Colbert: We don't need another 9/11, we need re-runs David Edwards and Muriel Kane

Published: Friday September 14, 2007





Print This Email This Stephen Colbert commented this week on various manifestations of the sixth anniversary of the destruction of the World Trade Center. He began with a Philadelphia Daily News editorial titled "To save America, we need another 9/11," in which columnist Stu Bykofsky suggested that future targets for al Qaeda might include "the Golden Gate Bridge, Mount Rushmore, Chicago's Wrigley Field." "Do not be so humble, Mr. Bykofsky." stated Colbert. "You are clearly enough of a patriot that your house belongs on that list." "Call me crazy," Colbert continued, "but I don't think we need another attack to re-establish post-9/11 unity." He recommended instead the example of MSNBC's unedited re-airing of three hours of its original 9/11 coverage. "Thank you, MSNBC!" said Colbert. "We have all wanted to re-live that morning. Watching every horrific moment over my banana smoothie was a rare opportunity to re-experience the emotions of that day, emotions that brought us together. Six years later, we have turned against each other and lost sight of the ones who attacked us: Saddam Hussein and his weapons of mass destruction." Colbert then suggested that to really bring the nation together, MSNBC needed to continue similar rebroadcasts for another 14 months. "MSNBC would rebroadcast January 20, 2003 on January 20, 2009, President Bush's last day in office. That means our president would leave on a high. No matter what his poll numbers were in reality, on tv he'd still be our unquestionable leader, just two months shy of launching Operation Iraqi Freedom. We would be so re-confident of our ability to win that war in 100 hours and pay for it with oil revenues that whoever the next president is will have no trouble extending it for another six years." The following video is from Comedy Central's Colbert Report, broadcast on September 12, 2007.





