Why do Righties think they fucking OWN 9/11?

[arbusto_baboso]

First of all, it was a national tragedy. It affected us all. Second, even though they've politicized 9/11 to high heaven (yes, I'm looking at YOU Rudy Giuliani...), they scream bloody murder every time a Dem - progressive or not - makes any kind of refeernce to *their* sacred icon.

The latest manufactured controversy is O'Liely bringing on guests who say that Obama is treating 9/11 like "it's no big deal". Where the fuck did they pull that from? On the other hand ScumRush is stating that he resents Obama using his visit to ground zero today to "call for national service". HUH?

They're trying to have it both ways again. They're completely insane.

[RandySF]

1. Becuase

It's their excuse for starting wars, kicking out immigrants and stripping us of civil liberties. It's their carte blanche.

[Junkdrawer]

Do you think 9/11 was easy?

That was hard work.

[Xenotime]

29. True. It was thier finest hour.

[alfredo]

2. They do own it. It happened on their watch.

[bobbolink]

27. Best possible answer!

:applause:

[TK421]

31. You beat me to it.....

[sohndrsmith]

33. Thank you for saving me posting the same. It amazes me that

no one has really pulled out a publicly acknowledged consensus that this was a massive FAIL of those in office (because it happened on their watch). How they are able to glorify and market it to their advantage is actually both slimy and amazing at the same time. If nothing else, these guys have such a bulletheaded narrowmindedness in such numbers that they succeed in making it work for them.

Shame on us (people who actually think for themselves) for not making it harder for them to do such hypocritical posturing...

Maybe, no?

[alfredo]

43. It's called Chutzpah.

[sohndrsmith]

44. Ha! Actually, I would use a less flattering term to describe it... but point taken. : ) n/t

[alfredo]

45. Not all definitions are flattering. Context is important.

[sohndrsmith]

46. truly... n/t

[alfredo]

49. Think of the worst definition, then picture a look of disgust.

[louis-t]

Because they DO own it. Lock, stock and barrel.

Asleep at the switch, warned repeatedly, looking the other way. I hope this coverage reminds people who was in charge when it happened.

[The_Casual_Observer]

3. They do own it. bush, cheney, rumsfeldt, powell,rice sat on their ass

all year while warning after warning was ignored.

[Cheap_Trick]

4. It's their Christmas

That's why I made them a card.

[Ozymanithrax]

5. It was their screw up...let them think they own it. That does not make it so.

But it is the surivors of the dead who own it as symbolized by the earth where the bodies of their loved ones will not rest because those bodies were not recovered. It is the firefighters and police who breathed toxic fumes and suffer to this day that own it. It is the soldiers, both alive and dead, who were sent to war and suffer for that sending who own it.

[man4allcats]

6. Why not?

Their people planned it.

[polichick]

7. It's the biggest FEAR CARD. nt

[TxRider]

8. One would think Rush would be behind national service...

Wanting to have it both ways indeed...

[gratuitous]

9. It would be crass to ask to see a receipt

Let's just take their word for it that they paid for this.

[Libertas1776]

10. For the same reason

that Conservative hick jobs in Bumble Scum, Montana and Moosejaw, Alaska think that 9/11 had a greater, more profound effect on them, than the godless, liberal elitists living in NYC and Washington. And that reason is insanity.

[July]

36. THANK YOU.

I live 20 miles from "Ground Zero," and people in my town and all the towns nearby lost citizens in the 9/11 attacks. My family and I aren't cowering in fear, but my rightwing relatives in Buffalo -- 400 MILES from NYC -- are so glad that Bush "fought them over there so they don't have to fight them over here."

The right wing point of view on 9/11 is a classic co-opting of a significant event in almost all Americans' lives. So many of them have no skin in the game, but they see this terrible tragedy as an opportunity to score political points or to feed their freaking childish fears. People who live here, and everyone else who lives in reality, see 9/11 as the tragedy it was and do not live in fear of the boogeyman, despite that awful day.

[G_j]

11. gee, it did happen on their watch, I guess they do own it

the responsibility for it, that is..

[ixion]

12. For the same reason they think they own patriotism, etc

because they're reptilian-brained neanderthals.

[FatDave]

40. Neanderthal may be giving them too much credit.

Lizard-brained for sure though.

[valerief]

13. Well, their kind let it, made it, allowed it to happen. nt

[xxqqqzme]

14. It allows then to wear

flag pins made in China.

[Apollo11]

15. Let's not forget, Glenn BecKKK hates the victims' families.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hf33g9ep4YU

[ShortnFiery]

16. Like spoiled children, the right believes "it's all about them." eom

[Hasnt Happened Yet]

17. Did I miss it or were Dubya and Cheney AWOL today?

I didn't notice where they were invited to speak at any events today. Dubya's probably in a corner drooling somewhere.

