
Just when you thought that this country had stripped September 11th of all emotional resonance with bitter in-fighting and exploitative faux-patriotism, MSNBC found a way to get creative with the memorial:
A Cosmo-esque quiz testing your knowledge on the Twin Tower attacks! What a terrible, horrible idea in which to sell advertising against. Since when has "never forget" invited a multiple choice response?
Perhaps there's some kind of macabre prize you win for getting a high score, like a one-way trip to Guantanamo Bay.
So let me see if I got this straight. Wrong for the RNC to show the images from 9/11 but okay for MSNBC to replay the video today, in "real time" from the day it happened and okay to post a tacky quiz about it on their website. Hmmm. So when will Keith Olbermann be delivering his Special Comment on the last two as he did on the first one? Oh, right. Glass houses.