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September 08, 2006
Democrats Are The Evil Among Us and Enemy Within
A furious Bill Clinton warned ABC that its mini-series “The Path to 9/11″ grossly misrepresents his pursuit of Osama bin Laden - and he is demanded the network “pull the drama” if changes aren’t made
Bill Clinton through his surrogates have demanded that ABC "correct all errors" in the docudrama or pull it from the air, charging that it is a "fictitious rewriting of history" regarding President Clinton's handling of the terrorist threat.
But Dick Morris claims that Clinton's national security adviser, Sandy Berger, and the president himself "were both responsible for failing to catch or kill bin Laden on several different occasions."
From The Hollywood ReporterIn recent days, a rising chorus of critics have assailed "Path to 9/11" for offering an inaccurate depiction of pre-Sept. 11 behind-the-scenes politics. Former Clinton officials, including Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and National Security Adviser Samuel Berger have voiced their objections over scenes that cast their involvement in an unflattering light.
However, ABC left open the possibility that the scenes that have been criticized could still be removed from the miniseries, which will be subject to edit before air.
Sources said ABC already has made minor edits to the miniseries, toning down one particular scene involving Berger that was interpreted by some as suggesting he at one point opted to not order the assassination of Osama bin Laden.
OK and there is this..............
Democrats.Senate.Gov.
SENATE DEMOCRATIC LEADERSHIP URGES DISNEY CEO TO CANCEL MISLEADING 9/11 MINISERIES
Washington, DC — Urging him to cancel the grossly inaccurate upcoming miniseries The Path to 9/11, the Senate Democratic Leadership today sent the following letter to Disney President and CEO Robert Iger. Disney’s subsidiary ABC erroneously claims the misleading miniseries is based on 9/11 Commission report and is planning to air it on September 10 and 11. Shockingly, the network is also planning to use the program as a teaching tool through Scholastic, potentially misinforming thousands of children about the most important event in recent American history.
The text of the letter, signed by Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid, Assistant Democratic Leader Dick Durbin, and Senators Debbie Stabenow, Charles Schumer, and Byron Dorgan, is below.
September 7, 2006
Mr. Robert A. Iger
President and CEO
The Walt Disney Company
500 South Buena Vista Street
Burbank CA 91521
Dear Mr. Iger,
We write with serious concerns about the planned upcoming broadcast of The Path to 9/11 mini-series on September 10 and 11. Countless reports from experts on 9/11 who have viewed the program indicate numerous and serious inaccuracies that will undoubtedly serve to misinform the American people about the tragic events surrounding the terrible attacks of that day. Furthermore, the manner in which this program has been developed, funded, and advertised suggests a partisan bent unbecoming of a major company like Disney and a major and well respected news organization like ABC. We therefore urge you to cancel this broadcast to cease Disney’s plans to use it as a teaching tool in schools across America through Scholastic. Presenting such deeply flawed and factually inaccurate misinformation to the American public and to children would be a gross miscarriage of your corporate and civic responsibility to the law, to your shareholders, and to the nation.
The Communications Act of 1934 provides your network with a free broadcast license predicated on the fundamental understanding of your principle obligation to act as a trustee of the public airwaves in serving the public interest. Nowhere is this public interest obligation more apparent than in the duty of broadcasters to serve the civic needs of a democracy by promoting an open and accurate discussion of political ideas and events.
Disney and ABC claim this program to be based on the 9/11 Commission Report and are using that assertion as part of the promotional campaign for it. The 9/11 Commission is the most respected American authority on the 9/11 attacks, and association with it carries a special responsibility. Indeed, the very events themselves on 9/11, so tragic as they were, demand extreme care by any who attempt to use those events as part of an entertainment or educational program. To quote Steve McPhereson, president of ABC Entertainment, “When you take on the responsibility of telling the story behind such an important event, it is absolutely critical that you get it right.”
