On September 12, 2011 former US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld announced that he's cancelled his subscription to the New York Times. "After reading Krugman’s repugnant piece on 9/11, I cancelled my subscription to the New York Times this AM." That's right, there will be no more subscriptions to Mount Misery. Rumsfeld purchased his home on the infamous Mount Misery when he was in office. Mount Misery is a former African-American slave whipping station. With the cancellation, Rumsfeld will no longer read columns of the New York Times in the peace and quiet of his home, relaxing in pajamas, on the sofa on a Sunday afternoon, nor over breakfast with his serene view of the yard where slaves including Fredrick Douglas suffered tremendous torture. The Krugman piece Rumsfeld calls repugnant was posted on September 11, 2011 at 8:51 AM:
"The Years of Shame
Is it just me, or are the 9/11 commemorations oddly subdued?
Actually, I don’t think it’s me, and it’s not really that odd.
What happened after 9/11 — and I think even people on the right know this, whether they admit it or not — was deeply shameful. The atrocity should have been a unifying event, but instead it became a wedge issue. Fake heroes like Bernie Kerik, Rudy Giuliani, and, yes, George W. Bush raced to cash in on the horror. And then the attack was used to justify an unrelated war the neocons wanted to fight, for all the wrong reasons.
A lot of other people behaved badly. How many of our professional pundits — people who should have understood very well what was happening — took the easy way out, turning a blind eye to the corruption and lending their support to the hijacking of the atrocity?
The memory of 9/11 has been irrevocably poisoned; it has become an occasion for shame. And in its heart, the nation knows it.
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