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Hijacking 9/11

By Sheldon Rampton, Firedoglake. Posted September 5, 2006.


ABC's docudrama, 'The Path to 9/11,' is a mix of fact, fantasy and deliberate distortion adding up to blatant pro-Bush propaganda.
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The ABC television network is using the fifth anniversary of 9/11 as an opportunity to rewrite history. On Sept. 10 and 11, ABC/Disney will broadcast "The Path to 9/11", a six-hour, two-part "docudrama" written and produced by conservative filmmakers who place a lion's share of the blame for the 9/11 terrorist attacks on alleged failures of the Clinton administration.

This is not the first time that Hollywood has used 9/11 as a pretext to air pro-Bush propaganda in the guise of a docudrama. On the second anniversary of the terrorist attack, the Showtime cable network broadcast "DC 9/11: Time of Crisis," written by conservative Republican Lionel Chetwynd. Dubbed "a reelection campaign movie" by Washington Post TV critic Tom Shales, the film starred actor Timothy Bottoms in the role of George W. Bush, depicting him as a leader of Churchillian stature who takes personal charge in the 9/11 aftermath while brushing off worries about his own safety with declarations such as, "If some tinhorn terrorist wants me, tell him to come on over and get me. I'll be home!" In reality, as opposed to the bizarro world of docudrama, Bush's safety on 9/11 was guaranteed by hustling him off to an undisclosed location, while Cheney went into hiding for months.

What makes "The Path to 9/11" somewhat different is its claim to be based on the report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (also known as the 9/11 Commission). Thomas Kean, the Republican co-chairman of the 9/11 commission, served as an advisor to the film, although Lee Hamilton, the commission's Democratic co-chair, did not. ABC Entertainment president Steve McPherson is claiming that its miniseries is a public service that goes beyond mere entertainment. "Some things you do for commerce and some things because they are the right thing to do," he told Variety magazine.

If the goal were simply to inform the public, however, ABC would have produced an actual documentary rather than a docudrama, which gives the producers license to distort facts whenever and however they wish, while also pretending that their work is somehow a reenactment of reality.

The show's political slant is evident from the fact that Rush Limbaugh is talking up the movie, noting that its screenwriter, Cyrus Nowrasteh, is a personal friend. Several weeks prior to the broadcast, publicists sent out advance DVDs of the film to conservative bloggers, and screenings have been held for conservative pundits like U.S. News & World Report writer Michael Barone. Even relatively obscure right-wing blogs such as Patterico's Pontifications, written by Los Angeles County attorney Justin Levine, have been favored with advance screenings. Levine reciprocated by declaring that the film is "free of political spin, politically correct whitewashing and partisan wrangling" and "one of the best made-for-televison movies seen in decades. The Clinton administration will likely go ballistic over this film." In its politically spin-free way, Patterico pontificates, the film also "lays out viscerally powerful arguments in favor of the Patriot Act and airport profiling."

When challenged to explain why the right-wing blogosphere is abuzz with praise for the film, director David Cunningham responded that "we are also being accused of being a left-wing movie that bashes Bush" -- a claim for which there is absolutely no evidence. I searched Technorati for mentions of the film and found 260 references, mostly from conservative websites, every single one of which had nothing but praise for the film. And although I found numerous examples of conservative pundits and bloggers who reported seeing prebroadcast screenings, no leftist pundits or bloggers had been given a chance to see it (unless you count Salon.com's roundup of several 9/11-themed movies).

As further evidence of the filmmakers' fundamental dishonesty, "Path to 9/11" had its own blog until recently, where screenwriter Nowrasteh attempted to explain away the right-wing blogobuzz about the film by saying, "We can't control who writes what." It's clear, however, that they did carefully control who could see the film prior to broadcast. And in response to criticisms and questions posted in the comments section of their own blog, they airbrushed it out of existence Sunday afternoon, which is why my links above to the apologetics by Cunningham and Nowrasteh no longer work, although the Google cache to the original blog still exists.


