Posted on 04/28/2006 5:05:15 AM PDT by theBuckwheat
Hijacking the Hijacking The problem with the United 93 films.
By Ron Rosenbaum
... Why is this the third film made about Flight 93? I've watched them all...
When the controversy over the trailer for the new film erupted recently, the question was, "Is it too soon?" I wonder if the question should be, "Are there too many?"
Could it be that the three films are a symptom of our addiction to fables of redemptive uplift that shield us from the true dimensions of the tragedy? Redemptive uplift: It's the official religion of the media, anyway. There must be a silver lining; it's always darkest before the dawn; the human spirit will triumph over evil; there must be a pony.
That's always been the subtextual spiritual narrative of media catastrophe coverage: terrible human tragedy, but something good always can be found in it to affirm faith and hope and make us feel better. Plucky, ordinary human beings find a way to rise above the disaster. Man must prevail. The human spirit is resilient, unconquerable. Did I mention there must be a pony?
9/11 is no different. Flight 93 has become 9/11's pony. The conjectural response to the hijacking has become (even more than the courage of the rescuers in the rubble) the redemptive fable we cling to, the fragment we shore against our ruin. Or so it is as envisioned in The Flight That Fought Back and Flight 93 and now United 93. A film in which, we are told by its production notes, we see "the courage that was born from … the crucible" of 9/11. A story of "something much larger than the event itself," Greengrass tells us, a story in which "we … find wisdom." One almost hears the subtext: This is "the feel-good film about 9/11."....
(Excerpt) Read more at slate.com ...
But then again.....I know a few in the MSM that have this point of view and their comments never fail to amaze.
Wow! Really? And, yet, he chose to write another book about Hitler even though there were already dozens of them out there.
The lame stream media is obviously worried about this movie. I hope and pray that it does well at the box office.
To the left, truth is whatever they think serves their interests. As Lenin said, "Truth is whatever serves the party." They really believe that. Anything that serves their side is true and anything that doesn't is untrue, and that's all there is to it.
They also believe in another old adage, that if you repeat something often enough, it becomes true. That's from Goebbels.
They are if you're one of those people that believes the plane was destroyed by a missle fired by our military.
Goebbels was many things (bad) but at least in his own perverse way he was working FOR his leader and his country.
These MSM idiots are actively working AGAINST Bush and attempting to destroy our country.
I know their warped reasons, but I just cant understand them.
And black is white and up is down ... yada, yada.
You know the nuclear weapon that destroys people but not buildings or infrastructure? My fantasy is that I am given a weapon that seeks out only America hating "journalists", teachers and pols while leaving normal people untouched.
The FAA had not been "wrong for 40 years" in the way of handling hijackings. They were not suicide missions before and the people were not in danger from having a plane diverted.
What's his opinion on Holocaust deniers?
Sorry for posting twice, there were a few sailors on a TWA flight who after having their military IDs discovered by hijackers who ended up dead on the tarmac. They may disagree about the, not in danger part.
In the past the hijackers were armed and any spur of the moment intervention would have cost lives and led to the deaths of all on board.
There were probably hundreds of hijackings which had no deaths and only resulted in inconvenience. It is easy to say "If this then that" but that is not the way things are in life. As soon as the first plane crashed because of passenger reactions the American people would have been up in arms. It has no tolerance for death.
NOT TRUE! [Dec 41-Aug 45] and not a good comparison. We were fighting NATION STATES. WE are NO LONGER at war with Iraq and haven't been since April 9, 2003.
Also if you are trying to say as long as there is LOSS of LIFE resulting from a declared WAR then you must add on a few years after 45 for the armed insurgents in Germany.
If you want to compare the two it is your prerogative but to the knowledgeable it will fall on deaf ears.
My previous comments were MEANT for the SLATE writer not you. As I re-read my statement I realized it sounded personal.
Ron Rosenbaum is an interesting and quirky writer who has written many good things. His continuing problem is that he believes in Evil but not in God, and he can't figure out why so many people do believe in God. This leads him into some strange rationalizations, to say the least.
That is a very thoughtful comment. I never considered that, but you are absolutely right. BTW, see your freepmail.
Evil changes its tactics as the situation demands. It got what it wanted using earlier ones and when those were not as successful they moved on.
Now a more relevant means of dealing with these murderous scum could have been adopted had the Clinton administration have warned about the intention to use planes as weapons. They KNEW this as early as the summer of 1996 according to Col. Buzz Patterson, Clinton's nuclear "football" carrier. Patterson SAW the Presidential Daily Brief which described the "Bojinka" plot and has written about it.
But that was when Slimey was busy getting re-elected on the bodies of the OKC victims while blaming it all on Rightwingers rather than the Islamo-fascists.
Success is the best revenge against cynics such as the author.
Either way...if you read closely what I said, I indicated that the passengers rebelled and the aircraft did crash. Those are the facts.
I believe it crashed due to their attempts because of the recordings that indicated the struggle and the desperate activities in the cockpit in the last few seconds.
I also know there were military aircraft in the vicinity.
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