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spanone

(135,637 posts)
Wed Apr 24, 2013, 06:52 PM Apr 2013

nbc nightly news '....and the fact there were no attacks on america after 911 under bu$h....

Last edited Wed Apr 24, 2013, 08:47 PM - Edit history (4)

is a lasting legacy'

paraphrasing, but this is the essence of what david gregory said in a piece on the former resident.

video: 48 seconds in.....http://www.nbcnews.com/video/nightly-news/51652088/#51652088

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The anthrax scare. Shortly after 9/11, letters laced with anthrax began appearing in the U.S. mail. Letters went to U.S. senators and news organizations. Before it was over, five Americans were killed and another 17 were injured. "The nation was terrorized in what became the worst biological attacks in U.S. history," according to the FBI.

The shoe bomber. In December 2001, admitted al-Qaida member Richard Reid boarded a plane in Miami with plastic explosives packed in special hollowed-out shoes. The bomb failed to ignite properly and no passengers were hurt. The incident, however, led to Americans having to remove their shoes during airport security screening.

The D.C. sniper case. John Allen Muhammad was convicted on capital terrorism charges for his part in the shooting of 16 people in and around the D.C. area in September and October 2002. Muhammad was executed last year. His 17-year-old accomplice, Lee Boyd Malvo, was sentenced to life in prison.

2002 attack against El Al ticket counter at LAX. Hesham Mohamed Hadayet opened fire at an El Al Airlines ticket counter at Los Angeles International Airport, killing two people and wounding four others before being shot dead. Media Matters found a 2004 Justice Department report that Hadayet's case had been "officially designated as an act of international terrorism."

Campus attack at UNC. In March 2006, a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill graduate drove an SUV onto campus, striking nine pedestrians. Reza Taheri-azar reportedly stated in a letter: "I was aiming to follow in the footsteps of one of my role models, Mohammad Atta, one of the 9/11/01 hijackers, who obtained a doctorate degree."


http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2010/jan/08/rudy-giuliani/giuliani-says-there-were-no-domestic-attacks-durin/
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nbc nightly news '....and the fact there were no attacks on america after 911 under bu$h.... (Original Post) spanone Apr 2013 OP
When it comes to GWB, they will lie and cover up their own Rex Apr 2013 #1
and of course Benghazi was so much more devastating that 9/11 malaise Apr 2013 #8
I am so sick of their lies and failures. Rex Apr 2013 #11
100% correct malaise Apr 2013 #16
I can't imagine giving that moran a library. Rex Apr 2013 #54
The Bush library is one of the great oxymorons malaise Apr 2013 #58
ELEVEN embassy attacks under bu$h adm spanone Apr 2013 #14
Freaking Perfect malaise Apr 2013 #17
sure, but were there any white people killed in those attacks? frylock Apr 2013 #20
9/11 was the worst terrorist attack on America and HE DID NOT protect us from it Dragonfli Apr 2013 #22
And the media and sheeple just keep repeating... pangaia Apr 2013 #33
"Richard Reid boarded a plane in Miami with plastic explosives" - You might check that. wercal Apr 2013 #2
you are correct. he tried to blow up a flight from paris to miami...my bad spanone Apr 2013 #5
And we have been paying for that, thanks TSA, ever since. eom snappyturtle Apr 2013 #31
They have their own version of history. lpbk2713 Apr 2013 #3
big media is going out of its way to push this idea into the "common knowledge" pool 0rganism Apr 2013 #4
Tampa, 2002? htuttle Apr 2013 #6
If we ignore 9/11, bu$h did a good job protecting us. No more "9/11" scale attacks. We were so SDjack Apr 2013 #7
and Dick!!!!! n/t Hotler Apr 2013 #44
Not to mention his sneering dismissal of Bin Laden DirkGently Apr 2013 #9
Aside from that, how was the play, Mrs Lincoln? NightWatcher Apr 2013 #10
Yes. They_Live Apr 2013 #38
the fact that 9/11 happened when it could have been prevented rurallib Apr 2013 #12
Yeah.. If you ignore SomethingFishy Apr 2013 #13
Yeah, so other than that...? Flatulo Apr 2013 #42
hey you lost home, your job, and your 401 Johonny Apr 2013 #15
None of those examples matters more than THE BIG ONE: 9/11/01 WAS ON BUSH'S WATCH. WinkyDink Apr 2013 #18
Contrary to the incessant whining of Republicans, there has never been a more media-coddled Downtown Hound Apr 2013 #19
I guess it's good that only 3K people died first Proud Liberal Dem Apr 2013 #21
Mrs Lincoln enjoyed the after-party too. Nr joeunderdog Apr 2013 #23
Please take a min to send him a comment here: rhett o rick Apr 2013 #24
I sent a comment aint_no_life_nowhere Apr 2013 #30
DONE..... chillfactor Apr 2013 #39
I sent my comment. RGinNJ Apr 2013 #53
Of course George Bush naturally required a year to adjust to the Presidency aint_no_life_nowhere Apr 2013 #25
The media are the problem. Octafish Apr 2013 #26
Did NBC say it, or a repuke from Arkansas named cotton? still_one Apr 2013 #27
edit david gregory said it...i'll post it when available***video*** spanone Apr 2013 #28
Sickening in the extreme. Boomerproud Apr 2013 #41
That is bad news and the station should be notified about falsehoods still_one Apr 2013 #52
it makes me want to puke. That this MASS MURDERER's ratings are going Laura PourMeADrink Apr 2013 #29
But, but,, butt.. butt.... pangaia Apr 2013 #32
Al Qeada didn't really need to. Turbineguy Apr 2013 #34
Plus countless attacks on our service men and women in Afghanistan and Iraq .... Scuba Apr 2013 #35
Didn't the Boston bombers give as their motivation the war in Iraq? aint_no_life_nowhere Apr 2013 #36
Still fluffing for dubya, huh you pathetic excuse for a journalist... truebrit71 Apr 2013 #37
David Gregory's reports always come off like job applications to FOX "News"... Spitfire of ATJ Apr 2013 #40
... Gidney N Cloyd Apr 2013 #50
Fort Hood usGovOwesUs3Trillion Apr 2013 #43
fort hood was during Obama adm. nov. 2009..... no one's trying to whitewash the Obama years. spanone Apr 2013 #46
my mistake usGovOwesUs3Trillion Apr 2013 #47
no problem, i had to look it up.... spanone Apr 2013 #48
when i think about the increase in terrorism around the world after bush started his crusade usGovOwesUs3Trillion Apr 2013 #49
"Fortunate Son" That is GW Bu$h. SammyWinstonJack Apr 2013 #45
DimSon. nm rhett o rick Apr 2013 #55
Revisionist history just in time for Bush the lessers Library, it had to happen. gordianot Apr 2013 #51
Why does the comparison start after 9/11 as opposed to the first day of Bush*s first term? Samantha Apr 2013 #56
And just never fucking mind 9/11, unless of course you are Rudy Gulliani. lonestarnot Apr 2013 #57
What chapped me, he said that the invasion of Iraq was because of faulty intelligence. raccoon Apr 2013 #59
Sounds like CN fucking N Blue Owl Apr 2013 #60
Well, there was the "financial 9-11" where Wall Street greed robbed us all blind Blue_Tires Apr 2013 #61
Katrina pilar007 Apr 2013 #62
 

