Media Research Center notes the absence of media interest in widows of terrorist attacks prior to this year:
For weeks now, the networks have celebrated a very selective set of widows to dish out their anti-Bush outrage, and ignored the families who support President Bush. On the day of Rice’s testimony, NBC and then MSNBC championed four women known as the "Jersey Girls," who uniformly hate Bush, especially Kristen Breitweiser, who has coldly and routinely declared that 3,000 Americans were "murdered on Bush’s watch."
Meanwhile, a Nexis search quickly shows that NBC has aired no news story with the words "widow" and the U.S.S. Cole, where terrorists killed 17 Americans in 2000. NBC aired no news story with the words "widow" and the embassy in Kenya, where terrorists killed 12 Americans in 1998. NBC aired no news story with the words "widow" and the Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia, where terrorists killed 19 Americans in 1996. These grieving families have never been given a nationwide TV platform on NBC to express their opinions on how the Clinton administration handled investigations of those incidents.
I saw one of the widows on MSNBC last night. She insinuated that Attorney General Ashcroft and his family were warned not to fly on September 11 and she wanted to get to the bottom of who was responsible for 9/11.
I don't know about the first part, but I'm pretty sure that the answer to the second part is "Islamofascist terrorists."
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