How Soon is Too Soon?

The five year anniversary of 9/11 was a week ago so it seems a little appropriate to speak about it now. I’m recently bothered by the films released earlier this year pertaining to the tragedies of that day. I haven’t seen either United 93 or World Trade Center, and I really do not care to. It is five years later but they still seem opportunistic. I might feel different if Nicholas Cage did the movie for free or if the studio donated all the profits to a disaster relief charity, but as long as anybody is making any money off these movies I will be strongly opposed to them. A few days ago I saw a commercial that featured footage from 9/11. I couldn’t hear the commercial at the time so I was unaware of whom it was promoting or attacking. After a quick internet search I found a liberal leaning blog that had the commercial posted to it. The blog says the commercial was made by the Center for Security Policy and that it was meant to attack antiwar lawmakers. I think the Center views the ad as being “about the nature of our war against Islamofascism”, but the link on their site is broken so I cannot confirm that we’re talking about the same ad. I find this ad so disturbing that I’m not going to post it on this here. If you want to see it you can go to the blog I mentioned earlier. 9/11 was such a sad day in our nation’s history and I really can’t understand how anybody can use anything that happened that day for their own advancement. I suppose the ad isn’t supposed to help the CSP but rather the candidates it supports. Still, it is sickening and disappointing to see such a tragedy being exploited for political or commercial purposes.

-Hogan

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