Disney's Dubious Path to 9/11

[scaeagles]

Originally Posted by wendybeth

II am really saddened that they have gone to such depths in their desperate attempts to lay this on the liberals and yet again use 9/11 as an election event.

Who is "they"? Disney? ABC? Republicans in general?

Both sides have endlessly played politics with it. No matter what one side does, the other will criticize it. Take tomorrow. No matter what Bush does, the criticism will be immense. If he makes some sort of speech, he's politicizing it. If he goes about his business, he doesn't care. It's the same as with Katrina. He flies over in Air Force One, and the criticism is that he can't really take the time to go see the damage up close, and a fly over can't do it, so he obviously doesn't care. There is no action or lack of action that can be devoid of a spin to make it seem negative or positive, depnding on the desired outcome of the spin master.

There have been desperate attempts to lay it at the feet of Bush, not just attempts to lay it at the feet of liberals, WB. It has gone both ways, no doubt.

[wendybeth]

I expect them to make as accurate a represention of the commission report as possible, if they insist on using the report as their source of information. I also expect them to not take such dramatic license with people's reputations. The dead cannot defend themselves, but the living sure as hell can and I hope the ones who were misrepresented do something about it.

Scaeagles, you and I both know that you would be hitting the roof were this a liberal attempt at historical revisionism- I've seen too many of your posts railing against the so-called liberal media slant to suppose otherwise.

I think that if Bush is smart, he will mark tomorrow as appropriate- a day of remembering the victims of 9/11. Save the posturing and rhetoric for the day after.

[scaeagles]

Originally Posted by wendybeth

Scaeagles, you and I both know that you would be hitting the roof were this a liberal attempt at historical revisionism- I've seen too many of your posts railing against the so-called liberal media slant to suppose otherwise.

No doubt. And everyone here would be downplaying it as me freaking out about nothing, or giving their slant on why it wasn't historical revisionism at all.

The one thing I will give you and everyone else is that if they are claiming the 9/11 report is their source then they should stick to it to the letter. I will say that I do not regard that report as much more than a CYA for EVERYONE.

[wendybeth]

The old 'two wrongs don't make it right, but it damn sure makes it even' argument, eh?

I didn't like it much after the OJ verdict, and I like it even less now. I'd be curious to see where you might show me an example of such behavior on my part, Scaeagles. I truly do apologise if I have ever done so. I am one of those really naive people that usually dislike such things, no matter what the source.