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Sheldon Rampton is the coauthor, with John Stauber, of several books, including "Weapons of Mass Deception" and "The Best War Ever: Lies, Damned Lies and the Mess in Iraq," which will be published by Tarcher/Penguin in September.

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Posted by: rsaxto on Sep 5, 2006 1:30 AM   
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ABC has become a worthless network good only for producing and airing propaganda fantasies that are degrading America toward fascism. Any decent person who has a financial stake in ABC should immediately disassociate themselves from ABC.

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» RE: worthless Posted by: bettyn
» worthless is right! Posted by: Conservasaurus
» RE: worthless is right! Posted by: may261989
» Sentence structure is so important! Posted by: Conservasaurus
» Wow Posted by: fifthworld
» RE: Sentence structure is so important! Posted by: Conservasaurus
Mainstream Media?
Posted by: mat38 on Sep 5, 2006 4:08 AM   
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How is it that a majority of us oppose the war, diapprove of Bush and his Neocon masters, think Israel is a war mongering slave master, believe 911 was all but forcasted on the Weather Channel, think the economy is completely in the gutter, think global warming is beyond help, think the republican party is the party of deciet and corruption and believe that the so-called Mainstream Media has become nothing more than a propaganda wing of the neocon/Israeli/conservative Christian/Bush/Cheney fascist dictatorship, and think we should actually secure our borders, and stop the war in Iraq and yet, the Mainstream Media continues to lie to us and we aren't in the streets demanding revolution?

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» RE: Mainstream Media? Posted by: DoctorAndy
» Because you aren't a majority Posted by: ISlamIslam
» RE: Because you aren't a majority Posted by: ISlamIslam
» RE: Mainstream Media? Posted by: charboy
this is spreading like a virus!
Posted by: Asterix on Sep 5, 2006 4:42 AM   
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Did you know that ABC is owned by Cap City, the communications group which counts as its founders William Casey? You know, THAT BILL CASEY?
I have just heard that The Path to 9/11 is going to be aired on BBC! A major blow to the credibility of that institution as far as I am concerned,
ABC took down the discussion info website on this program last night because of the controversy. If only they would cancel the program.
Perhaps we can cancel ABC! I've written emails and letters and I just emailed BBC about this. What other alternatives do we have? Is there any organized protest over this blatant attempt ot rewrite history. Lots of Americans don't know how to find out about the real facts and believe what the media spoon feeds them!

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» I have to agree with this one Posted by: bullwhip7
» Alternatives.. Posted by: Conservasaurus
rant and rave all you please--you can't do anything about it now
Posted by: rebel_pig on Sep 5, 2006 5:38 AM   
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yes, obviously the documentary is slanted, and probably a load of stinking lies. But you can scream bloody murder and it won't do any good. Because you have already alienated and pushed away from the Democratic party and from Leftism the most important and largest group of Americans--the blue-collar lower-middle-class white Americans. This voting bloc decides where America goes, especially the white blue collar male--the single largest voting bloc in 2004.

Once you have alienated them from Leftism with your FakeLeft, white-hating identity politics, the GOP can do almost any damn thing it pleases. They have nowhere else to go, nowhere else to turn but to the GOP and the Right. And you fakeLefters with your race-and-gender Identity Politics divisiveness made damn sure of that!

How does ya like them stinkin' apples, ya traitors? Hoist by your farkin' petard....

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» you forgot Posted by: sln70
» Oh knock it off cryofan... Posted by: brunowe
US Foreign Policy never changes
Posted by: Ghoulman on Sep 5, 2006 6:08 AM   
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US Foreign Policy never changes ... it doesn't matter what President is sitting.

In the US media, all arguements are partizan ones. Truth depends on what party you're representing.

Americans are the real losers, but as long as Washington oppresses whole nations abroad to keep thier oil flowing, thier burgers a nickle cheaper, and the war machine going, they don't give a shit. Never have. No, the 60s don't count, the Vietnam Conflict wasn't stopped by protests and hippies, that's just a yuppie fantasy. There is little difference, in US Foreign Policy, between today and 1966.

