35Pete
December 21st, 2005, 12:58:34 PM
It's just plain disgusting that the left would politicize the proposed memorial.
AIM Report: New York Times Smears Patriots - November A
A wall of silence by most of the national mainstream media has obscured a Cultural War victory over the forces of "political correctness."
The winners in this David vs. Goliath story are families of 9/11 victims and the heroes and survivors of the police and firefighters who responded to the call after the terrorist planes struck the World Trade Center Towers.
The losers are New York City's powerful liberal establishment—led by the New York Times—and also some people with an inside track to the Bush White House. Beyond New York City, the national media largely ignored the controversy and treated it as a local story, even though it involved tax-payers nationwide.
The public part of the story that raged all summer in a campaign by the 9/11 families and first responders was settled in their favor on September 28. On that date, New York's Governor George Pataki ousted a museum that had planned a "politically correct" exhibit at Ground Zero—the site of the Twin Towers. The planners hoped to tie 9/11 to historical issues that have nothing whatever to do with the memory of the nearly 3,000 Americans who died on the day of the most barbaric foreign attack on the Continental United States in nearly two centuries.
Two museums were originally selected as part of a proposed arts complex on the World Trade Center site. One was the International Freedom Center (IFC), whose CEO is Hollywood moneyman and New York real estate baron Tom Bernstein—an old Yale classmate of and later a major fundraiser for President George W. Bush. He also heads Human Rights First, which has opposed the administration for "prisoner abuse" and detaining enemy combatants (many of them with terrorist records) at Guantanamo Bay.
Looking at the list of officials of the IFC and other groups involved in its efforts at Ground Zero, one finds many links to the richest foundations, corporations, white-shoe law firms, labor organizations, academia, entertainment, the news media, and prestigious groups such as the Council on Foreign Relations.
The other was the Drawing Center which, according to a July 4 Washington Post story, had recently installed the image of a hooded detainee at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison and linked President Bush to Osama bin Laden. (Following the protest by the 9/11 families, this organization "pulled out of the deal," declaring it would not be "censored.")
A visitor looking for the 50,000 square foot memorial to the dead and heroes of 9/11 would have had to traipse through 300,000 square feet of tutorials on Jim Crow and lynching in the Old South, slavery, and Native American genocide. Those experiences would be lumped together with Adolph Hitler's holocaust and Joseph Stalin's gulags.
It should come as no surprise that billionaire leftist George Soros was providing much of the money to fuel the tank of this slap in the face of the survivors of the victims of the terror attack on America.
Federal Money
But he was not alone. You too were expected to help foot the bill. Federal money was involved. That attracted the attention of New York Congressmen Peter King, John Sweeney, and Vito Fosella, who called for a congressional investigation. Ultimately, the project was opposed by former Mayor Rudy Giuliani and by Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, whose 2006 re-election campaign did not need organized opposition from 9/11 families and police and firefighters unions.
Pataki's eviction notice to the IFC was the end result of a bitter public four-month-old battle that began on June 7 when Debra Burlingame (sister of pilot "Chic" Burlingame whose plane was hijacked by terrorists and crashed into the Pentagon on 9/11) blew the whistle in a Wall Street Journal op-ed piece.
The New York Times led a sustained editorial campaign against Burlingame and her group, calling them "un-American" and charging they had "a political ax to grind" and wanted to "censor" the exhibits of 9/11, even though critics noted those other issues could be addressed in many available venues: just not at Ground Zero. They believed that to mix the memorial with "political correctness" was akin to graveyard desecration.
...more...
http://www.aim.org/aim_report/4126_0_4_0_C/
AIM Report: New York Times Smears Patriots - November A
A wall of silence by most of the national mainstream media has obscured a Cultural War victory over the forces of "political correctness."
The winners in this David vs. Goliath story are families of 9/11 victims and the heroes and survivors of the police and firefighters who responded to the call after the terrorist planes struck the World Trade Center Towers.
The losers are New York City's powerful liberal establishment—led by the New York Times—and also some people with an inside track to the Bush White House. Beyond New York City, the national media largely ignored the controversy and treated it as a local story, even though it involved tax-payers nationwide.
The public part of the story that raged all summer in a campaign by the 9/11 families and first responders was settled in their favor on September 28. On that date, New York's Governor George Pataki ousted a museum that had planned a "politically correct" exhibit at Ground Zero—the site of the Twin Towers. The planners hoped to tie 9/11 to historical issues that have nothing whatever to do with the memory of the nearly 3,000 Americans who died on the day of the most barbaric foreign attack on the Continental United States in nearly two centuries.
Two museums were originally selected as part of a proposed arts complex on the World Trade Center site. One was the International Freedom Center (IFC), whose CEO is Hollywood moneyman and New York real estate baron Tom Bernstein—an old Yale classmate of and later a major fundraiser for President George W. Bush. He also heads Human Rights First, which has opposed the administration for "prisoner abuse" and detaining enemy combatants (many of them with terrorist records) at Guantanamo Bay.
Looking at the list of officials of the IFC and other groups involved in its efforts at Ground Zero, one finds many links to the richest foundations, corporations, white-shoe law firms, labor organizations, academia, entertainment, the news media, and prestigious groups such as the Council on Foreign Relations.
The other was the Drawing Center which, according to a July 4 Washington Post story, had recently installed the image of a hooded detainee at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison and linked President Bush to Osama bin Laden. (Following the protest by the 9/11 families, this organization "pulled out of the deal," declaring it would not be "censored.")
A visitor looking for the 50,000 square foot memorial to the dead and heroes of 9/11 would have had to traipse through 300,000 square feet of tutorials on Jim Crow and lynching in the Old South, slavery, and Native American genocide. Those experiences would be lumped together with Adolph Hitler's holocaust and Joseph Stalin's gulags.
It should come as no surprise that billionaire leftist George Soros was providing much of the money to fuel the tank of this slap in the face of the survivors of the victims of the terror attack on America.
Federal Money
But he was not alone. You too were expected to help foot the bill. Federal money was involved. That attracted the attention of New York Congressmen Peter King, John Sweeney, and Vito Fosella, who called for a congressional investigation. Ultimately, the project was opposed by former Mayor Rudy Giuliani and by Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, whose 2006 re-election campaign did not need organized opposition from 9/11 families and police and firefighters unions.
Pataki's eviction notice to the IFC was the end result of a bitter public four-month-old battle that began on June 7 when Debra Burlingame (sister of pilot "Chic" Burlingame whose plane was hijacked by terrorists and crashed into the Pentagon on 9/11) blew the whistle in a Wall Street Journal op-ed piece.
The New York Times led a sustained editorial campaign against Burlingame and her group, calling them "un-American" and charging they had "a political ax to grind" and wanted to "censor" the exhibits of 9/11, even though critics noted those other issues could be addressed in many available venues: just not at Ground Zero. They believed that to mix the memorial with "political correctness" was akin to graveyard desecration.
...more...
http://www.aim.org/aim_report/4126_0_4_0_C/