UPDATED: Conservatives helping sink 9/11 film

Posted by Evan Derkacz at 1:38 PM on September 8, 2006.

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Thinkprogress has compiled conservative opposition to ABC's Path to 9/11. Meanwhile, unconfirmed rumors are spreading that ABC is canceling the movie

• John Podhoretz, conservative columnist and Fox News contributor:

  The portrait of Albright is an unacceptable revision of recent history and an unfair mark on a public servant who, no matter her shortcomings, doesn’t deserve to be remembered by millions of Americans as the inadvertent (and truculent) savior of Osama bin Laden. Samuel Berger, Clinton’s national security adviser, also seems to have just cause for complaint.

• James Taranto, OpinionJournal.com editor:

  The Clintonites may have a point here. A few years ago, when the shoe was on the other foot, we were happy to see CBS scotch "The Reagans."

• Dean Barnett, conservative commentator posting on Hugh Hewitt’s blog:

  One can (if one so chooses) give the filmmakers artistic license to [fabricate a scene]. But if that is what they have done, conservative analysts who back this movie as a historical document will mortgage their credibility doing so.

• Chris Wallace, Fox News Sunday anchor: When you put somebody on the screen and say that’s Madeleine Albright and she said this in a specific conversation and she never did say it, I think it’s slanderous, I think it’s defamatory and I think that ABC and Disney should be held to account.
• Captain’s Quarters blog:

  If the Democrats do not like what ABC wants to broadcast, they have every right to protest it — and in this case, they had a point.

• Bill Bennett, conservative author, radio host, and TV commentator: Look, "The Path to 9/11" is strewn with a lot of problems and I think there were problems in the Clinton administration. But that’s no reason to falsify the record, falsify conversations by either the president or his leading people and you know it just shouldn’t happen.

For sources and more quotes go to Thinkprogress...

Evan Derkacz is a New York-based writer and contributor to AlterNet.