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“September 11, 2001,” this infamous NRCC ad displays immediately. “It was a national tragedy.” And then, of course, it proceeds to exploit that fact for political gain in the New York 20th District, where Democrat Scott Murphy and Republican Jim Tedisco are fighting for Sen. Kirsten “Caroline Kennedy” Gillibrand’s old House seat, with a special election to be held on Tuesday. Ha ha, look at all the terrorists, they are very scary, and brown, and this liberal Murphy guy loves them and 9/11 so much that he won’t even compromise his opposition to capital punishment for well-known cases. [YouTube]
“September 11, 2001,” this infamous NRCC ad displays immediately. “It was a national tragedy.”
…and the greatest possible thing that could have ever happened to a basically unlikeable big-city mayor.
Murphy should’ve added, “However, I’m not against the death penalty for petty assholes who exploit tragedy for cheap political gain.”
But what of 9/11/2008? The perpetrators weren’t brought to justice, either.
but um…. 5 of those terrorists requested the death penalty. Murphy is the only one trying to make sure the TERRORISTS WONT EPIC WIN!!!
if Rudy Guiliani had directed that commercial, there would not have been any pictures of Osama bin Laden, as Guiliani would have some produced a 30-second paean to his own greatness and forgotten what the purpose of the commercial was to begin with.
I sincerely believe that if they’d had a Death Penalty in New York, the guys who flew those planes into the WTC would have, at least thought twice. They’d have been all: “But what if I personally pilot these planes into the Would Trade center at 500 miles per hour and miraculously survive, by Allah, and am caught… they might then execute me! A fate too cruel to contemplate! No. I will not do it. I will not participate in your wicked plan, Osama bin Ladin!!!”
If there’s one thing terrorists are deterred by, it’s the prospect of death for their jihadist cause.
Osama should start getting appearance/copyright fees to be in all these ads. He could have bought a new dialysis machine by now or at least redecorated the cave — that we’re never going to find. (Yes, I know it helps to actually be looking for it.)
You gotta love the classics
And the party of no thinks bringing up September 11 is smart because? It only reminds me that bin Laden IS STILL AT LARGE!!1
I lived in Queens on 9/11 and moved about two years later. As I recall, us New Yorkers just sort of smoked a cigarette, had a coffee and shrugged the whole thing off. Sad yes, but we weren’t exactly paralyzed with fear. Enlighten me current residents - does this shit work?
But if we don’t kill terror suspects, how will Giuliani get his greatest desire of more war and bloodshed and attacks on both sides caused by the lure of martyrdom terror groups can use in propaganda? Rat Face can’t get enough of that stuff.
Scott opposes the death penalty for dead people. Haven’t they suffered enough?
Free media = WIN for the shameless morons of the NRCC.
Shameless fuckers.
How…could…they…be…captured b4 a su-ic-ide missi..
OReillysVibrator: You, Sir or Madame have an awesome handle…
I am firmly anti-death penalty.
HOWEVER: I think if someone is found guilty of murder with absolutely undeniable evidence (ie- video/confession, etc.) the victim’s family should be able to kill them with their own hands if they so desire.
You want him dead? OK, flip the switch.
My head asploded.
Osama, Bin Ladin!
What a terrible name,
Named for old Salim of Saudi oil fame.
Osama, Bin Ladin, as a Shakespeare would say,
Trips along softly on the tongue this way–
Osama, Bin Ladin, Osama, Bin Ladin, Osama, Bin Ladin,
Let me say it once again.
Osama, Bin Ladin, Osama, Bin Ladin, Osama, Bin Ladin,
That’s the man from 9/11.
If you’d like to have a logical explanation
Of who the best candidate is in this election
I will say without a moment of hesitation
There is just one name
That’s vital to this campaign.
Osama, Bin Ladin,
Osama, Bin Ladin,
The lowdown rotten scoundrel of the 9/11 bombin’–
Osama, Bin Ladin,
Osama, Bin Ladin,
Osama, Bin Ladin,
He’ll bomb your home.
At Moussaoui’s sentencing hearing, the last word belonged to Brinkema. “Mr. Moussaoui, you came here to be a martyr and to die in a great big bang of glory, but to paraphrase the poet T.S. Eliot, instead you will die with a whimper. The rest of your life you will spend in prison. You will never again get a chance to speak, and that is an appropriate and fair ending.”
NYPD First Responder: Hey! Did you just fly that plane into that building?
Mohammed Atta: Fifth Ammendment BIYOTCH!
NYPD First Responder: Dammit.
Serolf Divad: Pffft. Logic is for pussies. French pussies, even.
Czn939: My ass head-ploded
Sussemilch: Wow! That’s one tune I never expected to be bowdlerized on Wonkette! You must be a fellow “Old.”
Lascauxcaveman: For sure. I wear gloves to hide the blinking crystal on my palm.
It will be a great tragedy if Americans cannot kill everyone we find morally repugnant. As with Republicans and tax cuts — when we’re this close to finishing the job, why not just let us keep going?
I really hate these unscheduled elections. It totally throws me off. Now I’m expecting the War on Christmas to start in a few weeks. I was so confused I went out and bought a new Reindeer cannon and Hebrew throwing stars. Christmas is fucking going down this year!
Serolf Divad: win
Um - as a practical note - aren’t most of the people featured in the video already dead? Am I to understand that Jim Tedisco wants to somehow re-animate them and *then* re-kill them? Is he pro-zombie?
