Posted on 09/08/2006 10:27:17 AM PDT by technomage
www.pathto911.com takes to the the democrats.org website
It is amazing they are so quick on the draw with this.
It also shows how adept the left is at "jamming".
they don't want this out.
Next they will want to ban the 9/11 report outright.
Imagine what they would do if Rush started reading the actual report on the air!
100% wrong.
This is absolutly different. There were no senatorial extorsion threats.
There was no website spoofing.
There was no sheeeer MONEY involved.
In that case it was over the memory of a dead man who many considered a friend and also respected.
In that case two homsoexuals admitted they were making up stuff wholesale.
In the Path to 9/11 the producers followed the 9/11 REPORT the democrats wanted to be produced! This is about protecting Hitlary. The Reagans was shown on showtime much to the panning and ridicule because of the pathetic lies that even the left could not support.
In the path to 9/11 the clintonistas are tryint to CENSOR THE 9/11 REPORT.
They wanted the 9/11 report, now that people will see the contents of the report, the clintonistas want the 9/11 report burned.
"If the donks were a majority and if the FCC was weighted towards donks, I could at least understand this threat as having teeth. They don't and it isn't and I still think this is just puffed-up, arrogant bullying."
I agree.
"I cannot think of one instance where the FCC has pulled a license over someone demanding it because they insist events that are documented ..."
Right. Has any other "docudrama" ever been held to this standard?
How can the Senate Democrats, who are a minority and who chair no committees, actually pull anyone's FCC license?
If, God forbid, Hitlery were to become President, she could appoint members to the FCC and cause trouble.
"It seems to me that all ABC has to do is is broadcast a disclaimer before and after the show stating that this is a dramatization and some specific events were not exactly as happened and that is legal cover."
Perhaps it is the social and political pressure that they are giving in to, as much or more than the legal threat?
Can you point me to the article where members of the senate were threatened the station that was going to air the show?
Remember..
All of the FACTS in this movie have been presented on TV before, from cnn,FOX, the History Channel, etc...
What's DIFFERENT this time is that they are being presented to MILLIONS of Sheeple, in a form (A Movie) that will actually pay attention to!
The Dems must stop this AT ANY COST.
They CANNOT have the Soccer Mom watching this and saying to herself,"If Bill lied about THAT, what else have Democrats been LYING to me about??"...
An absolutely false assertion. The outcry over the Reagan miniseries came from individuals, not elected officials threatening the corporation that owns the network.
The RATS are screaming over this because they know if they don't capture one house of Congress this fall, their money will continue to dry up and they will be consigned to permanent minority status for another 6+ years.
They are in a panic, meltdown mode.
correct me if I'm wrong but the FCC is appointed by the president not the democrats so it makes no difference what they say or threaten, and the rest of the protests are coming from individuals
Nor was it about saving a future political career.
In fact, it was only the integrity of a deceased man that was being protected. (The left picking on the dead)
Read Bubba's State of the Union speech of 2000. The terrorists will be dangerous in 10, maybe 20 years.
Has anyone estimated where the money is comming from?
I wonder also if they have the primary union volunteer phone banks now working to this "jamming" effort?
How much money have they spent on this?
How much does it cost per hour to have a senator attack a tv program?
"The immortal name of Stalin will live forever in the hearts of all progressive peoples."
Either that, or "Look everyone--Stalin has a zit on his face."
"I cannot BELIEVE that my former party would stoop to that level."
I didn't used to believe it either. Then I lived through 1997 and 1998, when members of Clinton's administration PUBLICLY said things like, "It's no big deal to lie under oath as long as it's about sex." What about Hillary responding to the scandal by saying, "Ms. Lewinsky was just one of the many young people my husband ministers to."
The hopes of dems seem to revolve around the assumption that the general populace, and certainly voters, are stupid, shallow, lazy, unprincipled, uninformed, entertainment-crazed dolts who take the most cherished tenets of the American experience (freedom, religion and family) lightly, if at all. Who needs 'em?
actually, this time the script was written by the democrats.
The 9/11 commission was a democrat demanded event. The book was written by democrate supervision.
They can't scream bias unless they denounce the 9/11 report. The wanted the 9/11 report they just don't want people to read it.
Your point about the FCC is correct, but the veiled threat in a future Democratic presidency was apparent.
All corporations the size of Disney do a tremendous amount of work with the federal government and receive favors and benefits large and small. The Democrats were threatening a wide array of retaliation.
Sounds like a class action First Amendment case before the SCOTUS to me. The public airwaves belong to us and we, as the DBM keeps reminding us, "have a right to know."
It would be a hoot if we could impeach a second Clinton, wouldn't it? Interferring with the first Amendment rights of the nation as a whole soulds like abuse of power to me.
Not that I can think of. The Reagan docudrama had him ranting on about AIDs patients needing to die. Nancy said it never happened. And Reagan was dying of Alzheimers and in no position to defend himself.
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