http://www.prospect.org/weblog/2006/09/post_1371.html#006242
By Michael Tomasky
Both the Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/11/nyregion/nyregionspecial3/11bush.html?pagewanted=2&ei=5094&en=e468f88da52557ed&hp&ex=1158033600&partner=homepage
and the Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/10/AR2006091000679.html
note this morning that Bush laid two wreaths at ground zero last night
in the company of George Pataki, Mike Bloomberg, and Rudy Giuliani.
The Post goes well out of its way to remark that the event "left aside
the partisan rancor" that--well, that Bush & Co. have enforced on the
country since about 9-14.
If this event was so nonpartisan, where were Chuck Schumer and Hillary
Clinton?
Neither paper makes any mention of their having been there.
I’m told that in fact they were not invited (they were at St. Paul’s
church, where Bush went after laying the wreaths -- and where there
were apparently no photographers!!).
In what sense does an event that features four Republicans but
excludes the two senators who were representing New York at the time
of the event, but who happen to be Democrats, leave aside partisan
rancor?
I was in NYC during 9-11 and for two years after, and I remember Chuck
and HRC (and House members of both parties) attending virtually all
previous such commemorations.
Today’s New York Post carries this photo of the four Republicans
arriving on the scene.
http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/nation_honors__terror_victims_regionalnews_stephanie_gaskell__jana_winter_and_andy_geller.htm
That’s the photo the White House wanted.
Can you imagine how Chuck and especially HRC would’ve mucked that up
for them?
Back in July 2003, I wrote a column in New York magazine discussing
how Pataki had wanted, at the time, to dedicate the cornerstone of a
new ground-zero tower--during the 2004 GOP Convention.
http://nymag.com/nymetro/news/politics/columns/citypolitic/n_8937/index.html
It was an appalling idea, and worse yet, The New York Times editorial
page endorsed it!
Read the column.
It has real relevance as we head into the guts of this election
season.
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Really obscene, but typical of today's "Liberal" media and Republican
Party.
Harry
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