Wingnuts No Likey Mockudrama - HA, HA, HA

[AtomicKitten]

Conservatives On The Path to 9/11: ‘Unacceptable,’ ‘Defamatory,’ ‘Strewn With A Lot of Problems,’ ‘Zero Factual Basis’

from http://thinkprogress.org/

Path to 9/11 graphic The criticism against ABC’s docudrama The Path to 9/11 isn’t isolated simply to Clinton aides. In fact, many conservatives have criticized the film. Here are a few examples –

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 . But if that is what they have done, conservative analysts who back this movie as a historical document will mortgage their credibility doing so."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."

Seth Liebsohn, Claremont Institute fellow and produce of Bill Bennett’s radio show:

"I oppose this miniseries as well if it is fiction dressed up as fact, creates caricatures of real persons and events that are inaccurate, and inserts quotes that were not uttered, especially to make a point that was not intended."

Richard Miniter, conservative author of “Losing bin Laden: How Bill Clinton’s Failures Unleashed Global Terror”:

"If people wanted to be critical of the Clinton years there’s things they could have said, but the idea that someone had bin Laden in his sights in 1998 or any other time and Sandy Berger refused to pull the trigger, there’s zero factual basis for that."

Brent Bozell, founder and president of the conservative Media Research Center:

" I think that if you have a scene, or two scenes, or three scenes, important scenes, that do not have any bearing on reality and you can edit them, I think they should edit them."


*** MAYBE ABC WILL PAY ATTENTION NOW THAT THE WINGNUTS ARE AFRAID JUNIOR'S ABJECT INCOMPETENCE MIGHT BE EXPOSED. BUT THEIR FEIGNED CONCERN FOR THE TRUTH IS AMUSING NONETHELESS.

[AX10]

1. "The Path to 9/11" is the same kind of fake shit that these...

talking heads give out to their minions daily. They know that mainstream America will not buy these lies, also, this will backfire on the GOP.

[aquart]

3. If it's okay to lie about Dems, it's okay to lie about Republicans.

And perhaps they're a bit nervous that Dems will soon be in power. God, I hope they have good reason to be nervous. If we have to spend the next ten years in hearings and trials, I want them all exposed and jailed.

Oh, and ill-gotten gains confiscated. Let's be clear on that, too.

[DURHAM D]

2. My guess - these people have seen the 2nd half of the movie

and don't like the "truth" about Bush. Now they would like for the whole thing to go away.

[fuzzyball]

4. Per writer of this movie, it reflects on both Clinton & Bush II admin's

so for the sake of freedom of artistic expressions, I say
bring it on. The lies contained in the movie will be exposed
in short order.

[notadmblnd]

5. We know who's behind it but I'd still like to know who financed it

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[calimary]

6. If THESE people are speaking up against it, it must REALLY reek.

Perhaps it reeks so badly that even they can't defend it outright.