Did America Overreact to 9/11? (At Least One MSNBC Host Thinks So)
- Posted on May 4, 2011 at 7:52am by
Mike Opelka
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Did you know that America ‘overreacted’ to 9/11?
Another day, another ‘spit take’ caused by MSNBC.
Lawrence O‘Donnell’s nightly show on the cable channel features an opinion segment called ‘Rewrite.’ Tuesday‘s ’Rewrite’ was also an attempt to rewrite history.
Like many folks on both sides of the aisle, Mr. O‘Donnell wants to find a way to associate the ’good news‘ part of Bin Laden’s death with his political party of choice while also managing to lay blame for any bad elements of this event on the opposition. Supporters of GITMO and the enhanced interrogation techniques like waterboarding are proudly stating, we would still be looking for OBL were it not for these tools of war. CIA Chief Leon Panetta admitted that information from Waterboarding helped in locating bin Laden.
Last Word’ Larry disagrees and also wants us all to know that America overreacted to 9/11. See it and hear it with your own ears.
You have to wonder how the families of those who lost husbands and wives, children, brothers and sisters, lovers, etc. will feel when they hear that America ‘overreacted’ to the violent murder of their family members?
The comment about overreacting was not the main focus of this piece, that was merely a political aside. ‘Rewrite’ from Tuesday night had a bigger lesson in mind, that lesson;
If only we had elected John Kerry and not George W. Bush.
Quoting Lawrence O’Donnell;
Everything John Kerry said was right. Everything. And some of it was even a bit visionary. The part about quote, engagement in the Middle East economically, socially, culturally in a way that we haven’t embraced. That carries more than a hint of seeing the possibility of the arab spring uprisings in Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen and Syria that we are now so desperately trying to find a way to engage and embrace. As a President, Kerry would have had us begin doing six years ago.
Is this a classic case of ‘woulda-shoulda-coulda?’
Does Lawrence O’Donnell actually believe that back in 2004, John Kerry envisioned the current wave of revolution sweeping the Middle East? Or that Kerry would not have authorized additional troops requested by generals, because that would be an overreaction?
And finally, one has to wonder if O’Donnell realizes the fact that his wistful election of John Kerry to the Presidency in 2004, probably would have prevented an Obama victory in 2008.
(Statistical sidebar that relates to America‘s ’overreaction’: In just two years and four months of the Obama Presidency, we have lost over 920 American lives fighting in Afghanistan. During the seven plus years of the Bush administration, American casualties numbered just under 650. No death of an American soldier is to be politicized or trivialized. We honor their sacrifice and send our condolences to their families. These numbers are here for factual support only.)
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Comments (260)
paulsfam4
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 8:36amits because of george w. bush that bin laden is dead. only thing obuma did was sign off on the go ahead typical libs rep do the work and libs want the credit
Report Post »We Are Not Alone
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 8:45amAgreed, George did all the heavy lifting, the generals told obama what needed to be done and he just said ‘present’ again…..
GOD BLESS OUR MILITARY AND THE GOOD OLD USA
Report Post »rekindle america
Posted on May 5, 2011 at 1:21amThanks G.W and the Seals people committed to the Country.
Report Post »Sinista MACE
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 8:32amWell, for one, we shouldn’t have turned our focus towards the middle east after 9-11, but instead turned our focus INWARDS towards the corrupt federal government who actually perpetrated the attacks.
We could’ve saved a lot of lives and money that way…
Report Post »Itchee Dryback
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 8:55amDamn straight…everyone knows that fire never melted steel..it’s impossible! Any blacksmith can tell you that.
Report Post »Power To The People! Hey! Hey! Ho! Ho!..USA has got to go!
/s
Sinista MACE
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 9:36amPower to the People.
Report Post »Proud American Lady
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 10:36amYou Ignorant person…. USA has to go! Why don’t you go live in Syria or Iraq or Afghanistan if you hate this country so much, I’m sure they would welcome you with open arms and then cut your ignorant head off!!!
Report Post »Islesfordian
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 10:51amProud American Lady,
It is clear ITCHEE was being sarcastic. You guys really need to pause a little and analyze the comments more.
Report Post »Sinista MACE
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 11:25amI’m sorry, just because I don‘t buy the official story doesn’t make me antiamerican or hate America.
It does make you an idiot, however, and a kool-aid drinking sheep.
Report Post »Rickfromillinois
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 12:58pm9-11 was done by the Government? Another crazy conspiracy theorist. The nutjobs are coming out.
Report Post »Rickfromillinois
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 1:05pmNo it makes you a nutjob. “The government did it”. Let me ques what’s next, “They are controlled by the Illuminati, or international banks, Jews, space aliens, or a number of other “secret” organizations. Fortunately most people give you and others like you all of the consideration you are entitle to and just consider you semi funny jokes.
Report Post »Sinista MACE
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 2:14pmNo, RICK, it makes you an obsessed troll that follows me around from thread to thread making the most ridiculous comments as if you can shout me down or humiliate me into silence.
It won’t ever happen, so continue your trolling.
I hope whoever is paying you is getting their money’s worth, or that the attention you’re gleaning from me is satisfying to you on some level of your arrested development.
Continue to drink your official kool-aid. Peon.
Report Post »The Gooch
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 8:28amI love this game: “If we just had the right chuckle head at the helm (READ: MY GUY), those Muslims would ADORE us!” Ah, the wet brained musings of the historically and religously ignorant.
