Mike Huckabee's Contrived 9/11 Cartoon Hurts Victims & Survivors

I agree with the previous comment (Pony Chaser). Everything I saw in the trailer was fine. It simplified the history, true, but children need to understand it. I have watched countless hours of movies about 9/11 (not including the initial coverage on the day it happened). Most of it has been so graphic that NO ONE (child nor adult) could handle it. Also, the only point where I differ is that Pony Chaser didn't mention was that they were Muslim terrorists (terrorists being the key word). They were not in the mainstream of the general Muslims. As for the timing, I don't understand the problem with that either. No matter when it was done, SOMEONE would have a problem, regardless. I'm no longer a Republic nor a Democrat, but I give Mike Huckabee an enthusiastic THUMBS UP. I respectfully suggest that Kim Conte (the author of the article)write articles that apply less to an uninformed emotional appeal and more to facts.

I don't like the idea of history being "simplified" and "cartoonized" for children. It's that very fact that has kids so confused. Ask any third grader what the cause of the Civil War was, and they'll invariably say "Slavery", which anyone with a high school education can tell you isn't true. It was a part of it, but isn't true. Yes, history is bloody and gory. But the books kids read, the TV they watch, the movies they see in the theaters are ten times more gory than what they'd learn about our past. I'm sick of this "kids won't understand" crap. Kids understand so much more than you give them credit for.

I also don't like the cartoon because it misrepresents what America did, and doesn't take into account anything the US did to incite such an attack. We didn't "come together as never before". We entered a quagmire of political waffling and spent a decade in the wrong country. I'm also opposed to saying they were Muslim. Yes, it's true they were Muslim, but that doesn't make a difference in context of the video except to incite racism. This is pure propoganda, and our children should NOT be watching it.

You can't be serious!!  So, we don't teach our children history because it is painful to remember?  In that case we wouldn't teach them about ANY war ever.  I mean, I guess I could say the same about books written on the Holocaust or the Civil War, right?  This is ludicrous, and you are obviously writing from a strong political bias (as if you were even trying to hide it).

You're arguing about his character and intent because you can't discuss the issue intelligently. Michael Moore made 2 hundred 2 million dollars on his movies..Spielburg made "Private Ryan" and "Schindler's List", so is he profiteering from WWII and the men lost in that war? No, they don't like that the message is that America is a good country... This is just one of many videos done on 9/11 and this series is actually donating to 9/11 charities-unlike many others....

Two words. "Schoolhouse Rocks". How many of us grew up watching these little five-minute cartoon snippets, some of which were about Government and how it works. The one I remember most is about how a bill becomes a law. Simplified? Yes. Effective? Also yes. And you know what? It wasn't my only source of information on the subject.

Nobody is saying that this movie should be the only source of information for kids regarding 9/11. On the contrary, it is the responsibility of parents to fill in the details - as they reach ages where they can understand the finer points - and give them the full story about what happened that day, and in the days that followed.

But to say that kids shouldn't have history simplified for them is ludicrous. That's how they learn. The only reason that people still think that slavery was the reason for the Civil War is because ALL history lessons have been dumbed down to that, and kids are no longer encouraged to do the actual research and learn the complex reasons behind it.

And as for the "Muslim" bit inciting racism... who would you prefer we told kids flew those planes into the buildings? Because Osama Bin Laden's boys WERE Muslim. Radicals, yes, but they were Muslims, and their extreme interpretation of the fundamentals of that religion are what caused them to do what they did. That's not racism, that's fact. To deny it is to do exactly what you are accusing others of doing - whitewashing.

I learned about American history in the classroom. We had films. ie; Walter Cronkite and "You Are There." Someone produced them and I'm sure got paid for the work. I see nothing wrong with this for young children. The young need to know what happened and this is a better visual than the real thing. That, they need to see later.

So history cannot be educated unless 9/11 victims benefit? Not that I am unsympathetic (living so close to lower manhatten and knowing people who died) but it doesn't make sense that you cannot educate people about that day unless the families benefit... There are many existing charities, many of which with considerable amounts of funds from generous Americans.

Glowworm, it is absolutely true that the USA came together like never before in the aftermath of 9-11. Apparently you don't remember it as well as some of us do. Which goes to prove how effortlessly history is being rewritten every day, to the point where the libs now see 9-11 as merely proof of multiple levels of American evil, and presumably would like to teach children that way. You may do so if you like with your own kids, but many people will appreciate having an alternative.

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