Posted on 09/07/2006 8:48:55 PM PDT by MindBender26
Hollyweird is being strangely quiet....could it be they are a little taken-aback at this censorship?
"The fascist democrats are celebrating this "victory of censureship" in USENET POLITICAL GROUPS
They make me sick!"
I'm afraid if they ever regain power that they might make us all DEAD!
---Sure they do. Remember how outraged all the democrats were when Dan Rather and CBS used FORGED DOCUMENTS to smear President Bush just prior to the last election? (s/off)---
Libs still deny that those documents were proven forged. One lib was telling me the other day that it was just the "controversy" which effectively "censored" Dan Rather.
I understand Sandy Burglar is now the official spokesman for the US Underwear Manufacturers Association.
More open minded Liberal tolerance to advance free speech I see. :)
In essence, the Democrats have delivered a threat to retaliate against ABC. If the executives at ABC had any balls, they would read a copy of the memo at the beginning of each night's broadcast. And then a spokesman should say something to the effect that freedom of speech is vital to a Democracy, and that the Democrats should not engage in such oppressive leftist tactics.
I hope Rush has this on first thing tomorrow!
Indeed. On "The Grapevine" during "Special Report With Brit Hume" tonight, Brit reported that "Democratic bloggers plan to 'Google bomb' the 9/11 docudrama" so that anyone trying to look it up will only find moonbat putdowns among the first several dozen search results. So make sure your blog and website entries have "The Path to 9/11" "miniseries" "ABC" "9-11" "WTC" "twin towers" and anything else you can think of, and submit your site at http://www.google.com/addurl/?continue=/addurl.
They used to rail against such brutal censorship. They called it "McCarthyism." But as long as the Democrats engage in it, it must be ok with Hollywood.
They spelled it "principle?" I'll believe that when I see the actual letter, not a transcript on the internet.
The word "principle" is not in the Dem lexicon. Everybody knows that.
"Idiots!"
They're already identified as Senators; you're just being redundant;)
Ahm, excuse me, but isn't this s dight totalitarian?
I realize these socialists have become so steeped in their beliefs that they have a right to rule, not govern, per socialist methods - in this case, control of the media....but are they going to be allowed to get away with it?
This is frightening. If they are successful, the media in America is no longer free.
Have I missed it...the hue and cry of the public and the lawmakers that this blatant threat to control the media - do as we say or we will shut you down - is unconstitutional? Be afraid. Be very afraid if they are successful...
BUBBA GOES BALLISTIC ON ABC ABOUT ITS DAMNING 9/11 MOVIE
INSISTS NET PULL DRAMA
By IAN BISHOP NY Post Correspondent
http://www.nypost.com/news/nationalnews/bubba_goes_ballistic_on_abc_about_its_damning_9_11_movie_nationalnews_ian_bishop_________post_correspondent.htm
September 7, 2006 -- WASHINGTON - A furious Bill Clinton is warning ABC that its mini-series "The Path to 9/11" grossly misrepresents his pursuit of Osama bin Laden - and he is demanding the network "pull the drama" if changes aren't made.
Clinton pointedly refuted several fictionalized scenes that he claims insinuate he was too distracted by the Monica Lewinsky sex scandal to care about bin Laden and that a top adviser pulled the plug on CIA operatives who were just moments away from bagging the terror master, according to a letter to ABC boss Bob Iger obtained by The Post.
The former president also disputed the portrayal of then-Secretary of State Madeleine Albright as having tipped off Pakistani officials that a strike was coming, giving bin Laden a chance to flee.
"The content of this drama is factually and incontrovertibly inaccurate and ABC has the duty to fully correct all errors or pull the drama entirely," the four-page letter said.
The movie is set to air on Sunday and Monday nights. Monday is the fifth anniversary of the attacks.
Based on the 9/11 commission's report, the miniseries is also being provided to high schools as a teaching aid - although ABC admits key scenes are dramatizations.
The letter, written by Bruce Lindsey, head of the Clinton Foundation, and Douglas Bond, a top lawyer in Clinton's office, accuses the ABC drama of "bias" and a "fictitious rewriting of history that will be misinterpreted by millions of Americans."
Clinton, whose aides first learned from a TV trailer about a week ago that the miniseries would slam his administration, was "surprised" and "incredulous" when told about the film's slant, sources said.
