Every month, a new play or musical comes out about the Civil Rights Movement, such as The Good Negro or Night Blooms. These productions examine a time in American history that tested this nation and should never be forgotten. To make sure of this, the theatre culture generates show after show about this tumultuous time half a century ago.
Less than ten years ago, our nation went through another, much different test on September 11, 2001. But less than ten years distant from that trial by fire, we are told to “get over 9/11.” When we aren’t being to “get over 9/11“, we are subject to 9/11 being an object of ridicule.
This is Nicole Cassese, a journalism major who says: "I'm a liberal and proud of it. I don't bash conservatives with their backwards and obsolete ways of thinking."
The Halloween costumes are the Mecca of 9/11 ridicule. Nothing says “I am a complete a**hole” like wearing the attacked Twin Towers and then crying nobody understands the “deeper meaning” behind your acting out on the level of a five year-old.
When the tenth anniversary of 9/11 comes in 2011, will Joe Biden once again insult Rudy Giuliani by saying:
“There’s only three things he mentions in a sentence — a noun, a verb, and 9/11.”
We should forgive Joe, he is busy this last two years making the stimulus work and creating jobs.
When the left isn’t telling us to get over 9/11, or making fun of it, they attack it directly, such as Keith Olbermann’s piece of agitprop theatre where he wails Republicans made the attacks 9/11 TM. I am still awaiting his Hurricane Katrina TM special comment.
It’s never happened of course, because Olbermann’s candidate rode Katrina TM all the way into the White House and even trumpeting it on the White House website:
President Obama will keep the broken promises made by President Bush to rebuild New Orleans and the Gulf Coast. He and Vice President Biden will take steps to ensure that the federal government will never again allow such catastrophic failures in emergency planning and response to occur.
President Obama swiftly responded to Hurricane Katrina. Citing the Bush Administration’s “unconscionable ineptitude” in responding to Hurricane Katrina, then-Senator Obama introduced legislation requiring disaster planners to take into account the specific needs of low-income hurricane victims.
The President was quick to edit the Katrina TM portion after he was rightfully humiliated for his petulant actions. Now, five years after a hurricane, the President attends a fifth Katrina TM anniversary. Where are all the calls to “get over” the disaster that struck this Democrat controlled city? Where are the Halloween costumes of Katrina TM?
They are non-existent because the right finds no humor in the Katrina disaster. We take no solace in the mockery of American’s suffering. We also were not pining away for “our own 9/11″ the way the left was.
That’s what Katrina really is to the left, it’s their catastrophe to be exploited in the way Keith Olbermann insists Republican’s exploit 9/11. There are no calls to “get over” Katrina. Will there be a Special Comment segment to end Katrina TM?
Don’t bet on it.
