ABC to Alter Show on Pre-9/11 Run-Up

WashPost ^ | 9-8-06 | Howard Kurtz

[STARWISE]

ABC plans to make minor changes to its docudrama on the run-up to the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks in response to heated complaints from former Clinton administration officials that a number of scenes are fabricated, a network executive said yesterday.

Thomas H. Kean, the Republican who chaired the 9/11 commission and is a co-executive producer of the film, said in an interview that he recently asked for changes that would address complaints raised by the former aides to President Bill Clinton and that ABC is considering his request.

"These are people of integrity," Kean said of the filmmakers. "I know there are some scenes where words are put in characters' mouths. But the whole thing is true to the spirit of 9/11."

The ABC executive said the "adjustments and refinements" are "intended to make clearer that it was general indecisiveness" by federal officials that left the country vulnerable to terrorist attacks, "not any one individual."

The executive, who requested anonymity because the network is making only written comments, said small revisions have been underway for weeks.

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Democrats ratcheted up the pressure yesterday. Senate Minority Leader Harry M. Reid (Nev.) and four Democratic colleagues wrote to Robert Iger, chief executive of the Walt Disney Co., ABC's corporate parent, urging him to cancel the movie. The Democratic National Committee obtained more than 100,000 signatures on a petition demanding cancellation. Jay Carson, a spokesman for former president Bill Clinton, called ABC's plan to air the movie "despicable."

The six-hour docudrama, scheduled for broadcast Sunday and Monday, depicts such former Clinton officials as Madeleine K. Albright, Samuel R. "Sandy" Berger and Richard Clarke as undermining efforts to capture or kill Osama bin Laden.

[ohioWfan]

According to the thread (I linked it above), they're being distributed overseas already.

I'm sure there will be ample information here on FR when we can get copies when they're available.

I, for one, will get one as soon as I possibly can.....

[STARWISE]

YEP!! Thank God for the internet and the HONEST media.

[al baby]

[ohioWfan]

Amen!

[ElPatriota]

:))))).... I understand they hired Bill Clinton as a "consultant" to the Director. ROLF :)

[EQAndyBuzz]

"GET OFF THE PHONE YA BIG DOPE!"
"Where are the convictions YA BIG DOPE?"


You have 20 seconds...go.

[RetSignman]

Kean's remarks should tell everyone all they need to know.

[onyx]

According to the thread (I linked it above), they're being distributed overseas already.

I hope that's true.

[political1]

ABC is not going to pull it, nor are they altering it. This is the old bait and switch tactic. they already have another version. They just want everyone to watch. When you see it you will be mad. All the hopes of pinpointing the Clinton administration are just a trick to get more viewers from the right. Once it is over they can point out to the advertisers that the numbers were really high. Being that it is a two night deal, don't be surprised if they don't leave a cliff hanger the first night making one believe that the whole blame is on Clinton. When the second night comes around it will all fall in Bush's lap.

[TravisBickle]

ABC= Allowed to Be Censored

[DustyMoment]

From the letter by Sen. Reid it came very close to threatening their license.

That was the intent. See Neal Boortz's site today - he states the very same thing.

[Suzy Quzy]

You think that the 900 FBI files that Hillary had is a Fake Story??? Yikes!! Are you sure about that??

[Suzy Quzy]

You're putting faith in Larry Klayman??/ HAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAH

[Suzy Quzy]

You don't get it. The Clintons have DEMOCRAT FBI files also and they Yank these people's chains to do what they want them to do when the Clintons are threatened with the TRUTH!!

[Suzy Quzy]

AMEN!! If they had ONLY put as much effort into destroying Americas enemies as they have put into killing this movie, we'd be living in Peaceful times!!

[End_Clintonism_Now]

[Hound of the Baskervilles]

"You don't get it. The Clintons have DEMOCRAT FBI files also and they Yank these people's chains to do what they want them to do when the Clintons are threatened with the TRUTH!!"

This pre-supposes that EVERYONE involved has something nasty in their FBI file. What nonsense.

[nutmeg]

bump for later

[Hound of the Baskervilles]

"You don't get it. The Clintons have DEMOCRAT FBI files also and they Yank these people's chains to do what they want them to do when the Clintons are threatened with the TRUTH!!"

And it also pre-supposes that the Clinton's have the FBI files of TV producers, writers and Disney people and that they got them way back in the past when the scandal first surfaced. What stealth, what luck to have the very FBI files that they needed today.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

This is no surprise. ABC is full of left-wing extremists.