The fact is Bush wants you to live, eat, sleep, breathe, and crap 9/11, because it’s a constant reminder of what he perceives the constant threat to be. It’s in his best interest for you to see those images so much that it blanks out your brain from anything else and brings about a completely visceral and emotional reaction.

Even insinuating anything otherwise proves you understand nothing about the man you so despise.

First of all, what on earth would Bush have to gain by hiding pictures and footage of the “falling man”? Wouldn’t he WANT the world to see this?

Second, do you know how ridiculous it is to even suggest Bush is to blame for the networks not airing these disturbing images? Is there anything that Bush ISN’T to blame for? Anything?

You better hang on to you own precious Jeff, your argument won’t hold water. Bush allowed the blowing up of entire cities to be flashed all around the world 24/7 and yet tried to hide the real, gritty, average joe reality. Tried to make it hidden, pushed aside and covered up.

Oh that’s precious. So somehow allowing the publishing of pictures of people falling to their deaths is okay and journalists that allow this are to be commended. This passes the “Vulgar, oportunistic, and sadly predictable” sniff test in the left’s eyes. Good grief. And you even managed to blame Bush for NOT ALLOWING THEM TO BE USED AS PROPS OR PHOTO OPS in the same ridiculous sentence….

It was a really interesting take on the whole thing. Not at all what I expected, although the weird passion the photog had for this photo was a little unnerving. But, all in all, a good show.

My husband’s quote about Miami Ink (which he sometimes enjoys): “For a bunch of guys invested in macho, they sure are drama queens.”
*g*

That’s not the vulgar, predictable and sodly opportunistic part jeff. Usng it as a sales pitch for your particular party’s policies, while standing with families and veterans is.

If Stephen Harper wants to sell his vision of leadership and his ideas on how the Afghanistan war should be prosecuted, he should do it where he is supposed to do it – in the House of Commons, not on live TV. He should do it in the House where he and O’Connor can be questioned on it, in Question Period or in commitee and then allow a real, binding free vote on it (you know, like he promised during the election).

Otherwise he is just as guilty of exploiting and using the 9\11 Anniversary as anyone else. And that is digusting.

To me, it spoke more about 9/11 than all of yesterday’s speeches and writings.
“The Falling Man” spoke of the depths of desperation and of the heights of hope. Also, it spoke of our individual freedom of choice and how society and individuals respond to individual choice. It contains a surprising twist and speaks well of the determination of people’s search for truth.
Try to see it if you can.

To the CBC: Stories like this are the reason Harper and his supporters would see you taken off the air. Keep on Keepin’ On CBC!

Because the way in which politicians such as Stephen Harper and George Bush choose to “remember them” is to use them as props in photo ops. Because their cohorts use them and the events of that day to further their agenda, which I’m sure you would agree, even if you are completely retarded, has been filled with lies, miscalculations and mismanagement.

As for the general public as a whole, the industry surrounding 9/11 documentaries, movies, interviews, recaps, pins, flags, etc., etc., is booming. Yesterday, you would be hard-pressed to not find a TV station that didn’t have some sort of showcase special on 9/11. The worst trend is the pathetic “documentaries” that take painstaking care in attempting to recreate the minute by minute horror these people endured before their death, simply to sell the commercial time in between.

It is an auspicious day, and should be treated with respect, and not exploited. I totally agree with the statement that silence, to indicate what we have lost and who we should remember on that day is far more fitting than the crass actions of many who should know better.

Wow…

The (Right)WingNuts have turned it into a reason to bash anyone who doesn’t agree wholeheartedly with their point of view and agenda – we’re apparently all lily livered, anti-freedom and democracy, Arab hating, cowards…. and after the 25^th fake emotional choke-up for the masses I switched to Air America.

— that was a mistake, there I found that the (Left)WingNuts had turned it into a reason to bash anyone who doesn’t agree wholeheartedly with their point of view and agenda – they’re all war mongering nut jobs out to make a buck who hate Arabs….. and after the 25^th fake outraged for the masses I went to WinAmp.

I wonder if every August in Japan there’s a week long parade of news casts, ‘documentaries’, and political WingNuts, using that tragedy for their own little political purposes?

Next year I fully expect to see some guy on TV in a bad suit, 10 gallon hat, riding an elephant, and selling used cars with the slogan “flatter than the twin towers financing, our prices can fall no lower”.