NBC: Celebrations After Bin Laden's Death 'Confusing' to Children
In a report on Friday's NBC Today, news anchor Natalie Morales profiled children who were born after the September 11th attacks and noted how celebrations following the death of Osama Bin Laden in May were "thrilling and confusing" for those children.
One girl worried: "I just don't think it's right to celebrate that somebody died, because they were all like, 'Oh, yay, he died, hooray!' But it's just not very nice to celebrate that somebody died." A boy observed: "I would celebrate a little, but at the same time I wouldn't."
Back in May, Today contributor and psychiatrist Gail Saltz warned of celebrations following Bin Laden's death being "very disturbing" to children and that "a lot of people who, in the impulse of the moment, reacted in a way that later on they may not be happy about."
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But the kids aren't too
Submitted by rbosque on Fri, 09/09/2011 - 5:36pm.
But the kids aren't too confused to learn gay crap and how to put on a condom?
Maybe someone can sit these
Submitted by Van Halen on Fri, 09/09/2011 - 5:46pm.
Maybe someone can sit these kids down and show them videos of people jumping alone and in groups out of the 80th story because if they didn't they'd burn to death. Then have them speak to some of the kids whose parents never came home and ask them how it feels to have that happen because some Islamic jackass has a grief with something done years, even decades earlier. Then, finally have the kids read through The Religion of Peace website which catalogs daily Muslim attacks on everyone all over the world for even the smallest grievance. It's not the kids' fault - they're being coached by Lib JournOLists for an anti-American answer.
Exactly!!
Submitted by pockets64 on Fri, 09/09/2011 - 8:54pm.
I don't think it would take long to dispel the confusion. Kids are smarter than libs give the credit for being. They celebrate when a bully is taken down. They know the deal.
Lets put it in words that
Submitted by ThePickle on Fri, 09/09/2011 - 5:49pm.
Lets put it in words that "public' school kids might better understand.
Osama Bib Laden did not "die"
We "killed" him.
Why did we kill him you might ask?
Because he was an evil man that spouted an ideology of hate and intolerance and brainwashed poor uneducated adults and kids, some as young as the children in the survey, to die for a cause he was unwilling to die for himself. He masterminded attacks on civilians and his followers and admirers routinely raped and murdered innocent people just because they were "different".
Now don't we all "feel" better that this evil nasty "intolerant" man is dead?
Yes?
Great......... lets have cake!!
Kids are funny that way.
Submitted by mandrake on Fri, 09/09/2011 - 5:50pm.
They're still trying to grow up and find their way in the world. If I could remember every stupid thing I ever said when I was growing up I'd likely eat a bullet.no wait..stop already.
Kids have liberal parents
Submitted by stunned on Fri, 09/09/2011 - 5:53pm.
Kids of liberal parents were confuses since mom and dad were disgusted by the celebrations. My kids age 12-8 jumped up and shouted yeah!! but then their parents are conservatives and they actually know kids whose dads died on 9-11. Funny how the young people on TV celebrating on 9-11 were kids that day and remember how their childhood innocence ended, they had every reason to celebrate the death of the man that brought that horror into their young lives and didn't deserve to have a bunch of pantywaist libs rain on their parade.
tired of liberal lies
I would celebrate a little but at the same time i wouldn't.
Submitted by Calypso Jones on Fri, 09/09/2011 - 6:01pm.
?? WHAT the H does that mean?
My best guess at the answer
Submitted by ThePickle on Fri, 09/09/2011 - 6:10pm.
My best guess at the answer to that would be that, as in the case with many kids that age, when presented with a situation beyond their capacity to meaningfully understand, the young man responded with an answer that best represented how he actually felt, but also with what he thought the questioner wanted to hear.
When you ask a child for an answer to a grown up question expect a certain amount of "word salad" to follow.
Pickle---
Submitted by matthewdean on Fri, 09/09/2011 - 6:27pm.
Your best guess is a winning answer.
MD
Children should be seen and not heard.
