Three From Clinton Administration Urge Disney to Cancel or Revise 9/11 Miniseries (Must Watch)

New York Times ^ | September 7, 2006 | JESSE McKINLEY

[Libloather]

Three From Clinton Administration Urge Disney to Cancel or Revise Sept. 11 Miniseries
By JESSE McKINLEY
Published: September 7, 2006

Three members of the Clinton administration have written the chairman of the Walt Disney Company, ABC’s parent, to complain that the network’s coming two-part miniseries “The Path to 9/11” is fraught with factual errors and fabrications.

The letters ask that the five-hour movie, scheduled for broadcast Sunday and Monday, be either edited for accuracy or canceled, and ABC gave a small indication yesterday that some changes might be made.

One of the officials, former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, said in her letter to the Disney chairman, Robert A. Iger, that although she had requested a copy of the film, ABC had not given her one. But, Ms. Albright said, she has been told by people who have seen it that it “depicts scenes that never happened, events that never took place, decisions that were never made and conversations that never occurred.”

“It asserts as fact things that are not fact,” she wrote.

The concerns of Ms. Albright, as well as those in letters from Samuel R. Berger, former national security Adviser, and Bruce Lindsey, a Clinton White House aide who is now chief executive of the Clinton Foundation, were echoed yesterday by several Democratic members of Congress.

ABC, meanwhile, continued to explain that the miniseries, though largely drawn from the report of the Sept. 11 commission, was a dramatization, not a documentary.

But the network appeared to be leaving the door open to last-minute changes in t the film, which cost almost $40 million and is to be shown without any advertisements.

“It is common practice to continue to make edits to strengthen a project right up to the broadcast date,” said Hope Hartman, an ABC spokeswoman.

[Libloather]

...fraught with factual errors and fabrications.

Just how cool is THAT? I'm teaching my kid about this right now! We, along with the locals, call it the *Crinton reign!

From what I've heard, half of this piece will air Saturday night. The other half will air Sunday...

[KarlInOhio]

When you throw a rock into a pack of wolves, the one that howls is the one you hit. This show must be one hell of a big rock because a lot of Dems are howling.

I'm glad Rush watched the media preview so he can tell us what has been edited out of it by Sunday. They don't dare cut too much.

[Pikachu_Dad]

Yes, but what will it say?

“It is common practice to continue to make edits to strengthen a project right up to the broadcast date,” said Hope Hartman, an ABC spokeswoman."

[4rcane]

its a docu-drama. Whats the big deal? Its a movie! No different to Moore's F9/11

[KarlInOhio]

My DVR says The Path to 9/11 is at 8pm EDT Sunday and Monday.

[A CA Guy]

I can't wait for this to be at blockbuster to view it without commercials.

[nutmeg]

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[4rcane]

Its a great illustration how the left/Democrats/liberal are afraid of free speech

[JustaDumbBlonde]

Article says they are broadcasting it without commercials.

[ABG(anybody but Gore)]

If it's true that X42 himself tried to get this cancelled, it must be hitting the truth about how he did nothing about al Queda for 8 years. Clinton's underlings crawling out from under their rocks to attack it just gives credence to this idea.

[Libloather]

Whats the big deal? Its a movie!

Apparently, this is documentation on how the *Crinton goofballs snoozed as Bin Laden plotted. From what I've heard, Madame Albright takes it in the shorts. (And that's one mighty big target - no?)

ROLL TAPE!

[A CA Guy]

WOW that would be something, but they have to have some commercials. (Bathroom/food breaks)

I hope it is in HD!

[MJY1288]

Slick Willy entered office for two reasons...

1. To be popular
2. To get reelected

Confronting dangers was not part of his agenda and his eight years in office are the historical proof that will eventually be his legacy...... other than the "Red Dress"

[goldfinch]

“It asserts as fact things that are not fact,” she (Albright) wrote.

Sort of like the network news?

[lmr]

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[MHGinTN]

Thieves and proven liars are claiming this is not accurate? Must have been too close tot he truth for the scum of the degenerate's administration. When halfbright and the sox packin' document thief open their mouths, they have to tell at least one lie or their faces would turn to stone. Clinton, on the other hand, cannot be shamed with truth because he knows that a too large percentage of Americans will not believe anything told about him in their sick degenrate sycophancy, so he knows he can lie his way out of any truth shown or reported about him. As I piss on his grave someday, I will be remembering his shaking his finger at US and lying through his degenerate democrat teeth.

[ABG(anybody but Gore)]

I think you mean the "Blue Dress", but otherwise, you're dead on accurate. In eight years, he failed to do anything except welfare reform, which the GOP Congress forced on him. As far as foreign policy, if not for Mad Bomber Halfwit(who openly bragged to the press that she forced a war in Kosovo), their wouldn't be anything to speak of, except for his desperate attempt to force Israel to accept a bogus peace deal with Yassir Arafat so he could have a legacy beyond impeachment and Monica Lewinsky. Now that the truth about bin Laden and al Queda is about to come out, revealing what a waste of human flesh he was in the Oval Office, it's panic time.

