Kids in Class With Bush on 9/11 Say He Was Right to Keep Reading - Michael Moore Was Wrong
For many years media members spearheaded by schlockumentary filmmaker Michael Moore's "Fahrenheit 9/11" have mocked former President George W. Bush for continuing to read "The Pet Goat" to second-graders after hearing about the attacks on the World Trade Center.
On Tuesday, Time magazine reported that some of the kids in that classroom are speaking out about what happened that morning, and they don't agree with Moore's depiction of events:
Seven-year-olds can't understand what Islamic terrorism is all about. But they know when an adult's face is telling them something is very wrong — and none of the students sitting in Sandra Kay Daniels' class at Emma E. Booker Elementary School that morning can forget the sudden, devastated change in Bush's expression when White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card whispered the terrible news of the Al Qaeda attack. Lazaro Dubrocq's heart started racing because he assumed they were all in big trouble — with no less than the Commander-in-Chief — but he wasn't quite sure why. "In a heartbeat he leaned back and he looked flabbergasted, shocked, horrified," recalls Dubrocq, now 17. "I was baffled. I mean, did we read something wrong? Was he mad or disappointed in us?" (See pictures of people celebrating Osama bin Laden's death.)
All sorts of similar kid fears started running through Mariah Williams' head. "I don't remember the story we were reading — was it about pigs?" says Williams, 16. "But I'll always remember watching his face turn red. He got really serious all of a sudden. But I was clueless. I was just seven. I'm just glad he didn't get up and leave because then I would have been more scared and confused." Chantal Guerrero, 16, agrees: even today she's grateful that Bush regained his composure and stayed with the students until The Pet Goat was finished. "I think the President was trying to keep us from finding out," says Guerrero, "so we all wouldn't freak out." [...]
One thing they'd like to tell Bush's critics — like liberal filmmaker Michael Moore, whose 2004 documentary Fahrenheit 911 disparaged Bush for lingering almost 10 minutes with the Booker students after getting word that two planes had crashed into New York's World Trade Center — is that they think the President did the right thing. "I think he was trying to keep everybody calm, starting with us," says Guerrero. Dubrocq agrees: "I think he was trying to protect us." Booker Principal Gwendolyn Tose'-Rigell, who died in 2007, later insisted, "I don't think anyone could have handled it better. What would it have served if [Bush] had jumped out of his chair and ran out of the room?"
So Moore got something wrong in one of his schlockumentaries? Color me very unsurprised.
(H/T Hot Air)
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Good for the kids
Submitted by HockeyKid on Wed, 05/04/2011 - 8:35am.
It's great to hear these first-person accounts of that tragic day. Just goes to show you that 17-year-olds (and even 7-year-olds) are much more mature than Michael "Who's Listening Any" Moore.
"Beauty is only skin deep, but liberal's to the bone." - me
Bush Cool Character
Submitted by philly d kidder on Wed, 05/04/2011 - 8:38am.
I was amazed he could have continued my head would have exploded
Democrats are:
Submitted by adamsmith on Wed, 05/04/2011 - 9:14am.
You left out anti-individualist, anti-Constitutionalist, anti-business, anti-Capitalist, anti-truth,etc...Like Larry the Cable Guy used to say,"I can do this all day"...........
Moore can't let Facts get in the way of a good Narrative
Submitted by scottyusmc on Wed, 05/04/2011 - 8:41am.
I'm sure he'll now disparage these kids for their comments. It's the only song he knows!!!
The truth will out
Submitted by DontFeedTheTrolls on Wed, 05/04/2011 - 8:46am.
A true CIC would say "Card, get me more info about the crash, see if we should ground any flights, get a hold of (so and so), get our vehicles ready to go, get a plan for where to go, and get back to me, I'm going to continue to read to the kids."
And that's just what Bush did.
No one listens to Moore any
Submitted by Van Halen on Wed, 05/04/2011 - 8:50am.
No one listens to Moore any longer. The Democrats have kicked him to the same curb they left crazy Sheehan at. Moore is wrong about everything and a raging hypocrite to boot. Finally, notice that he couldn't swing the Wisconsin elections with his presence. Why? Because he's So Yesterday.
Very touching...
Submitted by GG_NB on Wed, 05/04/2011 - 8:57am.
This brought tears to my eyes. Thanks, Noel.
"If not us, who? If not now, when?"
~Ronald Reagan
A clear double standard.
Submitted by SickofLibs on Wed, 05/04/2011 - 9:10am.
