The 9/11 Widows

OpinionJournal.com ^ | 4.14.2004 | Dorothy Rabinowitz

[NYC GOP Chick]

Americans are beginning to tire of them.

Wednesday, April 14, 2004 12:01 a.m.

"I watched my husband murdered live on TV. .

[kcvl]

ROFLOL!

You were just the last person that posted when I decided to post that. SORRY!

[nutmeg]

They're on Hardball right now!!!!

Geez, AGAIN?! What, are they a nightly fixture there? I'll take a look, got to call it a night soon, though...

[Mo1]

I don't know if they would have made it out because there were a whole lot of people that were trying to get out and many were trapped

But I'm thinking .. I'd start walking

[YoSoy2]

"C-SPAN has Bush's speech on again."

C-Span ain't no friend of the president. That's why they're showing the speech again. Trying to diminish, discredit and demean the president.

[Fracas]

A lot of this prolonged handwringing is a result of years (and years!) of Oprah. Every day, every show...a victim of something...a tearful confession...a sobbing 'I'm soooo sorrrrry'....

Millions of American women have been brainwashed by this tripe. They have morphed grief into a public display of 'can you top this'.

Donahue...Oprah...Dr. Phil...

Gag me with a spoon.

[CyberAnt]

LOL! I was wondering what I did to deserve that!

[CyberAnt]

I'm boycotting Hardball.

[Howlin]

Well, so was/am I.........but I couldn't help but watch tonight to see what he said about Bush.

And Chris AND Fineman were VERY complimentry about Bush.......said they actually saw humility in him.......nothing bad at all.

[GeorgiaYankee]

The Conspiracy Theory loons love Breitweiser!

There's even a 911 Skeptics Blog. One quote there really cracked me up!
http://911skeptics.blogspot.com/2004_02_01_911skeptics_archive.html

Referring to the time allowed for the 911 Commission:
"During last week, even Aaron Brown on CNN, called the refusal to extend the time unconscionable.
However, i recognised a slight anti-bush touch on CNN lately."

CNN, a "slight anti-Bush touch" HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Must be a Brit (the "s" in recognized)
Don't read too much of this crap, it'll melt your brain!

[kcvl]

Kristen Breitweiser

At 32, with a head of unruly, sun-tinged curls and a shy smile that can instantly grow wide as the surf, Breitweiser still appears very much the beach rat she was while growing up in the Shore town of Manasquan.

Though her father, John L. Winterstella, got involved in local government when she was a toddler and has been the town's mayor since 1984, it would be a mistake to assume his daughter inherited his civic-mindedness; too many interrupted family events over the years had soured Kristen on politics and government.

After graduating from Rutgers, she earned a B average and a law degree from Seton Hall Law School in 1996, with an eye toward doing criminal work. But she wound up getting sidetracked into family law, and just three days into her career at a firm specializing in divorce, she quit the profession, finding it corrosive to her psyche.

She needed to find a new direction, and, fortunately, she could take her time finding it. The summer of her bar exam, she'd started dating Ron Breitweiser, a rising money manager from Rutherford, and five months later they eloped to a secluded Caribbean island.

By the time Kristen quit her job, she and Ron had settled into a spacious house in a verdant corner of Monmouth County near Sandy Hook, where she tended a garden and indulged her sartorial preference for blue jeans and baggy sweaters. Her new mission in life arrived in the form of a strawberry blonde daughter, Caroline, now four years old.

After that, being with Ron and Caroline, taking care of the house, and planning for holidays was all Kristen wanted in the way of worldly responsibilities.

[eggman]

CBS's "The Early Show" yesterday brought a report from Monica Gabrielle, attesting that her husband might have escaped from the South Tower if the facts about the Aug. 6 "PDB" memo had been shared with the public.

Just what "facts" from that PDB would have made a difference? If the President read the memo in a radio address would anyone have given much of it a second thought?