[T.L.Sink]

Yes, I heard Rush talking about it and it's important to remember that he said it's not a free pass for Republicans.

They, too, had some culpability according to the film. But what has the Dems in hysterics is that Clinton was the president for EIGHT YEARS and there are documented instances where he was not serious about getting Bin Laden despite his few botched half-hearted attempts.

They are also enraged because Madame Albright and Sandy Bergler are portrayed as the incompetent bunglars that they really were.

But the thing that really has the Clintonistas furious is that the Monica affair is memtioned!!

[Killborn]

"Republicans urges revisions or cancellation of Fahrenheit 9/11, BushWorld, Bush's Brain, Against all Enemies, V For Vendetta, etc, ad nauseam."

Hmm. Nope. Can't imagine it. Because Republicans aren't fascist traitors trying to silence opposing view points, even if it consists entirely of lies and slander, let alone hiding embarassing/unpleasant/compromising information.

[MJY1288]

LOL, Yes it was a blue dress. Mind me, it's late and I'm tired :-)

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

Wonder if Sandy gets busted for trying to sneak a copy out of Blockbuster inside his pants.

[kcvl]

Madeleine Albright, Sandy(pants) Berger and Bruce Lindsey, the same people who stood in the way when we should have gotten Bin Laden! It' amazing how far these people will go to keep the country from knowing the truth!!!

I bet those telephones among the Clintonites have been burning up!

[A CA Guy]

Sandy is lucky not to be serving 10-20 years for a felony.
We all know that.

[Lancey Howard]

“It is common practice to continue to make edits to strengthen a project right up to the broadcast date,” said Hope Hartman, an ABC spokeswoman.

Oh boy. I smell a weasel coming.

[Lancey Howard]

Sandy is lucky not to be serving 10-20 years for a felony.

Nah. If you or I walked out of the National Archives with our socks and underwear stuffed with classified documents and then later destroyed those documents, we would get the same slap on the wrist that this scumbag Berger got. Wouldn't we?

[Dallas59]

“Sept. 11 is not ‘entertainment,’ it is reality,” Ms. Albright wrote Mr. Iger. “Before you air your broadcast, I trust you will ensure you have the facts right.”...

Threats?

[tomnbeverly]

Maybe it will show what Berger shoved down his pants in the National Archives... Clinton is the cause of 911 so let it be written so let it be done.... I really wish one of the 911 victims would open up a lawsuit against Clinton for failure to act against the terrorist agression in the 90's which allowed 911 to transpire... would make great theater.

[ConservativeMind]

Makes me want to watch!

[ABG(anybody but Gore)]

If I were paranoid, I'd agree that Halfwit's note sounds like a threat. But given the fact that it is Halfwit, I'm more of the mind that it's a reminder of what ugly dress she was wearing at what reception.

[weegee]

One of the officials, former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, said in her letter to the Disney chairman, Robert A. Iger, that although she had requested a copy of the film, ABC had not given her one. But, Ms. Albright said, she has been told by people who have seen it that it “depicts scenes that never happened, events that never took place, decisions that were never made and conversations that never occurred.”

“It asserts as fact things that are not fact,” she wrote.

The concerns of Ms. Albright, as well as those in letters from (CONVICTED THIEF) Samuel R. Berger, former national security Adviser, and Bruce Lindsey, a Clinton White House aide who is now chief executive of the Clinton Foundation, were echoed yesterday by several Democratic members of Congress.

STUFF IT!

[weegee]

Clinton diddled while America burned.

[weegee]

"Facts are funny things."

[Libloather]

It's amazing how far these people will go to keep the country from knowing the truth!!!

Someone will Tivo this - and record it to DVD. Once that happens, Madame Dimwit will be answering those 'awkward' questions forever (and she knows it...)

[weegee]

She's confusing an anniversary docudrama with a FAKE BUT ACCURATE news broadcast during an election year.

[ABG(anybody but Gore)]

They've hit the panic button on this documentary. Must be accurate and nails Bubba and his coterie.

[Mike Darancette]

These guys a squealing like stuck pigs, methinks that the show may be on to something.

[weegee]

A number of screener copies were reviewed.

If there are edits, the screeners will still preserve the original intent. And if one of those were to get out to the masses, it would only highlight the concerns of the Clinton administration which has done all they could to supress their failings.

[weegee]

The photo in post #31 is pretty damning on its own.

The public has been lied to for far too long.

I put some network tv on this week and hadn't seen it in years. ICK!