Report Post »Michael Scheur just reiterated with the death of Bin Laden what I’ve been trumpeting for years: We may continue to pretend that the West is not at war with Islam, but a significant number of Muslims (i.e., most) sure as hell believe they are at war with the West. Islamic fascists wake up in the morning and hit their toe on a camel turd… it‘d be John Kerry’s fault if he was the POTUS. There is no diplomacy that will cure crazy.
Larry is prattling… as Larry is wont to do. Idiot. Yep. The world needs more Neville Chamberlains.. that brand of naivete never goes south for the world. I mean, by Larry’s assessment, WW II was also an overreaction. Right….
mikester8888
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 8:28amMSNBC=Comcast Cable, I am requesting from all of the Tea Party members that if you dont have satellite television then maybe its a good time to cut your expensives! I personally have saved hundreds a year by dropping them. Anybody who could own such a station will not get a dime of mine!!!!
Report Post »Arc
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 8:26amSome questions for O’Donnell..
Where, in the world, is there a “socialist society” that has a sucessful government that is enjoyed by the majority of the people?
What institute of “higher learning” did you attend that taught ” ARROGANCE?
Are your MSNBC mates (Chrissy and Eddie) socialist also?
Report Post »Islesfordian
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 8:25amIt’s a watse of time defending Bush. Bush is irrelevant. And frankly, the more distance I get from him the more I can see the annoying arrogance others complained about. But that was yesterday. We don’t need to defend him anymore. What we should defend is the tactics he used that resulted in Osama’s capture. We should be focussed on the state of the Islamic threat NOW and how much it still exists.
It is clear that liberals like Larry want to believe the hype about the “Arab Spring” and ignore the factor of the Muslim Brotherhood, the fundamentalist turn of Turkey, the loss of Egypt as a peace partner. Killing Bin Laden was a huge psychological coup. It has massive symbolic value. But the Jihadist world can fuel itself with that value almost as easily as be deflated by it. The war is far from over. Defending Bush’s honor will only be a distraction from the real battle ahead.
Report Post »windycitywoman
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 8:23am@commonsenseguy, yeah I have struggled with watching Bill lately as well. I think I am going to see if I can get my news elsewhere. I have not noticed that he has leaned left tho??
Report Post »UpstateNYConservative
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 8:22amO’Donnell is simply in the reelect-Obama campaign mode. The MSM was so in the back pocket of the Dems who, for years, assailed Bush at every turn. Bush is now vindicated, to some degree at least, by his decisions that eventually got bin Laden. Every one of those choices was lambasted by the Left on an almost-hourly basis–up to and including Reid declaring the war is lost– but Obow needed all those assets to get our enemy.
If Larry O wants to politicize 9/11, let him. He’s only making the MSM and other libs look more hypocritical than before.
Report Post »conservativemom99
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 8:17amYeah, we overreacted…like a mother bear overreacts to someone coming between her and her cub.
Report Post »WestOfThePecos
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 8:59amThe bear will only attack the source of the threat, not every other animal in the woods.
Report Post »jeff.cooper
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 8:16amOh my god! Kerry’s “plan” was, and I quote, “A smarter plan.”
Report Post »Kerry never specifically outlined any plan for Bin Laden. He talked in generalities throughout the campaign to contrast himself from President Bush. O’Donnell should “Rewrite” that segment and review his notes.
adimeroll
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 8:15amThe people suffer from a dishonest press. The media with an agenda that is based on falsehoods can corrupt the minds of its readers or followers to the point that the readers can no longer recognize the truth. They are more harmful to a population than an army for they defeat reason..They are the true enemy. Patronize them and you support their positions…………..
Report Post »Ironeagle
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 8:12amMarxist traitor.
Report Post »windycitywoman
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 8:08amWe celebrated death/assassination like we were at the super bowl, per the priest on the Bill O’Reilly show last night and I agree with him. We claim to be a Christian country and acted just like the Middle East when one of our own is killed. Scripture is not there to follow just when you agree with it. I am ashamed that I took got caught up in all of this and I am grateful my pastor quickly put my feet back on the ground by asking me, “I wonder if God’s justice is the same as ours…”. He is right as usual. I was also very disappointed to see Bill out right disrespect his priest. Not to mention Bill was completely wrong ( on several issues) quoting, “Give onto Cesar what is Cesar’s”, that scripture is referring to money and money only.To add to that scripture, “obey the President” is called assegais. He added an idea to scripture that was not there in print. The point is would Jesus have celebrated his enemies death in such a way?? No! Jesus said, “I tell you, love your enemy!” I will be praying for Bill to set his ego aside and let God be the judge of OBL not us.
Report Post »commonsenseguy
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 8:16am@windycitywoman, don’t hold your breath, bill, has an ego that is way bigger that life, he has gone left on us here as of late ,can’t even stand to hear him talk any more. pinhead or patriot ???
Report Post »Itchee Dryback
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 8:31amwindycitywoman
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 8:08am
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Brainwashed or willfully ignorant?..Doesn’t matter..one is just like the other.
Your premise is false imo.
