ABC and Clinton: Caving to Pressure

Nuke Gingrich ^ | 9/6/06 | nuke gingrich

[grandpa jones]

I was Wondering About This.

And Hugh Hewitt provided the answer...(h/t no2liberals).

I commented over at GCP(#436) last week about the extraordinarily large amounts of search-engine hits that this website was getting, all directed to a specific article that I had posted about ABC's upcoming Path to 9-11.

Interesting thing happened today. Apparently some national organiztion is researching blogger opinion on next week’s TV show “Path to 9/11″ (which is very critical of Clinton, which makes me suspect that it is the donks that are out trying to do research to see if 9/11 is going to poll well for the mid-terms). Anyway, starting around 10:30 this am, I started getting hits for a cut and paste article of the TV show that I blogged a week or so ago. It’s been about 200 hits from search engines and IP’s from all over the country. Sitemeter is a gas!

Well, according to Mr. Hewitt, here's what it was all about:

The story here is the backlash that the Disney/ABC execs experienced was completely unexpected and is what caused them to question themselves and make these changes at all. Had this been the Bush Admin pressuring, they wouldn't have even taken the call. The execs and studio bosses are dyed in the wool liberals and huge supporters of Clinton and the Democratic Party in general.

[grandpa jones]

Yup, Sitemeter is a Gas!

[rwfromkansas]

So, I am confused. They did change it after all?

[Darkwolf377]

But at the end of their mad scramble, they found only a handful of changes they could make and still be true to the events. The changes are done only to appease the Clinton team - to be able to say they made changes. But the blame on the Clinton team is in the DNA of the project and could not be eradicated without pulling the entire show. A $40 million investment on the part of ABC is enough to stem even Bill Clinton's influence.

Doesn't seem like they caved much at all.

[freedomlover]

IMHO the fact that Rush got/was given an advance copy of the original version made it difficult to edit without a trace.

He would/should be all over pointing out any changes.

Thanks for Rush - I find some of his show boring but it's for these situations he is a very valuable ally.

[Publius6961]

I am very interested in this proposed show, and planned to watch it, specially if the "changes" responding to pressure can be identified.

I do not easily willingly watch network "documentaries".

[grandpa jones]

Doesn't seem like they caved much at all.

The only thing standing between a complete whitewash is the fact that $40 million had been put on the table(jmho)
I thought the real interesting part of this was the mad-dash to research web-opinion to see what the Right was buzzing about. I couldn't believe the number of search-hits I was getting...really skewed the numbers. Plus the fact that the suits at ABC decided it was important enough to give up their Labor Day holiday, just to appease the Clintonistas. Heh™ priceless.

[Darkwolf377]

Yeah, I was startled to read the positive reviews from Conservatives, and I imagine the libs at ABC just figured it would smear Bush because, well, you know, that's what movies and TV shows DO. So it's no surprise the execs were in a mad panic to protect their personal Ba'al, Clinton.