Even after 9-11, very few people are prepared for what to do in case of the next terrorist attack. Very few have an emergency plan. They think the government must take care of it for them. They are sheep that are not willing to be responsible for themselves yet expect the government to be responsible for everything. Terrorists like sheep.

[Conservative4Ever]

To the Jersey Girls: Your husbands along with thousands of others were murdered by Osama Bin Laden. Not President Bush. Direct your anger and rage to OBL. You shame the memory of the 9/11 atrocity with your self-rightous whining.

Red

[onyx]

Heck.
Finally here at the same time with you,
and I'm getting a headache that only sleep will cure.

You're right about the prolonged whining and hand-wringing,
but I think the Jersey 4 are motivated politically and
monetarily. I expect to see them file huge lawsuits
"provided" the 9-11 rigged Commission can possibly
place the blame on anyone besides OBL and AQ.

[Fracas]

Diagnosis: Too much 9-11 commission hearings and press conference aftermath overload.

Rx: Sleep. CNN and MSNBC surrender to FOX.

[hinckley buzzard]

I remember right after 9/11 that some of the Cantor-Fitzgerald "wives" were interviewed, at home in their palatial mansions, and in a couple cases, not one single word of grief for their dead husbands--only concerns for where the money was going to come from to maintain their lifestyles-- none of them worked, themselves, of course--or pay the huge mortgages and private school bills for their brat kids--eventually Cantor-Fitzgerald really did pony up some long green, and then of course the airline payoffs made them rich all over again.

I don't recall any of them critical of GW back then, or even mad at the terrorists.

Some bereaved widows. Probably other words would describe them better.

[Mo1]

Her father is a mayor?

[Jaysun]

This is the first that I've heard of these tawdry liberal handmaids. This article about the four finks helps me to understand the disgusting "reports" of late - I thought that they might just be making up the sources. It never occurred to me that activist widows would actually ballyhoo their loss on behalf of the democraps.

Congratulations to the four stooges. They've been welcomed into the herd of brainsick jackal concubines that debauch themselves on behalf of the democrats. What a disgrace.

[onyx]

Diagnosis: Too much 9-11 commission hearings and press conference aftermath overload.
Rx: Sleep. CNN and MSNBC surrender to FOX



Good thing I married a medical doctor; he's correct:
I owe this headache to staying here too many hours tonight.
Rarely watch CNN, PMSNBC or the 9-11 Commission hearings.
R/x is correct: sleep....
I'm outta here, nite Fracas.
It was good to *see* you.
Give my regards to David.

[Mo1]

http://www.app.com/app/story/0,21625,880294,00.html

Published in the Asbury Park Press 1/02/04
By BOB JORDAN
STAFF WRITER
An era in Manasquan ended yesterday when Republican Mayor Richard Dunne took office from Democrat John L. Winterstella, who had been mayor for 20 years.

[Mo1]

HELLO .. a fax she shouldn't have rec'd??

http://www.njmonthly.com/issues/Mar03/widows.html
(SNIP)

Widows' Walk

In the depths of their grief, four World Trade Center widows get the political education of a lifetime.

By John T. Ward


On September 11, 2002, Kristen Breitweiser's home fax machine printed out a document that U.S. intelligence officials didn't want her or anyone else in her situation to have. It was a letter from the congressional committee examining the failure of the CIA, the FBI, and the National Security Agency to detect and prevent the terrorist attacks that killed more than 3,000 men, women, and children exactly one year earlier. Breitweiser, whose husband, Ronald, was among the nearly 2,800 victims at the World Trade Center, was being invited to the Capitol to testify.

"Who's running this investigation, Oprah?" one exasperated intelligence insider asked in USA Today. It was hard to see how heartbreak qualified relatives of victims to talk about national security matters, the unnamed government official added. Emotional testimony could only stoke anger directed at the intelligence community. And while the mutterer didn't mention Breitweiser by name, it's not a stretch to conclude that the spy set saw her as little more than a potential fount of lump-in-the-throat sentiment.