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Massess watch TV and never question what they see
Posted by: wawa on Sep 5, 2006 6:13 AM   
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Then there are those who wonder, reflect, question and thus see reality:

THEY READ BOOKS,
NOT watch the drivel on TV...


excerpted from a NEW release
Chapter 10 THAT DAY

...Jack thrived on curiosity and spoke as he reached for the remote, "Mo, you know I never watch TV in the daytime, what's up?"

"Well, isn't Julianne visiting her sister in the City?"

"Yeah, in fact today's plan was to meet her sister's co-workers on Floor 101 of the North Twin Tower."

"Jack, turn the TV on."

"Oh Mo, I just did, my God, is it the end of the world?" He spoke as he hung up the phone and never heard Mo say, "I don't know."


Jack knew in his bones that Julianne had been vaporized and then he recalled a song he had first heard in 1981:

"See the massacre of the innocent...City's on fire... phones out of order... I see the turning of the page. Curtain's rising on a new age. See the Groom* still waiting at the altar." [Bob Dylan, Shot of Love, Columbia Records, Inc. 1981]

And then, II Chronicles 6:1 welled up within:
"The Lord has said that he would dwell in thick darkness."



Dr. Jake Hunter heard the news that stopped the world for a day from his third patient of the morning. Terese didn't know until Jake called her before his next patient.

Kat had been dancing in her loft studio in Panacea Florida all morning, ignoring neurological symptoms. She did not turn her cell phone on until 12:45 PM then gasped, "Christ, who died? The entire Hunter clan has called me. I'll phone mom," she said just as "Let it Be" chimed from her cell.

"Hi Kat, I have been trying to reach you."

"Mom, what's the deal, what's going on?"

"Turn the TV on."

Kat did and gasped, "Oh my God, is it the end of the world?"

"Nobody knows."

"Mom, I am coming home. I'll bring Bob; I think I'll stay awhile."

"Okay, okay, drive carefully."

Kat packed three weeks worth of clothes and put Bob, her blue eyed cat in his kennel and wrote a sign for the front door that read: KATZ STUDIO CLOSED UNTIL ???

...The Sunday after that day the world stood still the Hunter's seven children and eighteen grandchildren had gathered together. Everyone was down at the lake except for Jake, Terese and Kat who were in the family room.

Jake contemplated upon Kat's chances of having ALS or a bad neck and brooded.

Terese said, "There's an interfaith gathering today in Shea Stadium and I want to view it."

She turned the TV on just as the shofar sounded in New York City and hundreds of priests, rabbi's, sheiks and clerics of all kinds filed onto the stadium in front of a sorrowful nation. Kat became luminous...




Book ordering info on the Homepage
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WeAreWideAwake

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ABC's doesn't mention during Bush admin that Ossama met with a CIA....
Posted by: Prophit on Sep 5, 2006 6:26 AM   
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.... station chief in the American Hospital in Dubai while Ossama was getting his kidney dialysis and spoke with him for 45 minutes. He was not arrested and the station chief then flew to the US for 24 hours to the State dept and then flew back. Strange to say the least. That was July 2001 during Bush's reign as King.

Now was this picked up by the US press? No, but it was by the French reporters of Figaro, a major french newspaper and a subsequent book written about it by both reporters. Even after the article was distributed world wide and the book was released, our press still did not publish that information.

I wrote an email to ABC news about their program and threatened to boycott their program/stations and their advertisers. Here is my email to them, I was soooooo mad.

"I just read you (abc news) are doing a neocon biased version of the path to 9-11. I am here to say that I will boycott ABC if they do not do a balanced and factual presentation of what occurred. I am anxious to see how you present the fact that the Pentagon officials lied outright to the 9-11 commission who then turned them over to an independant agency for investigation.

