Tuesday, September 12, 2017

Brian Kilmeade of Fox and Friends suggests that 9-11 memorials are in danger of being removed like Confederate statues.

Courtesy of Raw Story: 

During an interview with Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke, Kilmeade asked if he had any concern about the future security of the Flight 93 National Monument, which he suggested could become a target for activists in the same way that statues of Confederate Generals Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson have become targets. 

“Do you worry 100 years from now someone’s going to try to take that memorial down like they’re trying to remake our memorials today?” he asked. 

Zinke didn’t directly respond to Kilmeade’s question, and he only issued a vague platitude about learning from history. 

“Well I’m one that believes that you know we should learn from history,” he replied. “And I think our monuments are part of our country’s history. We can learn from it. Since we don’t put up statues of Jesus, everyone’s going to fall morally short.”

I am not sure how having statues of Jesus would make us all moral, but this entire conversation is so stupid that it makes my head ache.

The majority of the Confederate statues were put up between the 1890's and the 1950's to glorify the Civil War and to remind Black folks that people fought and died to keep them in slavery.

That is not even remotely like building a monument to those who died in the biggest terrorist attack in American history.

Just the very fact that this has to be explained to the host of a cable news program suggests that Fox News should be removed from the airwaves to preserve the intelligence of the American people.

23 comments:

  1. Anonymous6:29 AM

    http://www.rawstory.com/2017/09/all-lives-splatter-sheriff-sorry-after-department-posts-meme-that-promotes-killing-protesters/

    "featured a cartoon of a car running over protesters. The meme also said that, “Nobody cares about your protest, keep your ass out of the road.”"But protesters don’t belong in the road!”The employee’s meme that glorified running over protesters comes nearly one month after a white nationalist in Charlottesville, Virginia, plowed his car into a group of protesters, which resulted in the death of activist Heather Heyer."

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  2. Anonymous6:33 AM

    OT:Jew Jared: “legal hell” "“Now you have Mueller, and not only that, you have Mueller looking at obstruction of justice around the firing of James Comey,” VandeHei said. “It’s one of the reasons Mike Pence hired a lawyer."It could become really problematic, and that’s what Bannon’s fear was — that it could end the presidency.”

    http://www.rawstory.com/2017/09/all-of-this-is-about-jared-morning-joe-blames-kushner-for-trumps-legal-hell/

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    1. Anonymous7:17 AM

      CLASH of the TiT
      “That is very troublesome because what it means is that HE needs to believe it,” “HE is able to give up reality in exchange for HIS wished-for belief. Sometimes we call that a delusion.”“It is not just bad behavior that people have to lie and cheat the way HE does, it is an incapacity to treat other people as full human beings,” Dodes said. “That is why HIS focus is on humiliating others to aggrandize HIM$elf, as he did in the Republican primaries when he was debating and calling people names.”“Trump is a very primitive man. HE is also a man who has a fundamental, deep psychological defect,” he said. “It is expressed in HIS inability to empathize with others and HIS lack of genuine loyalty to anyone. You will notice that Trump wants everyone to be loyal to HIM, but HE is loyal to nobody.”
      " if there’s a “Reichstag fire”-type event that Trump can use to attack HIS opposition, the country will rally around HIM. Dodes thinks it will be:
      North Korea and he’ll end up dropping bombs on the country " OR
      "Trump will “cut bait” and leave a mess for someone else to clean up."
      “Trump will resign and say, ‘I am still the best and the only savior, and these evil people and their evil media have forced me out,'” Dodes thinks. “He will keep his constituency, he’ll leave with honor in HIS own mind and by the way, keep HIS businesses.”"

      https://www.rawstory.com/2017/09/heres-how-trumps-malignant-narcissism-will-end-his-presidency-according-to-psychiatrists-and-its-going-to-be-wild/

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    2. Anonymous7:18 AM

      https://www.rawstory.com/2017/09/heres-how-trumps-malignant-narcissism-will-end-his-presidency-according-to-psychiatrists-and-its-going-to-be-wild/

