So yesterday, while doing a Google search on 9-11, Allan ran across a radio transcript from Rush Limbaugh's radio show titledAnti-Bush 9-11 Families Backed By Heinz Foundationin which Limbaugh bashes two 9-11 Widows for being critical of the 9-11 footage in the recent Bush Campaign ads.
“Well, it turns out that a lot of these 9-11 family members are part of a political organization that is funded in part by Teresa Heinz-Kerry! Well, this stuff is incestuous! You know, these people are poisoned. They have literally been poisoned by their hate. They have been poisoned by their rage. It is unbelievable, the depths to which they will sink.
Here, for those of you that weren't here on Friday, this is the montage. I'm just going to play it one more time. This is two different women, and they appeared on four networks: CNN, MSNBC, CNBC, and NBC, and they each have three phrases that they use verbatim. And these were prepared. These were prepared by Democratic campaign consultants. In fact, these women sound like campaign consultants, not grieving family members, and I was reluctant to make this charge; it's the first thing that crossed my mind. As I say, we've now learned all the organizational effort that's going on behind this and these people are indeed aligned with the Democratic Party…”
Limbaugh later, while not identifying the women making the quotes, plays excerpts from several TV interviews:
“Here, listen to this montage in case you missed it on Friday, and understand that these family members are actually part of the Democratic Party machine, as they do this.
VOICE I: I think for someone like President Bush who has not cooperated with this commission, who has stonewalled this commission.
VOICE II: This president and his administration blocked the creation of the commission, have stonewalled the commission.
VOICE I: If this was realistic from the morning of September 11th, it would show President Bush before a group of school children listening to them read, while the twin towers were burning.
VOICE II: If he wants to show a picture of 9-11 depicting what he was doing, it should be a picture of him sitting and reading in a classroom to school children. That's where he was on 9-11.
VOICE I: And we need to find out why 3,000 people were murdered on his watch.
VOICEII: Well, you know, this happened on his watch.”
[The transcript for the show had a link, Listen to Rush, so Allan clicked it and listened to the part of his show that the transcript covered. He discovered that Voice I belonged to Kristen Breitweiser and that Voice II belonged to Monica Gabrielle.]
[Kristen Breitweiser and Monica Gabrielle are both members of the Family Steering Committee for the 9-11 Commission and are not members of the group Limbaugh claims received funding from Teresa Heinz Kerry. That group, according to news reports that began hitting the wires on March 6th was September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows.]
We can only assume that Limbaugh made the illogical leap that Kristen Breitweiser and Monica Gabrielle were members of Peaceful Tomorrows from the above articles. They are not mentioned as members, so I can't logically understand why he lumped their quotes together with his criticism for Peaceful Tomorrows. I guess in his own twisted mind, all 9-11 Family Members who opposed the Bush ads must all belong to the same organization and that they are all controlled by the Democrats and funded by Teresa Heinz Kerry.
So, it appears as though the above articles and Rush Limbaugh's statements on his show were WRONG all along. Not only were Kristen Breitweiser and Monica Gabrielle slandered on the air, but September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows was also libeled in the press. So much for objective reporting and vetting facts by the "giant Wurlizer" corporate media.
For your information, I am one of the widows you are wrongly accusing of being "schooled" by the Democratic Party.
My name is Kristen Breitweiser. I am not a Democrat. I voted for President Bush. So did my husband who was killed on 9/11.
I would encourage you to educate yourself on who I am, prior to your making erroneous statements about me on your radio show.
I would also encourage you to visit the website of the 9/11 Family Steering Committee(911independentcommission.org) of which I am a founding member.
The members of the Family Steering Committee (a non-partisan, completely self-funded organization) have been tireless advocates working to get answers as to why our loved ones were killed on the morning of 9/11 and why this nation was so very vulnerable to terrorism on that horrible day. In order to make this nation safer and to ensure that our loved ones were not killed in vain, we believe that we must learn from the tragic failures that occurred leading up to and on 9/11.
