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BARBARA OLSON, CONSERVATIVE HERO IN BATTLE AGAINST ISLAMIC TERROR AND CLINTON CRIMES, IGNORED ON NBC
Elenchus File | December 31, 2001 | S. Elenchus

Posted on 12/31/2001 12:27:48 PM PST by elenchus

Our hero Barbara Olson who died while calling for advice and help in the crash into the Pentagon (we assume she must have been fighting to the last) is certainly the most prominent casualty of the September 11, 2001 terror attack.

(By the way, I find it nauseating when people, and the networks in particular, refer to it as a "tragedy." In this context, "tragedy" might be appropriate to deaths due to an accidentally set fire, or a plane crashing due strictly to mechanical failure. It is not merely a tragedy when Arab fanatics turn airplanes into missiles, crash into a couple of buildings and kill thousands of innocent civilians. There are many words that might begin to approximate the event, but tragedy cannot be one of them, and I resent its use almost exclusively by those on the left.)

Not only is she the most prominent, but she is also the wife of one of the top U.S. government officials, the attorney who represented candidate George Bush in the contested Florida election before the Supreme Court, and above all a stalwart, perfectly relentless fighter against the corruption of the government by the Clinton's, who left her husband at home on the day of the fateful flight to once again do battle in an out-of-town television interview on ABC's Politically Incorrect show, presumably in order to advance the thesis of her about to be released book, The Final Days (how ironic the name), which was the follow-up to her first Clinton book, Hell to Pay (more irony since there has been a lot of hell to pay from the Clinton treacheries--and it will not only be the Islamic maniacs, who were enabled to do what they did on September 11, 2001 by the Clinton perfidies, who will someday have hell to pay). Whatever one's politics, one has to acknowledge that hers is arguably the most significant death of the year, what with her dying directly at the hands of the terrorists and indirectly at the hands of the Clintons.

Despite this fact, NBC news divisions have apparently made the decision not to include Barbara Olson in their visual obituaries or profiles of the most important Americans to die in 2001. At least, I can find no instance of their doing so among the shows that I have seen thus far. Were things reversed and had this been a Democrat administration, it would be unthinkable that the president would permit a hero of the left to go unsung. Clinton would never have let any network get away with failing to mention one of his partners in crime. Is not one of our virtuous heroes deserving of nothing less? Should not President Bush takeup the slack and speak of the courage of our fallen hero who we know risked her life and died fighting for information on that hijacked plane and in all likelihood--if there was any opportunity at all--must have died kicking and scratching and throwing that cellphone at one of the terrorists? Let's roll is great, but making sure that Clintons and the terrorists had hell to pay is unsurpassed.

NBC is truly the worst, most corrupt, of the networks although with dishonest men such as Dan Rather, Peter Jennings and Ted Koppel et al on CBS and ABC, there are several very close seconds.

Please think of this when you decide which network to watch--that is, if (unlike this writer) you are still watching the network news at all.


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To: Timesink
Just to clarify. The little special was on deaths throughout 2001 not just 9/11. So she was probably the only 9/11 casualty shown. Her pic seemed to get about the shortest air time in the whole segment which implied at least to me that it was an intentional slant towards her because she was conservative. No way to prove it. But that's how it looked to me. No big deal.
21 posted on 12/31/2001 1:17:27 PM PST by plain talk
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To: leadpenny
Another thought....we all know who Barbara Olson was. We admired and respected her. But we are Freepers. My in-laws would not have the slightest idea of who she was.

They vote Democrat
Politics bores them.
They are not unique.

Ted Olson argued one of the most important cases in our history in front of SCOTUS. I doubt they even recognize his name.

22 posted on 12/31/2001 1:18:57 PM PST by Protect the Bill of Rights
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To: SLJP
Your beautiful graphic is so very Barbara........she will be missed by us all....... and thanks for the pic.
23 posted on 12/31/2001 1:19:02 PM PST by OldFriend
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To: umgud
Boycotts do work; just look at what was done to Dr. Laura. For NBC, you need to boycott its parent General Electric(GE Finance credit cards and installment loans, turbines, jet engines, kitchen white goods, locomotives, etc.) for ABC boycott Disney (Disneyland, Disneyworld, Mickey Mouse and Donald's toys and games, Disney film and Broadway shows, e.g. Lion King,ESPN, Buena Vista Films,etc.) and for CBS, its Viacom (Paramount Pictures, Simon & Schuster, Infinity Broadcasting, various record labels, etc.)
24 posted on 12/31/2001 1:23:50 PM PST by masadaman
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To: elenchus
"BARBARA OLSON, CONSERVATIVE HERO IN BATTLE AGAINST ISLAMIC TERROR AND CLINTON CRIMES, IGNORED ON NBC"

I give up, what is nbc?