Report Post »momprayn
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 9:02amWith all due respect, the priest was wrong….but O‘Reilly wasn’t correct in defending it by quoting the verse about Caesar. The command to “do not kill” is correctly interpreted “murder”,….not just “kill” as all Jews know. It was acceptable to God and even commanded to have them kill certain enemies in “just” wars and that did not change with the coming of Jesus. It’s a command not to kill someone that is “innocent”. Yes, you “love” your enemies & pray for them but we are also told not to tolerate evil and yes, there are “just” wars where God expects you to kill your enemies out of necessity/justice. With your & the priests mindset, we would never have had the Revolutionary War, WWII and wouldn’t be here today – free as God wanted. God recognizes that sometimes you have to have wars & kill people. This principle is also true when it comes to the death penalty – they did that all the time to keep order/justice in society. And may I say, this isn’t the only issues that people/priests are wrong about that is destructive & is only part of the problem and not the solution.
Report Post »The Eradicator
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 9:08amI believe in the Almighty God myself, but make no mistake, this is war. The goal of war is to prevent and compromise your enemy. We have compromised Osama bin Laden. This is a huge victory for the US Military and this country. It represents closure to those who lost their loved ones on that day. Yes, he will be judged by God, not man, but at the end of the day, we have should all be glad this man has been removed from the earth. I am very happy that we accomplished something that has been an objective of this country’s for some time now. God bless the USA!
Report Post »Islesfordian
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 9:15amI think you mean eisogesis rather than assegais. Eisogesis means reading meaning INTO the text rather than OUT of it, which exegesis does.
But you are right, Bill does that frequently. His knowledge of Scripture is not great, and no one, even himself, would call him a DEVOUT Christian. I didn’t watch the segment myself but I can imagine the finer points of Christian ethics going right over his head.
Still, to say that we acted “just like a Middle Eastern country” is, I think, unfair. We did not rejoice in the death of a man simply because he was our enemy but because he was a great murderer. Read some of the psalms and you will see that a desire for justice is strong and not ungodly. “How long?” is a cry that goes up to God frequently in Scripture. The relief felt at long suffered injustice finally being answered should not be disparaged.
Report Post »peter008
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 10:01amI am a Christian, and I do follow the commandment to Love my enemy, but I also want justice to prevail. Just because I love my enemy doesn’t mean that crimes must go unpunished. I love my friends and family more. Hopefully you will never have a loved one murdered, and if that ever happened would you let him go?
Report Post »Outlaw_Josey_Wales
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 8:07amSo why didn’t Obama gun down Gaddafi, instead of going to war with Libya?
Report Post »smak
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 8:28amWe don‘t assasinate country’s leaders.
Report Post »WestOfThePecos
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 8:48amGood question. Why? What is our foreign policy anyway? I’m confussed. I do believe we (USA) have the best covert tools (men and equipment) in the world. Why aren’t we using them more?
Report Post »alrunner58
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 8:07amWhy get upset? Larry has no creditability.
Report Post »smak
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 8:24amThe right has been upset for over two years.
Report Post »ClinkinKY
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 8:06amI wish that I watched O’Donnell, so that I could “overreact” and turn him off.
Report Post »starman70
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 8:06amNo wonder MSNBC is the MOST least watched cable channel in the USA. With idiots like this, it is more like the lunatics running the asylum.
I wonder how he would have felt if his son or daughter had been killed in one of the towers.
Report Post »smithclar3nc3
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 8:17amAnd they wonder why the have ratings lower than the SPAM network all canned meat all the time.
Report Post »rose-ellen
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 9:31amDidn’t God tell these Arabs and Viet namese and everyone else we killed that only we have the right to kill people.Thinn skinned hypocrites-Osama gave you a taste of your own medicine and upset the apple cart of america committing mass murder with impunity.He will always be remembered for that and you only delude yourselves if you believe the world is unaware of the fact that you are a terrorist nation yourselves responsible for the deaths of men women and childtren throughout the last century and into this centuyt.Osama knew it and so does every one else and hehis legacy as the avenger of the millions victimized by the mass murdering americans lives on.
Report Post »PatrioticAmericanDad
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 8:06amI would like to offer to buy him a one-way ticket to Mecca. At least he sounds intelligent.
Report Post »commonsenseguy
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 8:04amoverreacted, tell that face to face to all the thousands of American families who lost love ones on that dreadful day, you are a communist supporting coward, if i could punch you in the mouth for all the lives lost on 9-11 and all those lost fighting for freedom since, it would be a great day in this country also0,because there would be one less commie here to spew crap,if you love kerry and obama so much and hate this country so bad ,HIT THE ROAD YOU COMMIE.
Report Post »rose-ellen
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 10:55amCommie ,dung head etc., all you can do is impotently rail against any one who correctly calls you what you are;american mass murderers.Meanwhile you can’t speak your mind in the media ,you can and have tortuured and killed maybe millions of arabs but they are still here doing there thing and will not go away. Osama’s legacy lives forever.And Obama’s gonna be the next president-another cost of having killed the martyr for his people-the one and only : Osama.
Report Post »smithclar3nc3
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 11:07amROSE
Report Post »What mass murders and where? What do you call a religious group who target heavily populated civilian areas,who hide among the civilians use them as shields and unwilling martyrs to try and gather more recruits under the guises of a religious prophecy. I would call you idiotic but that‘s simply not enough you’re delussional and need some serious psychiatric care to put it mildly.
Lloyd Drako
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 1:43pm“Tell that face to face to all the thousands of American families who lost love[d] ones on that dreadful day.” Fair enough, but what of the thousands of American military families who have lost loved ones in Afghanistan and Iraq in unnecessary wars in the decade since?
