The Assholes Do Not Own 9/11
The first recorded casualty of 9/11 was a gay, recovering alcoholic Catholic priest. Fr. Mychal Judge was listed as #0001.
This Sunday’s television programming is going to be a grief-off. Can CBS get more crying widows than NBC? The assholes want to own 9/11.
But how can Rudy Giuliani and country music own a story like Father Mychal Judge? They can’t. 9/11 is a story with a billion stories. And there is plenty of tragedy, despair and heroism to go around.
Don’t get discouraged at the exploitative shows and commemorative coins and political speeches. The assholes are concerned with ratings and profit. 9/11 can’t be constrained by tidy 22-minute episodes. The assholes can’t own everything.
