Tony Bennett: America To Blame 9/11, “They Flew The Plane In, But We Caused It Because We Were Bombing Them And They Told Us To Stop”…
Senile old kook.
(ABC News) — American icon Tony Bennett took to the airwaves at Sirius Radio to promote his new album, “Duets II,” but it’s what he said about war, peace, terrorism, and who was to blame for the Sept. 11 terror attacks that could get people talking.
Sitting down with Howard Stern on Monday, the 85-year-old singer dodged questions about his sex life and prior drug use. He did so with a laugh, but matters about the U.S. military and 9/11 were fair game, and on these topics the Grammy winner held little back.
Beginning with his service in World War II, Bennett said that his experiences as a teenager in combat forever changed his position on war.
“I’m anti-war,” he said. “It’s the lowest form of human behavior.”
Stern then asked Bennett about how America should deal with terrorists, specifically those responsible for the 2001 attack on the World Trade Center.
“But who are the terrorists? Are we the terrorists or are they the terrorists? Two wrongs don’t make a right,” Bennett said.
In a soft-spoken voice, the singer disagreed with Stern’s premise that 9/11 terrorists’ actions led to U.S. military involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan.
“They flew the plane in, but we caused it,” Bennett responded. “Because we were bombing them and they told us to stop.”
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huh?
Just like it’s the fault of the raped woman for being raped.
Go croak you old windbag.
Maybe Mr. Bennett should take a gander at this nblo.gs/mSM6G
And for your link clicking convenience:
http://trevorloudon.com/2011/09/who-was-behind-9-11/
Remember where his heart is…
OMG…I wish celebrities would keep their mouths shut, because now there is one more I refuse to listen to, or buy from. I want the economy to do good, but I refuse to listen to these jack wagons who blame America.
America is the most generous of all countries, and we never get credit for that.
Who were we bombing on Sept. 10, 2001? Is he complaining about the Iraq no-fly zone? But I thought Iraq wasn’t responsible for 9/11 – as any anti-war person would say. More likely he’s old and got his dates confused, getting cause and effect reversed.
I grew up with my family listening to this guy. My aunts and uncles had his music playing and it brought back memories of family gatherings to hear it again. Now, like so many other entertainers, every time I hear this asshole singing, I will think of this headline.
What a stupid thing to say. I wonder if he felt the same way about Pearl Harbor and the U-boat sinking of US merchant ships off the East coast and the Gulf?
Tony lost his brown cheery in SF?
Medical news! Democracy, free-markets and personal freedom can cause abysmal stupidity. Scientists investigating as soon as they get some time off from their work on global warming.
“Because we were bombing them and they told us to stop.”
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Is that retroactive blame? (for the bombing that hadn’t started yet)
He will be showcased on the season opener of my favorite show, “Blue Bloods”.
I won’t be watching.
His left his heart in San Francisco and his brain is somewhere else.
Gah! Yet another name to add to my Celebrity Halfwits List.
@Libra:
LOL!! I suggest his brain, tiny as it obviously is, is somewhere up his ass.
Apparently, there is something in the air, water and food in Hollywood that makes entertainers (I use that term rather loosely) crazy.
I left my brain, way up my asshole
up in that garden of Liberal views.
To be relevant and liked,
when I’m not just singing and mic’d.
and people thinking I have a clue,
I think I do…..
You’d be surprised how many young adults believe the same because of the rewriting of history/propaganda out there.
This kind of statement is the direct result of sitting in soiled Depends all day long. Tony used to be an American icon, now an American moron.
Add this loon to the list of a**holes that will never see another dollar from me. Along with Letterman, Stewart, and well……99.999% of Hollywood and the Entertainment Establishment. But thanks for making me feel OK about downloading your music/movies and TV shows for free….. Morons.
Quite right Vixen. Up until now it had been mistaken for a hemorrhoid.
“American icon”… only to the Hollyweird set, not to me.
“It’s the lowest form of human behavior.”… no being a Muslim is the lowest form of human (if you consider them to be human) behavior.
“Who are the terrorists”? If he can’t figure that out, I guess his brain is up his ass.
“Because we were bombing them and they told us to stop.”… who were we bombing? Who were the sailors on the USS Cole bombing? Who were the people at the Twin Towers in 1993 bombing?
Shut the fuck up, you old asshole!
“Because we were bombing them and they told us to stop.”
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Is that retroactive blame? (for the bombing that hadn’t started yet)
when I brought this up, (when Ron Paul was blathering on about it during the debate) someone pointed out about no fly zone?