I remember back in '09 when Obama was reading "Heather Has Two Mommies" to the 2nd graders at Mt. Pilate Elementary School - when informed that a groundhog had torn up the green on the 17th at Andrews AF Base, he went ashen and took a full 15 minutes to regain his composure and continue.
Kids
Submitted by Gothampc on Wed, 05/04/2011 - 9:35am.
And then those kids grew up and tried to figure out why their tax rate was 99% and they couldn't get jobs and their days were spent waiting in line to see their state's only doctor.
SoL~
Submitted by GG_NB on Wed, 05/04/2011 - 9:39am.
LOL, dude.
"If not us, who? If not now, when?"
~Ronald Reagan
Beavers on the Green? Who ya gonna call?
Submitted by CO2Maker on Wed, 05/04/2011 - 10:39am.
Bill Murray or Chevy Chase!
SEAL team Six!
Submitted by Beukeboom on Wed, 05/04/2011 - 10:46am.
SEAL team Six!
There is no SEAL team six. It
Submitted by bassndude on Wed, 05/04/2011 - 10:51am.
There is no SEAL team six. It was all a dream. There is no SEAL team six. It was all a dream.
Save a SeAL, club a liberal/troll!!
A beaver on the green?....
Submitted by nonncom on Wed, 05/04/2011 - 11:58am.
Is it Lacy Underall?....
As Ty Webb said to Lacy Underall................
Submitted by djwolf12 on Wed, 05/04/2011 - 7:33pm.
You have very small breasts.
This is just what I've always
Submitted by kareling on Wed, 05/04/2011 - 9:11am.
This is just what I've always believed. Had Bush done the opposite, he would have been slammed for going off half-cocked and traumatizing the kids for life. In the eyes of the Left, he was damned if he did and damned if he didn't.
BTW, didn't Michael Moore recently start up some forum for kids where they can blog, etc? I wonder what would happen if comments from these kids, or from kids who agreed with them, showed up there?
I responded on a recent
Submitted by dennyf on Wed, 05/04/2011 - 9:20am.
I responded on a recent michael moore puff piece on huff post regarding this situation. The left wing dildo's were ranting about how Bush handled the events that day and I stated, what did they want him to do in front of a bunch of preteens, jump up and set his hair on fire and yell the world is ending. Well I got lambasted for my statement, this makes me realize how wrong the left is and how a little brain goes a long way toward being right( that would be mine). I think the trauma of any other reaction could have been very troubling for these kids.
I don't think the left thinks much about human nature
Submitted by Lipton on Wed, 05/04/2011 - 9:27am.
they only pontificate on how human nature ought to be.
I agree it would have been troubling for those kids if he freaked out and left. Staying cool left them (hopefully) with the sense that yes something bad happened, but they didn't have to freak out about it.
Fact check needed..............
Submitted by Tomorama on Wed, 05/04/2011 - 9:22am.
VERY recently I saw somewhere................. that the 7 minute delay was due to Andrew Card telling the President what happened and that the Helicopter is 7 minutes away and he will need to go right then and there and of COURSE HE DID.
Of course the 7 minute delay is nothing like the 16 hour delay Mr "let me sleep on it" Obambi did BEFORE making the decision to get Osama.
If Osama was tippef off while Sotero was sleeping and screwed, WE NEVER would have heard a word about it and if we did, the media would have blamed EVERYONE but Sotero.
Probably Bush.
Republican politicians
Submitted by TexasMom0517 on Wed, 05/04/2011 - 9:33am.
I am glad that those kids spoke out and surprised that Time printed it, but GOP politicians ALWAYS have to fight both the Democrats AND their media propagandists. Bush did the right thing, but it is rare that he will ever be acknowledged for it, or any of the other good things he put in place in the war on terror.
Any Republican politician (think McCain) who thinks they will be treated impartially by the legacy media is dooming himself/herself to disappointment.
Kind of right..........................
Submitted by Tomorama on Wed, 05/04/2011 - 9:52am.
Actually Texas he WAS treated impartially, UNTIL he won the nomination and then they sprang into action.
We need more balls to go onto MessNBC, CBS, ABC etc, etc, etc and look right into the camera and say OF COURSE YOU FEEL THIS WAY AS YOUR NETWORK IS BIASED AS HELL........
And is covering for Obama..
Wait
Submitted by The Irishman on Wed, 05/04/2011 - 10:23am.
The 7 year olds said he was right? Talk about redemption!
Another attempt at a
Submitted by Beukeboom on Wed, 05/04/2011 - 10:26am.