I am also anxious to see how you explain away the video take on the NJ side of the river during the entire time the buildings were burning and the explosions were heard across the river that brought those buildings down. We could hear the whole thing.

We also heard the entire CNN radio broadcast of the entire live reporting where the reporters clearly state that there were explosions and they say it appears that bombs went off in the building before the buildings began to collapse and mention the huge smoke coming up from the bottom of the building from the bombs that went off.

What about Rodriquez who was interviewed by NBC who is the head of maintenance and the bombs he heard and saw go off below ground level. Will you be covering that??? I DIDN'T THINK SO. Remember Nuremberg and all those who aided and abetted the nazis including the press and what happened to them as well. The time will come, I can assure you of that. "

PLEASE, EVERYONE, EMAIL THEM AND SAY YOU WILL BOYCOTT THEM AND THEIR PRODUCTS AND NEVER DARKEN THEIR DOOR AGAIN AS A VIABLE PUBLIC STATION OR EVER TRUST THEIR NEWS PROGRAMMING AGAIN.

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» There's brunowe again Posted by: fifthworld
» Who's politics colors your vision! Posted by: Conservasaurus
ABC is a propaganda machine
Posted by: NonnyO on Sep 5, 2006 6:27 AM   
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Over the years I've watched ABC become a christian reich-wingnuttia network, and now the few times I've tried to listen to their evening snooze it's all neoCon propaganda worthy of the garbage broadcast by Faux Snooze. I have to switch channels just to keep from throwing things at the TV. If I watch news on TV at all, I choose BBC (shown on my local PBS station). I get my reliable news off of the internet.

As far as this particular fictional docudrama... I plan to be busy those evenings... listening to silence while reading a good book, or maybe listening to good music, or if I bother having the TV on at all, it will be most definitely any other network. The reality is recent history, and I know what the reality is/was. Fictionalized accounts of reality don't qualify as 'docudramas.'

To get nonsense like this to stop?

Boycott the advertisers. Just. Do. Not. Buy. Their. Products. Period.

Whether the product being sold is worth a few dollars or a few thousand dollars, just don't buy the products advertised. It's that simple.

Before the '04 election an organized boycott of Sinclair was organized when they planned to show the Swiftboat liars' version of Kerry's military service.

But for a boycott to work, it doesn't really need to be "organzied." It just takes common sense and a refusal to buy products advertised on those shows. When profit margins of those corporations go down, that might get the message across that people don't want to watch such drivel. The only way to fight back is to refuse to be parted from your own hard-earned money....

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» Silly Question? Posted by: Aim
Sad but true
Posted by: patvic1405 on Sep 5, 2006 7:45 AM   
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I believe ABC is still paying for Dan Rather's outing of Bush's (non)military record, which means they have to keep airing propaganda for the Idiot-in-Chief.

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» Dan Didn't Work for ABC Posted by: Newsguy
Advertisers
Posted by: NonnyO on Sep 5, 2006 7:58 AM   
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The advertisers will be car companies and drug companies for sure. They're ubiquitous, on all channels, as near as I can tell.

I hate ads of all kinds so badly that the few shows I do watch (six or fewer) I tape so I can fast forward through the commercials, but I always see car commercials and drug commercials while fast forwarding.

If you can bear taking that much time out of your life, how about taping the show, then (while keeping the sound mute), make a list of the advertisers you plan to boycott as you see the names of the companies on the commercials...?

I've been boycotting practically everything since the '04 election. If it's not necessary for daily living (food, etc.), I just don't buy it (many products containing stinky chemicals I can't buy anyway because of multiple chemical allergies). Heckuva practical way to save money, actually; just buy what's necessary to live, and refuse to buy anything else. Period.

