More hubba, hubba.

[sqwkvfr]

Well, remember Kristin Breitweiser? She's one of the 9/11 widows who came out the day after the President Bush's 9/11 adds aired to decry it's use and and to use the public's heartstrings to advance her cause.

She's affiliated with a group of 9/11 family members who opposed even going into Afghanistan to fight Al-Queda and the Taliban....turns out this group has recieved funding from Theresa Heinz-Ketchup and her likes. Kristen has also become quite the political advocate (despite her attempt to portray herself as a hapless victim)....seemingly making it a full-time career with multiple television appearances.

Here's what Kristen said recently on "The Today Show:"

Katie Couric: Are you making too much, Kristin, out of the summer of threats?

BREITWEISER: Here's an easy thought. They design cars now with an autopilot function that if the car gets too close to the car in front of them it's diverted. Why didn't over the past ten years we try to install something like that on a plane, that it couldn't crash into a building, couldn't crash into a mountain? The pilots, you know, they simply could have told the pilots these Middle Eastern men knew how to fly planes. The pilots would have behaved differently. They wouldn't have just acquiesced. They would have fought back but these pilots -- and I've spoken to their wives -- thought that these Middle Eastern men needed the pilots, so they just sat there and listened and did what they were told.

I don't know about you, but in my mind, this has destroyed her credibility and pissed me off. Does she honestly think that any American pilot (and most others for that matter) would "acquiese" and give up their ship that easily?

And where can I get one of these Autopilot-equipped cars?

BEE-OTCH.

 

[TEXAN AVIATOR]

BEE-OTCH.

Sums it up!

 

[2000flyer]

Another "coincidence" was the other networks who had family members on their shows discussing Condi Rice's testimony before the commission. From what I've heard, they all studied from the EXACT same notes the night before because all their comments were obviously scripted.

I feel for them as they suffered a tragic loss of a loved one. However, they're the first to gripe of making the commission "political" yet they read from the same anti-Bush notes as the Kerry's.

Falls under the heading "Things that make you go Hmmmmmmmmmm???"

 

[LJDRVR]

She lost her husband. If being stupid helps her with the grief process, who cares.

We know the truth. Anybody dumb enough to be swayed by some layman they watched on TV isn't going to be dissuaded with anything as obtuse as the truth.

 

[Typhoon1244]

I don't know anything about this lady...I do think she's wrong about Afghanistan. I would like to offer this thought, though: if I had lost my wife in the 9/11 attack, my overwhelming anger might cause me to say some strange things on national T.V., too. (Ever been on T.V.? You'd be amazed...)

I hate to use a movie as an example, but...remember Jaws? Remember when little Alex's mother slaps Sheriff Brody and blames him for her son's death? We all know there was nothing Brody could do to change the situation, but he couldn't slap her back, could he?

You and I can't really know what this woman has gone through...is going through. Therefore I think this...

BEE-OTCH.

...is a little insensetive. I don't agree with her, but I won't belittle her for doing what she thinks is necessary to remember avenge her husbands death or commemorate his life.

 

[crowbar]

Katie Couric is hott.

 

[Typhoon1244]

Katie Curic is hott.

That's "Couric."

(And that's "hot," but I think you wanted it your way... )

 

[crowbar]

Ahh, OK, I thought that's how I spelled her name, anyway she's still HHHHHHHHHHOOOOOOOOOOOOTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT

http://www.geocities.com/couric_fan/gallery/image29.jpg

 

[sqwkvfr]

She lost her husband. If being stupid helps her with the grief process, who cares.

When a political advocate with a partisan agenda, a spokeperson for a pacifist group funded by an endowment controlled by the wife of a presidential candidate gets a free pass and an unlimited number of softball interviews on national TV networks and consitently abuses the memory of her husband to almost exclusively bash a president under the guise of a grieving widow, I very much care.

So much for campaign finance reform.

 

[sqwkvfr]

Re: Re: More hubba, hubba.

Therefore I think this......is a little insensetive. I don't agree with her, but I won't belittle her for doing what she thinks is necessary to remember avenge her husbands death or commemorate his life.

You posted this while I was writing my paragraph-sized sentence....refer to it for a partial response.

 

[LJDRVR]

No offense, but it's not up to you to decide what constitutes "abusing the memory of her husband." She can say whatever she wants, to include bashing the President.

 

[Typhoon1244]

...I very much care.

As Bill O'Reilly says: "well, that's your opinion."

The way I see it, her grief is being manipulated. I still find it hard to blame her...people are often easy to tweak after a major loss, unfortunately. I do, however, very much blame the people who are taking advantage of her.

 

[sqwkvfr]

As Bill O'Reilly says: "well, that's your opinion."

