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As long as we're telling the "factual historical account of 9/11," why don't we run the actual footage from that day?
According to undisputed news accounts of the day, sixteen network and other news cameras were in the classroom, rolling, and pointed at President George W. Bush as he sat back in his chair and participated in class reading at Emma T. Booker elementary school the morning of September 11, 2001.
Who were the news bureau photographers present? ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, BBC and others.
And who shot the footage most of the American public saw for the first time in Michael Moore's "Fahrenheit 9/11"? A teacher with a handheld minicam.
So network executives, where's the footage? Why has it never been shown on your networks? Did your stockholders not pay for the footage? Is the footage perhaps insignificant? Not lovely? Imperfect? Lost, perhaps, ABC?
When those networks finally broadcast footage of those seven minutes then America can see the news. Not the pre-packaged stuff, not the stuff that's cheap to produce and draw the desired demographic, but news. News that the President of the United States had been made aware just a few weeks before that Osama bin Laden (half brother of Salem bin Laden, George's old friend and fellow party boy) was going to strike America.
What is the official story? The president was made aware of the first explosion at the World Trade Center before he sat down in the classroom. He was aware that a major crisis had occurred on his watch, and he proceeded to the photo opportunity. After Andrew Card spoke into president's ear that "America was under attack" the president did not rise and excuse himself from the children. Up 'til that moment, wasn't that the moment about every schoolchild dreamed? "The president had to leave my classroom because he had something presidential to go do in a hurry." It would be the ultimate schoolyard brag.
No, our president did not get up and move toward communication and knowledge, he sat there in faith and courtesy. Worthy behaviors in every other circumstance, I'd say. But when you're a fireman and you hear the bell, you don't wait seven minutes because you're chatting with school kids. Needless to say, no one has said anything bad about NYFD's response time. Ditto, NYPD and PA.
But our president's response time was slow that morning, and every network caught that on film and no network has ever shown the footage.
Why not?
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