Webloggin » NY Times Editorial Remembrance of 9/11 – More Crap from a Crappy Newspaper

NO SHAME The New York Times published its 9/11 memorial editorial this evening on their website in advance of tomorrows print copy. I read it with a bit of wonder and fascination. Not for the editor’s words of wisdom or for the sophisticated heart felt homage to the victims that a memorial is supposed to be. No, I was fascinated that the editors at one of the nations biggest newspapers do not understand or care that a memorial essay is not the time or place to launch a politically motivated invective against your political enemy.

We have seen this done by the left before. The Paul Wellstone memorial, the death of President Reagan and the much anticipated countdown to the 2000th service member killed in Iraq. Each of these events became campaign stops for liberal supporters of the Democrat Party who have no shame when it comes to opportunistically preying on other people’s pain for political gain.

Thus I was fascinated, but not surprised, by the lack of professional journalistic integrity displayed in the New York Times editorial that was simply titled, 9/11/06.

I was not surprised that paragraph one comes off as a plea to reserve blame for “the inevitability” of 9/11. This was to be expected after the left made so much of a fuss in their rush to silence debate and sequester the ABC mini-series, the Path to 9/11.

“The attacks themselves have begun to acquire the aura of inevitability that comes with being part of history. We can argue about what one president or another might have done to head them off, but we cannot really imagine a world in which they never happened, any more than we can imagine what we would be like today if the Japanese had never attacked Pearl Harbor.”

This statement in support of not pointing fingers would be fine if it wasn’t itself a transparent attempt to direct people’s feelings away from what they might be thinking after watching the mini-series. The “not pointing fingers” meme may also be appropriate if the people asking us not to point fingers weren’t actually the ones who were pointing fingers in the first place.

It took less than 4 paragraphs for the person who wrote the NY Times editorial to launch into an anti-Bush missive that should make most professional journalists at the paper blush for being associated with such rubbish.

It was a time when the nation was waiting to find out what it was supposed to do, to be called to the task that would give special lasting meaning to the tragedy that it had endured.

But the call never came. Without ever having asked to be exempt from the demands of this new post-9/11 war, we were cut out. Everything would be paid for with the blood of other people’s children, and with money earned by the next generation. Our role appeared to be confined to waiting in longer lines at the airport. President Bush, searching the other day for an example of post-9/11 sacrifice, pointed out that everybody pays taxes.

That pinched view of our responsibility as citizens got us tax cuts we didn’t need and an invasion that never would have occurred if every voter’s sons and daughters were eligible for the draft. With no call to work together on some effort greater than ourselves, we were free to relapse into a self-centeredness that became a second national tragedy. We have spent the last few years fighting each other with more avidity than we fight the enemy.

I don’t even know where to begin with article. How myopic does one have to be to miss the stupidity of these statements; especially a person from the New York Times? This newspaper single handedly attacked every single sacrifice that the Bush administration asked the nation to make from foreign surveillance of suspected terrorists phone calls to common sense profiling of potential terrorists at train stations, airports and public places. The economy was on shaky ground when President Bush came into office and even shakier ground after 9/11 and yet this person attacks tax cuts that may well have been responsible for keeping us afloat and bringing us to numbers that are very similar to the lefts much vaunted numbers under Clinton.

This bleeding heart liberal who cares about the blood of children sounds like he is pining for the good ole’ days of Saddam Hussein’s mass graves.

Imagine the shallowness of a person who opines with such manufactured outrage that he scolds the President for not calling the nation to work together despite the Democrat knife in the President’s back every time he made such a gesture to do so. The self centeredness that the New York Times editors proclaim as a second national tragedy is one of their own making; and they continue to fan its flames inappropriately here in their memorial to the victims of 9/11.

You can read the rest of the New York Times editorial here. Me, I prefer to look forward with hope that people like those represented at the New York Times become relics of a time that has passed them by.

Memorials to the 9/11 victims can be read here at the DC Roe 2,966 Memorial.

By all means, I urge everyone to read Peggy Noonan’s eloquently stated, I Just Called to Say I Love You. Her commemorative is a truly heart felt tribute that will leave you speechless, sad and proud to be an American; that is how it is done by true professionals.

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