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Arkin on WMD:
Posted by: rwa on Sep 5, 2006 9:08 AM   
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" Of course, the opposition camp of Massachusetts Democratic Sen. John Kerry protested, stressing the senator's military background and seeking to one-up the keepers of the national security flame. But the substance of the Kerry response merely confirmed the centrality of WMD and the nuclear terrorist threat in the security debate, enhancing the dominant position of the administration and robbing the U.S. public of any real alternative. "He wants to scare Americans about a possible nuclear 9/11 while the Bush administration has been on the sidelines while the nuclear threats from North Korea and Iran--the world's leading sponsor of terrorism--have increased," a Kerry spokesman said."

___________________

The politics of fear is bi-partisan. ABC, Michael Moore, it's all about creating hatred of Arabs using phony evidence.

____________________

"Senator Kennedy uttered this same line of argument in a speech at George Washington University a month before. By shifting attention from Osama bin Laden to Iraq, Kennedy said, President Bush had increased the danger of a nuclear 9/11. "The war in Iraq has made the mushroom cloud more likely, not less likely," he said. Other WMD experts echoed this view, unconsciously confirming the wisdom and necessity of the administration's fight."
"Yes, much more has to be done to rid the world of the WMD menace. I'm not completely confident that some nuclear-armed countries--specifically the United States, China, Russia, Israel, Pakistan, or India--won't use them in our lifetime. From the perspective of an Iran or North Korea, the 1990's erosion of absolute sovereignty and the post-9/11 presumption of preemption, together with the abandonment of meaningful disarmament by the permanent five, makes WMD seem both necessary and justified."
"A more accurate picture of the state of WMD five years after 9/11 is that the threat has indeed diminished. A truer intelligence assessment is that the danger has steadily declined despite the continued existence of eight nuclear nations and two serious rogues. To argue in favor of a new perspective on WMD is not cockeyed optimism or naiveté. But to get there will require breaking the near-unanimous stranglehold of the Cheney and Kennedy camps. Theirs is the real nuclear terror."

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What the hell is this, more propaganda?
Posted by: vangogh69 on Sep 5, 2006 10:38 AM   
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How odd that this "doc" is following the Oliver Stone tripe and the film about flight 93. Can you say damage control? The real story about 9/11 will never be told by the major media outlets because they and their "associates" will be implicated in the crime. If for nothing else (I ask you to remember that day), how is it that the media had that list of hijackers so soon after the attacks. This from an administration that loves "security (aka "secrecy")" above all else. This list when the airlines didn't even have the details on it. This when that list (provided by the FBI) has since been proven to be bogus (with 8 alive, a 9th actually two people with one of those dead and the 9th still alive in I think Saudia Arabia (!)) as reported by that "liberal left radical," (hah!) the BBC. There are so many problems with the official story that day I'm surprised ABC would have the gumption to even bring it up.

A few odd 9/11 things:
-Why did CIA contact with Osama continue until the summer of 2001 (if they believed him responsible for the USS Cole, why was he still on the payroll)?
-What is the connection between UNOCAL and PM Karzai?
-Why was the Carlye group meeting on 9/11? What is the Carlyle group?
-Who ordered the flight mock-ups on 9/11? Why were no planes scrambled to intercept the one that hit the Pentagon (the most heavily secured building in the world, one would suspect)?
-Why so little damage at the Pentagon? Where's the plane? Why hasn't multiple video footage surfaced from that crash (as it has with the WTC towers)?
-Why did the second tower fall first though it was hit second and most of the fuel spent outside of the tower (hence the massive fireball)? Why did the towers collapse at all (they were built to take the hit, as all major structures legally must be)?
-Why did WTC7 collapse? ("The best thing would be to pull it," Silverstein is on record as having said.)
-What arrangement did Larry Silverstein have worked out with the City of New York on the property housing the WTCs?
-Why didn't the EPA order an evacuation of lower Manhattan when it knew it was being covered by a blanket of abestos (which was used as fireproofing on the towers in 80% of their construction), only later to have it come out that toxicity levels were in fact higher than they reported?
-And on, and on, and on...


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» RE: Fresh Kills Posted by: DoctorAndy
Truth
Posted by: Guy on Sep 5, 2006 12:06 PM   
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...or Truthiness.

