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The Force is Strong With This One
I'm not sure if this has been brought up in this forum, but my roommate, who works at the library, brought me back this. Has anyone else seen this? It is a graphic novel adaptation of the 9/11 Commission Report.
Its published by Hill & Wang which is a division of Farrar, Straus, and Giroux.
This is by far, one of the most glaring grabs at accessing a wider readership and feeding them disinformation.
On the back cover is a glowing endorsement from Stan 'The Man" Lee himself which reads as follows:
I really don't know where to begin pointing out all the glaring discrepancies in this 150 page tome. From the time lines of the 'Four Fated Flights' to the one page depiction of the actual report as it appears on your bookshelves, summarizing some of the conclusions and recommendations Including, among others:
I know you all are familiar with the details found within the actual report, but I find this ghastly at how it simplifies the whole matter even more that the report does. And that this is aimed at reaching a younger and more impressionable audience, the omissions and twisting of truth all presented in a neat comic format, is frightening to me.
The Chair and Vice-Chair of the report, Kean and Hamilton even state plainly in their foreword of this publication's intentions:
Its published by Hill & Wang which is a division of Farrar, Straus, and Giroux.
This is by far, one of the most glaring grabs at accessing a wider readership and feeding them disinformation.
On the back cover is a glowing endorsement from Stan 'The Man" Lee himself which reads as follows:
Well if Stan recommends it how cna it be so bad?"Never before have I seen a nonfiction book as beautifully and compellingly written and illustrated as The 9/11 Report: A Graphic Adaptation. I Cannot recommend it too highly. It will surely set the standard for all future works of contemporary history, graphic or otherwise, and should be required reading in every home, school, and library.(emphasis added)" -- Stan Lee
I really don't know where to begin pointing out all the glaring discrepancies in this 150 page tome. From the time lines of the 'Four Fated Flights' to the one page depiction of the actual report as it appears on your bookshelves, summarizing some of the conclusions and recommendations Including, among others:
But by far the most glaring discrepancy was the time line given when Dubya, was informed:"Government agencies are often passive, accepting what they view as givens. Including that efforts to identify and fix glaring vulnerabilites to dangerous threats would be too costly, too controversial, or too disruptive"
And
"The FAA's capabilities to take aggressive anticipatory security measures were especially weak."
"At no point before 9/11 was the Department o Defence fully engaged in countering Al Qaeda though it was perhaps the most dangerous foreign enemy at the time."
This was very difficult to read without wanting to throw it down in disgust all too often.In Sarasota, Florida, the presidential Motorcade was arriving at Emma E Booker Elementary School.
The President was outside the classroom with Chief of Staff Andrew Card when Senior Advisor Karl Rove informed them...
(a frame with Rove, Card and Bush standing at the door outside the classroom)
Rove: "A twin engine plane has crashed into the World Trade Centre Mr. President."
Bush: "Oh no. Must have been pilot error!"
I know you all are familiar with the details found within the actual report, but I find this ghastly at how it simplifies the whole matter even more that the report does. And that this is aimed at reaching a younger and more impressionable audience, the omissions and twisting of truth all presented in a neat comic format, is frightening to me.
The Chair and Vice-Chair of the report, Kean and Hamilton even state plainly in their foreword of this publication's intentions:
Hill and Wang Publishing is primarily the the non-fiction educational arm, of FSG in New York. I just wonder how many school libraries (the ones that still have libraries) have this on their shelves."We are pleased to have the opportunity to bring the work of the 9/11 Commission to the attention of a new set of readers."