True, Osama declared “war” on the US, but since when do you allow your enemies the nature of your reaction? This was a crime, not a Pearl Harbor-style attack carried out by a sovereign nation. Reacting to it was always a job for small, special ops teams acting on human intelligence, not for massive military operations costing hundreds of billions, wasting thousands of lives and making America look blundering and clueless.
“Look first to the rectification of names,” said Confucius. The name “War on Terror” has confused us about the real nature of the threat. Osama has paid for his crime, but the nature of our response to it has severely weakened and divided America.
Rose-Ellen: we have not tortured and killed “millions” of Arabs! Dial down the rhetoric and make your case less offensively, and you will make it more effectively!
Report Post »obama-mecca-me-sick
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 3:16pmIts useless to reason with the @$$ wipe. Ignore the commie agitator and it will go away.
Report Post »beckisnuts
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 8:03amBeck may be nuts, but talk that we over reacted about 9/11 is just plain insane. I would like the opportunity to over react on that idiot in the boxing ring.
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 8:33amA rational comment? You OK?
Report Post »beckisnuts
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 8:39amIt’s not a joking matter kid.
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 8:50amWrong, you’re a joking matter, kid.
Report Post »Islesfordian
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 8:56amProof possitive that O’Donnell is an idiot.
We‘re all O’Donnell despisers now. Good to have you with us.
Report Post »beckisnuts
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 9:50amAw gee whiz. Gonzo doesn’t like me.
Pizz-off kid.
Report Post »beckisnuts
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 9:52amMy pleasure islesF. O Donnell’s perception of the US certainly puts him on the far left fringes. And he does have that face that says “Go ahead. Punch me. I’m an idiot and I deserve it.”
Report Post »obama-mecca-me-sick
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 10:23amSomeone must have hijacked BECKISNUTS screen name.
Report Post »beckisnuts
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 10:33amA lot of conservatives think Beck is nuts. Where have you been?
Report Post »rose-ellen
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 12:29pmAmericans carpet bombed country after country and has tortured countless people.Keep dreaming that when we murder people it’s not really murder. Osama knew otherwise and took a stand against our brutal murdering nation.We’re the biggest terrorist nation on eart and a dangerous threat to humankind.
Report Post »beckisnutsisnuts
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 5:10pmRose-Ellen – why are you off your meds again?
Report Post »smithclar3nc3
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 8:00amHow long will it take for the far left to bring up charges of murder against the soldier that shot an unarmed Usama
Report Post »IMPEACHBHO
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 8:05amIt’s Osama. Funny, isn’t it? How the STATE run media changer the spelling of his name, so as not to make litte Caesar look bad.
Report Post »IMPEACHBHO
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 8:13amFull name: Osama bin Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden
Any “news” you read the spells it Usama should NOT be trusted.
Report Post »smithclar3nc3
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 8:15amThe FBI spelled his name Usama since he has been on their watchlist.
Report Post »http://www.fbi.gov/wanted/wanted_terrorists/usama-bin-laden
Just because some backwood liberal journalist spelled in different it doesn’t make it correct.
By the that same Media you refered to also said the Qu’ran is spelled Koran.
Either way how long do you think it will be before some radical socialist,communist tries to put the U.S. Military on trial for shooting an unarmed man aka murder?
smak
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 8:19am@ IMPEACHBHO
Report Post »It’s Osama. Funny, isn’t it? How the STATE run media changer the spelling of his name, so as not to make litte Caesar look bad
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Fox News spells it Usama, not the MSM.
Gonzo
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 8:32amsmithclar3nc3
Report Post »I agree, law inforcement referred to him as UBL for years. OBL is the new version.
Islesfordian
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 8:42amYour point highlights the one true objective absurdity of O‘Donnell’s comment. The action to capoture and kill Osama was in no way like a police action. Just because they used weaponry comparable to what police use domestically means nothing. Real police actions follow the law and obtain legal permission. Justified or not, we clearly violated the sovereign territory of Pakistan and deliberately killed a civilian.
I have no problem with our doing that, but let‘s be clear that’s what we did. We did it because we wanted to and we could. Raw unilateral action, Cowboy style. Eat THAT O’Donnell.
Report Post »rose-ellen
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 9:25amHe‘s a war criminal on par with the nazi’s and that is the kind of people we have become.Our religion is nationalism and we’re the biggest terrorists on the planet.OPsama understood that and acted to defend his people.He was a mass murderer but we’re the biggest mass murderers on the planet carpet bombing viet nam,Afghanistan, bombing iraq and propping up mass murdering dictators who do our bidding].
Report Post »smithclar3nc3
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 11:00amRose you are a nut case no nation is history has done more to shelter civilians and promote liberty from genocidial madmen than the U.S.. Now one can argue to what means this serves America or the U.N. but you can’t deny it.
Report Post »Usama’s beef with us was an ideological one to him to spread freedom is to spread satan. To give the power of choice to the individual is to give satan the keys to the world. There is to no room under Usama or radical Islams views of their qu-ran sharia doctrine. It’s do or die.
To think other wise is to place doubt where none exist.
techengineer11
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 12:24pm“Usama’s beef with us was an ideological one to him to spread freedom is to spread satan.”