Rex

(65,616 posts)
1. When it comes to GWB, they will lie and cover up their own
Wed Apr 24, 2013, 06:55 PM
Apr 2013

participation in the 2000/2004 selections...that is why I won't watch the M$M anymore, they are against The People of this country.

malaise

(267,834 posts)
8. and of course Benghazi was so much more devastating that 9/11
Wed Apr 24, 2013, 07:03 PM
Apr 2013

9/11 was the worst terrorist attack on America. Fuck these revisionists.

 

Rex

(65,616 posts)
11. I am so sick of their lies and failures.
Wed Apr 24, 2013, 07:08 PM
Apr 2013

9/11 was a monumental failure by the Bush administration, for them to pretend otherwise is living in deep denial.

Remember when we finally got OBL and John McCain poo poo'd on the POTUSs success? They KNOW they are full of shit and are trying like hell to find a way to impeach him!

They cannot handle the fact that 9/11 was the biggest national security failure in our history.



malaise

(267,834 posts)
16. 100% correct
Wed Apr 24, 2013, 07:36 PM
Apr 2013

When Obama got Bin Laden Cheney came out to claim it for Bushco.
Anyway they are so lucky that we had last week's attack just in time for the library opening.

 

Rex

(65,616 posts)
54. I can't imagine giving that moran a library.
Wed Apr 24, 2013, 11:50 PM
Apr 2013

Maybe they can dedicate it to literacy and social awareness in the name of irony.

spanone

(135,637 posts)
14. ELEVEN embassy attacks under bu$h adm
Wed Apr 24, 2013, 07:26 PM
Apr 2013

June 14, 2002, U.S. consulate in Karachi, Pakistan
Suicide bomber kills 12 and injures 51.

February 20, 2003, international diplomatic compound in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Truck bomb kills 17.

February 28, 2003, U.S. consulate in Karachi, Pakistan
Gunmen on motorcycles killed two consulate guards.

July 30, 2004, U.S. embassy in Taskkent, Uzbekistan
Suicide bomber kills two.

