Herman Cain Records Moving 9/11 Tribute, Alex Pareene Calls It ‘Tasteless’

Posted on | September 9, 2011 | 73 Comments

First, watch Herman Cain’s video:

Alex Pareene of Salon calls it “incredibly tasteless” and a “monstrosity.”

Hey, Alex, since you’re offering your expertise in what’s “tasteless,” I got three words for you: Ping-pong balls.

We must never, never, never, never forget that, eh?

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73 Responses to “Herman Cain Records Moving 9/11 Tribute, Alex Pareene Calls It ‘Tasteless’”

Chuck Coffer
September 10th, 2011 @ 12:48 am

Vermin are most offended by truth and light. They consider both to be “tasteless” and “monstrous”.
Christy Waters
September 10th, 2011 @ 12:49 am

Salon…Yeah, isn’t this the “hate America first” crowd? So let me get this straight, political candidates are not allowed to pay tribute to 9/11?
Anonymous
September 10th, 2011 @ 12:58 am

..don’t like, maybe, 10 people read Salon? f$ck em and the horses they molest.
McGehee
September 10th, 2011 @ 1:17 am

They’re just pissed that bin Laden didn’t take those towers down a couple of years earlier so Clinton could take advantage of it.

Yeah, I went there.
Ima Wurdibitsch
September 10th, 2011 @ 1:24 am

I used to try to avoid being retraumatized by what happened 10 years ago. I don’t do that anymore. This video needs to be seen. We were attacked. We need to be sorrowful and we need to be angry. This is not a call to service this is a f*cking call to war.
ThePaganTemple
September 10th, 2011 @ 1:35 am

And there’s nothing wrong with going there. There were enough leftists insisting the government under Bush was behind 9/11 you have to wonder how much of that amounted to projection.
Maggie@Maggiesnotebook
September 10th, 2011 @ 1:45 am

The video is appropriate and Herman Cain does a really nice job with God Bless American. The very first scene is jarring, and I hope it will be anything less. Can you imagine any Liberal singing God Bless America with any scene from 9/11/01 in the background? Asked more accurately, can you imagine any American singing God Bless America? I already have Herman’s video as a sticky post planned for tomorrow morning and it will stay on top until Sunday night.
Anonymous
September 10th, 2011 @ 1:47 am

http://goo.gl/YiDup

and that Alex fellow can go firetruck himself.
JeffS
September 10th, 2011 @ 1:55 am

Alex likely does firetruck himself. Daily.
Anonymous
September 10th, 2011 @ 2:10 am

F**k’em and the hill they were whelped on.
Anonymous
September 10th, 2011 @ 2:14 am

Very moving I also found this very moving, from KT McFarland.

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2011/09/09/my-11-lesson-are-never-powerless-everyone-can-do-something/
Adjoran
September 10th, 2011 @ 2:52 am

I certainly understand how a slimy little leftist punk like Pareene would find “God Bless America” and news footage from 9/11 tasteless.

To get a positive response from Pareene, you’d need to put together a documentary proclaiming the glorious achievements of Chairman Mao, and not mention the USA or 9/11 and especially God in any way.
ThePaganTemple
September 10th, 2011 @ 3:08 am

I think where Herman messed up was more a sin of omission. If he had said at the end something along the lines of “but really folks, we brought it all on ourselves, and we need to learn a lesson from that”, not only would Salon have hailed it as a visionary video, but Herman would have already replaced Jon Huntsman as the leftists preferred GOP candidate.
darleenclick
September 10th, 2011 @ 3:23 am

Note how Alex at the end of the rant wants people to avoid watching tv all weekend least they see 9/11 pics and vids?

He doesn’t care that America was attacked or Americans died because it didn’t further HIS political ideology.
ThePaganTemple
September 10th, 2011 @ 3:31 am

If people are reminded too much of 9/11 it tends to stir up feelings of patriotism, so naturally people that support Democrat candidates wouldn’t want that.
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Anonymous
September 10th, 2011 @ 3:58 am

All week, National Geographic channel has been running specials about 9/11 with lots and lots of shocking footage, and yet haven’t been denounced by Pareene. But Herman Cain singing “God Bless America,” that’s “tasteless”?
JeffS
September 10th, 2011 @ 4:22 am

Cain left the plantation, Stacy. Thus, all lefties must dis him, regardless of how crazy their rational. It’s written in their handbook.
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M Simon
September 10th, 2011 @ 5:56 am

Totally OT.

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Billy Oblivion
September 10th, 2011 @ 6:48 am

I’m going way out on a limb here and suggest that Alex has never been punched in the face.

http://takimag.com/article/never_trust_anyone_who_hasnt_been_punched_in_the_face/print##axzz1XSZE1RlO
Billy Oblivion
September 10th, 2011 @ 6:52 am

But I will add that I do think Mr. Cain should have left off the Cain For President bit. I think the video up until the last frame (8 seconds) was fine. The inclusion of his campaign ad made it a little less “from the heart”.
John C. Randolph
September 10th, 2011 @ 7:07 am

Call the editors at Webster’s, I think we’ve found the picture for the “hipster douche” entry.

