I can't really say that I tuned in to that much television coverage of the fifth anniversary of the September 11th attacks. I honestly can't say I even thought about the attacks that much. I guess that even after all this time, even though there has been at least some change in the American political climate, it's like some people still insist on framing the debate in such a way that if you don't support the current administration and all its programmes, you're dishonouring the memories of all the innocent people who died that day.
It also doesn't help that, as an academic myself now, conservative media have tried to portray Ward Churchill as typical of left-wing academia's response to the attacks. I can't say that I completely disagree with Mr. Churchill on some of the things he says, but he can go fuck himself for claiming that the people who died in the attacks deserved to die. Fuck that noise.