From the Inky no less
The Philadelphia Inquirer is actually making sense?
I don't know whether to buy a Big Game lotto ticket or go to confession and prepare for the end of the world this afternoon.
The Dems did a lot more than that - they made implicit political threats against Disney, a blatant abuse of power - which is the REAL big story here, but, true to form, the Inky leaves out the most damning detail about the Dems.
Trust but verify :)
Well, they will continually compare this series on the lead-up to 9/11, which I gather is balanced and historically correct, against the Reagan TV hit piece, which was a slimy spin job. But that's leftists for you. Unable to distinguish a true fact from a lie.
Hey, there's no need to make up lies about clinton's beastliness and fecklessness. The bare truth is damaging enough.
LOL
Gee .. I don't remember Republican US Senator threatening to yank CBS's license if they aired it
Complaining about something is one thing .. Openly threatening a TV by Democrat US Senators is an abuse of power
The democrats and other assorted liberals have spoken : The public is too stupid to discriminate between a made for tv movie drama and a documentary.
So much for their always spouting their belief in how smart the American public is.
HYPOCRITES
The Inquirer is hard core about free speech and free exchange of ideas and opinions. Chris Satullo is its editor and although he is unabashedly liberal, he makes sure there is a wide range of opinions on the opinion pages of the Inquirer and he is not afraid to admit when conservatives have better ideas or strategy than liberals. The Inquirer was also one of only a handful of newspapers that published at least one of the Mohammed cartoons.
I just read somewhere that Scholastic had a workbook for students to follow along when this movie was being aired, but now they've pulled it. NICE.
This is not what Iger is doing by presenting the production on ABC --- promoting open, accurate discussions of political ideas?
Most of the idiots who read the PI... are convinced the Israeli's did it anyway.
The DemocRATS say that the viewers are to stupid "to decide." The 'RATS have decided that they are our parents and must protect us from those wascally Wepublicans. We're too stupid to protect ourselves. Without Papa Willie and Mama Hillary, we just a bunch of morons wandering aimlessly across the vast wasteland of America without healthcare.
I suspect ABC has "screwed the pooch".
The should have just done a straight documentary with interviews and
newsreel footage, with a detailed website of footnotes/citations.
When principals like Bubba and Maddie refused to give interviews...
that should be noted.
That speaks louder than anything ABC will do with a "docudrama".
He pretends to be blasting the dims but throws in the part about the RR smear job and equates what the conservative grass movement did with what the dims in the senate did in misusing their power to threaten a TV station with sanctions if ABC airs this program. In other words he is trying to put the dimwits on even footing with the conservatives. In reality he is saying, "See, we are no worse than the pubbies, they protested too!".
"Can viewers at least watch the ABC miniseries about 9/11, instead of having someone decide for them whether it's an informative "docudrama" or a partisan hack job?"
The Clinton thugs certainly don't think so...
Could this all be a sham cooked up to boost ratings for the show and draw viewers away from Bush's 9-11 speech...
Or, is it both...
My guess is there will be an edited version shown on TV but an 'uncensored' version sold in stores. Both versions will go easy on the Clinton administration.
Uh oh, the IRS agents and Comrade Hitlery's PI team are already in their cars and headed to Philly. Watch for a back-peddling editorial any minute. News at eleven.