".
Don't get me wrong, ground zero is a special place, but it ain't the Temple Mount. I will view the WTC site no differently than I would the site where the USS Arizona now lies...it's now a part of our history and a reminder as to why we must never give up the fight to maintain our freedoms.
They have a perverted admiration for the hijackers. They want to remember the event because it is deeply just to them.
They don't want us to be outraged and go after the Islamists. They want us to feel sorry for ourselves, even guilty for bringing 9/11 on ourselves.
For them, Mohammed Atta is a revolutionary who did what was "necessary."
These people are traitors in the worst way. Their heart is always against America, no matter how vile and evil the band they must ally themselves with.
But they control every aspect of mass media except talk radio. So tomorrow, shut off the television and don't open the newspaper.
Those in charge of these outlets aren't just remembering a dreadful day, they are memorializing and celebrating the hijackers themselves. Tomorrow belongs to Osama Bin Laden and Mohammed Atta as far as the media moguls are concerned.
That is one party I am not going to.
We've had 365 days to plan a military strike on terrorist states who still pose a threat to us. LET'S ROLL.
I'm gonna do exactly what Rush has suggested....go to work and continue my normal routine.
Empires usually collapse from overextension. This just might be the first empire in the history of the world to simply cry itself to death.
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