No from what I’ve heard and what I read in the 9/11 report Osama’s beef with America was our military bases in Arabia and our financial and military support of Israel. But it’s safe to say that what we call Freedom in America is tranlsated into rampant murder, rape, thievery, drug use and porn addiction in other places in the world. They don’t understand that America use to be the home of Liberty and that our morals were a beacon and an example to the rest of the world.
Rose-Ellen: There’s nothing Nationalistic about what these Neo-Cons are doing to my country. They are snakes and are enemies of the US Constitution. I believe that their actions will soon become evident to the American people.
Report Post »smithclar3nc3
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 1:56pmTE11,
Report Post »Thanks you for proving my point while you tried to disprove it. Usama “beef” was ideological he ideological hatred of israel makes the freinds of his enemy his enemy as well. And the presence of American in the Muslim world mean women walking around without vails,walking by themselves,driving cars,and inspiring arab women to try and better themselves as well is a threat to the ideological tyrants of radical islam.Graduated form an online Engineering course didn’t you…lol
You couldN’T engineeer lionel trains. TECHNICALLY YOU’RE NO ENGINEEER BUT YOU ARE FULLY INEPT
techengineer11
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 2:59pmsmithclar3nc3: I have no idea what thought you just attempted to express.
But I told you what Osama’s beef was according to him and the 9/11 commission.
My opinion is that Osama was correct in that we should not have military bases in Arabia, the Middle East, and we should not be militarily and financially supporting the state of Israel. It‘s been said at least 1000 times on this site and I’ll say it one more time, Israel is not a part of the USA. It never was and it never will be. They are not entitled to our blood and treasure according to our Constitution. If you are a big proponent of the Jewish people then by all means send them your money or pack up and go seek citizenship but keep your ignorant misinformed Biblical views out of the conversation.
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 7:59amI hope we do overreact every time we are attacked. It keeps the number of attacks to a minimum.
Report Post »rose-ellen
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 10:12amOsaama’s legacy will live on forever.A billion Muslims live on and have nothing to say to you about Osama’s murder by the terrorist americans.They go about their business and there’s nothing you can do about it.
Report Post »warner
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 7:59amO’Donnell you are a coward and a communist! There is NOTHING about you that is filled with American pride or integrity. I loath you and your kind! We overreacted on 9/11 – are you kidding me? MSNBC when will you wake up that you are shooting yourself in the foot with these non-talented liberal but t kissers? This guy is pathetic and I would love for Seal Team 6 to talk to him about what it takes to be an American!
Report Post »Hephzibah
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 9:15amRemember when this evil didn‘t have the guts to show it’s ugly face so it slithered around in dark corners? You’d hear about it 2nd- or 3rd-hand, not watch it on your wall. I‘ll never understand why more people don’t turn off MSNBC, CNN, and the rest of the alphabet media forever when they hear things like this.
Report Post »Lucy Larue
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 5:03pmWARNER,
Well said!
O’Donnell is an admitted socialist and PROUD of it. But it goes beyond that.
He is a marxist. He is a moral relativist.
And like ALL of his ilk…,he is a COWARD!
There will never be enough THANK YOUs Seal Team 6.
Report Post »There will never be enough THANK YOUs unsung heroes in Intelligence
There will never be enough THANK YOUs brave Military.
kickagrandma
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 7:57amWell, honey, you’re just dumber `n dirt and useless as pig poop. I suggest you go live in the middle east somewhere, buy some robes and sit in the sand counting the fleas for about 10 years.
Then tell us how we over reacted, you sswp.
Report Post »commonsenseguy
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 8:08am@kickagrandma, at least pig pop can be use for shoving down communist throats,and dirt is great for growing american food in,so i don’t think he is that dumb,he is dumber that the worm turds and i agree he needs to take his commie but over there and let us see how long his but last.
Report Post »MrObvious
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 8:35amActually, he’s not so much dumb as insane. Nobody able to dress themselves and talk using words over one syllable long, in their right mind, would ever think we overreacted.
Report Post »rose-ellen
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 8:56amYou spent the whole twentyeth century committing mass murder and finsaly got a taste of it yourselves and with your thin skinn acted as if it was the first time innocent people died or political reason[Alquada was political,not religious].Since then you hace a new religion aaamerican nationism-even as you hypocritically put down other countries for being nationalistic.[it took them a thousand years to be nationistic,it took you thin skinned hypocrites 5 minutes].You now live a scizorhrenic existence-calling for genocide of Arabs on your blogs but not being able to do so in your media.You are the biggest threat to humankind on the planet and your mindset is akin to the nazi’s.Osama gave you a taste of your own medicine and will always be remembered for that.Now Obama is a shoe in so getting the defender of his people Osama does come at a cost to you right wingers.And them Muslims are free to occupy public spaces in this country wearing their Muslim garb and there’s nothing you can do about it.They have nothing to say, nothing to explain ,nothing to apologize for and are protected by our laws.Osama is dead [big deal -his legacy lives on-but a billion Muslims still live on this earth including some in this country in full Muslim regalia.The defender of his people shook the terrorist murderous americans from their complacency of believing they could act with impunity in the world.He made sure you'll never be complacent again-as you get felt up in your airports by your fellow americans].
Report Post »pavnvet
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 9:38amROSE ELLEN. Why don’t you just move to another country? You are a piece of pig dung.
Report Post »obama-mecca-me-sick
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 10:05amPlease dont respond to the piece of camel dung, that calls itself RoseEllen. It is really one of the commies from that rag called the Nation. You know, the talking heads that appear on State TV MSNBC.They take turns trolling on the Blaze to get reactions and then read them on their little crappy web news shows.It somehow justifies their existance to themselves and each other. Makes them feel their Marxist circle is bigger than it is.
