Kristin Breitweiser's comments about last night's * love-fest on Showtime

[Missy Vixen]

I haven't seen this yet today on DU; it should be required reading for everyone here.

Kristin Breitweiser is mad as hell, and she's not going to take it anymore. She lost her husband on September 11th, 2001. Here's her review of the Showtime "movie", "DC 9/11". (If you'd like to see the content for free, you'll have to watch an ad, but I'd do a lot more to read her comments.)

To quote the lady:

>Sept. 8, 2003 | The film "DC 9/11: Time of Crisis," which premiered Sunday night on Showtime, is a mind-numbingly boring, revisionist, two-hour-long wish list of how 9/11 might have gone if we had real leaders in the current administration. This film is rated half of a fighter jet -- since that is about what we got for our nation's defense on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001.

Despite the title, the film only budgets approximately 10 minutes to the actual morning of 9/11. Most of the movie is spent cataloging the myriad Cabinet-level debates as to whether to declare "war" against terrorism and how to effectively sell that to the American people.<

http://www.salon.com/ent/tv/feature/2003/09/08/dc911/index.html

Julie

[Cha]

1. Kick

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[phillybri]

2. I'll boot that one!

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[CatWoman]

3. It was posted in Editorials

got quite a few comments.

[Missy Vixen]

7. Sorry, Catwoman

Do I need to delete?

Julie

[CatWoman]

8. by all means, no

I didn't even post it.

I think the more people who see it, the better :hi:

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

14. She'd make a damn fine AG.

Oooh. Just the thought.

[NewYorkerfromMass]

4. "half of a fighter jet"

definitely not too useful....More power to you Kristin!

[Alenne]

5. This part is shocking and more than a little disgusting.

"The worst part comes when the president meets a young mother and child who are desperately searching for their missing husband and father. President Bush takes the picture of the child's father and signs his name across it, telling the young girl, "When your daddy comes back, tell him you met me."




What kind of person would do something like this? This man's ego is larger than life.

[Lisa]

13. just shows that Bush can talk a fine game ...

... during the election, he babbled something about how the job of a governor is to hug and comfort people in times of distress.

And in times of need, he's saving his own skin while others (including former President Clinton) are in New York, breathing same air as the workers and the victims' families.

[blm]

6. WHOA!!! She nailed that one.

Great coup for Salon.

[Missy Vixen]

9. Kick

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Kristin, you tell 'em.

Julie

[papau]

10. Deserves much more media - but our whore press will ignore a 911 widow

it is too busy giving cover to Bush and can not do its job.

[mistertrickster]

11. This is a keeper . . . check the last paragraph

I watched this film with three of my widow friends. We have spent the last two years fighting this administration to try to get answers to the many questions that plague us about 9/11. When they're finally answered, our questions will undoubtedly make this nation safer than it was on that morning. But our reality is that our husbands are never coming home. We are left to raise our children without them. Too bad Showtime can't rewrite our history of 9/11 -- that would be something worth watching.

Ohh yeah . . . Bush, you smarmy liar, they're gonna get ya, sucker.

[spooky3]

12. my sympathies to Kristin and her friends and children

it is heartbreaking to hear how their pain has been compounded.

[Missy Vixen]

15. Kicked again

for the later evening crowd

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