Albright and former National Security Advisor Sandy Berger also dashed off letters to Iger, accusing the network of lying in the miniseries and demanding changes.
ABC spokesman Jonathan Hogan last night defended the miniseries as a "dramatization, not a documentary, drawn from a variety of sources, including the 9/11 commission report, other published materials and personal interviews."
"Many of the people who have expressed opinions about the film have yet to see it in its entirety or in its final broadcast form," he said. "We hope viewers will watch the entire broadcast before forming their own opinion."
Executive producer Marc Platt told The Washington Post that he worked "very hard to be fair. If individuals feel they're wrongly portrayed, that's obviously of concern. We've portrayed the essence of the truth of these events. Our intention was not in any way to be political or present a point of view."
The miniseries' creator and the 9/11 panel's former co-chairman, Tom Kean, who was a paid adviser on the film, said some scenes are made up and plan to include a statement at the show's beginning.
In the movie, FBI anti-terror agent John O'Neill, played by Harvey Keitel, and a composite CIA operative named Kirk grouse about bureaucratic red tape following a meeting with Berger and Albright.
"How do you win a law-and-orderly war?" Kirk asks.
"You don't," O'Neill snaps.
The movie then cuts immediately to a newsreel close-up of Clinton insisting he did "not have sex with that woman" - Monica Lewinsky.
Although the movie thrust Lewinsky into the mix as a White House distraction, the 9/11 commission's report found Clinton was "deeply concerned about bin Laden" and that he received daily reports "on bin Laden's reported location," Clinton's letter notes.
In another scene, CIA operatives working with Afghani anti-al Qaeda fighter Ahmed Shah Massoud, the leader of the Northern Alliance who was assassinated by bin Laden days before 9/11, gather on a hill near bin Laden's residence at Tarnak Farms - the terror thug easily in their grasp.
"It's perfect for us," says Kirk, a composite character played by Donnie Wahlberg. But the team aborts the mission when an actor portraying Berger tells them he can't authorize a strike.
"I don't have that authority," the Berger character says.
"Are there any men in Washington," Massoud asks Kirk later in the film, "or are they all cowards?"
The reps for an outraged Clinton wrote to Iger that "no such episode ever occurred - nor did anything like it."
The 9/11 commission report echoes his denial, and found that Clinton's Cabinet gave "its blessing" for a CIA plan to capture bin Laden and determined that ex-CIA Director George Tenet squashed the plan.
The third contested scene focuses on Albright, who is depicted alerting Pakistani officials in advance of a 1998 U.S. missile strike against bin Laden in Afghanistan - over the objections of the Pentagon. The movie claims the tip-off allowed bin Laden to escape.
But the 9/11 commission reported that it was a member of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff - not Albright - who met with a senior Pakistani Army official prior to the strike to "assure him the missiles were not
NYT REVIEW OF ABC 9-11 MOVIE
Thu Sep 07 2006 19:52:02 ET
http://www.drudgereport.com/flash4.htm
NEW YORK TIMES TV critic Alessandra Stanley reviews ABC's upcoming 'The Path to 9/11' in Friday editions, newsroom sources tell DRUDGE.
"'The Path to 9/11' is not a documentary, or even a docu-drama; it is a fictionalized account of what took place. It relies on the report of the Sept. 11 commission, the King James version of all Sept. 11 accounts, as well as other material and memoirs. Some scenes come straight from the writers' imaginations," writes Alessandra .
"Dramatic license was certainly taken, but blame is spread pretty evenly across the board. It's not the inaccuracies of 'The Path to 9/11' that make ABC's miniseries so upsetting. It's the situation on the ground in Afghanistan now."
Alessandra concludes: "Hindsight is heartbreaking and disturbing to watch, even in a made-for-television movie. But it's even harder to take when those steps continue to contaminate the present."
Developing...
Dream on. They'll fold like a cheap suit. Remember, they ARE MSM!!!!
They certainly had no problem green lighting thekilling women and children at Waco either.
Oooh. ABC taking heavy flak from the RATzies. Must be over a big target!
Anyway, I don't watch TV, but I heard that the movie is "not finished with the editing process." I'm thinking that the Republicans were going to come out looking bad in this drama, anyway, because we were so mean to poor Mr. Bill. If any changes are done, it's the Republicans that will come out looking like dufusses.
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