Ok. i didn’t really understand it THEN either…
As close as you are, Tony, to reaping your reward you should be careful about opening your mouth and revealing your ignorance. 9/11/2001 was caused by humans who thought God was in their hatred. Trouble for those humans is that they were confused about which one was which. It wasn’t the Creator that was in their hatred. The Creator did not create us to kill each other and God is not in the hatred by which we tell ourselves that it’s okay to kill others. God created us so that some of us, those who have learned of Him, sought Him, and, in finding Him real, placed their trust in Him, might have fellowship with Him forever more. Only God offers us hope of more than a grave and that offer is available solely on the basis of what He did for us on the cross.
A word of advice to all of these pompous, self-important celebrities like Bennett with no moral compass, who think us “little people” just can’t wait to hear their verbal vomit: “Better to keep your mouth shut, and be thought a fool, than to open it and remove all doubt.”
Please, just sing Tony – I don’t think you’ve been paying attention.
God bless America, our troops, Israel, and fellow humans.
Liberalism = battered wife syndrome.
I love the smell of Halfwits roasting in the morning.
Thanks, fellow Zippers, for the humor and common sense displayed in the comments section here. Great stuff!
The first thing to go when you get older is short term memory, recent activities and events. And in Tony’s case, anything which happened after 1990 could be considered recent.
His “service” in WW2 began when he was DRAFTED in November 1944. Then comes about 16 weeks of boot camp
taking him to March 1945 when he’d ship out.
Germany surrendered April 1945.
He’s pandering to his MTV audience, he’d sell his mother into
slavery in the Sudan to stay popular.
The Bastard
Bennett, like so many Americans, has no real knowledge of what Islam has always been about. The long history of war and conquest, the destruction of so many cultures by Muslims throughout history is never taught to people. And you know what happens to those who forget their history…
Damn, and I “had” wanted to buy his CD. No longer.
I haven’t been impressed by his “singing” either in awhile; I would have been too polite to mention my opinion until this. Of course, anything I can say in that regard hurts him probably none while his opinion fills the voids in many skulls.
Stunad.
I left my brain. In San Francisco.
good luck selling that crap album now! Who wants to hear some 85 year old, who lost his voice a couple decades ago, warble the same old shit? He had the nostalgia angle going for him until yesterday. Does he know who his audience is? Does he think liberals run out to buy his dated overpriced crap? He should also consider the bad choice of rugs that he wears on his empty bald head!
Another Luap Nor voter.
Holy shit the nutjobs are crawling out of the woodwork about 9/11 being America’s fault! According to these morons the Victim is always to blame for the crime committed against them.
LOL – didn’t know we were dropping bombs all over the world prior to 9/11/01.
don’t they have an expiration date for old crow like this POS or a use by date…
In the 1940s, we were bombing Germany and they told us to stop. The rest is history.
Apparently, he likes boys as well, “NOT THAT THERE IS ANYTHING WRONG WTIH THAT” (~J. Seinfeld) which clearly show impaired judgment based on the number of panties that were thrown out of the audience at him a younger year.
I wonder if those same ladies throw their DEPENDS now?
Cowdude
Senile singer “Left His Heart in San Fransicko” but where is his brain?
So he got into the last days of WW II — no doubt he is ashamed of his service, for by his demented thought patterns, it was the Allies who were to blame.
Clearly that Axis thing has been overplayed so as to hide the evils of the Brits and Americans.
Such love for our enemies …. !!!!
to bad he just doesn’t die with grace instead of ruining his whole career on a moronic and utterly tasteless comment. I think we should “Fly him to the Moon” because no one is there to hear this depends wearing assclown make these foolish comments!
Such a shame. Always love his music. Now he’s over the edge and should entirely retire from the public spotlight.
Take away lesson. Actors, singers, etc. should keep their political opinions to themselves. Let us fans pretend that you are OK, don’t come out from behind the veil of public persona.
Bennett, you are a bona fide dhimmi…go sing in Saudi Arabia, Libya, Nigeria Yemen, Egypt ( ask Lara Logan what she did to deserve her fate?) …try getting a record deal there–shit bag
Never mind that it was OBL himself who A) declared war on the US in the 90′s, declared that civilians were also infidels and therefore targets, and later said the 9/11 attacks were carried out to force us to attack him/Al Queda/Taliban on “their turf”, knowing full well that they could never defeat us on US soil.
but yeah, you go ahead and believe what you want to Bennet
Never liked him – despise him now.
This isn’t the first time he’s said lefty stuff like this. I remembered hearing him a few years ago before everything hit the fan (w/Obi-None and his commie pals coming into view) and few people got worked up over questionable remarks.