"The truth is not important, rather what people believe to be the truth."
- Barbara Tuchman

Sad, but true...er...rather, truthy.

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ABC: Learning from Reichsminister Joseph Goebbels
Posted by: sofla100 on Sep 5, 2006 3:51 PM   
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ABC has become the new Reichsminister for propaganda. No doubt, Goebbels himself would have been proud. As Goebbels himself knew, you just have to keep repeating the same lies, over, and over again till they become "the truth." Between ABC and Fox, we have the lies for Bush and our society put into place, a completly fake and fabricated reality. Pity our right wing friends who believe the nonsense. Like little children being let to the slaughterhouses. What lies will it take now to justify war with Iran? Meanwhile Rome is burning - billions wasted on useless wars and the national security appartus means millions without life's basic necessities like adequate shelter and health insurance. No money for them, everything for war.

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teach your children well
Posted by: orwellwasn'tdreaming on Sep 5, 2006 5:16 PM   
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I'm displeased about this six hour campaign ad because too many people swallow whole and as fact what they see on television. However, what's much more distressing is that Scholastic Magazine is distributing study guides using this movie as a teaching tool for students!
The page no longer loads, but their customer service page does: http://scholastic.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/ scholastic.cfg/php/enduser/ask.php.
Please consider going there and telling them that you're contacting your school board to complain.

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dlake
Posted by: lafrance on Sep 5, 2006 5:26 PM   
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I have sent emails to ABC. Keith Olbermann is going to do this movie as the Worst Person in the world and he also addressed Bush tonight.

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I was beginning to lose faith...
Posted by: bullwhip7 on Sep 5, 2006 8:36 PM   
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I am glad somebody finally got it right.

Good work ABC, its time somebody called a spade a spade. Everyone is quick to blame the Bush adminiistration, but the facts are that the whole thing was planned, hatched, and 90% carried out under Clinton.

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to Conservasaurus
Posted by: Ellie1 on Sep 6, 2006 6:40 AM   
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Opening your mind is something you conservatives NEVER do. Another opinion? How about FACTS? History is not about opinion and spin-which you republican conservatives are so good at. In fact, you IGNORE facts to suit your agenda. Your are liars, every last one of you. And so is this program.

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The Brown shirts are here
Posted by: geezar on Sep 6, 2006 2:57 PM   
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I really don't care if this garbage is shown on national TV. If peoplle are stupid enought to believe what is said in a docudrama that was written by a self proclaimed Neocon republo faciast. What I am concerned about is the fact that the government has taken it upon themselves to infiltrate the schools, encourage schoolboard and teachers to make their children watch the "docudrama", and supply the students with workbooks to watch this piece of propaganda. The goal of this "docudrama" is to lay clean up the presidents image by taking the blame for not getting Osama and 911 off Bush and put it on Clinton. For a person, George Bush, to be so interested in the quality of education and then unlease his public relations dogs on our children and the education system of this country causes me great concern. I has some familiar trappings that resembale the activities of a young German named Adolf in the 30's. Be cautious Americans' about who we let in the henhouse.

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What's the difference...
Posted by: itsallmyfault on Sep 6, 2006 5:39 PM   
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I'm not really sure what the difference is between "The Path to 9/11" and "Fahrenheit 9/11". While Fahrenheit may have a bit more credibility, it was certainly a left-wing propaganda piece that blamed the Bush Adminstration for... well, everything.

All of this is so much fingerpointing and it seems to me that Republicans and Democrats need to grow up, move beyond the incendiary and focus on things we can DO something about. All of the energy used to flog ABC, Michael Moore, and The Rat could really could be used more productively.

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disney in debt
Posted by: ywsf on Sep 7, 2006 9:57 AM   
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I read or heard somewhere a few years back that disney europe was in very bad financial shape, esp the french disney world, and they were bailed out by the Saudi's to whom they own multi millions in loan debt. Could be a way to wipe out their debt by helping the Saudi Pals, The Bushes. What network do you know who would spent $30-40M and run it commercial free out of the goodness of their hearts? Hum.......