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    3. Anonymous8:31 AM

      http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/09/how-donald-trump-lied-to-conceal-his-moscow-business-partner/

      "news reports revealing that Trump was pursuing a huge development deal in Moscow in late 2015 and early 2016 show that during the campaign Trump committed a tremendous act of deception." , Trump was asked about his relationship with a fellow named Felix Sater"
      "What neither Trump nor Garten said was that—at that very moment—Trump was in the middle of the deal to build a Trump Tower in the Russian capital and that Sater had put together the venture. As he was running for president, Trump was hiding this project from the American public, and he was insisting he barely knew the man at the center of it. This was serious deceit."Sater’s past as a criminal and reported that Trump was in business with a man who had been accused of “conspiring with the Mafia to launder money and defraud investors.” Trump told the Times he knew nothing of Sater’s dark past. Though Sater departed Bayrock after the Times’ article, Trump’s organization brought him on board three years later, and Sater was wheeling and dealing, seeking projects for Trump"This was Sater’s deal. According to a source familiar with this aspect of the Trump-Russia investigation, Trump was fully aware that Sater had brokered the agreement. And around late October 2015, Trump HIM$elf signed a letter of INTENT with I.C. Expert Investment to proceed with the project."
      “Lets make this happen and build a Trump Moscow. And possibly fix relations between the countries by showing everyone that commerce & business are much better and more practical than politics. That should be Putins message as well, and we will help him agree on that message. Help world peace and make a lot of money, I would say thats a great lifetime goal for us to go after.” A few weeks later, Sater emailed Cohen: “I arranged for Ivanka to sit at Putins private chair at his desk and office in the Kremlin. I will get Putin on this program and we will get Donald elected…Our boy can become president of the USA and we can engineer it. I will get all of Putins team to buy in on this, I will manage this process.” As Trump was in the thick of it with this Sater-brokered project, he gave the impression he hardly had any idea who Sater was. It is hard to see Trump’s answer as anything other than a deceptive reply designed to hide the FACT that he was attempting to land a Putin-sanctioned deal in Ru$$ia"He insisted he cared only about US interests—while he was privately negotiating a deal in Moscow that could only happen with the assent of Putin’s government. In and of itself, this should be a major scandal. Yet Trump got away with IT."

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  3. Anonymous7:37 AM

    PIG$>"half these incidents, Stinson and his research team concluded, were Violent."
    "“It’s not as rare as you might think. It happens at all stages of officers’ careers, and at all ranks,”
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    https://news.vice.com/story/police-crime-database

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  4. Anonymous8:12 AM

    http://www.rawstory.com/2017/09/watch-nra-tv-host-lashes-out-at-biased-reporter-for-describing-guns-as-weapons/

    "“It’s their use of the word weapon that has me bewildered,” he said of the article. “The reporter uses ‘weapons’ in place of firearms or guns so many times, it just becomes bizarre. Here, ‘Fears of gun owners getting drunk and firing their weapons.’ I firmly believe she uses the phrase weapons over firearms in an effort to scare the uninformed.”"

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  5. Anonymous8:18 AM

    Ju$'T' Pray for ME!
    https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.politicususa.com%2F2017%2F09%2F12%2Ftrump-crazier-declares-books-articles-people-fake-news.html

    "Fascinating to watch people writing books and major articles about me and yet they know nothing about me & have zero access. #FAKE NEWS!"

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  6. Anonymous8:37 AM

    Is he really that f*cking stupid? Firearms are weapons. The Revolutionary war, the war of 1823, the Mexican War, the American Civil War, the Spanish-American War, the First World War, the Second World War,... were all fought with firearms on both sides

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  7. Anonymous8:39 AM

    Putting up confederate monuments could be compared to putting up monuments to the 9-11 Saudi terrorists. And YES, those would be torn down. Immediately.