Report Post »(I’m sorry I had to insult camel dung)
Ailene Wright
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 10:36amWe need an ignore button so we won’t have to see the vicious crap that RoseEllen and others of his/her ilk post.
Report Post »Lloyd Drako
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 12:45pmOverreaction? No, but definitely the wrong reaction.
In the aftermath of 9/11, we ought to have nuked Tora Bora, both to demonstrate our displeasure and to make sure that OBL and most of his closest henchmen would no longer infect the planet. Yes, innocents would have died, but it would have been quick.
But no, instead we had to attempt “nation building” in a country that for most of its history has been a collection of feuding warlords and tribes, an exercise in futility that defeated the British (twice), and contributed greatly to the collapse of the Soviet Union. Compounding that blunder, we then attempted the same thing in Iraq, which had had nothing to do with 9/11 but was a mostly Arab, Muslim country. Never let a crisis go to waste! In this case, a crisis was used to sell a gullible American public eager for payback on somebody, anybody in that general area of the world.
The ensuing wars have cost thousands of American lives, and hundreds of billions of dollars, almost all of it unfunded by adequate tax revenues. A good deal of our current national debt would not exist if Americans (excluding of course the military) had been asked to help pay for these military adventures. But all we were expected to do was shout patriotic slogans, be afraid, take off our shoes and settle for tiny little shampoo bottles at airports, and go shopping, instead of ponying up as a mature democracy ought to have done.
In this sense, O”Donnell is absolutely right.
Report Post »rose-ellen
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 1:16pmThank-you american military for complying with Sharia law and disposing of Osama’s body in compliance with that law.And thank you for making sure a billion Muslims know it.I guess it took 9 years of war and countless american deaths and injuries to make you submit to acknowledging that there are other people in the world and the world does not belong only to america.Another legacy of the defender of a billion Muslims-the one and only never to be forgoten- Osama! You did your job Osama.!
Report Post »crackerone
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 5:48pmLarry“The Gerbil”O’Donnell and transgender Rose Ellen! Nice couple!
Report Post »marhee9
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 7:55amThese nuts in the liberal media are the biggest enemy of the American people. Anyone who could say we overreacted to 9/11 is a very disturbed individual. Not that we didn‘t already know that about O’donnell. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCUYPR00D5A
Report Post »Polwatcher
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 7:58amThe next time it could be him on ground zero.
Report Post »IMPEACHBHO
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 8:00amIf we don’t change our socialist controlled media our freedom is over. Freedom cannot exist without a free press. If the STATE controls the media, the STATE controls the message, and YOU!!
Report Post »TexasCommonSense
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 8:07amWe didn’t have to over react to the attack on Pearl Harbor and the atrocities in Europe, either. We could all be speaking German and living under fascist rule instead. Yes, there were boobs like him around prior to WWII, too. These idiots are clueless.
Report Post »Obama Bin Lying
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 8:07amWhy is PMSNBC still on the air. Do you realize that if Mohammed Atta flew his plane into NBC headquarters in NYC he would be called a Hero today?
Report Post »Ironmaan
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 8:13amMy hope is that the when the next attack occurs, Mr. Oconnell and his family are the ones to be in the center of it. I realize that in our country we have the right of freedom of speech, but we don’t have the right to be heard. This moron should be fired again. Why must we continually hear stupid, asinine, ridiculous commentary like this?
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Posted on May 4, 2011 at 8:14amIt’s hard to respond to this crap anymore. The liberal media is just plain stupid and make no sense at all.
Report Post »seeker9
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 8:20amOverreaction to 9/11? Don’t think so.
Report Post »Overeaction is progs/dems running around like scalded chimps over $38B in budget cuts. Old people are goning to be murdered, children are going to starve. etc. That IS overreaction.
Ailene Wright
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 8:22amFind out who sponsors the show,call and complain,get others to do the same,threaten to not buy their products and don’t watch that channel. If they get enough complaints and it hurts them financially they might tone it down.
Report Post »WestOfThePecos
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 8:29amOur first reaction to 9/11 was on target. it sent a strong message back at the terrorist. However, the Iraq War was not on target because it was started for the wrong reasons.
Report Post »BIGJAYINPA
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 8:32amAny comment that I might make at this point will only be deleted by the Blaze censors. You all have imaginations so make up your own post here. Keep in mind I have 22 years of military service, I know all of the bad words in several different languages so go ahead and start thinking what I have to say about this moron and all the rest of the ******* media here:_______
Report Post »en2deep
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 8:37amAILENE WRIGHT I called, demon answered, said Satan was busy on the phone with the WH
Report Post »Highland
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 8:38amWhat if one of the hijacked planes had run into Rockefeller Center and killed every last NBC employee, would that have changed these MSNBC idiots’ minds? Naaa, I’m assuming they actually HAVE minds.
Report Post »jblovesAmerica
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 8:39amSaying it so-does not make it so.
Report Post »as liberals have their heads in the sand-it makes them more unbelievable daily.
almost funny if not so serious a flaw.
libs were given the keys“as GWB drove the car into the ditch”
BHO and his radical liberals have driven the USA off the cliff.
one question-are you happy with the way BHO has guided the country.
