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September 11, 2008 - 6:08 am - by Richard Fernandez
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2008-09-11 18:39:28

MSNBC rebroadcast several hours of the original “Today Show” live coverage of 9-11 “time sync’d” with EDST time today…very eerie to watch it. Katey Couric was the key commentator and she seemed very detached and unemotional. She first reported that it was the PLO but that Yasar Arafat was denying it. Right after that, they cut to correspondent Andrea Mitchell reporting from the State Department and she commented that Osama Bin Laden was a likely suspect. Then they cut to Jim Micelsevski(sp)who was live “in” the Pentagon when the plane hit saying that the “whole building shook” and that “it might have been a bomb.” At one point he said that “Rumsfeld was refusing to leave his office” even after security was evacuating everyone. It was somewhat haunting to be watching…and knowing what’s happened in the last seven short years. Almost like being in a time machine. I watched for a couple of hours and marveled at how well NBC actually covered it with live reports from the Pentagon, White House, Lower Manhattan and the President’s brief speech from the elementary school in Florida. When the first and second towers fell, the reporters were almost “non-plused” by it… maybe confused is a better description as all of lower Manhattan was covered in the smoke, dust and flying paper. I turned off the TV after a “live shot” of dozens of firefighters from NYFD,in all of their gear and air tanks on their backs, walking with purpose into that yellowish cloud of death. God Bless America !