Watching FoxNews, Typhoon? Be carefull, we might get you yet!

 

[Typhoon1244]

Watching FoxNews, Typhoon?

Don't hold your breath: I got that from reading The Oh Really? Factor: Unspinning Fox News Channel's Bill O'Reilly by Peter Hart.

And who's "we?" Are you admitting that "fair and balanced" Fox News is part of a vast conservative conspiracy?

 

[sqwkvfr]

Don't hold your breath

I know better.

And who's "we?" Are you admitting that "fair and balanced" Fox News is part of a vast conservative conspiracy?

Nope, but I like to consider myself a charter member in good standing.

Seriously, I can't believe the sorts of attacks that the left is coming up with....here's a woman that NO ONE dare question that hides a far-left political agenda that, again, no one dares question....because she's a 9/11 widow.

Up until this election cycle this sort of dirty trick would be off the charts. But, unfortunately, Democrats have sunk to an all-new low.

These 9/11 hearings are another example....they are this woman's baby. Have you heard the cheering in the background when a partisan statement is made by a committee member? Aren't they supposed to be asking questions? Are they there to chew a$$ or find out the truth? Why are members running to the press to spin testimony? Why are they releasing conclusions before they're finished?

The commission is a farce...I was upset with President Bush opposing it's formation, but now I see his wisdom. The 9/11 commisssion is a shining example of congress' partisan bickering.......and this woman is a piece of the puzzle.

Now she goes out and very publicly throws the pilots of those highjacked flights under the bus, while insinuating that she's speaking for their widows. I've heard the tape....they fought for their ship....and died trying...thus my comment.

I think her comments could easily be called insensitive.

Typhoon, my statements on the commission are not directed at you, I'm just throwing that out there as an example...I don't know what your thoughts are on it, and I'm not saying you support it....it's been a bad night....Diamondbacks are getting their a$$e$ handed to them!

 

[Typhoon1244]

Up until this election cycle this sort of dirty trick would be off the charts. But, unfortuanately, Democrats have sunk to an all-new low.

I know, you're right. It's almost as bad as...oh, I don't know...say, using September 11th as a backdrop for your campaign ads...

 

[sqwkvfr]

I know, you're right. It's almost as bad as...oh, I don't know...say, using September 11th as a backdrop for your campaign ads...

[sqwkvfr reads the above reply, smiles, takes a pull of his "Whataburger" chocolate shake, and turns around to check the score....13-6?!! Good god, Brenly...do something!!]

 

[Typhoon1244]

...takes a pull of his "Whataburger" chocolate shake...

That stuff'll kill you, you know...

 

[Jedi_Cheese]

It will be a bitch to land if your 'autopilot' doesn't allow you get close to anything solid.

I am sooo not touching any of the rest of this with a 40 ft pole.

 

[2000flyer]

As our newspaper editorial correctly points out this morning, so much of the commissions recent agenda has focused on the first eight months of the Bush administration and yet we hear very little about the eight years of the Clinton administration. NewsMax.com has the only public tape recording of Slick admitting he turned down a great opportunity to apprehend OBL from Sudan, but he said he "didn't have legal ground to do so". Clinton had the opportunity to retaliate the Cole bombing which was directly linked to Al Qaeda, yet he did nothing. Janet Reno stongly urged Clinton to do nothing regarding Bin Laden. I don't remember her name off the top of my head, but the lady on the 9/11 commission was Reno's right hand at the Justice department. Go figure.

Unless this August 6th PDB specifically states "Al Qaeda intends on hijacking four U.S. airliners to crash one each into both WTC buildings, the Pentagon and either the White House or Congress on September 11th," what on earth is ANY president supposed to do? Do you honestly believe the president should have shut down all domestic airline travel until more specific information could be "shaken from the trees?" Any reaction would have been yet another blow to a then weak economy.

One last sign of partisanism on the commission is how Richard Clarke's book suddenly became the bible on which all others would take their oath. This guy was a hold over from the Clinton administration in part because of the stalling tactics the DNC pulled in confirming Bush's cabinet appointments when all of Al Gore's legal challenges correctly failed. It's a fact that many hold-over positions were made by Bush to keep government running and staffed until he could build his own team and the Democrats, much like their treating of judicial appointments, were blocking his every move because they felt (and still feel) that the election was somehow stolen from them.

There is enough blame on 9/11 to go around. I believe both the Clinton and Bush administrations failed, much in part because the CIA and FBI don't share their information. However, the liberal media (ABC, NBC, CBS, MSNBC, etc.) spend so much of their energy and air time only reporting what the Bush administration didn't do and rarely if ever do you hear of the failings of the previous administration. All, in my opinion, to bolster there liberal agenda and attempts to influence the next election in favor of the Democrats.