Observations
Sep. 12th, 2001 08:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bryantOn the way home today, the news station (KSFO, 560 AM in San Francisco) I'd been listening to went over to talk radio. Brian Wilson's daily show. And, yeah, it's started.
"You know, I was in two cabs yesterday during the attacks, and as I heard news on my Walkman I leaned forward to tell the cabbies. And they were both Muslims, and they had completely stony expressions on their faces!"
"Well, maybe they were afraid you'd hit them, you know, backlash..."
"Well, I thought about that, but I don't think that was the case."
That was Ann Coulter calling in, not a random caller. Look her up on the Web -- she gets plenty of column inches. She followed up by ranting about how now airports might want to search her bags. Her bags! She's a Connecticut WASP! Why search her bags? They should search Arabic bags!
"We need profiling," she said. "Not all this other stuff! Profiling at airports will work!"
"Yes," said the host. "But they'll be recommending that we give up our liberties instead."
"I know! Give up our liberties, when they could attack the real problem by using profiling!"
Yes, well.
On another list I'm on, someone said that you should donate to the Salvation Army rather than the Red Cross, because the Red Cross charges victims for disaster relief. I called him on it. He said, and this is a direct quote: "I see quite a few posts from people on USENET who would differ with you."
Usenet. Bastion of quality journalism and reporting.
Ah, hell. "Someone" is Chris Meadows. Life's too short.
And Palestinians are celebrating in the streets.
And there are liberal pundits using this moment as a platform to blast Bush.
The terrorists should get a Nobel Peace Prize. They brought this country together for a good twelve hours -- perhaps twenty-four -- before we fell prey to partisan bickering. We were actually running in the same direction for a little while; for twelve short hours, we forgot our political agendas. We were people.
Twelve hours isn't very long, but it's as long as I expect to see while I'm alive.
God bless, and good night.
"You know, I was in two cabs yesterday during the attacks, and as I heard news on my Walkman I leaned forward to tell the cabbies. And they were both Muslims, and they had completely stony expressions on their faces!"
"Well, maybe they were afraid you'd hit them, you know, backlash..."
"Well, I thought about that, but I don't think that was the case."
That was Ann Coulter calling in, not a random caller. Look her up on the Web -- she gets plenty of column inches. She followed up by ranting about how now airports might want to search her bags. Her bags! She's a Connecticut WASP! Why search her bags? They should search Arabic bags!
"We need profiling," she said. "Not all this other stuff! Profiling at airports will work!"
"Yes," said the host. "But they'll be recommending that we give up our liberties instead."
"I know! Give up our liberties, when they could attack the real problem by using profiling!"
Yes, well.
On another list I'm on, someone said that you should donate to the Salvation Army rather than the Red Cross, because the Red Cross charges victims for disaster relief. I called him on it. He said, and this is a direct quote: "I see quite a few posts from people on USENET who would differ with you."
Usenet. Bastion of quality journalism and reporting.
Ah, hell. "Someone" is Chris Meadows. Life's too short.
And Palestinians are celebrating in the streets.
And there are liberal pundits using this moment as a platform to blast Bush.
The terrorists should get a Nobel Peace Prize. They brought this country together for a good twelve hours -- perhaps twenty-four -- before we fell prey to partisan bickering. We were actually running in the same direction for a little while; for twelve short hours, we forgot our political agendas. We were people.
Twelve hours isn't very long, but it's as long as I expect to see while I'm alive.
God bless, and good night.