Gas at $4.00+ and rising-the economy sliding-and this nonsense of the rich-tax the rich-the rich do not care about $4.00 gas the rest of us do-and what is BHO doing about drilling and mining.-
Nothing nothing. what a joke.
HARDWORKPAYS
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 8:39amLarry and some of these other “liberals” are actually the biggest capitolists of all. He is willing to pose as anything in order to obtain fame and MONEY. Ironic.
Report Post »techengineer11
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 8:55amOver reaction is probably the biggest understatement of our lifetime. Instead of using an air craft carrier and taking out strategic targets in Afghanistan or Saudi? for 6 months to a year at a cost of probably 10s of billions of dollars, we chose to send our Armies across the globe to occupy a foreign sovereign nation for at least one decade, a couple of years later declaring War on another sovereign nation which had absolutely nothing to do with what happened on 9/11, creating the biggest security agency ever placed on earth called the DHS which includes the TSA, and passing the un Patriot Act which has the potential to become a nightmare for every Constitutional Red White and Blue flag waving American!!! Now the cost of these operates the last I heard was approaching a TRILLION and a half dollars, thousands of dead US soldiers, and tens of thousands of maimed soldiers, and a total and complete hatred from almost every corner of the globe of everything American for decades to come..
Now what have we got in return? Is everyone confident in the future of a free and democratic Iraq? I sure hope so… What about Afghanistan? You confident in the future of Afghanistan after we withdraw? Lol What about Israel? Do you think Arabs have a greater interest in the peace and security of Israel now than before 9/11?
So we have basically taken out the head of a terrorist organization and many of its minions at this very heavy cost to our Republic and in the process have probably created thousands of more just like them to carry on their mission.
We never addressed the root of the problem which according to OBL was our military bases in the Middle East and our support of Israel. In the end it’s been just a big colossal waste of American blood and treasure for nothing!! Nothing!!! And you fools are too blind to see it for what it is!
I can’t wait to hear how we are better off as a result of our actions from the War on Terror. Please inform me so I can join the celebrations.
Report Post »AzDebi
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 9:07am@48:
Report Post »“It’s hard to respond to this crap anymore. The liberal media is just plain stupid and make no sense at all.”
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You are right on! “Just plain stupid”…I would add….“Ignorance is bliss”…I’d love to have his JOB! I don’t think you could even call it work!
joseph Fawcett
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 9:12amWhy even give this guy the forum like this. I am sorry that I even clicked on this story. Blaze why? Why are you even bothering with people like this. You know that you only make them think that if they can say outrageous stuff like this that they will get attention/ratings. I will not even click on any story like this again. You are disappointing Blaze, give us real news, PLEASE. I come here to read real news not trash, this is trash. It has no news worthiness at all. Who the hell cares what this guy thinks. Stop covering what he says and then maybe he will go away or start saying something worth while. I though Glenn said that he hired the best reporter in the biz, and this is what we get??? Then, I have to wonder how far the News reporting biz has fallen. Blaze you are starting to go down in a Blaze if you think this is news worthy at all.
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grandmaof5
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 9:14amPOLWATCHER, if someone has to go (and God I pray we are never in that position again), better him than some innocent American that actually loves this country.
Report Post »Dustyluv
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 9:43amI did not write that earlier comment. Someone else gas my name with a different photo. What an a@2wipe. I think its SHOWTIME!
Report Post »Mike Z4000
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 9:47amDidn’t the same nut job criticize Bush for not reacting soon enough in the classroom? I would be embarrassed if I was his boss, who has to look sane people in the face on a daily basis!!! And explain that moron!!
Report Post »obama-mecca-me-sick
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 9:55amOK GUYS! ENOUGH of this idiot !!
Report Post »We need to take a play from Media Matters and mass harrass O’Donnells sponsors and MSNBC.
I tried to get a list of sponsors and was unsuccessful. Can anyone help? We need to call and clog their switchboards ,mail and e-mail complaints non stop. Send this commie to the land of Keith Olbermann and get him off the screen , so he is unable to influence any more weak minded people that watch MSNBC. He is a traitor to our country and its citizens and should be charged with treason.
Love Bandit Bestid
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 10:06amwe under-reacted.
Report Post »a few nukes should’ve flown.
13th Imam
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 10:08am@ Dustyluv
Report Post »In my previous screen name someone I pissed off mightily, put my name(with no picture) and the Blaze let it thru. Other posters asked if I had turned into SYBIL. the Blaze is lax at letting fakes use others screen names.
Good luck
mrzmac
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 10:25amI am not big into boycotts but I think it is about time that all Comcast subscribers let them know that they will become Direct TV or Dish TV users unless this piece of trash is not removed from their channels! Enough of this crap!
Report Post »ginsberg
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 11:08amI think any sane person can see that we were to quick to go to war in iraq. And as for that stat about deaths in afghanastan, how many people died in iraq under bush?
Report Post »True American66
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 11:17amM ain
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N ews
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C rackpots!
snidley-whiplash
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 11:21amSimple ………….end your script to cable, and satellite tv. Don’t buy any form of news paper.
Report Post »Pick and choose you news from the internet.
snidley-whiplash
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 11:23amYou might cancel you script to satellite radio also.
Report Post »techengineer11
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 11:25amCome on guys.. I thought for certain some of you Neo-Cons and FOX News followers would be able to explain to how these interventionist policies have strengthened America and how our 1.5 Trillion dollars of investment have brought us peace and prosperity for the forseeable future??
