In response to Keith Olbermann's excellent 911 speech Rush writes:All right, folks. I think that is revisionist history. This idea that we were all unified on 9/11 is just bunk, and I am going to say it. I don't believe it for a moment. I think that when 9/11 happened, a lot of kooks on the left said, "A-ha! This is how we're going to get Bush. He's incompetent," or they were either saying, "Oh, no! The country is going to come together." You can't tell me that the people who hated Bush ten months earlier over the Florida aftermath, the Florida recount, all of a sudden came together and it was all kumbaya time. I do not believe it."
I'd make the observation that anyone who cannot imagine that those whose politics they disagree with would put country before party in a time of national crisis must themself be someone who consistently puts party before country and sees everything through this same lens.
I actually wasn't worried about Bush before 9/11. I thought he was a funny looking version of his daddy and would act the same way. Bush's "haters" multiplied when he betrayed America by trying to turn it into Amerikkka after 9/11. I was one of them.
ReplyDeleteOxyContin man (Rush) is merely performing the standard "Republican" trick of trying to paint his opponent with the very act of which he is guilty: in this case, historical revisionism.
That frame is, of course, false. If you take the time to read almost any liberal, progressive, or lefty writing after 9/11, you will see that a great deal of animosity was put aside in honor of the horrors of the day.
Our government and media creep ever onward towards becoming the credible equivalents of the USSR and Pravda.
It is sad, but I am optimistic that it will change. America is better than this.
I didn't think I could hate rush more. But now I do.
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ReplyDeleteactually wasn't worried about Bush before 9/11. I thought he was a funny looking version of his daddy and would act the same way. Bush's "haters" multiplied when he betrayed America by trying to turn it into Amerikkka after 9/11. I was one of them.
You know out of all the stuff Bush's done this is the thing that hurts the most. It was a big deal to put aside our personal beliefs and support the guy after the attacks. He could obviously care less. They seemed to actually see this as weakness. It's crazy how unAmerican that is.
I could forgive a lot of stuff but not that.
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ReplyDeleteIt is sad, but I am optimistic that it will change. America is better than this.
I was at the Clinton inaugaration and remember well attending a thing on the mall where Whoopi Goldberg opened by asking "when was the last time you all felt welcome in Washington?"
The crowd erupted.
I agree with you- it'll get better.