In Which The Power Of Re-Branding Is Used For Good

[serinde]

The so-called "Freedom Tower", replacing WTC, is now no longer the so-called Freedom Tower, but the actually-called 1 WTC. Thank you.

Now if we could just scrape the "Liberty" off of Newark, we'd really be getting somewhere.

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[dvandom.livejournal.com]

ObSnark: That's not all that needs to be scraped off Newark....

[dagnycat522.livejournal.com]

Many times when I call to make travel arrangements for work I get this guy on the phone who refuses to just say "Newark." Every time he mentiones it he very delibertly has to say "newark liberty airport" and I always want to hit him.

[syringavulgaris.livejournal.com]

Oh, that definitely deserves some use of the Lucky Smackin' Hand.

[mangosteen]

I'm filing that under OH THANK GHOD.

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[arkham1010.livejournal.com]

On that horrible day in september 2001, many people died for our freedoms, and I think its unfortunate we cannot honor their sacrifice with a little appreciation and remembrance. After all, President Bush wisely said "The call of liberty cannot fall."

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[syringavulgaris.livejournal.com]

I'm not wanting to start a Political Flamewar, but--They didn't die for our freedoms. Indeed, what those madmen were doing had nothing to do with our freedoms, but what they perceived their own to be or not be. Those deaths were terrible, wasteful, wrong, and many other adjectives, and should be remembered and commemorated (and they are being so!), but not by slapping Freedom Liberty Eagle Stars Patriot Stripes Yay Yay on every piece of non-moving real estate in a fifteen mile radius. That's not a commemoration to me, that's jingoism, which is only itself a few steps removed from fanaticism.

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[arkham1010.livejournal.com]

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[elibalin.livejournal.com]

You're making the firemen cry again! I hope you're happy!

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[arkham1010.livejournal.com]

Firemen's tears are sweet and soothing for a parched throat.

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[syringavulgaris.livejournal.com]

IHBT. IHL.

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[arkham1010.livejournal.com]

C'mon, didnt you think it was a troll when i used the words 'wise' and 'President Bush' in the same sentence?

(what is IHL?)

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[briony530.livejournal.com]

That made me think it was fiction. ;)

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[dvandom.livejournal.com]

IHL = I Have Lost

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[syringavulgaris.livejournal.com]

I DO NOT HAVE MY SMART HAT ON THIS MONTH

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[briony530.livejournal.com]

Tor, it doesn't make your point any well stated. There are plenty of folks out there who would make the comment you were replying to with utter seriousness.

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[dagbrown.livejournal.com]

Oh, well said.

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[xlerb.livejournal.com]

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[syringavulgaris.livejournal.com]

see icon.

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[briony530.livejournal.com]

THANK YOU TORI AND AMEN! The victims on 9/11 were ordinary people going about their own business who were viciously killed by a bunch of religious extremists. Using their deaths to pay lip service to some gung-ho patriotic ideal is just subverting the tragedy for nationalistic ends.

IMHO the FIRST thing to go should not be the "Freedom Tower" name (tho' I'm happy to wave bye bye to it), but the bloody God-awful "Patriots' Day" label slapped on September 11 by George the Lesser. The victims were victims, not patriots, and the animals who killed them were serving their own twisted and warped ideas of patriotism. And what happens when those of us who remember the sheer horror of that day are no longer around? Will there end up being Patriots' Day furniture sales? It should not be prettied up with a positive name.

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[dvandom.livejournal.com]

There's honoring, and then there's wallowing. And conspicuous displays of excessive patriotism made in order to score political points honor no one.

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[briony530.livejournal.com]

And let's not forget the recent presidential campaign...apparently it's okay to drag out 9/11 images to provoke violent emotions, but it's also okay to brand NYC and environs as "not real America" and dismiss the residents thereof as nothing but welfare collectors and elitist scum.

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[nancaurelia.livejournal.com]

This post has made my head roll in so many different directions at once, that all I can say is... "George the Lesser..." Heh Heh.

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[briony530.livejournal.com]

I always respected George H.W. Bush. Even when our politics diverged I could respect him. Good thing, I guess, since he sent my hubby to a war. He is a fine man. How he got that driveling idiot for a son is anyone's guess.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

Barbara loves the bourbon, that's how.

[ilaine-dcmrn.livejournal.com]

I especially like Bloomberg's take on it. The Port Authority can name it anything they want, it's their building. New Yorkers will call it whatever they damn well feel like anyway.

But if we call it Liberty Tower the terrorists win.

[syringavulgaris.livejournal.com]

I can only wish the same will hold true for the TRIBOROUGH

TRIBOROUGH

bridge.

[caelfinn.livejournal.com]

Heh, sometimes I call the FDR Drive the East Side Drive because that's what I learned from my the ex-taxi driver who grew up in the Bronx.

[elibalin.livejournal.com]

I thought that was a habit solely cultivated by people who still harbor a grudge against FDR.

[caelfinn.livejournal.com]

Hmm, I don't remember my Dad being anti-FDR. He lived through the depression (born in 1921) and I would imagine he would have welcomed the New Deal.

Oh, I just realized I typo'd my comment. I meant to say my *Dad* the ex-taxi driver who grew up in the Bronx. Duh.

[xlerb.livejournal.com]

You mean they renamed the bridge while I wasn't looking, or is it a borough/boro thing?

[syringavulgaris.livejournal.com]

They dubbed it for RFK last summer. It was met with a vast stare of indifference.

I have heard it said that this drips with irony, because RFK was agin this kind of thing, but further deponent knoweth not.

[spride.livejournal.com]

> Now if we could just scrape the "Liberty" off of Newark

When did it get that name? I always thought it was trying to borrow some Liberty mana from its stretch-a-point neighbor Philly?

[syringavulgaris.livejournal.com]

No no no; that was pastede on yay after 9/11. Because one of the Crashing Aircraft took off from Newark, see. Ergo, NEWARK = FREEDOMZ!!1