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Mark Steyn: We must all be more sensitive
The Telegraph (U.K.) ^ | 09/14/2002 | Mark Steyn

Posted on 09/13/2002 3:53:40 PM PDT by Pokey78

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21 posted on 09/13/2002 6:21:04 PM PDT by TLBSHOW
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To: Ipberg
but would quickly change channels when media people asked each other how they felt,

I agree. I HATE journalists thinking that they are important. They are journalists and should record, as opposed to be involved. But I will say, as a journalist myself, sometimes I've come home from covering a bleak story and cried, and cried, and cried all night. We're not all heartless bastards.

22 posted on 09/13/2002 6:58:11 PM PDT by Happygal
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To: Pokey78
On the radio, CBS's star anchor, Dan Rather, revealed that, as the anniversary approached, he had to struggle to remind himself that "this story isn't about me"

I made myself sit through a behind-the-scenes of that VH1 concert, remember the one where Hillary was booed (and VH1 has now edited out the booing in subsequent rebroadcasts)? Melissa Etheridge said more than once: 'that night and that concert just weren't about us. Even the rock royalty on that stage didn't matter, it was all about the firemen.' Other elitist artistic jerks said similar things. In their blatherings about their own modesty and humility, they expose the true nature of their self-absorption.

23 posted on 09/13/2002 6:58:33 PM PDT by lainie
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To: Pokey78
INSIGHT On The News online: "PRIOR KNOWLEDGE OF SEPTEMBER 11 NOT JUST URBAN LEGEND" by Jeffrey Scott Shapiro (091002)

ANN COULTER.org: "MY NAME IS ADOLPH" -Commentary by Ann Coulter (090402)

stepping back in time...NEWSMAX.com NewsMax Wires: "REPORT: CALENDAR SHOWED PLANE CRASHING NEAR MANHATTAN" (September 27, 2001)
stepping back in time...CAL NEVA.com: "SEURAKUNNAN TIEDOTUSKESKUS: "OPSCHUDDING OM MOSLIMKALENDER" (October 1, 2001)
stepping back in time...DE TELEGRAFF BINNENLAND: Almere. "OPSCHUDDING IN ALMERE OVER ISLAMITISCHE KALENDER" (September 26, 2001)


SEPTEMBER 11, 2001: "ATTACK ON AMERICA!"

24 posted on 09/13/2002 7:02:30 PM PDT by Cindy
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To: Pokey78
I really hope he makes a book of his columns this past year. he has been a beacon.
25 posted on 09/13/2002 7:03:41 PM PDT by swarthyguy
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To: Cindy
Correcting the last link in post #24 in a sensitive manner:

SEPTEMBER 11, 2001: ATTACK ON AMERICA!

26 posted on 09/13/2002 7:05:31 PM PDT by Cindy
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To: Ragtime Cowgirl
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/690989/posts

27 posted on 09/13/2002 7:05:32 PM PDT by swarthyguy
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To: Ragtime Cowgirl
Another more recent one.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/749324/posts
28 posted on 09/13/2002 7:06:58 PM PDT by swarthyguy
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To: Pokey78
Pokey,
Please add me to your Steyn list as well. Thanks.

SICSEMPERTYRANNUS
29 posted on 09/13/2002 7:16:31 PM PDT by SICSEMPERTYRANNUS
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To: swarthyguy
Thanks for the links, swarthyguy. I'm not convinced. Too many parties involved are invested in undermining the Bush administration. In one story the boy's Pakistani, the other he's Palestinian. Our government was never meant to be big enough to cover every eventuality, any more than local police can be there when a burglar shows up. It's us, Americans like Eunice Stone, or the terrorists.
30 posted on 09/13/2002 7:56:52 PM PDT by Ragtime Cowgirl
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To: Ragtime Cowgirl
Wasn't this an urban legend?

No. See this account, by Newsweek ultra-lib Jonathan Alter of all people: Trade Center warning baffles police.

32 posted on 09/13/2002 8:13:54 PM PDT by The Great Satan
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33 posted on 09/13/2002 8:14:28 PM PDT by Nogbad
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Good grief. This is the first I've heard of those "prescient" students and their cameras. WHY ISN'T THE FBI FOLLOWING THIS UP? WHY ARE THESE STUDENTS AND THEIR FAMILIES STILL HERE?
34 posted on 09/13/2002 8:32:44 PM PDT by Inkie
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To: MeeknMing
My mom has been writing checks for our muslim neighbor for years and I've been trying to get her to stop helping the neighbor. When I told mom that the neighbor cut mom's picture of Jesus out of a picture of her, I think that was the last straw. They have no tolerance for us nor do they respect our religious beliefs. Mom has no interest in writing her many checks for her because the neighbor's never bothered to learn English.

Mom is going to say her arthritis is too bad - get someone else. After all these hoaxers' families came out today and accused the "south" of being prejudiced and said the lady was lying that was it for me. Everybody is lying except the muslims who always have their stories straight or they don't cooperate.

I hate to drop people from my life but after seeing 9-11 again and this episode today, I will be polite but I'm with Franklin Graham, Islam is evil. Period. I wish they'd leave.

36 posted on 09/13/2002 8:40:16 PM PDT by floriduh voter
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To: Pokey78
Pokey, could you please add me, too?
37 posted on 09/13/2002 8:42:01 PM PDT by LurkerNoMore!
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To: Ragtime Cowgirl
snopes.com is the web site that addresses urban legends. You may check that out. I don't doubt that those 3 had a party celebrating 9-11 in Chicago. They've got lots of Mohammeds there. Did they ever release the islam of peace's guy's names? Maybe they let them go and hopefully, they are going to watch their every move from now on. I don't buy the medical student stuff. I think that's a cover.
38 posted on 09/13/2002 8:43:14 PM PDT by floriduh voter
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To: Pokey78
You have been added. 12 posted on 9/13/02 4:32 PM Pacific by Pokey78

me too, me too...

39 posted on 09/13/2002 9:00:54 PM PDT by OrthodoxPresbyterian
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To: Pokey78
This is a the British version of the one he wrote for
the Canada press the other day.  It is interesting to
see what changes Mark makes to keep his
column pointed at a particular national audience
while saying ninety percent the same thing.  It
must be like putting in a brain tuned to each
culture and redoing his column from that
viewpoint.  Interesting.

In the case of this British column, I think
it is much better than the Canadian version.
It is , of course, superb and should be
posted to refrigerator doors throughout
America. Unfortunately I imagine most
of our countrymen have never read a
word of Mark Steyn.  Pity.

40 posted on 09/13/2002 9:16:01 PM PDT by gcruse
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