December 6, 2004, U.S. consulate in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
Militants stormed and occupied perimeter wall. Five killed, 10 wounded.

March 2, 2006, U.S. consulate in Karachi, Pakistan
Suicide car bomber killed four, including a U.S. diplomate directly targeted by the assailants.

September 12, 2006, U.S. embassy in Damascus, Syria
Gunmen attacked embassy with grenades, automatic weapons, and a car bomb (though second truck bomb failed to detonate). One killed and 13 wounded.

January 12, 2007, U.S. embassy in Athens, Greece
A rocket-propelled grenade was fired at the embassy building. No one was injured.

July 9, 2008, U.S. consulate in Istanbul, Turkey
Armed men attacked consulate with pistols and shotguns. Three policemen killed.

March 18, 2008, U.S. embassy in Sana'a, Yemen
Mortar attack misses embassy, hits nearby girls' school instead.

September 17, 2008, U.S. embassy in Sana'a, Yemen
Militants dressed as policemen attacked the embassy with RPGs, rifles, grenades and car bombs. Six Yemeni soldiers and seven civilians were killed. Sixteen more were injured.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/09/12/1130950/-If-diplomatic-attacks-are-a-sign-of-weakness-Bush-was-the-weakest-of-all

Dragonfli

(10,622 posts)
22. 9/11 was the worst terrorist attack on America and HE DID NOT protect us from it
Wed Apr 24, 2013, 07:52 PM
Apr 2013

They like to act as if 911 did not happen during his tenure, it was the first and the worst of the things he failed to protect us from.

I consider that to be the biggest revision of all, and they ignore it without even the slightest sense of irony as they claim he was the great protector of America from terrorism.

wercal

(1,370 posts)
2. "Richard Reid boarded a plane in Miami with plastic explosives" - You might check that.
Wed Apr 24, 2013, 06:57 PM
Apr 2013

He boarded in Paris.

0rganism

(23,856 posts)
4. big media is going out of its way to push this idea into the "common knowledge" pool
Wed Apr 24, 2013, 06:58 PM
Apr 2013

pretty soon, it will be the entirety of W's legacy -- "he kept us safer after 9/11!" that'll be how he's presented in history textbooks 20 years from now. Anyone who pulls out a list like the one you link to will be shouted down as a crank -- that's the goal anyway.

So very normal, so very untrue.

htuttle

(23,738 posts)
6. Tampa, 2002?
Wed Apr 24, 2013, 07:03 PM
Apr 2013
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2002_Tampa_plane_crash



Bishop had left a suicide note praising Osama bin Laden's September 11 attacks as a justified response to actions against "the Palestinian people and Iraqis" acting on behalf of Al Qaeda. But as officials could find no evidence of any connections, terrorism as a motive was ruled out, and they suggested that the crash was an apparent suicide. Bishop's mother filed a lawsuit claiming that an acne medicine had side effects such as depression and suicidal actions which was the cause of the incident.

SDjack

(1,448 posts)
7. If we ignore 9/11, bu$h did a good job protecting us. No more "9/11" scale attacks. We were so
Wed Apr 24, 2013, 07:03 PM
Apr 2013

lucky to have had him and Condi. /s/

DirkGently

(12,151 posts)
9. Not to mention his sneering dismissal of Bin Laden
Wed Apr 24, 2013, 07:05 PM
Apr 2013

in the first place. Ignoring the memo. Laughing off warnings as ass covering.

They'd like to pretendwe'd never heard of terrorism before 9/11. It wasn't even the first attack on the WTC.

rurallib

(62,346 posts)
12. the fact that 9/11 happened when it could have been prevented
Wed Apr 24, 2013, 07:14 PM
Apr 2013

the fact that we were in 2 unnecessary wars and paying for them by borrowing should mean something to NBC?
I doubt it, too.

SomethingFishy

(4,876 posts)
13. Yeah.. If you ignore
Wed Apr 24, 2013, 07:19 PM
Apr 2013

9/11, The Patriot Act, tax cuts for the wealthy, unpaid for illegal wars, the destruction of the middle class, torture, lies about WMD's, the near collapse of the economy and massive deregulation then Bush wasn't a bad president at all. Hell of a legacy.

Johonny

(20,684 posts)
15. hey you lost home, your job, and your 401
Wed Apr 24, 2013, 07:30 PM
Apr 2013

on the bright side 9/11 was the worse terrorist attack in the USA under Bush, not counting all those attacks on our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, but our troops don't count to people like Williams.

Downtown Hound

(12,618 posts)
19. Contrary to the incessant whining of Republicans, there has never been a more media-coddled
Wed Apr 24, 2013, 07:49 PM
Apr 2013

president than George W. Bush. And they're still at it.