Submitted by The Vet on Sat, 09/10/2011 - 12:16am.
Looks like that little adage is lost on people that have to be getting paid well for producing that news show.
You want adults to watch your show, show them a little respect. The last time I took the advice of a child was..... Wait. Even as a child, I did not listen to the idiots around me, I looked up to adults for advice.
Or weren't they told about the dancing in the streets?
Submitted by DontFeedTheTrolls on Fri, 09/09/2011 - 6:11pm.
Did they find the muslim celebrations after 9-11 also confusing?
The kids are right. We shouldn't celebrate.
Submitted by Newsbubba on Fri, 09/09/2011 - 6:41pm.
He didn't die. Our Special Ops guys killed his sorry ass. It happened. It's over. On to the next target. Get over it kids.
We should have ground the body up in a wood chipper and dumped the chunks in a hog parlor, filmed the whole procedure, and shipped it to the Islamo-fascists, with a promise that the same was headed their way.
Kids/Death of OBL
Submitted by Llewsilverhand on Fri, 09/09/2011 - 8:39pm.
I sure am glad I'm not raising my kids to be pantywaists!
This is. . .
Submitted by rickbren on Fri, 09/09/2011 - 8:43pm.
. . . well, I don't know how to put it. I am 55+ and grew up on Combat, Gallant Men, and The Rat Patrol.
I remember watching Vietnam on the news every evening. And I recall having no problem when Colonel Nguyen executed the VC soldier with a single tap to the head. The VC as I figured were evil and deserved to die. These kids need to be educated. . .
"I remember watching Vietnam on the news ..."
Submitted by Rackie on Fri, 09/09/2011 - 9:19pm.
so that's where you were....we missed you
an undeveloped brain is a terrible thing to waste
Submitted by Rackie on Fri, 09/09/2011 - 9:13pm.
I'm not sure I care what kids think - no, I'm sure I don't
Children Get Nightmares From NBC Fall Lineup
Submitted by Avitar on Fri, 09/09/2011 - 10:39pm.
If Children find cheres for the end of binLaden confusing what do they make of the crime drama Law and Oder? The cops are always breaking the law and by count they have prosecuted two rich people for every rich person to have actually committed a crime nation wide.
This is a good example of the
Submitted by Snappy on Fri, 09/09/2011 - 11:48pm.
This is a good example of the stark differences in our society vs their society. "Their" society indoctrinates their youth at a very young age to hate and cleanse the world of the infidel. Our society coddles the youth, distorting history, teaching that if we just sing some songs and hold hands all the evil will disappear....... and seeing how well that worked out for us. We now have a generation of youth not sure who Bin Laden was and saddened that we celebrated his death a mere 10 years after our national tragedy.
My kids were 12 and 9 when
Submitted by Dan The Man 2 on Sat, 09/10/2011 - 2:17am.
My kids were 12 and 9 when 911 happened, The video was all over the news and I had to explain about right and wrong and how sometimes wrong happens to good people. We prayed for God to forgive the people who want to do us wrong. I aslo explained we have to protect ourselves from people who want to hurt us .... even in out town.
Germans
Submitted by LaVallette on Sat, 09/10/2011 - 3:31am.
The Germans and the Japanese did the same thing to their children after the war: kept them in the dark about those events. that is why that and succeeding generations have refuse to accept any responsibility pr fault for their national shame.
The Germans came out with blaming the Pope and the Catholic Church for the Nazi disaster and the Japanese deflect damnation onto the the Americans for using the A-Bomb to end the war they started and their atrocities that accompanied it.
It's okay to celebrate Osama's death. Here's why.
Submitted by Superman on Sat, 09/10/2011 - 5:40am.
Osama murdered over 3,000 people. If you are a kid, think of it this way. America killed the boogey man.
NBC: Giving aid and comfort
Submitted by jessieH on Sat, 09/10/2011 - 11:06am.
NBC: Giving aid and comfort to the enemy, 24/7, 365 days a year