The Thinking Press

The National Review Online, perhaps the premier online journal for the conservative viewpoint, has a post today on “The Jim Cramer Treatment” that I was going to respond to until I saw this advertisement plastered on the page of their blog:

The ad is as tasteless as it is offensive. I was at Fordham University in New York on the morning of 9/11 and had two family members nearly die on that day, with countless friends and fellow students losing parents, siblings and friends. The traumatizing fear that gripped this country following that horrific day stay with me to this day as it does with thousands of other New Yorkers and patriotic Americans.

The ad is an animated ad showing a plane crashing into the world trade center silhouette and the building crumbling to the ground.

To see this ad blatantly politicizing the events of that tragic day for what can only be called sick and disturbing political opportunism is disgusting and should make the editors of the National Review ashamed of themselves and bring their judgement into serious question.

I realize that in today’s world there are questions of grave importance and indeed sometimes those points need to be made with clear messages, but this is remarkably inappropriate for the National Review and the organization running the ads, entitled Keep Gitmo Open. Please write to the National Review and demand that these ads be taken down and an apology be issued:

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