Proud Liberal Dem

(24,355 posts)
21. I guess it's good that only 3K people died first
Wed Apr 24, 2013, 07:51 PM
Apr 2013

before the Bush (mis-)administration got their butts in gear and started caring about Al-Queda (at least for awhile)

I hate how GOP apologists gloss over 9/11 and pretend that Bush did a good job of "protecting America"

aint_no_life_nowhere

(21,925 posts)
30. I sent a comment
Wed Apr 24, 2013, 08:24 PM
Apr 2013

I really hope liberals, on which NBC and especially MSNBC depend so heavily, will occasionally flex their muscles in pointing out such outrageous falsehoods. I'd like to see us complain loudly enough where guys like Tweety and Rachel can't ignore it and are forced to cover it and apologize on behalf of their network.

aint_no_life_nowhere

(21,925 posts)
25. Of course George Bush naturally required a year to adjust to the Presidency
Wed Apr 24, 2013, 08:00 PM
Apr 2013

so 9/11 must be blamed on Clinton. And any terrorist attacks after that were clearly the responsibility of Obama who was already on the horizon and thinking about the Presidency, as George Bush was already tired and overworked and showing signs of stress from all the vacations and the massages he was giving.

Octafish

(55,745 posts)
26. The media are the problem.
Wed Apr 24, 2013, 08:03 PM
Apr 2013

Brian Williams gets seven figures out of Comcast. He'd carry George Bush's children, if he was so ordered.

 

Laura PourMeADrink

(42,770 posts)
29. it makes me want to puke. That this MASS MURDERER's ratings are going
Wed Apr 24, 2013, 08:17 PM
Apr 2013

up.

Wish Hollywood would produce more films showing how Cheney and Bush et al created a fake fucking war where hundreds of thousands died.

GRRRRRR

pangaia

(24,324 posts)
32. But, but,, butt.. butt....
Wed Apr 24, 2013, 08:30 PM
Apr 2013

WHAT ABOUT 9/11???
What's all this non sense about AFTER 9/11?
Does 9/11 not count, or something?
3000+ people !!!!

 

Scuba

(53,475 posts)
35. Plus countless attacks on our service men and women in Afghanistan and Iraq ....
Wed Apr 24, 2013, 08:43 PM
Apr 2013

... those are all on Bush!

aint_no_life_nowhere

(21,925 posts)
36. Didn't the Boston bombers give as their motivation the war in Iraq?
Wed Apr 24, 2013, 08:48 PM
Apr 2013

So these new deaths and injuries are also on Chimpshit.

 

truebrit71

(20,805 posts)
37. Still fluffing for dubya, huh you pathetic excuse for a journalist...
Wed Apr 24, 2013, 08:52 PM
Apr 2013


"other than your first monumental fuck-up, you did a great job!"

 

Spitfire of ATJ

(32,723 posts)
40. David Gregory's reports always come off like job applications to FOX "News"...
Wed Apr 24, 2013, 09:17 PM
Apr 2013

They'd hire him too if he didn't look like he just woke up after sleeping on his face.

 

usGovOwesUs3Trillion

(2,022 posts)
49. when i think about the increase in terrorism around the world after bush started his crusade
Wed Apr 24, 2013, 10:21 PM
Apr 2013

I get physically sick to my stomach. But that doesn't count to our MSM :shakes-head:

Samantha

(9,314 posts)
56. Why does the comparison start after 9/11 as opposed to the first day of Bush*s first term?
Thu Apr 25, 2013, 01:00 AM
Apr 2013

There are some, like me, who say 9/11 would never have happened on Gore's watch. So it seems sort of lopsided to start the clock ticking after 9/11....

Sam

raccoon

(31,092 posts)
59. What chapped me, he said that the invasion of Iraq was because of faulty intelligence.
Thu Apr 25, 2013, 08:17 AM
Apr 2013

No, it wasn't, Bush, Cheney, and the Neocons were hell-bent to invade Iraq.

Paul O'Neill (former Treasury Secretary) said in the book THE PRICE OF LOYALTY that from the time Bush was put in office, he and his minions were trying to think of an excuse to invade Iraq.

Blue_Tires

(55,445 posts)
61. Well, there was the "financial 9-11" where Wall Street greed robbed us all blind
Thu Apr 25, 2013, 12:39 PM
Apr 2013

and damn near burned down the country in the process; but no one ever has the stones to call that an "attack" on the American people...

pilar007

(81 posts)
62. Katrina
Thu Apr 25, 2013, 03:38 PM
Apr 2013

how much "safer" were the residents of New Orleans during hurrican Katrina? Im sure that work was not uttered. Remember the Alamo? Remember Katrina!!!!

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