[Swede Atlanta]

18. Well in a way they do....

They own the fact that on their watch, despite credible warnings from the security agencies, they let the attacks happen. So yes they own the death, destruction, pain and suffering of that day. They also own the costs of the Afghan War in terms of dollars, lives, etc.

But no they do not own it as a political shroud in which to envelop themselves like they do the American flag. In fact they should be denounced for this because clearly they didn't love America very much if their own man let (or helped) this tragedy occur.

Remember to them Right = Wrong, Black = White, Truth = Lie, etc. They live in an opposite world.

[DailyGrind51]

19. THEIR President allowed it to happen!

[BlooInBloo]

20. Um, they think they own the entire country.

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

21. Because Ann Coulter and Laura Ingraham said so

And who should question those two geniuses?

[eShirl]

22. Because they have no doubt they are god's chosen ones,

[Zorra]

23. Since their guys helped plan it, there's two possible reasons:

1) LIHOP

2) MIHOP

They totally own 9/11.

"In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way."
Franklin D. Roosevelt

"New Pearl Harbor"

Section V of Rebuilding America's Defenses, entitled "Creating Tomorrow's Dominant Force", includes the sentence: "Further, the process of transformation, even if it brings revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event––like a new Pearl Harbor" (51).<13>

In his appearance on Democracy Now!, theologian David Ray Griffin, author of The New Pearl Harbor: Disturbing Questions about the Bush Administration and 9/11, explains the allusion to "the New Pearl Harbor" from the PNAC report in the title of his book, which argues that PNAC members within the Bush Administration were complicit in the 9/11 terrorist attacks.<37>

Further information: 9/11 truth movement and Controlled demolition hypothesis for the collapse of the World Trade Center
Though not arguing that Bush administration PNAC members were complicit in those attacks, other social critics such as commentator Manuel Valenzuela and journalist Mark Danner,<38><39><40> investigative journalist John Pilger, in The New Statesman,<41> and former editor of The San Francisco Chronicle Bernard Weiner, in CounterPunch,<42> all argue that PNAC members used the events as the "Pearl Harbor" that they needed––that is, as an "opportunity" to "capitalize on" (in Pilger's words), in order to enact long-desired plans.<43>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_for_the_New_American_Century


"When the Towers came down," William Rivers Pitt writes in his editorial in Truthout.org, "these men saw, at long last, their chance to turn their White Papers into substantive policy."<[br />

[DFW]

24. They love 9/11 because it was the best thing that ever happened to them

Al Qaeda was the single biggest contributor to George W. Bush's 2004
election campaign. Without 9/11, all Bush would have had was a sinking
economy and deteriorating relations with just about every country on
the planet that wasn't us. Not even Diebold would have rescued him from
that. Bin Laden did.

[NecklyTyler]

25. Bush knew and the planes ...

Oh, nevermind:grr:

[bobbolink]

26. How could you forget.. they are the ONLY patriots.

:puke:

[avaistheone1]

28. Because they own the flag, patriotism, apple pie and just about everything else.

:sarcasm:

[stray cat]

30. some DUers claim 9-11 was nothing because people die elsewhere - maybe thats why?

[JBoy]

32. They own 9/12 too.

[Bolo Boffin]

34. They're willing to give us 9/10.

But seriously, I think it has to do with cognitive dissonance. They've been carefully taught to consider liberals as unAmerican, and they don't like thinking that we're all Americans in the end. So claiming 9/11 means liberals aren't American anymore, and they can go back to hating.

[CocoaBeachCoco]

35. What they don't own is 9/10, dear, when they could have prevented it!

[UTUSN]

37. K&R #4 for, PATAKI was *DISGUSTING* last night (about 9-11) n/t

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

38. 329 foreign nationals died in the World Trade Center

including, dare I say it, 3 Frenchmen, 1 Russian, and 1 Venezuelan. It was more than a national tragedy. It was an international tragedy. And yet the right wing tries to treat it as its own personal, private GOP fiesta.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_September_11_attacks

[Jennicut]

39. AND it happened in New York City. And killed a lot of people on the East Coast.

People from NY, NJ, Mass, RI, CT. They hate this area of the United States...the bastion of liberalism. F*ck them.

[FatDave]

41. Very early on, didn't Bush say that he wasn't going to use 9/11 as a political football?

If not Bush, then Cheney or Rumsfeld or some other high-level motherfucker. I remember it so well, because I was reminded of it every time they exploited the greatest tragedy in American history for petty political gain.

[Raine]

48. "LIE" the word of the week. nt

[Ilsa]

42. They mourn these losses, but want to send someone else's kids to go

die to fight people who didn't do 9/11 to us.

And remember how they were about the soldiers dying in Iraq when we were losing 100 a month? They compared it to the number of deaths in a major city's backstreets. But then every death on 9-11 is somehow more sacred.

[Raine]

47. It happened on their watch they should "own it" cause

they did nothing to prevent it. :mad: