Re: Flight 93 on A&E

fru1tbat@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

A friend asked me to record it last night, and I ended up watching
about 5 minutes of it... It was about 20 minutes in, when a mother who
apparently was the husband of some other main character first saw the
reports on TV about the attacks on the WTC. I was mildly appalled!

The fake news anchors on TV (voice only) had no emotion whatsoever, and
absolutely NONE of the solemnity or gravitas that I remember seeing and
hearing from the actual reporters on 9/11. I know it's a low-budget
movie, and fake-newsperson-dialogue might seem like something petty to
nitpick, but the dialogue dominated the scene for the few minutes I
watched, and it was SO poorly done that I found it disrespectful. They
sounded like they were commenting on a sporting event, not reporting on
a tragedy.

Boo, A&E. Booo.

(A snipet from Peggy Noonan)

On the subject of political passion Tom Shales, longtime TV critic of the
Washington Post and possessor of occasional eloquence, wrote a piece this
week that deserves comment. I don't mean his State of the Union review,
which began, "George Bush may or may not be the worst president since
Herbert Hoover . . ." I mean his attack last Monday on "Flight 93," the
A&E television movie on that fated 9/11 flight. Mr. Shales said it was
shameful that vulgar dramatizers would "exploit" the pain of those on the
flight and those they left behind. Or as he put it, he had, innocent that
he is, thought it "unthinkable" that "even the sleaziest producers" would
"exploit any aspect of a nightmare that the nation had witnessed in
horror."
By exploit I think he means "remember." There is nothing vulgar, low or
unhelpful about remembering the particular heroism of Todd Beamer, Jeremy
Glick and dozens of others. Their action--they stormed the cockpit that
day, forced the plane down and kept it from hitting a Washington target,
presumably the Capitol or the White House--was a moment of courage and
sacrifice, and we all owe them a great deal. Imagine if the particular
wound the hijackers meant to inflict had been successful that day.
Imagine how much worse it would have been,

Remembering the men and women of Flight 93 isn't a self-indulgence but a
duty. One senses in the Shales review the sneaky little suggestion that
those who would remember, and who would tell this story (based by the way
on the surviving telephone and other harrowing tapes of that flight) are
in fact being political. But one suspects it is Mr. Shales who is being
political. Maybe he fears those stupid Americans will get all emotional
if they revisit part of the horror of that day, and go out and do
something bad. Let's not speak of it lest the rabble be roused.

What a snob.

You wonder at the intemperance of angry young lefties and then think of
the example set for them by exhausted old lefties.



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