-jcr
Anonymous
September 10th, 2011 @ 10:15 am

The link didn’t work for me. The liberal memory of convenience has a span of about twelve hours, but it can be shortened to miliseconds by the really smart ones.
Brian Macker
September 10th, 2011 @ 10:29 am

I always took the song as being a thankful song. I think 9/11 was pretty thankless, so it seemed quite contradictory to be singing that song while showing the video of God letting down American theists (and obviously not letting down the foreign Islamist type theist).

Apparently the guy singing it is running for president so making the video seems like using a tragedy to pander for votes.
Chuck Coffer
September 10th, 2011 @ 12:01 pm

What do you get out of being a hate filled piece of shit? I mean, whats the upside for you?
Brian Macker
September 10th, 2011 @ 12:15 pm

You sound like a liberal.
Anonymous
September 10th, 2011 @ 12:33 pm

I thought it was fairly well done… Cain is sincere in his love for and respect for this country, I’ll tell you that

Linked @ RR

9/11: We Will Never, EVER Forget It!
Brian Macker
September 10th, 2011 @ 12:36 pm

Jerry Falwell already said something along those lines.
Jim Treacher
September 10th, 2011 @ 1:23 pm

“I don’t even know what to say.”

When has that ever stopped her?
Brian Macker
September 10th, 2011 @ 1:25 pm

Go to the 1:55 mark in the video and you will see what this was all about, “Herman Cain President 2012”.    So it doesn’t just “seem” like he is pandering for votes; he is pandering for votes.   So no “hate” there.

Not sure how my comment was about hate. I was being truthful about the motivations of the mass murderers.    I was being truthful that 9/11 is not an example of God’s blessing.   Guys in your camp like Jerry Falwell have admitted that.   Unfortunately in order to maintain the illusion that God is on Americas side in his mind and the mind of his followers he quiet hatefully blamed 9/11 on pagans, abortionists, feminists, gays, the ACLU, and (of all groups) People for the American Way.

Ironic that you responded to my comment because it was your hate filled comment that motivated me to comment myself. You wrote, “Vermin are most offended by truth and light. They consider both to be tasteless and monstrous. ”

It is doubly ironic that it is the truth in my comment that offended you, given your statement about vermin.

How “Christian” of you to go around people who are honest about reality “vermin” and “piece of shit”.   I mean the Bible enumerates 2,476,636 killings by God, and estimates range up to 24,634,205. Meanwhile the bible only enumerates ten killings by Satan (with an estimated 50 more). .   Ironically God participated in those ten murders by Satan of Job’s seven son’s and three daughters. It was over a bet on what a swell guy Job was, and by “swell” I mean a sycophant wishing to get into heaven.

What’s interesting about the story of Job is that Satan is powerless to harm Job’s children until God removes his protection in order to set the stage for the bet.    It’s as if you had children and hand them over to a murdering pedophile to test their loyalty.

Presumably god knew Jobs character.   Why does Satan’s opinion even matter, and why is it a justification to murder Job’s children, destroy his livestock, and cover him in boils?

Certainly the same rules would apply to 9/11.   Which is why Falwell makes the kind of statements he does.

The story of Job supposedly has a happy ending because he is restored, to health, twice as much livestock, and a brand new family to replace the old one.    How monstrous and hateful is that?

The victims 9/11 don’t even get new families or twice as much stuff. Plus they were victimized by people far less powerful than Satan. Seems like if you believe the bible this might be another one of God’s bets, except in this case his victims got a much worse deal.

There is a more honest ways of understanding why bad things happen to good people than invoking gods blessings and punishments. There is nothing hateful about it, and in fact the opposite is true.   Believing god blesses or curses people on earth can only lead to the hateful notion these innocent victims deserved their fate while criminals living high off the spoils of their crimes and evade detection deserve theirs.
Aine
September 10th, 2011 @ 1:41 pm

It’s a beautiful tribute. It’s entirely appropriate. Herman Cain is a good American, a decent man. I feel grateful that he wants to participate in this election, this exercise of our freedom.
ThePaganTemple
September 10th, 2011 @ 2:18 pm

And I criticized him for that just as harshly as I do you leftist turdballs.
Aine
September 10th, 2011 @ 2:24 pm

I think of “God Bless America” as a prayer of gratitude and calling for Divine guidance and protection. It’s clearly the love song of an immigrant for his adopted nation.