25 posted on 12/31/2001 1:27:11 PM PST by S.O.S121.500
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To: elenchus
I think that Bush has to be careful not to appear to favor one fallen hero over another. And too, I think he may feel that highlighting Barbara's death would appear to politicize his own personal feelings about losing her, which must be great given his closeness to Ted, and he's just not that kind of guy.

I didn't mean to infer that you were for presidential control of the media and now better understand your point.

26 posted on 12/31/2001 1:28:37 PM PST by Endeavor
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To: elenchus
BARBARA OLSON WAS A DISCIPLE OF DAVID HOROWITZ

Those who knew Barbara Olson best knew that she was a big fan of DAVID HOROWITZ and his website Frontpagemag.com. Until now, most Americans have been forced to watch our country and its culture drift further and further to the left. Not knowing the true reasons for this degeneration, we have felt helpless to stop it. We have wasted our time and our money supporting political candidates who have cynically sold us false promises about their ability to restore true American values. Now, after years of investigation and with precious little time to spare, DAVID HOROWITZ has finally found the ACTUAL SOURCE of this foul tide. Armed with irrefutable proof, he has exposed the CONSERVATIVE HOLOCAUST that has until now been secreted behind the tall, ivy-covered walls of academia.

Freepers, I personally urge you to support Mr. Horowitz's campaign in every way possible. Forget the politicians. Instead, speak to your neighbors. Form committees. Demand to see what is actually written in the textbooks given to our kids. Write letters demanding protection for conservative students and faculty. Show up at David's campaign stops. Visit Frontpagemag.com. Finally, and most importantly, I urge you to immediately send David as much money as you possibly can to save our conservative values from extinction. And please, FReepers, DIG DEEP because this is no time for half measures. DO IT NOW FOR BARBARA!

With David's leadership, we can and we will DEFEAT INTELLECTUAL TERRORISM and save our country from the evils of FULL BLOWN SOCIALISM.

Thank you, America, LET'S ROLL!

27 posted on 12/31/2001 1:29:50 PM PST by IanSherwood
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To: Protect the Bill of Rights
Yes, but anyone who is politically aware knows of Barbara Olson. And we all know how the networks and cable news shows love to prove how politically aware they are. I certainly know the Left's folks.

Barbara was and remains, through her writings and through those of us who loved and so appreciated her, a person of consequence in her own right and should be mentioned as such in a "prominent American" lost life retrospective.

28 posted on 12/31/2001 1:39:04 PM PST by Endeavor
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To: Protect the Bill of Rights
You wrote to leadpenny:
"Another thought....we all know who Barbara Olson was. We admired and respected her. But we are Freepers. My in-laws would not have the slightest idea of who she was.

"They vote Democrat Politics bores them. They are not unique.

"Ted Olson argued one of the most important cases in our history in front of SCOTUS. I doubt they even recognize his name."

But that's just the point:

(1) Our heroes must be celebrated and those ignorant of their sacrifice must be informed about their greatness. We all need those heroes. Our children need to know about them. Ignorant democrats need to know. Your relatives, too. The American public has few heroes. The military no longer allows the celebration of heroic exploits in battle due to secrecy and safety concerns and media abuses in opposing and jeopardizing the military. We are a nation desperately in need of heroes. Now we have a few--and we must celebrate them and publicize every one of them. We must not permit the left to consign them to oblivion. We must raise them up. They must be examples to all our families and friends and neighbors. It is desperately important to preserve the memory of the few heroes we are given today.

(2) Keep this in mind too: The networks only retain their licenses to broadcast on the public-owned (that's you!) airways if they serve the public, and part of their responsibility is to provide information and objective news reports. When they no longer fulfill that responsibility, do they deserve the license with which they broadcast--our license, our airwaves--do they deserve their near monopoly on televised information?

S. Elenchus

29 posted on 12/31/2001 1:41:03 PM PST by elenchus
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To: elenchus
NBC can jam it where the sun don't shine. I don't watch their crap anyway.
30 posted on 12/31/2001 1:45:16 PM PST by Excuse_My_Bellicosity
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To: elenchus
I also noticed that there was no obituary of Barbara Olson in the New York Times Magazine yearly obituary round-up, "The Lives they Lived."

But I guess the Times would explain it by the fact that Barbara's life didn't have as much impact on the world as some of the people they *did* profile:

Troy Donahue
Pricilla Davis
Joey Ramone
and Abe Beame.