The only way we can be safe in the future is to learn from the past. The only way we can have a thorough examination of the past is with a cooperative government. Sadly, President Bush has been our biggest adversary in trying to find out what happened on 9/11. And, after voting for him in the last election, I am gravely disappointed in his behavior in fighting this commission and their noble efforts to explain why we as a nation were so vulnerable to terrorism on 9/11.
I look forward to your apology.
Many thanks,
Kristen Breitweiser.
And, as an aside, you failed to mention the following actual fact in your show: that Mayor Giuliani, Police Commissioner Kerik, Former Fire Commissioner Von-Essen, and 9/11 Widow Deena Burnett were "BOOKED" BY THE GOP to go on those shows. (See Washington Post article on Friday). I, on the other hand, was "booked" by no one other than myself. Frankly, Mr. Limbaugh, I expected better from you.
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[Response from Monica Gabrielle]
Dear Mr. Limbaugh,
My name is Monica Gabrielle. I was forwarded a transcript of your recent radio show. Plain and simple – I expect an apology for your false statements and erroneous accusations.
In order to enlighten you:
- NO Democratic or other party member “schooled” me or prepared my statements! To date, I have been quite capable of thinking for myself.
- Neither I, nor the Family Steering Committee has received ANY FUNDING from ANY person or organization. We are a completely non-partisan, self-funded organization.
We have worked tirelessly for over 2 years to have the facts surrounding the 9/11 attacks and the murder of my husband along with 3,000 other innocent people brought to light. Until we know why we, as a nation, were left so utterly exposed, we will remain at risk. In order to accomplish such a lofty goal, we need to thoroughly examine what protocols and procedures were in place prior to and on 9/11. We need to find out where the breakdowns occurred.
Thus, ALL persons (BOTH political parties, BOTH past and present administrations) with any relevant knowledge need to share what they knew, when they knew it. Only then can we truly find where the failures occurred and correct them. Can we – as a nation – demand any less?
Sadly, President Bush and his administration have been staunchly opposed to any type of investigation into the murder of 3,000 innocent souls (not to mention the billions in property damage). This, to me, is unimaginable. Who wouldn’t want to know how and why all our defensive postures failed so miserably on 9/11? Who wouldn’t want to know that these “flaws” have been properly fixed? Who wants to have the same person/protocol in place today if it didn’t work on 9/11? Who wants to be the victim’s family member speaking up the next time tragedy strikes?
We, as citizens with the help of the 9/11 Independent Commission, have an opportunity to examine and hopefully correct the flaws which led to the horrors of 9/11 . We need to seize this opportunity – together – to make us all safer and quell some of the nightmares.
These are just a few of the issues which should have been debated on your program. More are available on our website (www.911independentcommission.org). The attacking of 9/11 families with false, inflammatory statements is beneath even you. Unfortunately, it accomplishes nothing and serves only to avoid the real issues.
I respectfully await your apology.
Sincerely,
Monica Gabrielle
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As for Rush Limbaugh, it takes a real man to bash widows who are only searching for the truth as to how and why their husbands were murdered. They have a right to be angry at President Bush for using images of 9-11 in his ads, since as Commander-In-Chief of our military on 9-11, our entire national defense broke down and over 3,000 innocent people were killed while he sat in a classroom reading a story to a bunch of kids about a freakin goat.
Limbaugh's courage is legendary though, as he himself endured his own private hell during the Vietnam War by having to sit on a purple boil caused by an ingrown hair that kept him from serving with his brothers like John Kerry who only came back with a Purple Heart. Rush keeps firing away wildly and blindly from the safety of his studio though at a rat-a-tat-tat pace, picking off and impugning the character of good people like Kristen Breitweiser and Monica Gabrielle…people of real character that Rush shouldn't even have the right to share this planet with.
Shame on you Rush! Don't you have any sense of decency?
Allan Duncan is a former Social Worker and police officer, looking for work, who lives in New Hope, PA. This article is copyright by Allan Duncan ADuncan282@aol.com originally published by opednews.com Permission is granted to forward this or to place it on a website as long as the article is included intact, including this statement