I bet Commieblaster.com has some record of his past ramblings.
He needs to take a vacation away from the lights and and poppycock
This senile ol’ has-been seems to overlook the simple (it has to be!) two-step decision process that governs who gets killed by the Islaomfacists:
1. Does this person have a pulse? If yes, proceed to step two.
2. Is this person one of us?
If 2 = no, then it’s either KABOOM-a-roonie or begin to remove Infidel head from shoulders with rusty spoon, singing praises to virgin-fetish-demon-god.
Ol’ Tony’s been out of touch with reality for waaaaay too long.
As death nears everyone has moments of regret and often tries to justify their initial support of an issue. Mr. Bennet is a great talent and a great American Icon, however, he should keep his opinions to the business he knows the best..entertainment. His first mistake was agreeing to talk to Howard the Coward………….complete waste of air and food.
It’s a shame that his few months in combat turned him into a pacifist instead of clearly demonstrating that without the Just fighting Evil the concentration camps that he helped liberate would still be running.
This is getting tedious because my list of entertainers that I no longer watch, listen to or see at the movies has almost rendered me without entertainment….wait!………..CW music, operas and many more hours to read a book……somehow I enjoy these more.
Typical pandering Hollywood liberal, or Ron Paulbot?
Here’s some of the audio:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RkdytGfV8s
Even Stern sounded shocked and puzzled…
He has been a great entertainer, but over the years his Liberal slant on everything has made me turn him off.
Sooooo…….Mr. Bennett finally feels that he “must” share HIS view(s) pertaining to the 9-11 terroristic slaughter. We caused it…….WE CAUSED IT!!!!!! They told us to stop bombing them and WE didn’t listen and continued to bomb them, sooooo…..they had no choice but to retaliate by the means of knocking down the twin towers. Well…..my heart doesn’t go out to Mr. Bennett for his heart wrenching interview, BUT, my IRE certainly does. To add insult to injury, Mr. Stern then bolsters this opinion from hades and makes the comment that Mr. Bennett expresses some “valid” points. I’m sorry folks but I’m going to have to call Bovine Scatology on these two sordid individuals. I never have been a fan of Mr. Bennett and the same has always been true of Mr. Stern as well. There is no way that I could miss either of you any less, BUT,…….the question does arise…….could either of you have made it to the pinnacle of which you now reside had we not gone to war and been successful in doing so? Huh? Yeah, that’s what I thought!
There’s so much more that could be said about Mr. Bennett at this juncture…….alas, none of it would be good or praise!
No one caused the mohammadians to do anything; it’s their religion and their god is murder and hate. These SCUM keep trying to blame the victums instead of the guilty murdering islamists.
Well, he is a MORON. Morons tend to flock to MSNBC and NPR. Because these morons listen to these communist media outlets, then tend to spout the same diarrhea that they do. And that diarrhea includes blaming the USA for all the worlds ills.
Maybe somebody should tell him that terrorists attack civilians and the military attacks the military. But, talk slowly, he is still a moron. Don’t overload him.
Tony, no one wants to hear your left leaning rant. You live in a country that allows you so much freedom and the military that ensures those rights that people take for granted. Do you think that 3,000 people that died on 9/11 asked to die? Shame on you! I am hoping it’s not senility setting in but my advice to you is “shut up and sing”
“Bennett also recounted what he said was a conversation he’d had with George W. Bush during which the former president supposedly said that he’d “made a mistake” by invading Iraq.”
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What a coincidence! I remember a conversation i had with singer, Tony Bennett, where he revealed that he was lying when he said that.
Prove it DIDN’T happen.
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A tired old has been……….But still dead to me now. Do all your singing IN SF Tony.
Well, I think it’s apropo we give a listen to Howard Stern’s play of Frank Sinatra singing “Strangers on my Flight! Sing it Frankie!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmXZlP0WoyA
Mr. Bennett, Thank you for your service. Now don’t let the curtain hit you on your ass!
Who gives a rats ass what this old has-been fuck has to say. Someone call the home and tell them somebody left the door unlocked.
“a has-been”?
Hey…his first “Duets” CD is selling for $6 on Amazon ($1.98 – used). LOL
Time to retire Mr. Benedetto, f-a-s-t.
Before someone repackaged him as icon to the MTV viewers, Tony Bennett was a washed up crooner doing the grandparent supper club circuit.
Bennett has a new duets album out and has to stay fresh in the minds of the only crowd he’s had in decades…the hipsters.
Sinatra had a better voice than Tony Bennett ever did.