Of course, we all know that the real reason such an exalted person (as well as a heroine) was left out is because she had the nerve to write something less than flattering about the boy president and his lovely and charming wife.

31 posted on 12/31/2001 1:47:21 PM PST by 07055
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To: elenchus
Not all networks ignored her Fox aired her funeral and Larry King mentioned her a couple of times. While Barbara's death is tragic, like the deaths of thousands who die young every year from AIDS and various other diseases, the networks have to make judgements on who to mention. Being the wife of a Bush Administration official is probably not enough to get mentioned.
32 posted on 12/31/2001 1:49:22 PM PST by Nightstalker
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To: elenchus
Here's a note that may encourage you - more than $200,000 has been donated to the "Barbara K. Olson Memorial Scholarship Fund" at Cardozo Law School by friends, family and admirers of Barbara and her values. The endowed scholarship will be given to a student who best represents Barbara's values. What better way to insure that we are shaping young leaders with the values of our heroes?
33 posted on 12/31/2001 1:51:19 PM PST by Endeavor
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To: Protect the Bill of Rights
I don't want to take anything away from the memory of Barbara Olson. She was a grand lady and it still pains me deeply that she is gone. I just think it was a tough call by the networks when it came to the traditional year-end rememberances. The whole 9-11 thing is still just to hard for most of us to get our emotions around.

On a personal note, I have a brother who, upon learning about the death of Barbara, made a crude remark to another brother. He doesn't know that I know he made the remark and I'm not speaking to him anyway.

You're right about much of the country not having a clue about her.

34 posted on 12/31/2001 1:59:02 PM PST by leadpenny
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To: 07055
You've "got the NY Times' number" -- and it's not 07055 I'm talking about.

That said, though, there is still a categorical difference between the NY Times, which is far left of left and is simply dedicated to nothing but the destruction of this country and any standards remaining, but nonetheless is a private newspaper printed on private paper, one among hundreds in this country, and one only a fool would take seriously--and the three networks which broadcast on our airwaves and have an expressed responsibility to report the news objectively.

We should recall that the exposure of our heroes to the public, the list of those included and those they decide to exclude, is not the list for the network's Xmas party. They invite their friends and exclude their enemies from the party. This is the heart of what our nation is about, what gives us spiritual life's blood. They are sucking that blood, sucking us white.

S. Elenchus

35 posted on 12/31/2001 2:01:14 PM PST by elenchus
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To: elenchus
Don't get me wrong -- I am certainly no fan of CNN -- but last Tuesday Ted Olson was on Larry King Live and they put together a wonderful tribute to Barbara for the full hour.

Last Thursday, December 27, was BKO's birthday. There was a memorial service for her in Houston, where BKO was born and raised, and I was lucky enough to be able to attend. It seems that many of her family members were unable to attend the one held in Washington. There were about 60 members of her family there, and the rest of the Mausoleum was packed. BKO's brother mentioned that Larry King had sent him several boxes of videos -- a copy of each of her appearances on his show. Also, for the memorial service, Larry King also narrated a 7 or 8 minute tribute with her life story. The last few seconds of the tape was a close-up of a piece of paper that simply contained the words "I Love You, Ted."

What a remarkable woman.

36 posted on 12/31/2001 2:05:49 PM PST by RedWhiteBlue
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To: Nightstalker
To Larry King's credit (a rare thing), he also interviewed Ted Olson about Barbara. I saw about half of it, and the part that I saw was very professionally done
37 posted on 12/31/2001 2:09:24 PM PST by litany_of_lies
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To: Endeavor
It heartens me that she is honored, but it concerns me even more that the funds will be used to create more lawyers who are in a vast majority cunning leftists and who make like miserable for the rest of us. Why to a law school? Why not to a select, qualified group of students. I doubt that the school will direct the funds to conservative-minded or even -aware students. Barbara and her husband were lawyers but lawyers of a special stripe. We can only hope that those contributions will not all be used to promote the very hatred of values and civility which Barbara so vigorously opposed.

Look at the fate of the great foundations and museums--and universities of America, so many of which were created by great achievers but now bankroll and mindroll the engine of the left, political correctness and hatred of western values.

38 posted on 12/31/2001 2:09:32 PM PST by elenchus
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To: Nightstalker
If you think that Barbara's life and contributions boil down to being "Being the wife of a Bush Administration official," then you do not know very much about her. She was a prominant, well-accomplished figure in Washington years before she married Ted.
39 posted on 12/31/2001 2:09:50 PM PST by RedWhiteBlue
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To: lonestar
Charles Schultz Philosophy

Great post. Thanks.

40 posted on 12/31/2001 2:36:19 PM PST by balls
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