A public event:

Heard on Fox News Sunday's roundtable during a discussion about showing pictures of coffins of soldiers killed in Iraq:

JUAN WILLIAMS: But let me say this. I noticed you won't show pictures - don't want to show pictures of troops, people coming back dead from Iraq. But there doesn't seem to be any hesitency about using images of 9/11 and the World Trade Center. And we're going to see more of those images shortly in the course of the Republican convention. Why not use some restraint there, as opposed to where you have people ...

CHRIS WALLACE: Alright Fred, you get the last word.

FRED BARNES: Juan, 9/11 was a public event. And if anybody thinks ...

JUAN WILLIAMS: And what is war? What is war, Fred?

FRED BARNES: And if anybody thinks ... Well, the war is also a public event. But the coffins are not.

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UPDATE: Just to be clear, it was Barnes' characterization of 9/11 as "a public event" - like it was a festival or something - that sounded peculiar.

posted by Quiddity at 4/25/2004 09:20:00 AM