Another attempt at a misleading spin. Typical liberal dishonesty.
Isn't the bar
Submitted by hbnolikeee on Wed, 05/04/2011 - 11:39am.
open yet?
Please Irish, are you really
Submitted by bassndude on Wed, 05/04/2011 - 11:41am.
Please Irish, are you really that stupid? Or do you have to work at it?
Save a SeAL, club a liberal/troll!!
Perhaps the laddy
Submitted by hbnolikeee on Wed, 05/04/2011 - 11:45am.
needs a coopla pints to clear the fog out.
And by the way Leibniz,
Submitted by hbnolikeee on Wed, 05/04/2011 - 11:51am.
The 7 year old is now 17 when making these comment. Had this boy saying this been 7 today, he would need to be -3 years old when Bush was reading to him. Sounds like more lib mathematics to me.
Here the skinny, after you hear them little woids in your head that you've read, try to understand what they mean. Gee are you also a member of the intellectual elite, LOL?!
Typical
Submitted by The Irishman on Wed, 05/04/2011 - 12:39pm.
It's great and all that Bush put the safety of a classroom of children ahead of the people of a nation under attack, but the notion that the children in that classroom can put the debate to rest is an alternate reality.
What I'm understanding now is that during those minutes after Bush was informed of the attacks his mind was racing over which action to take, all the while thinking that he shouldn't scare the children in front of him.
Likely.
7 minutes instead your hero waits 16 hours........
Submitted by Tomorama on Wed, 05/04/2011 - 12:46pm.
Maybe he should have had the kids make a magic paper airplane so he could fly to Washington genius?
Or maybe he should have waited for the helicopter to arrive and not scare the shit out of the children?
Isn't it noontime somewhere mate?
Hiccup............
I already told you
Submitted by The Irishman on Wed, 05/04/2011 - 12:53pm.
I think it's wonderful that Bush put the emotions of a few children ahead of the 300,000,000 Americans under attack. Totally on board.
You're a real f*ck, Zippers.
Submitted by SickofLibs on Wed, 05/04/2011 - 12:57pm.
Always have been, always will be.
Now that's class
Submitted by The Irishman on Wed, 05/04/2011 - 1:02pm.
.
You're just clueless.
Submitted by Beukeboom on Wed, 05/04/2011 - 1:00pm.
You're just clueless.
Irishman~
Submitted by GG_NB on Wed, 05/04/2011 - 1:27pm.
You cannot possibly be saying that as Bush remained calm and took 7 minutes to process and center himself that his mind was not foremost on the American people and what lay ahead. Just look at his eyes. That tells you everything about what was going on in his mind. I think it was not only reasonable for him not to bolt out of the room, I think it likely helped him to ready himself for the calm and wise leader he would need to be for all Americans. He had received the update on where things were at -- and if there was a decision he needed to make at that point, he would have made it. He was not being remiss to the American people. He can't be kind and calm in a classroom for a few minutes without being accused of not caring enough about the rest of Americans??
You are being very unfair.
"If not us, who? If not now, when?"
~Ronald Reagan
BDS continues. Pathetic,
Submitted by NC Cop on Wed, 05/04/2011 - 1:42pm.
BDS continues. Pathetic, isn't it?
Being unfair and dishonest is
Submitted by Beukeboom on Wed, 05/04/2011 - 2:01pm.
Being unfair and dishonest is commonplace for liberals whenever they have the opportunity to smear a conservative. I think you know that. Why should "The Irishman" be any different especially when he has been so dishonest and classless on the NB comments section for quite a while now?
I think
Submitted by The Irishman on Wed, 05/04/2011 - 2:19pm.
We both have different interpretations of that day and what we expect from our leaders. Just as people will complain about any detail of the bin Laden mission, we're all going to react in different ways.
We killed bin Laden. But that wasn't good enough because Obama spent an evening considering his options over whether to stage a military attack on foreign soil with no visual confirmation bin Laden was even there. Then he golfed that weekend. He kept the ultimate poker face, didn't leave a clue that the mission was in the works, and it concluded in a successful mission. But still people argue that he didn't WANT to do it, he HAD to do it, afraid that the wikileaks reports would blow the plan.
This is entirely about invalidating Obama's leadership role in the mission, which couldn't be less fair.
But...
Submitted by GG_NB on Wed, 05/04/2011 - 2:27pm.
Weren't YOU unfair in your judgment on Bush -- by insinuating that Bush didn't care as much about the Americans outside the classroom?
"If not us, who? If not now, when?"
