Why so much "9/11" hype this year?

[Sebastian Doyle]

It was goddamn unbearable for the first 5 years, with Chimpy cashing in on it in every imaginable way, but after that it seemed to fade in the background. Not forgotten, obviously, but just a brief acknowledgment and then move on.

But this year, it's all over the damn place, courtesy of the whore media. Why, exactly?

Does it have anything to do with the fact that recent polls showed the public support for the occupation of Afghanistan is sinking like a stone, and somebody thought we needed a "reminder of the (manufactured) "reason" we went there in the first place?

Oh, and don't even bother watching the "History" channel tonight.... Nothing but Hearst Inc. produced slanted "documentaries" enforcing the Bush Crime Family myth of what happened that day.

[Tangerine LaBamba]

1. Because it's there -

and people are sheep.

We do love our tragedies, and the gorier, the better. Witness all the monuments to war - not too many to peace, eh?

Give me maiming and blood, misery and pain. There's nothing like recalling that day to make us feel alive and safe. Or, if you're a teabagger, insane, but that's your normal state.

I woke up to something on MSNBC, and flipped. They were - and I've fallen for this before - their newscast from 9/11/01.

Why the HELL would they want to do that?

A nation of ghouls, that's my guess......................................

[Parche]

2. you mean

more of the great documentaries, showing the experts at Popular Mechanics? :sarcasm: :sarcasm:

:hi:

[Sheepshank]

3. I agree that there seems to be an uptick

in 9/11 events and memorials and focus.

I think it's in part to bring back something to the RNC and Reps in general. It was the one time when Bush got a HUGE HUGE spike in his popularity. His attempts to gain popularity by raising homeland security color status (regardless of the current denials) seems to bear out the attempts of the Right to cahs in on 9/11. Given their current lower than sewer level status, it would stand to reason that there is an attempt to have everyone try and remember the good times when the Reps had popularity ratings going in thier favor. Bastards!

[Louisiana1976]

4. Well said--I've noticed an uptick too....

[Brickbat]

5. Frankly, I think there seems to be a little more emphasis in the media because it's the first 9/11

we've had where Bush hasn't been president. It's Obama's first 9/11 as president. NPR made a mention of that and I think there was an interest (fake or legit) in how Obama would mark it. I'm hoping after the 10th anniversary things can finally ramp down.

[customerserviceguy]

6. For exactly the same reason that some people here are sick of it

Reminding people of what happened eight years ago is seen as bolstering the Bush Administration's response to it, and since he and the Republicans are out of office, there's less danger of that, so the news media is free to resume coverage of it without favoring a Rethug candidate.

Let's face it, that incident is tied to Bush's going from "selected, not elected" in the minds of many people, to legitimizing his leadership, and many of us resent it for that. It's spawned more conspiracy theories than anything since the JFK assassination, and it remains a red-letter date in American history.

Let us hope that we can take down the excesses of the Bushco years safely, because if something even a tenth as bad as that happens again, you will see it all over 24/7 in the media as a way to blame President Obama.