9/11 was a national tragedy…but Scott Murphy wants to INCREASE SPENDING to fix ROADS that TERRORISTS could DRIVE ON.
9/11 was a national tragedy…but Scott Murphy wants to IMPROVE SCHOOLS to give TERRORISTS better TARGETS.
9/11 was a national tragedy…but Scott Murphy wants to provide CLEAN DRINKING WATER to everyone INCLUDING TERRORISTS.
It’s the gift that just keeps on giving.
Let me get this straight: all the dead hijackers wrote a posthumous tell all book entitled, “If I Did It”, in which they professed deadly hate for the American infidel running dogs and their own complete innocence, and only Republicans have the guts to kill them now that they’re all dead?
Am I right?
National tragedy my hammy ass. It was a New York City tragedy. For everybody else it’s just terror pr0n.
Kev-O-Tron:
I was in Queens recently visiting my cousin in Jackson Heights. Are you telling me Queens wasn’t part of the Ground Zero devastation?
Kev-O-Tron: The big news around the city yesterday was the fact that the Port Authority finally wrangled a tenant for the as yet to be built “Freedom Tower”: a Chinese national mega real estate firm.
The irony is that the PA felt the need to change the name on the contract to “One World Trade Center”, presumably so as not to offend our overlords.
Terroritst: 1
Freedom: 0
Kev-O-Tron: Don’t worry, you’re just in time for the War on Easter ™.
what good is a national tragedy if republicans can’t use it to score cheap political points? i’m not sure i’d recognize the world we live in, if republicans didn’t shamelessly exploit 9/11 when regard to completely relevant issues like teletubbies infecting our children with teh dreaded gay.
LittlePig: I was in D.C. that day, and the party atmosphere was somewhat subdued there too, if I recall.
My Personal National Tragedy was the fact that my wife and I were only in DC for a look at the museums on our way to Bordeaux (on a free ticket, no less).
OBL, among other things, owes me two goddam tickets to goddam France, godddamit!
Lascauxcaveman: That is a pisser. I had juuuusst started a job as a waiter and I remember making about $20 a week for a month after 9/11. OBL owes ME unemployment benefits.
Kev-O-Tron: My Personal National Tragedy is so much bigger, shinier and more impressive than yours. You fail, my good sir!
“And death to America. Except for Bill Kristol. I love Bill Kristol.”
Lascauxcaveman: New Yorkers were firing up the tar pot and cutting up the pillows when the suicide bombers flew into the towers and diverted their attention from how much they hated their bizarre, creepy mayor.
The whole batch of Rs looked at the teevees and said, Great! Let’s start invading shit and put our decades-long plan to curtail civil liberties into place. Yeeahaw!!
Since Dems own the WH and both houses of congress, isn’t it time they just put an end to our misery and start spraying for Repubtards? I find them way more offensive than gypsy fucking moths. And, let’s face it, a greater danger to nature.
I move that Rahm Emmanuel live out his own, true purpose drive life and become Exterminator-in-Chief.
freakishlystrong: Thanks, promoting Bill O’Reilly Uses A Vibrator Awareness is a sad pathetic passion of mine.
DustBowlBlues: I’ve always appreciated you Oklahomans’ no-nonsense, straightforward approach to pest control. I’ll contact my old college buddy at Monsanto and see if he can come up with anything to help out Mr. Emanuel.
Lascauxcaveman: Apologies for leaving out D.C. and the Pennsylvania crash site, but I get annoyed when people from Bumfuck, Kansas that wouldn’t give two shits for DC or NYC moan and cry about “their” terrorist threat. People went nuts for a long time after that, thinking Abdul Abulbul Blowemup was waiting behind every bush to take out their little slice of AssEndaNowhere.
I knew people that were *genuinely* scared. My efforts to convince them that no self respecting terrorist would blow up anything in Little Rock went in vain.
It looks like Osama has joined the “Beard Club for Men”. Get a trim, mister smarty-pants a-rab.
You’re an embarassment to the entire terrorist’s community.
Mr. Murphy, if a terrorist was holding your crippled, grey-haired mother hostage, but said that he would spare mom if you fucked a rooster in the front of an elementary school, would you fuck the rooster or would let you your sweet old mother be horribly killed?
LittlePig: I’m right there with you pal. When I went home after 9/11 for Christmas (really, if I went anywhere in that first year) I was greeted by strangers with this fearful, concerned gaze. It was as if I had been sprayed with Agent Orange or something. After calming them and assuring them that I did not lose any limbs nor did I, in actuality, have any friends killed or wounded they would launch into some off-base spiel. I remember being very scared (caught a flight out of LaGuardia an hour after Richard Reid was busted) for a quite a while but I and my friends were young and invincible and some of us were *shock* muslim! I also lived off of Steinway street in the middle of Hookah bars and a Quran shop, etc. So I just never felt consumed by the fear. It probably helped that I didn’t own a television.
Personally, the most retarded Homeland Security measure I’ve seen came three years later when I moved to Hawaii. The Aloha tower is an iconic symbol in Downtown Honolulu that nobody ever visits. It’s about eight stories tall, empty and boring. You need to have your bags searched by a Federal cop before you go upstairs to look at the view.
Kev-O-Tron: Dude, where have you NOT lived. Peripatetic only begins to describe you.
Murphy is four points ahead in the latest polls. Apparently, the voters of upstate NY hate America.
Um, aren’t the majority of those guys ALREADY DEAD because their terrorist act was a SUICIDE BOMBING?
So is he saying you should give a little pile of ashes a lethal injection?