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"God Bless" ABC
Posted by: franknbeans on Sep 7, 2006 11:05 AM   
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It's refreshing to see liberals get a dose or reality once in a while. Between all the spoon fed "news" they listen to on liberal media outlets (CNN, MSNBC, etc...) telling them what they want to hear instead of the truth.

The fact is, Bush may have froze for 7 minutes after hearing about the twin towers, but Clinton froze for 8 years on terrorism. 9/11 was a direct result of the Clinton administrations policy of trying to make everyone happy and run from conflict. Even giving money/oil/food to enemies (North Korea) so they wouldn't stir the pot an possibly have a negative affect the economy or his image. Clinton made it illegal for the CIA and FBI to share information, so the NAACP would be happy.

More light should be shed on the failures of the Clinton administration. If we don’t learn from past mistakes, we are doomed to repeat them.

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'God Bless' Illusions
Posted by: gonzoskismet on Sep 7, 2006 11:39 AM   
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You know, the way you conservatives and liberals go at one another, I'm not sure the truth would have any real effect if it walked up and bit you on the ass. So, ya'll just keep on playing the 'Blame Game' while the bastards in Washington, D.C. just keep on reaping the benefits of keeping you guys at each others throats. There are no 'Americans' anymore. Just the Crips and the Bloods of Democratic Hood vs. the Republican Hood. Jesus H. Christ, I never knew Americans could be so damn stupid!
Wake up, ladies and gentlemen, and take a good, hard look at America. It's the Last Hour on the Titanic. The band is playing 'Nearer My God to Thee' and there aren't enough life boats. And your playing the 'Blame Game.' God help this nation.

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itsallwright
Posted by: itsallwright on Sep 8, 2006 6:53 AM   
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Theres that zany liberal media again. those kooky left wing hollywood types. I'll bet Rush lintball was advising behing the scenes.

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All this whining,...
Posted by: roadcyclist on Sep 8, 2006 6:55 AM   
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I guess each and everyone of you is an video editor at ABC, and know exactly what you talking about, right down to the 30 frame non-drop timecode in which you speak,...

Geesch with all the liberal biased media out there, you would think you would have to expect that one or two media outlets would eventually have to publish something more to the truth that what the liberal media would have us all believe,...

I hope ABC runs it just like they plan so you all will get a dose of what the liberal media has been pushing down our throats for years,...you at least deserve that much,...

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thucy
Posted by: Thucy on Sep 8, 2006 12:17 PM   
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Generally speaking I'm uncomfortable with any attempt at stopping publication/airing of a particular program. It does seem ironic though that a week after Rumsfeld accused critics of the war of being a new version of Nazi appeasers, we now get the Republican version of the "stabbed in the back" theory of events. Anyone familiar with German history will know exactly what I'm talking about.

If ABC insists on airing this, perhaps we should insist on the network airing opposing views. And since this is an attack on Clinton, how about urging that Clinton himself be allowed an hour of prime time to give his version of events. He could run down all the steps he took to forestall Bin Ladin, and might even recount how, when he did order a strike on Bin Ladin's HQ in Afghanistan, this was denounced by Republicans as a "distraction" from the "real issue" of whether or not he'd lied about his sex life. Seems to me I recall all sorts of Republicans of the time casting his action as an example of "wag the dog."

If nothing else, seeing Clinton on prime time is sure to infuriate the Neocons, and remind folks of what it was like to have a president who knew how to pronounce "eclectic."

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Make a list of those Republicans
Posted by: jreal on Sep 9, 2006 8:31 PM   
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How about making a list of those Republicans who said that Clinton was distracting from his sex life. That should qwell their nonsense.

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Re: Hijacking 9/11
Posted by: spiker on Sep 11, 2006 5:42 PM   
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