World Trade Center - The movie

I was reading Debbie Schlussel’s "Horrid World Trade Center": Oliver Stone Makes Conspiracy Theorists, Islamist PR Artists Proud" column today.

Debbie makes the point that “boy genius” and darling of the Liberal Left, Oliver Stone, is being hailed by pundits (both Liberal and Conservative) for "sticking to the facts" and "playing it straight" with his new film “World Trade Center.” Statements that are true only if you view the events of 9/11 through an eye of a needle.

According to Debbie, the film (which I have not and will not see) fails to address:

“Who caused the attacks of 9/11? Who hijacked planes? Who flew them into the Towers? In "World Trade Center," it's hard to tell. Nicholas Cage's cop rescued from beneath the ruins speaks of "the evil"; a Wisconsin cop twice mentions the "bastards"; And a marine speaks about the need to "avenge this." But what is the evil? Who are the bastards? What needs to be "avenged"? Stone deliberately whitewashes the clear-cut answer to these questions--extremist Islam's attack on Americans.”

A reader, NormanF, posted some comments on Debbie’s blog lamenting that the events of 9/11 have been systematically erased from the public memory. I responded with a post of my own as follows:

NormanF is spot on with his comments regarding the erasing of 9/11 events from public memory. It is abhorrent to me that in this age of digital media that the videos of the planes hitting the building, the resulting fireballs and the buildings crumbling into ash heap graves were immediately withdrawn from the MSM news programs. I have seen still shots of the “Arab Street” celebrating but have no real memory of the video footage as it was killed faster than Reuters’ pictures of smoke plumes over Beirut and Israeli F-16 “firing missiles.”

If I recall correctly, all the pundits and assorted “mental health experts” opined that the video of 9/11 was just too horrible for viewing. That our pain was too great and that we required time to heal. Male Bovine Dung! If that were true why then are our tender sensibilities not threatened by the daily dose of overstated (forged) Palestinian, Lebanese and Arab grief?

Can you say, Agenda? There, I knew you could.

Just another brick in the wall of Leftist propaganda designed to separate us from the truth.

Be well,
JG