Anyone else as offended as i am?

[Ebonyks]

http://www.cnn.com/2002/US/Northeast...rds/index.html

I'm speachless, yet, totally appualed at the same time. I couldn't imagine in my most greedy fantasies ever doing something as utterly low and sick as this. Anyone else feel the same way?

 

[gloco]

not really, as long as the relatives had their say over the design and words on the cards, i don't see the big deal. Although, that wouldn't be a business venture i would try to take on personally.

 

[Matthew-Spaltro]

It's a free country. However....

 

[andrzejpw]

Wow. Back to normal, I see.

 

[Matthew-Spaltro]

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Originally posted by andrzejpw Wow. Back to normal, I see.

?

 

[elipsis]

It's no more sickening than much of the other cashing in on the jingoistic flag-waving and bandwagon patriotism I've seen in the last year and a bit.

Also, I have been on the internet for years and years. I am unoffendable.

 

[andrzejpw]

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Originally posted by Matthew-Spaltro ?

Remember that feeling, in the few months AFTER 9/11? How the country just seemed as ONE? No bickering, everyone just came together. In my short 16 years, this was one of the most amazing feelings ever. We're loosing that.

 

[elipsis]

Quote:

Originally posted by andrzejpw Remember that feeling, in the few months AFTER 9/11? How the country just seemed as ONE? No bickering, everyone just came together. In my short 16 years, this was one of the most amazing feelings ever. We're loosing that.

http://www.arabia.com/life/article/e...195524,00.html

 

[Matthew-Spaltro]

Quote:

Originally posted by andrzejpw Remember that feeling, in the few months AFTER 9/11? How the country just seemed as ONE? No bickering, everyone just came together. In my short 16 years, this was one of the most amazing feelings ever. We're loosing that.

I think that feeling was mostly media hype IMHO.

 

[williamgoody]

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I think that feeling was mostly media hype IMHO

Not here in NY. It definitely was that way, incredibly so. But I feel it has definitely passed as well.

 

[skippy]

i agree. it was real, and could be felt here in the city.

 

[LobsterSan]

I personally lost all ability to be shocked by people cashing in on the 9/11 incident when I saw a commercial about 2 months after the attack. The commercial was selling flags. And the announcer's voice had the same expression as the one who would be selling a miracle blender or an ab cruncher. Pretty tasteless, IMO.

 

[elipsis]

If all these flag-wavers were so patriotic, they would have already owned flags before the attacks...

 

[wallijonn]

feel offended when they go on Home Shopping Network. "now, signed packs for $100 per pack"....

and 50 years from now they'll probably fetch $10,000.

 

[Mr.PD]

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Originally posted by elipsis If all these flag-wavers were so patriotic, they would have already owned flags before the attacks...

I did.

I think the cards are in poor taste, and typically American.