The Politics of 9/11: The activists who claim to speak for the families are not politically neutral.

The Wall Street Journal Opinion Journal ^ | March 10, 2003 | Editorial

[MamaLucci]

....A woman at Fenton who works on MoveOn.org's project, Jessica Smith, also works on Peaceful Tomorrow's campaign. Ms. Smith used to work for the Democratic National Committee and for Al Gore's presidential campaign. We are a long way from the land of political innocents.

What we have, instead, are politically motivated activists standing willingly as a front organization for the Democratic Party. They've traded on the press's reluctance to question their motives, hoping for a free run to impugn Mr. Bush every time he discusses terrorism from now until the election. Peaceful Tomorrows is hardly alone; scratch the surface and many of the other groups and individuals making a fuss have similar ties.

What we have here, boys and girls, is a truly vast, LEFT wing conspiracy.

[doug from upland]

I agree. It has to be above the fold.

[nutmeg]

WOO-HOO! Kudos to you, Doug! This thing is finally getting legs...

[MamaLucci]

....hoping for a free run to impugn Mr. Bush every time he discusses terrorism from now until the election.

Hoping? BS. These lying, traitorous, scumbags KNOW they will get a "free run" from the liberal press.

[Thoro]

Can someone post the full text of the article?

I'm unsure of the policy here in excerpting, but it seems that lately there's been an awful lot of it.

[nutmeg]

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[Minuteman23]

There is little worse than somebody trying to pretend they are being noble, and going against the people who really are. But I guess that's just a part of the definition of "liberal".

[doug from upland]

Finally. It seems like an eternity.

[Burkeman1]

Where do you stand?

[CWOJackson]

Usually to the left and one pace behind my wife.

[Reactionary]

So now we hear the real story from the mainstream press. Now we know that the "outrage" that was parroted on television, in print, was nothing more than a disgusting ploy to use the deaths of innocent people for polical gain.

And who banrolled this overtly sickening media display? John Kerry's radical wife - and by extension his campaign.

The liberal hacks in the press didn't mention that in their rush to display their so-called outrage concerning Bush's television ads. No. They were completely silent about the Peaceful Tomorrows group, preferring instead to represent them as non-ideological and thus impartial.

And John Kerry has the audacity to talk about Bush politicizing the war for his own gain? This was overt politicization of an attack that killed innocent Americans. This was an overt attempt to politicize the deaths of Americans to score a political hit against a political opponent. And the networks and the news media went right along in this sickening sham.

[Burkeman1]

opt out.

[CWOJackson]

Not really, but I'm not sure what stance you're asking about. If you asking about the original post then I believe the President should leave this alone...stay above that fray right now and allow certain elements of the media to pursue it.

Fox News, the news department, not just the talk shows, is doing a pretty good job at digging into some of these things. Talk radio is doing a pretty good job and there are watch dog groups working on it.

The fact that these outraged family members all seemed to parrot the same theme, from their home or different studios, the same day that the commercial first aired, has not been missed.

The fact that this orchestrated effort involves a group funded by the ketchup queen hasn't been missed either.

Let it work awhile. If it starts growing legs the rest of the media will be all over it.

[GOPrincess]

"So now we hear the real story from the mainstream press. Now we know that the "outrage" that was parroted on television, in print, was nothing more than a disgusting ploy to use the deaths of innocent people for polical gain.
And who banrolled this overtly sickening media display? John Kerry's radical wife - and by extension his campaign."

The media have to connect the dots on this as publicly as their "Bush ads criticized" stories -- that Kerry was GUILTY of the very crassness of which he was accusing Bush. Hope the ball will keep rolling on this story.

[Burkeman1]

I lost a coworker on 9/11. It is not something that should be used for political cover. It can be referenced too and intimadated about but don't use the images of that day. It makes it political and it wasn't. Even the Democrats supported the war in Afghanistan and in Iraq and every candidate including Dean has said they would continue to support such war efforts? Why are phoneycons so mad?

Hey- real conseravatives would have wanted their dead to at least have been killed on this continent rather than some idiocy of intellectuals.

[Fledermaus]

Also, these family members parroting this line amount to those related to about 1% of the victims.

The two most prominent on the news shows (the two that are recycled from NPR to CBS to GMA to Today, etc.) say the exact same things in the exact same order as the stump speech of John Kerry.

And they are activists against even the Afghan portion of the war on terror and against all war period! And they work for the same group and it's funded by the Heinz Foundation.

Not too hard to connect those dots. But then those that can't are the same ones that complain our intelligence services and Bush didn't connect the dots leading to 9/11 while OVER connecting the dots leading the battle of Iraq. Of which everything has been proven true except for one (so far): the stockpiles. And since we yapped our gums about how to deal with Saddam's thumbing of his nose to 12 years of UN resolutions and constant violations of the 1991 cease-fire agreement (he would shoot at our jets), he had time (before, during and after the Blix nonsense) to do something with the stockpiles.

So what it looks like now is that he did basically get rid of large stockpiles to be found and instead worked on and completed a diverse "just in time" WMD delivery system. One that could be used on his behalf or others behalf. Only a moron can't see the connection to Lybia and North Korea or even Pakistan.

And only a fool would think Saddam and Al-Qaeda and other terror organizations didn't collude. A complete fool describe to us by Lincoln - the ones you can fool ALL of the time.

Saddam had the capability and was the Dominos of WMD: place your order and get delivery.

But the idiots that don't understand the larger picture just think it's cute we can find more WMD's in Kerry's forehead than in Iraq - for now.

[CWOJackson]

Images of war are never pleasant, but images of war are real...and unfortunately too many people are forgetting that we are very much still at war.

Some people will accuse the President of "using" those images for political purposes, I don't. He is the Commander in Chief of a nation at war.

What I do not like is when opponents of his would solicite campaign volunteers and orchestrate a phony outrage against the President...now that is nothing less then political.

[CWOJackson]

Well stated.

I really don't even care if there were WMD's there or not now. We have sent a very clear and concise message to our enemies that we will not waiver.

We have also sent a clear and concise message to the U.N. and the rot on the other side of the Atlantic.

The liberals don't like either and will stop at nothing to turn things around.

[Burkeman1]

And when Clinton hid behind the "resolutions" of the senate the night before his impeachment and yet he launched "operation Desert Fox" I was extremely wary. But when Bush wages war with no evidence I am supposed to be happy? Are you? Where are the WMD? It doesn't matter because Bush "Freed" them?

To what?

Wanton murder and crime?

That is what Iraq is right now.

That is what Afghanistan is now. What do the Afghanis call our puppet in Kabul? Kharizai? "Mayor of Kabul" for he rules nothing else and the drug dealers and war lords hold sway in the rest of the countryside. Our troops do nothing but stay in their barracks and announce offensives weeks before they happen so we have no casualties!

Same will happen in Iraq. Managed slaughter and we will call it democracy.

[CWOJackson]

Oh, that no WMD thing. No thanks.