Report Post »Armed Patriot
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 12:10pmWho is Lawrence O‘Donnell and whats this thing called MSNBC??? Never heard of them.
Report Post »gotta light
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 12:19pmTodays REWRITE:
Lawrence O‘Donnell IS a Godless, Soulless, Socialist Fool pretending to be something he’s not!
And George W Bush is more “presidential” than Barrack Osama (oops lol Obama) will ever be.
Hey bud gotta light?
Report Post »anOpinion
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 1:42pmThe country did overreact in taking away our freedoms. I am still in disbelief that we have the TSA, and they are allowed to do what they do to people in the name of “safety”.
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
Report Post »Benjamin Franklin
cosette
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 1:44pm@Polwatcher——— If only!!!!!!!!!!
Report Post »mtorres20
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 2:13pmForget MSNBC. Barack Hussein Obama said to European Audience that the US overreacted to 911!! I am sure that has to be on the Intertnet just do Web Search for it or goto youtube. Hows that for taking the cake?
Report Post »chiefparker
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 2:28pmLibs are sooo predictable. They just take the opposite position of the conserves no matter how stupid it sounds or makes them look.
Report Post »seeker9
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 3:02pm@techengineer11
You think if we did nothing in response, or we closed bases and turned on Israel, we would now be prosperous? It has been said before, if you appease the agressor, you get more aggression. They would use any reason, no matter how flimsy, to hate us. We are the infidels to them, no matter how isolated from the Middle East we are.
Report Post »old white guy
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 3:37pmonce again i say the stupid shall inherit what is left of the earth.
Report Post »WTH
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 4:25pmLarry and MSNBC keep giving credence to my phrase that this time in history is the HYPOCRALYPTIC DOUCHEPOCALYPSE!
Who would ever want to be on the LEFT with this waste of space? The LEFT can keep this absolute fool and I hope he continues to spout his drivel. It will only show how out of touch and dead ass wrong on everything they really are.
Report Post »dustyluv
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 5:30pmIt’s not showtime… youre not even close dope !!!
Report Post »techengineer11
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 6:11pmseeker9: Wow. Having problems reading? Did I say do nothing? I said stage a Carrier in the Persian Gulf and strategically take out targets in Afghanistan and perhaps even Arabia where most of the supposed terrorists were from for 6 months to a year and then put the Intelligence agencies to work over there.. There’s no sane reason we had to occupy those nations.. Especially not Iraq.
As far as Israel goes I didn’t say turn our back on them but if we are going to arm them militarily enabling them to slaughter Palestinians and support them finanically enabling to project their power over the entire Middle East then expect Arabs in the area to not only oppose us but to attempt to fight us… I mean that‘s what I’d do if I were an Arab. Just saying..
Anyway, my proposal would have cost us maybe 100-200 Billion over a year and probably loss of no American lives. So who are we kidding? This was never about taking Al Quaida in Afghanistan.. lol
Report Post »hologram5
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 6:49pmOne word: BOYCOTT.
Report Post »Start sending letters and emails to his sponsors telling them we won’t buy their products until they pull their ads from this whack-job’s show. someone have a list? Or should I ask, does anyone here even watch his pathetic show? This cretin needs to be deported to the ME and let him live with them for a while. Man, what a moron. I wouldn‘t be surprised if a relative of someone killed there gave L O’D lead poisoning.
Hollywood
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 7:45pmAre Larry and Rosie related?
Report Post »Ever notice how Progs are constantly SPITTING their words out with twisted mouths,screwed up faces? What a sorry,sorry bunch!
DisillusionedDaily
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 9:03pmI have come to the opinion that MSNBC is the American based english language arm of Al Jezera. (I know I didn’t spell it correctly. I’m too damn tired to look it up!)
Report Post »Hollywood
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 10:26pmI still have it SEARED into my memory, seeing people jump out of the Twin Towers on 911.!!
Report Post »A President, who does NOT understand what it means to those who lost loved ones, to SEE that the BASTARD DEVIL who was behind this is dead, no longer has legitimacy to be President.
He cares more for Politics[correctness,election.islam, WHATEVER] than he cares for his own citizens. He has AUDACITY all right. The audacity to think HE knows what the American peopl ecan see,while he Spikes HIS victory at Ground Zero..
Conservatives,GOP,Tea Party, Independents, need to adopt a short, but appropriate MANTRA, as did Clinton with his “It’s the economy stupid”. Why not:” It’s the pictures STUPID”
This IS an incredibly stupid man! He manages to make himself look so self serving. SO SAD!
seeker9
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 10:46pm@techengineer11
So how do you decide which intelligence to believe? You would not believe the intel that WMD’s were in Iraq, but would rely completely on the the same intel organization to find targets in Afghanistan. Your scenario is after the fact, hence you can cherry pick facts to substantiate your fantasy operation. As long as we are in unicorn land, I could do it for half the cost that you could. Aren’t I grand?
Report Post »rekindle america
Posted on May 5, 2011 at 1:19amIn think the O in his name is some sort of code O Donnell, Obumer ,Osama Oprah They all have something in common. NO COMMON SENSE.
Report Post »Marcobob69
Posted on May 5, 2011 at 7:45amAnd if Kerry would have been elected, we would be using CATSUP, not KETCHUP! Heinz CATSUP, ‘cuz his wive needs the business!!!
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