Pandering? Right. And if this were a video produced by Organizing for America or any other re-election Obama machine? Wait…that’s not even within the realm of imagination, is it. Sorry.
ThePaganTemple
September 10th, 2011 @ 2:36 pm

I probably don’t have a place in this discussion, but if there is a God, the way I understand it is he’s a God that believes in liberty and the freedom of the individual to make his own choices. With that freedom comes some degree of responsibility. If you make your own choices, then you have to live with the consequences. Otherwise, what’s the point of living in freedom? You are supposed to learn from your mistakes and adjust to reality. So you could say in a sense freedom is illusory, but its orders of magnitude better than a human government bureaucracy dictating in what ways you can be free and in what ways you cannot. That will always, eventually if not immediately, lead to the boot heel of the state on your neck. Pretty much like we’re seeing it more and more here in this country.

Job is a symbolic story. You’re not supposed to take that literally. Of course that’s just my opinion. It was an attempt to explain why bad things happen and why God allows them to happen. I don’t think very highly of it, personally. Actually, and again this is just my opinion, but it seems to have originally been an Edomite story that the Israelite priesthood adapted. Check the area where Job is said to have lived.

By the way, since the government is going to force me to buy CFL bulbs with poisonous mercury instead of the traditional tried and tested incandescents I’ve grown up with, what do you think the chances are the government will foot the bill cleaning my house of mercury poisoning if I break one of the damn things. It would only be right since they are forcing me to use the damn things, but I’d say the chances of that are slim and none.

But its the little things like that that show you in what direction we’re sliding, further and further away from liberty, and towards dictatorship.
ThePaganTemple
September 10th, 2011 @ 2:42 pm

So your complaint is he is using it for a campaign song? Okay, I kind of see your point, even though I don’t agree with it, but ask yourself this. What’s wrong with a candidate expressing his love for America and his anger towards those who attacked us. Isn’t that what candidates do all the time on the campaign trail? Even some libtard Democrats do that. Most of them probably aren’t sincere, but they do it. At least Cain is sincere, in my opinion. Your problem seems to be the use of the song. Me, I don’t have a problem with it
ladyliberty1885
September 10th, 2011 @ 3:12 pm

Alex Pareene has the corner on the market of ‘Tasteless’.

Salon is a rag.

PS – has anyone else had problems signing in with twitter today? I keep getting rejected w/ twitter is busy on about every site I’ve tried. Open ID only seems to work.
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neildferguson
September 10th, 2011 @ 3:19 pm

“Ping-Pong Ball Boy?” I spent three wonderful summers working as a ping-pong ball boy. That’s how I worked my way through high school. It was hard work, but I got to travel all over the YMCA, learn a little bit about life, and meet some fine athletes . In fact, that’s how I met my future wife. Any time now I’m sure she’ll agree to marry me. I’m going to ask her again as soon as the restraining order expires.
Rlynh
September 10th, 2011 @ 4:31 pm

We aren’t going to forget, or ignore, as much as amoral little dweebs on the left would like us to.

Thank you, Mr. Cain.
Bob Belvedere
September 10th, 2011 @ 5:46 pm

Did you ever drop the soap?
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FenelonSpoke
September 10th, 2011 @ 6:54 pm

Liberal atheists analyzing Scripture always turns me off.
FenelonSpoke
September 10th, 2011 @ 7:08 pm

^^That was a reply to Brian not to the Pagan Temple
FenelonSpoke
September 10th, 2011 @ 7:11 pm

Good grief; Only a Fundamentalist Atheist would sit down and figure out how many people God supposedly killed in the Bible, instead of concentrating on the person and work of Jesus Christ. What a downer!
I might as well go talk to Richard Dawkins; At least that way I’d get a trip to England out of it.
Brian Macker
September 10th, 2011 @ 7:49 pm

Supposedly? I guess you’ve never read the bible. It’s a very big downer. You don’t have to be a “Fundamentalist Atheist”, whatever that is, to read a book. I also think it laughable that you see no connection between your supposed God and his supposed son.
Brian Macker
September 10th, 2011 @ 7:53 pm

We have something in common. Analysis of scripture turns me off in general.
Brian Macker
September 10th, 2011 @ 8:07 pm

Show me? Why do you assume that I reject one false god that I desire a second? Nothing I wrote was in any way an indication that I would disagree with a single thing you said. Including your discussion of the story of Job, as far as it goes.

On the issue of free will I’m a compatiblist, and I don’t see where your first paragraph fits in. I don’t see how you derived the partial statement “So you could say in a sense freedom is illusory …” since it doesn’t follow from your claims, and I certainly wasn’t making such an argument.
Anonymous
September 10th, 2011 @ 8:12 pm

If OfA made a video like this they’d wouldn’t use the word God in the song and all the scenes would be from the Castro district in San Fran Francisco and drum circles in Madison.
Anonymous
September 10th, 2011 @ 8:17 pm

We aren’t going to forgive either, not ever. One of the most disappointing things about all of coverage is that video of the Palestinians celebrating is seldom mentioned and even less frequently shown.