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Sunday, August 12, 2007
Kevin McCullough :: Townhall.com Columnist
Why Not Another 9/11?
by Kevin McCullough
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Liberally oriented newspaper editors increasingly wonder why subscription and circulation numbers continue to plummet among the old guard of news media: the printed page.

What are they, the dumbest people on earth?

Why would any population of any nation that has the slightest modicum of freedom choose to subject itself to the onset of treasonous and vapid judgment with which these editors seem so well endowed?

Maybe these editors are bored by the slow news cycle that is the month of August, maybe they fell asleep while sitting at their desk playing sudoku, maybe their consensual sex partners broke pieces of china over their noggins, or worst of all maybe their viewpoint of the American people is so low that they think we won't notice. Whatever the case editors at the New York Times, The Philadelphia Daily News, and The Washington Post deserve not merely ridicule but complete isolation from American civilization for the treachery they promoted this week.

Playing fast and loose with the idea of terror visiting our shores, ripping American lives and bodies apart, polling the bottom feeding trolls to suggest how attacks should be planned, and pure mockery of what real American heroism looks like in the face of such danger - should earn not just the scorn of the American public, but the economic ruin that comes from readers and subscribers walking away.

Steven D. Levitt, the New York Times' self-named "freak" lived out his titillating fantasies this week by asking readers to comment on his blog's publicly accessible comment section to give great detail about how they would carry out a terrorist attack. He even included parameters such as if you were limited with financial resources and how the best plan of escape could be hatched. He even supplied the first example and then said he would "love" to hear from his readers, whom he was sure had "far better ideas." Mindful this is being brought to you by the same "news service" that has taken great delight in exposing some of our most effective tools against terrorists like tapping their use of cell phones, and revealing how we had been freezing their financing. The week previous due to financial constraints the Times had been required to reduce its page size. The "freak" also attempted to justify his postulation of the discussion by citing fewer terrorists would read the column than say patriots.

How many terrorists need to read the column to take action on its ideas?

19 or so?

"Freak" indeed!

Right down the New Jersey Turnpike the next morning Stu Bykofsky was able to convince his editors at the Philadelphia Daily News to run the headline: "To Save America, we need another 9/11." Sort of the "blow Americans apart so that we can sew ourselves back together" concept. Bykofsky then completely over romanticized the supposed unity that the nation had in the fall of 2001. By being attacked again he presupposed, then that short lived unity would return. His summation was, "let it be!"

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Kevin McCullough is the nationally syndicated host of "'Xtreme' Radio and columnist based in New York. He blogs at www.muscleheadrevolution.com. His second book "The Kind Of MAN Every Man SHOULD Be" is in stores now.

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Building 7
Something that troubles me about the events of 9-11. Building 7 came down later that day in a series of controlled demolitions. No one questions that and it is part of the record that the orders were given to "pull it" (down).

But my question is this. You can see videos of this building on fire. WHO, pray tell, went into that building on Sept. 11 and rigged all those charges while the building was on fire? Would you go into a burning building to set up demolition charges?

So if not, then exactly WHEN were those charges place in the building to be ready to drop it like a bad habit?

And this resulted in the owner getting $100 million in insurance payouts?

It just sounds kinda hinkey to me.

Tell it to the Indians....
Ahhhhhhhh.....right wingers. So predictable. Give them anything at all that questions this country being the most moral and greatest on earth and they immediately run to their little box of insults, perjoratives, ad hominum attacks and verbal pomposity, all the while waving their flags furiously.

History has shown that our government officials -- both Demoncratic and Peerublican -- have issued false statements in order to get us involved in wars which were basically none of our business. From Clinton starting wars to cover his worthless hide, to LBJ ramping up Vietnam with the Gulf of Tonkin incident (an incident which has been proven completely false), to the Bushies invading the Middle East on a pretext, we are on a war footing economy now.

What, kind sirs, do you think would happen to our economy if we had a prolonged period of peace, not only with our troops, but in the world? How would the world's largest supplyers of war materials, guns, bombs, ordinace, etc. manage to keep the doors open and the profits up if all the orders for tanks, guns, bombs, and planes were not placed next year?

You sick puppies keep it up. Keep beating those war drums on behalf of the factories. This war was not about terror, it was about profits (although now that we have managed to tick off most of the Middle East, it has become about terror. Some people don't take too kindly to being pushed around and don't have the Christian view of "turn the other cheek" when bullied).

How many more nations do we have to invade before the lust for profits is satiated? We are being destroyed as a nation by profiteers who care nothing for you nor I, but only about the bottom line, and you, sirs, have the nerve to defend them?

Geeeeez, get a real life, will ya?
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