~Ronald Reagan
Perhaps
Submitted by The Irishman on Wed, 05/04/2011 - 2:52pm.
But my opinion over Bush's actions on that day is no more or less valid than the thoughts of those children, and I find it absurd to use these interviews as proof that he did the right thing. It's still just opinion.
Nope. Since they were
Submitted by Beukeboom on Wed, 05/04/2011 - 3:38pm.
Nope. Since they were actually there during the fact and you weren't, their opinion is more valid than yours especially since your "opinions" (using the term loosely) are more often than not liberal spin.
Excuse me
Submitted by The Irishman on Wed, 05/04/2011 - 3:45pm.
I don't believe I asked for your opinion.
Irrelevant. You don't control
Submitted by Beukeboom on Wed, 05/04/2011 - 3:47pm.
Irrelevant. You don't control the comment section.
And my point stands and remains valid.
And the score stands at---
Submitted by matthewdean on Wed, 05/04/2011 - 9:16pm.
Beuke - LOTS
Irishman - still a dork
MD
MD, don't you mean
Submitted by UpNorth on Thu, 05/05/2011 - 12:05am.
ADK, Zippers, Irishman,or any of his other personas?
You are correct, UpNorth---
Submitted by matthewdean on Thu, 05/05/2011 - 2:44am.
That's why I had to go with "LOTS" in the box score. :o)
MD
Because jumping up, pounding
Submitted by Radical1979 on Wed, 05/04/2011 - 2:11pm.
Because jumping up, pounding his chest and yelling "We're at war" would have accomplished exactly what, for those Americans?
Meanwhile, dithering for 16 hours over the termination of the man at whose behest those Americans were killed is o.k.?
Strange take you have on this.
That's how you see the alternative?
Submitted by The Irishman on Wed, 05/04/2011 - 2:22pm.
Strange take you have as well.
You're completely clueless
Submitted by Beukeboom on Wed, 05/04/2011 - 1:00pm.
You're completely clueless with your spin.
Michael Moore's next
Submitted by Beukeboom on Wed, 05/04/2011 - 10:24am.
Michael Moore's next schlockumentary? How 7 year olds were brainwashed into thinking Bush was protecting them and keeping them calm as he read to them.
That's a surprise!
Submitted by CO2Maker on Wed, 05/04/2011 - 10:41am.
I mean the part about Michael Moore knowing what reading is.
Even going on 10 years later
Submitted by Ole_Sarge on Wed, 05/04/2011 - 10:30am.
I am so proud of our previous President. And stories like this one are the reason why.
Many look for "another Reagan" in the candidates, I'm looking for another George Bush.
I did not by any means agree to ALL he did while in office, but I was confident in his leadership in the great war of conflicting world views we are engaged in.
Thank-you Mr. President!
Difference
Submitted by DontFeedTheTrolls on Wed, 05/04/2011 - 10:39am.
One big difference between Bush and Obama: Bush never flat out lied to our (collective) face while lying is Obama's modus operandi. Take Obama's promise of 'transparency' during the election, while at the same time he is getting funding from questionable sources overseas. That is just one instance of flat out lying.
Blame the media for that
Submitted by CO2Maker on Wed, 05/04/2011 - 10:42am.
O'Bama all along promised a translucent presidency, but the MSM fell over backwards changing it to "transparent" administration.
I bet the Left and the media
Submitted by SonnyPalermo on Wed, 05/04/2011 - 11:16am.
I bet the Left and the media would have had no problem with him staying if he was reading "And Tango Makes Three."
This has always been a
Submitted by nicksmith112 on Wed, 05/04/2011 - 12:15pm.
This has always been a ridiculous argument.
The safest place for Bush was in that classroom!
Secret Service needed time to get Bush safely into the air!!
They couldn't use there original exit plan.
I wish someone would interview a retired agent to explain this??!!!
I'm a refugee from the Democratic Party.
Moore took a cheap shot at Bush
Submitted by Phryj1 on Thu, 05/05/2011 - 6:31pm.
I mean, what exactly was he supposed to do in the 7 minutes he took to finish reading the book? It was going to take a while to get enough information to make a statement anyway, the extra 7 minutes weren't going to make any difference whatsoever.
Bush remained calm. He didn't want the kids to get scared. He still made a timely address after he was done there. At that point, that was all he could do, and he did it right.
Moore is an idiot. A hateful, disgusting smear merchant of the sort the left absolutely loves.
Progressives seem to be completely averse to facts and logic. Apparently, reality has a conservative bias.