I don't have tivo but I do have a DVR system. I may record this for later viewing (and skimming).

[JennysCool]

They're trying to close the barn door after every horse has left the premises. Review copies (like the one Rush saw and owns) are already out. If they do make cuts, someone with access to the original will have all the cut footage up on the Web before Part Two finishes airing, so everyone can see what the Clinton faction found so objectionable.

I'm thinking Albright and the rest would have been far better off just letting things be.

[Libloather]

If there are edits, the screeners will still preserve the original intent.

I'm thinking, if there are edits at this point, the whole planet will know and should be tuned into the scam. The entire *Crinton administration on thin ice will be worth the price of admission - eh?

Warm up that VCR...

[Octar]

Wasn't Bruce Lindsey the jerk who sat on his briefcase at the impeachment hearings in order to appear taller? Or at least significant? Or maybe important? Or maybe mattered a little bit?

What an insignificant little twit.

I'd like to pinch his head.(off)

[Berlin_Freeper]

But former GOP Governor Thomas Kean of New Jersey, the chairman of the Sept. 11 commission and a consultant to the production, defended the film, saying it showed "a colossal failure of government.

http://www.upi.com/inc/view.php?StoryID=20060905-111623-5746r

[Howlin]

Bruce Lindsey

The Body Man appears!

[cvq3842]

I know what you mean!

[Proud_USA_Republican]

who wants to bet Mr. Iger could soon be the next victim of "arkanside"?

[Las Vegas Dave]

Yes it is, (from ABCtelevision).

The Path to 9/11 HD The Path to 9/11 HD!

[Libloather]

If they do make cuts...

I'm thinking it's too late for all that. Saturday is very close...

[Berlin_Freeper]

They should put this timeline in the movie:


+ On Jan. 6, 1996, Clinton had a sexual encounter with Lewinsky the White House intern. (Starr Report)

+ Week of Jan. 14 - 21, Clinton had several sessions of phone sex with Lewinsky. (Starr Report)

+ On Jan. 21, Clinton had another sexual encounter with Lewinsky. (Starr Report)

+ On Feb. 4, Clinton activities included a sexual encounter followed by a leisurely chat with Lewinsky, as the two "sat and talked [afterward] for about 45 minutes," (Starr Report)

+ On Feb. 6, U.S. Ambassador to the Sudan Tim Carney met with Sudanese Foreign Minister Ali Osman Mohammed Taha at Taha's home in the capital city of Khartoum. "If you want bin Laden, we will give you bin Laden," Foreign Minister Taha told Ambassador Carney. (Losing bin Laden-Richard Miniter)

+ In late February or March, the president telephoned her (Lewinsky) at home and said he was disappointed that, because she had already left the White House for the evening, they could not get together. (Starr Report)

+ On March 10, Sudan's Minister of State for Defense Elfatih Erwa met with the CIA's Africa bureau chief. On instructions from its president, the government of Sudan agreed to arrest bin Laden and hand him over to U.S law enforcement at a time and place of the Clinton administration's choosing. "Where should we send him?" Erwa asked the CIA representative. (Losing bin Laden-Richard Miniter)

**THAT SAME DAY** (March 10)- Ms. Lewinsky took a visiting friend, Natalie Ungvari, to the White House. They bumped into the president, who said when Ms. Lewinsky introduced them, 'You must be her friend from California.' Ms. Ungvari was 'shocked' that the president knew where she was from. (Starr Report)

President Clinton has acknowledged being fully briefed on the Sudanese efforts to turn over the 9/11 mastermind, admitting that he made the final decision to turn the offer down."The Sudanese wanted America to start dealing with them again," Clinton confirmed during a February 2002 speech to a New York business group. (Losing bin Laden-Richard Miniter)

+ On March 31, Clinton had sex with Lewinsky. (Starr Report)

+ On May 18, bin Laden boarded a chartered plane in Khartoum with his wives, children, some 150 al-Qaida jihadists and a cache of arms - and flew off to Jalalabad, Afghanistan. (Losing bin Laden-Richard Miniter)

+ 1998- There had been numerous earlier reports of bin Laden's interest in using aircraft for terror attacks, including a 1998 plot to fly an explosives-laden plane from a foreign country into the World Trade Center. (Curt Anderson, Associated Press Writer)

+ Sunday, April 4, 2004- The ranking Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee said Sunday that President Clinton's affair with White House intern Monica Lewinsky compromised U.S. national security because it left him unable to deal with the threat posed by al-Qaida.

"What really happened here, I think, is President Clinton's greatest mistake was Monica Lewinsky,"Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., told Fox News Sunday. "And that forced him to take his eye off the ball. He lost the ability to lead the nation."

[Sprite518]

In typical Klintonian fashion they care more about their image than the truth. Bastards!