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  8. Anonymous9:08 AM

    One part of America is trying to evolve. The other part is trying to cling to the past. It's a bad balance.
    Can't end well.

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  9. Anonymous9:38 AM

    OT? Move on...
    "evangelical pastor who recently prayed over President Donald Trump in the White House has claimed that Hurricane Irma was a “nothingburger” and that prayer “took the teeth out of” the storm.

    Rodney Howard-Browne, who lives in Tampa, Florida, blamed the media for blowing Irma out of proportion and said that the damage in Tampa was far less than expected."“By the time it hit Tampa, [Irma] was totally neutralized. It became a nothingburger other than, you know, a big Florida storm which we normally have during the summer times,” Howard-Browne acknowledged that other areas of Florida, including the Florida Keys, Marco Island and Naples, were hit hard by Irma and attributed Tampa’s close escape to the power of prayer. “Meteorologists are scratching their heads, not understanding what happened. How comes this thing didn’t do, it was supposed to devastate, [it was] billed as storm of the century. Basically prayer knocked the teeth out of Irma, I mean that’s basically what happened,”
    “What a humbling moment standing in the Oval Office laying hands and praying for our President,” said Howard-Browne, in a Facebook post that has been shared more than 15,000 times."

    http://www.rawstory.com/2017/09/pastor-who-prayed-over-trump-irma-was-a-nothingburger/

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    1. Anonymous1:41 PM

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  10. Anonymous9:48 AM

    I love history and I am all for learning from history. Problem is when history gets it wrong or just out right lies.

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  11. Anonymous10:00 AM

    Now that Sarah Palin is a nobody for Trump and she is hardly a Republican, she is useless. What else can she do but create 'history' and hope it survives any future upheavels to remain as the best version of history? Her versions may be the only one to survive, if civil war is in the future.
    http://cdn.teamcococdn.com/file/palin_0.jpg

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    1. Anonymous11:24 AM

      I would detest if this guy writes our history.... Newt Gingrich: historian? (Fact Checker biography)
      https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker/post/newt-gingrich-historian-fact-checker-biography/2011/12/13/gIQAJqiMsO_blog.html?utm_term=.002a17527dcd

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    2. Anonymous12:25 PM

      We all know who wants to control the news. He will be glad to control who writes history.

      Perhaps this was his greatest deception of the 2016 campaign.
      http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/09/how-donald-trump-lied-to-conceal-his-moscow-business-partner/

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  12. Olivia10:00 AM

    If the 9-11 memorials are commemorating the terrorists then they should be torn down too. How many of those have been erected?

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  13. Anonymous10:24 AM

    This is absurdity. The 9/11 memorials are for the memory of victims and survivors. Not the perpetrators of the acts. Confederate memorials directly honored those who elicited violence and death. What kind of moron cannot see the difference. Sheesh!

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  14. This ass suggested the biggest false equivalency ever.

    What an idiot.

    Sad thing is there are even dumber idiots that will swallow his crap.

    Look to Trump regurgitating his talking points if ever asked.

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  15. Anonymous11:29 AM

    Zink is an imbecile. He talks in circles. He really is stupid trying to always say something profound .He is an arrogant fraud.
    He has zero original thought voted in by the good ole geezers in montana.
    A genuine trump sucker!!

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  16. Anonymous1:36 PM

    in the Towers we lost loved ones in act of shameless cruelty. it was meant to hurt all Americans-and it did. black, white ,brown, red and yellow. the US. became the largest family of all time. that is what you remember-not the horror of slavery. take the statutes of conferates and find a museum-because it is part of our history-the wrong part.

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  17. Anonymous8:10 PM

    Heard on NPR today how much public, federal and personal grant money it take to keep the Oklahoma bombing memorial and museum open and I must say, I think 20 years is enough, enough to let people grieve visit and remember the event and then close that shit down and move on.

    We have interstate highways falling apart and bridges literally falling down, how 'bout we deal with the important things first?

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