FDNY Whistleblower: Media Nixed News of Race Changes to 9/11 Flag Statue

NewsMax.com ^ | 1/11/02 | Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff

[spycatcher]

If the Iwo Jima statue were made today, the soldiers would all be Japanese-Americans

[ladyjane]

Maybe we can get NOW to demand a woman in the sculpture. Women make up half the population. There are more women in this country than Latinos or Blacks. So put a woman in there and a firehouse dog! This will get everybody in a lather!!

[MadelineZapeezda]

In the future how can the children (or grandchildren) of those heroic and patriotic firefighters say "Hey that's my Dad up there?" They'll be told no way. Someone mentioned this on tv last night, thought it made a great point.

[Libertina]

I like your idea. But I have a question, did the original artist plan the deception all along, or was he/she "prevailed upon" to "see the light" AFTER the mock up was made? Artists typically present a mock-up for approval before they cast the actual piece.
This is a piece of work, alright.

[mewzilla]

Someone should ask Forest Ratner Co's. Didn't it pay for the statue?

[Howlin]

But it wasn't the first. It was in Newsday on December 22nd.

I can't remember WHEN Newsmax had an original story; most of it looks like they get it right off FR, IMO.

[Howlin]

Newmax gets most of its stuff right here.

[GOPJ]

Why stop with a mere statue?

What about CBS? Dan Rather's face could be digitally re-mastered to allow for more blacks on CBS. Dan would look great as a black. Why not?

Too many white faces on the pages of most newspapers? Add some tint, and turn them black. Politically correct balance. What could be better? Who would object?

And for the history books? The folks who flew planes into the WTC shouldn't be represented as only middle easterners. How racist. Throw in some Irish, Blacks, and Germans for this history books.

Yeah, love is hate. War is Peace.

[GOPJ]

Why stop with a mere statue?

What about CBS? Dan Rather's face could be digitally re-mastered to allow for more blacks on CBS. Dan would look great as a black. Why not?

Too many white faces on the pages of most newspapers? Add some tint, and turn them black. Politically correct balance. What could be better? Who would object?

And for the history books? The folks who flew planes into the WTC shouldn't be represented as only middle easterners. How racist. Throw in some Irish, Blacks, and Germans for this history books.

Yeah, love is hate. War is Peace.

[fightu4it]

"Media Nixed News of Race Changes to 9/11 Flag Statue

You got that right! I didn't hear sh@t until it was unvieled!

[Mr. Bungle]

Next up - Mount Rushmore:

[Zon]

Tragedy in the Aftermath of 9-11 Terrorist Attacks is
Far Worse than Hillary Being Booed
Off the Stage at NYC Firefighters Benefit Concert

reporters from all the major news organizations were present when a clay sculpture of three of his FDNY brethren raising the American flag over Ground Zero was unveiled on Dec. 20 in Brooklyn.

For the next three weeks the mainstream press breathed not a word of the fraudulent tribute

"I called one newspaper after another," O'Kane told NewsMax.com Friday. "Nobody wanted to cover this story."

But it took till Friday for the story to explode...

Minutes after Hannity's interview ended, the Associated Press picked up the news ...sending the story richocheting around newsrooms all across the country.

Until Associate Press newswire service ran the store for three weeks the mainstream media continues to spike the story. That is the story. But the lamestream media will spin it as breaking news when they do report it. And they will report it.

A story within a story. Both stories need to be reported together. Spread the combined story far and wide on the Internet. Has Rush jumped on this?

[RobFromGa]

For the next three weeks the mainstream press breathed not a word of the fraudulent tribute, even as firefighter O'Kane struggled in vain to get coverage of what he and many of his brethren felt was a politically correct travesty that cheated three rightful FDNY heroes out of their due.

Mr. O'Kane should have taken three minutes to post an exclusive "Breaking News" story on FR, titled "NY Hero Statue Disses Heros In Act of Political Correctness" and it would have taken two days MAX to get this story out, inclding NewsMax and H&C and O'Reilly and Rush etc...

We are the new MEDIA, JimRob has built it and you must come.

[rockfish59]

believe me, if enough new yorkers bitch about it,
they'll take it down!

uck-fay the media!

[maggief]

What if it was an African-American, a Hispanic and an American Indian. Which one would they remove to add the white guy? This is the same politcal correctness that made us vulnerable to terroristic attacks.

[lonestar]

....they should be putting their energy into education and economic development in poor communities and encouraging young men to marry their children's mommies...

Are you stupid or something? Don't you know it's more important to patrol the boundaries of SC to ask people not to spend money there because they fly a Confederate flag? LOL!

Seriously, the Black leaders don't marry the mothers of their children.