WP: Clinton Administration Officials Assail ABC's 'The Path to 9/11'

[RamboLiberal]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/06/AR2006090601819.html

Top officials of the Clinton administration have launched a preemptive strike against an ABC-TV "docudrama," slated to air Sunday and Monday, that they say includes made-up scenes depicting them as undermining attempts to kill Osama bin Laden.

Former secretary of state Madeleine K. Albright called one scene involving her "false and defamatory." Former national security adviser Samuel R. "Sandy" Berger said the film "flagrantly misrepresents my personal actions." And former White House aide Bruce R. Lindsey, who now heads the William J. Clinton Foundation, said: "It is unconscionable to mislead the American public about one of the most horrendous tragedies our country has ever known."

ABC's entertainment division said the six-hour movie, "The Path to 9/11," will say in a disclaimer that it is a "dramatization . . . not a documentary" and contains "fictionalized scenes." But the disclaimer also says the movie is based on the Sept. 11 commission's report, although that report contradicts several key scenes.

Berger said in an interview that ABC is "certainly trying to create the impression that this is realistic, but it's a fabrication."

Marc Platt, the film's executive producer, said that although it "does contain composite and conflated scenes and representative characters and dialogue, we've worked very hard to be fair. If individuals feel they're wrongly portrayed, that's obviously of concern. We've portrayed the essence of the truth of these events. Our intention was not in any way to be political or present a point of view."

[C_U_L8R]

1. drama is not license to lie

or to blame someone else

[Webster Green]

2. They should sue the shit out of these swift boat mutherfuckers...

Drag their lying asses into court right now.

[Sparkly]

3. I gotcher Nazi comparisons right here!!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Goebbels
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leni_Riefenstahl

[mcg]

7. ABC: The Path to Fascism

This fascist propaganda is disgusting. ABC is grossly underestimating the wrath that will come down upon them if they air this crap.

[aquart]

4. "Pre-Emptive Strike." Biased adjectives anyone?

Again, the goal is to obscure distinctions between Republicans and Democrats. Bush is notorious for his pre-emptive strike policy.

[Nikki Stone 1]

24. Good catch. The language used is ALWAYS important.

I agree with your assessment.

[RamboLiberal]

5. They claim 25,000 letters of protest have been sent to ABC

Think that's BS? That there's been even more?

From linked article:

The assault on "The Path to 9/11" assumed the trappings of a campaign yesterday. Four senior House Democrats -- John Conyers Jr., Jane Harman, John D. Dingell and Louise M. Slaughter -- have written Iger to demand that the inaccuracies be corrected. Spurred by the Center for American Progress, which is headed by Clinton chief of staff John D. Podesta, 25,000 people have sent letters of protest to ABC.

[aquart]

27. Awwww, that ain't counting the emails, is it?

[against all enemies]

6. Does the film show Bush doing absolutely nothing after he

received the August 6, 2001 daily briefing? It should.

[Blue State Bandit]

8. Why is Harvey Keitel in this movie?

Does anybody have insight into his role?

[agio]

16. because they cut him a check

... he's an actor, that's what he does.

I'm disappointed to see the Bad Lieutenant doing this crap as well.

[IndianaGreen]

9. This is not a docudrama, but a GOP infomercial

that is historically inaccurate and has been lambasted by 9-11 commission co-chair Richard ben Veniste.

[silvermachine]

23. Here's a link...

...that we can use to sign a petition/compose a message.

http://www.democrats.org/pathto911

[samsingh]

10. liberals need to buy up the media and fire the traitors in charge

[calimary]

20. Damn straight!

That's EXACTLY what we have to do. Where are George Soros, Robert Redford, Rob Reiner, and the big advocacy groups when we need 'em? You control the media and you control the message.

[ShockediSay]

11. Fahrenheit 9/11 needs to be shown the next night on prime time

in the interests of balance.

Move on has posted the following:

"Ask your local ABC station to either fix the politically-motivated inaccuracies in The Path to 9/11 or not air it at all.

WTNH
[phone]
[e-mail]" ... WTNH is ABC's Connecticut Affiliate Station

[deutsey]

19. Hear hear!

:thumbsup:

[Toots]

22. BS They are not comparable in any way

You lend credence to their outcries of LIES. There are no LIES in Fahrenheit 9-11, just many many unpleasant truths for the Bush* Administration. While I have not seen this ABC movie nor am I privy to any security information, from what I have heard from those that are privy this ABC movie is out and out falsehoods. LIES with the sole purpose of blaming Clinton and absolving Bush*. They have openly admitted that in their e-mail correspondence with each other. Your suggestion is quite harmful in that it relegates Fahrenheit 9-11 down to the same level of untruth as this ABC movie.

[Triana]

12. "the essense of truth of these events"?

:wtf:

They've portrayed the events as they DID NOT happen.

I call that "the essense of LIES"

[DearAbby]

13. portrayed the events as they DID NOT happen

is called fiction, fabrication, fantasy.

[gademocrat7]

14. Why are high schools being given material on this crap?

Disgusting and outrageous. This administration will stop at nothing to deceive the American public.

[Vinca]

15. That's the most disgusting part of all. First they call it fiction,

then pass it out as historical educational material to schools. Lobby your school districts not to let this crap through the doors.:mad:

[0007]

31. Neil Bush was in Midland Texas last week promoting this

historical educational material to the Texas schools.

[DoYouEverWonder]

17. ABC needs to be forced

to pull this pack of lies.

[missTheBigDog]

18. I'm really surprised

that Disney would allow crap like this to make the air under their watch.

[NotGivingUp]

21. I'm not surprised at all. Disney is full of crap.

[Judi Lynn]

25. Clinton officials to ABC: Fix or pull 9/11 miniseries

Clinton officials to ABC: Fix or pull 9/11 miniseries
POSTED: 1:07 p.m. EDT, September 7, 2006

NEW YORK (AP) -- A miniseries about the events leading to the September 11 attacks is "terribly wrong" and ABC should correct it or not air it, former Clinton administration officials demanded in letters to the head of ABC's parent company.

Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, former National Security Adviser Sandy Berger, Clinton Foundation head Bruce Lindsey and Clinton adviser Douglas Band all wrote in the past week to Robert Iger, CEO of The Walt Disney Co., to express concern over "The Path to 9/11."

The two-part miniseries, scheduled to be broadcast on Sunday and Monday, is drawn from interviews and documents including the report of the September 11 commission. ABC has described it as a "dramatization" as opposed to a documentary.

Calls to ABC seeking comment Thursday were not returned.

The letter writers said that the miniseries contained factual errors, and that their requests to see it had gone unanswered.
(snip/...)

http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/TV/09/07/911.film.clinton.offic.ap/index.html

[fshrink]

26. Sue the assholes and make it public. Or

get beat up for lack of spine and principles.

[Liberalynn]

28. I've written my affiliate,

ABC, and signed the petitions. Not that the American Bushit Company will even read it, but at least I feel better about callling Bullcrap, bullcrap.

[NashVegas]

29. I'm Starting to Remember How Pissed I Was at "The Patriot"

For all the liberties it took with the Revolutionary War. Everyone was "shushing" the history lovers, "it's just Hollywood."

I guess the big mistake here was trying that crap on LIVING history. Oops!

[ryanmuegge]

30. Yep. Another election-year corporate hatchet piece. Sinclar, anyone?

I'm not surprised.