Was driving back from a meeting yesterday when I caught the tail end of the Rush Limbaugh radio broadcast. Rush greeted a young woman who then began to tell her story...her's was the cry " My brother died on 9/11, you creep. Don't make this political! ".
As I listened to her tell it I felt angry inside because we seem to have no respect for the sacred in this country. Shove the September 11th victims and their families (many who are still grieving aside and shove partisan politics down everybody's throat.)
I was glad to see some people in this country were rather outraged and stated their disgust with Moran's antics for the last three days.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1699556/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1700886/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1701603/posts
Hearing the story from her own lips made me ashamed that our freedom of speech in this country allows only for people being told to "Shut up!"
Link to the broadcast
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_091306/content/fruited_plain_2.guest.html
| Katie, Who Shouted Down Jim Moran |
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| September 13, 2006 |
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BEGIN TRANSCRIPT | RUSH: We have Katie on the phone from Arlington, Virginia. Hi, Katie, nice to have you with us.
CALLER: Hello, Mr. Limbaugh, how are you?
RUSH: Couldn't be better. Thank you.
CALLER: Yesterday you had talked about the Jim Moran rally in Arlington for 9/11, and you had mentioned the screaming girl, and that was me, and I just wanted to give you some more context to why I had such a violent outbreak.
RUSH: That's fabulous. Let me play the sound bite that we had yesterday. It's Internet quality, but you will hear a woman who now we know is Katie interrupt Moran, and then she's gonna give context. Here's the bite that happened. It was Monday night in Arlington, Virginia.
MORAN: There are more people around the world who hate America and what they think it stands for than even life itself. But let us resolve --
TIE: My brother died on 9/11, you creep. Don't make this political!
RUSH: All right. So you said, this isn't political, and I got an e-mail from some guy who said he heard you say that and also that there were people in the crowd telling you and others to be quiet, that what happened to you and others who lost people on 9/11 "weren't important," that "let the congressman speak." Is that true, too?
CALLER: That is true. I had actually said -- I was really upset because almost within less than a minute, I mean maybe 20 seconds after he got on the stage (he started 30 minutes late, too, which I thought was incredibly disrespectful.) But when he was finally on the stage, about 20 seconds into it, well, first of all he started saying that he was so proud of Arlington because we all came together and we all worked together and we were all one, and then he said, "But on the national stage we haven't been as successful," and then he went into international: talking about Iraq, literally within 20 seconds of his comments, and I just felt my blood starting to boil. I just wanted him to be a generic politician. I wanted him to say a few kind words about the dead and let me go about my day. |