Unfortunately, it appears Disney and ABC got it totally wrong.
Despite claims by your network’s representatives that The Path to 9/11 is based on the report of the 9/11 Commission, 9/11 Commissioners themselves, as well as other experts on the issues, disagree.
Richard Ben-Veniste, speaking for himself and fellow 9/11 Commissioners who recently viewed the program, said, “As we were watching, we were trying to think how they could have misinterpreted the 9/11 Commission’s findings the way that they had.” [“9/11 Miniseries Is Criticized as Inaccurate and Biased,” New York Times, September 6, 2006]
Richard Clarke, the former counter-terrorism czar, and a national security advisor to ABC has described the program as “deeply flawed” and said of the program’s depiction of a Clinton official hanging up on an intelligence agent, “It’s 180 degrees from what happened.” [“9/11 Miniseries Is Criticized as Inaccurate and Biased,” New York Times, September 6, 2006]
Reports suggest that an FBI agent who worked on 9/11 and served as a consultant to ABC on this program quit halfway through because, “he thought they were making things up.” [MSNBC, September 7, 2006]
Even Thomas Kean, who serves as a paid consultant to the miniseries, has admitted that scenes in the film are fictionalized. [“9/11 Miniseries Is Criticized as Inaccurate and Biased,” New York Times, September 6, 2006]
That Disney would seek to broadcast an admittedly and proven false recounting of the events of 9/11 raises serious questions about the motivations of its creators and those who approved the deeply flawed program. Finally, that Disney plans to air commercial-free a program that reportedly cost it $40 million to produce serves to add fuel to these concerns.
These concerns are made all the more pressing by the political leaning of and the public statements made by the writer/producer of this miniseries, Mr. Cyrus Nowrasteh, in promoting this miniseries across conservative blogs and talk shows.
Frankly, that ABC and Disney would consider airing a program that could be construed as right-wing political propaganda on such a grave and important event involving the security of our nation is a discredit both to the Disney brand and to the legacy of honesty built at ABC by honorable individuals from David Brinkley to Peter Jennings. Furthermore, that Disney would seek to use Scholastic to promote this misguided programming to American children as a substitute for factual information is a disgrace.
As 9/11 Commission member Jamie Gorelick said, “It is critically important to the safety of our nation that our citizens, and particularly our school children, understand what actually happened and why – so that we can proceed from a common understanding of what went wrong and act with unity to make our country safer.”
Should Disney allow this programming to proceed as planned, the factual record, millions of viewers, countless schoolchildren, and the reputation of Disney as a corporation worthy of the trust of the American people and the United States Congress will be deeply damaged. We urge you, after full consideration of the facts, to uphold your responsibilities as a respected member of American society and as a beneficiary of the free use of the public airwaves to cancel this factually inaccurate and deeply misguided program. We look forward to hearing back from you soon.
Sincerely,
Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid
Assistant Democratic Leader Dick Durbin
Senator Debbie Stabenow
Senator Charles Schumer
Senator Byron Dorgan
Wild Thing's comment.......
The Senate Democratic leadership just threatened Disney's broadcast license. Not the use of the word "trustee" at the beginning of the letter and "trust" at the end. This is nothing less than an implicit threat that if Disney tries to meddle in the US elections on behalf of the Republicans, they will pay a very serious price when the Democrats get back in power, or even before.
This raises the stakes incredibly for Disney.
Reid is Senate Minority Leader, not Senate Democratic Leader ... why would he sign anything that way?
Apparently the mini series depicts Clinton as being too involved with the Monica scandal to act upon some key information about Bin Laden. Like Nero fiddling while Rome burned, Clinton was diddling while the country was in peril. As they age, the Clinton's become more and more pathetic.
From what I have read and heard the movie blames Bill Clinton and the Bush administration. Neither one escapes blame. But only the Clinton crew complains. Socialists aka the Democrats are power mad 24 hours per day.
