Outraged Widows
This seemed pretty evident to me from the first day:
This seemed pretty evident to me from the first day:
To hear some folks tell it, families of the 9/11 victims have risen en masse to denounce President Bush for using brief images from Ground Zero in his campaign commercials....I saw the widows on the Today show and some other appearances, and they kept repeating the same talking points. You could tell they had an agenda.
But now it turns out that this whole furor is driven by a tiny group that's motivated by a far-left agenda and a festering hatred of the president - and has some quite dubious financial ties.
Leading the rhetorical charge has been an outfit called September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows - which, the group admits, has only a few dozen members and represents relatives of no more than 1 percent of the 9/11 victims.
More to the point, the group was formed specifically to oppose the entire War on Terror: Not just the campaign against Saddam Hussein, but also the toppling of the Taliban in Afghanistan....
They're people who are offended by anything this president does - and they are working hard to put John Kerry in the White House.
Remember that the next time you hear a news report about "widespread popular outrage."