PoliticalUSA.Com set up a special page devoted to people it thinks are traitors — i.e. they said something about the 9/11 attack that the folks at PoliticalUSA.Com disagreed with. Apparently, even if what the alleged “traitor” said turned out to be accurate.
For example, they blast Congressman Marty Meehan (D-MA), who is certainly not one of my favorite people either, because after the attack Meehan said, “I don’t buy the notion Air Force One was a target. That’s just PR. That’s just spin.”
But in this case Meehan was right. Not only was the “Air Force One was a target” line complete spin, but so was the claim repeated many times on television coverage of the event that the plane that hit the Pentagon had first circled the White House. The flight path of the plane shows no such circling movement.
Both of these falsehoods were put out by PR folks in the Bush administration who didn’t want the American people to think that Bush was being a coward by refusing to return to Washington, DC, immediately after the attack (and part of the blame for this concern goes to the idiots in the media who kept reporting on unnamed sources voicing such sentiments — which almost certainly means they were the sentiments of a few news reporters quickly picked up and rebroadcast by other news reporters).