Let's do some comparing shall we........... there are Fifty-nine Deceits in Fahrenheit 9/11!!!!! pdf file HERE
Not very smart for the dems to do this. It's totally against freedom of speech! Thus we have more proof just what low life’s the Democratic party is and how they do NOT want our country to have freedom of speech!!! Add that to they did not want the Patriot Act either.
As far as Sandy Berger it has already been proven he is guilty of things. According to the 9/11 Commission’s Report, Berger was involved in at least 4 occurrences of “failing to support” such requests.
OH and HERE is a wonderful (NOT) blog by our enemy within as they do their thing to get this film cut and cut and cut. It is called The Democratic Party, and this is one of their posts Keep Up the Pressure Open Thread.
Democrats really messed up now. BIG TIME! This will come back to bite them in the ass in November and also in the next Presidential election. No should want a political party that strip’s anyone of freedom of speech. The Democrats are truly the enemy within. Vote republican to maintain our rights to the freedom of speech!
Clinton should have handled this the way GWB handled Farhenheit 911-ignore it. Now people will be flocking to see "What Bill Clinton doesn't want you to see!" I hope the program gets a 40 share in the ratings.
do you remember how the Clinton's would silence people when Bill Clinton was President? Heck even before that! We could ask their victims about it but they are all dead. And that list is huge. Vince Foster do you hear me?
And this from the blog Texas Rainmaker.
"As to the argument that the Clinton administration didn’t pass on a chance to get bin Laden… Here are Clinton’s own words.
Mr. bin Laden used to live in Sudan. He was expelled from Saudi Arabia in 1991, then he went to Sudan. And we’d been hearing that the Sudanese wanted America to start meeting with them again.They released him. At the time, 1996, he had committed no crime against America, so I did not bring him here, because we had no basis on which to hold him, though we knew he wanted to commit crimes against America."
Mary Katharine Ham at Townhall has some great updates and also links on this.
And Vilmar at Right Wing Howler has information on the film.
Others blogging about this:
* HOT AIR
* Darleen's Place ....take a look also at the great graphic Darleen has for this
* Villanious Company ....Cassandra has written an awesome post.
Posted by Wild Thing at September 8, 2006 02:47 AM
Comments
So, they are so worried about their legacy yet so willing to undermine the troops, attempt to destroy the present Administration and undermine our country. I hate Liberals, they have stolen the Democrat Party and are on their way to try to steal America. Is it a race between Facist Islam and Socalist Liberals?
I pray every day that my children will not have to pay the cost of their evil.
Posted by: Sierrahome at September 8, 2006 09:21 AM
These are the same people so worried about the terrorists civil rights but so quick to abrogate freedom of speech when it suits their politicla purposes. Where's the ACLU....just joking.
Posted by: Jane at September 8, 2006 09:58 AM
Sierrahome they really have become the enemy within. I pray too Sierrahome for the future. I agree with you.
Posted by: Wild Thing at September 8, 2006 12:12 PM
Jane, good one!
Posted by: Wild Thing at September 8, 2006 12:13 PM
You have defined and described the problem and the enemy so finitely that it leaves no room for further comment beyond. Well stated!!!
Posted by: Jack at September 8, 2006 01:44 PM
Jack that means a lot to me. Thank you so much.
Posted by: Wild Thing at September 8, 2006 05:48 PM
If enough of the voting public is aware of how this is playing out, then your November prediction should come to pass WT. The Democrap leadership are in all reality now a sort of Socialist dictatorship. Sadly, a lot of the people illegally coming into the country like that type of government and if allowed to vote, will vote Democrat.
Posted by: TomR at September 9, 2006 06:04 AM
Tom you are right, all these illegals will be voting Democrat as soon as they get a chance.It is so weird, Bush is all for favoring illegals and as Republican one would think the illegals would love him but nope the illegals are pro Dem.
Posted by: Wild Thing at September 9, 2006 09:46 AM
