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Human Torch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-18-06 01:30 PM
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Writer of 'Path to 9/11' Movie Hits Back at Media Coverage
Cyrus? Go fuck yourself. That is all.

:patriot:

Writer of 'Path to 9/11' Movie Hits Back at Media Coverage

By E&P Staff

Published: September 18, 2006 12:30 PM ET updated 12:50, 1:40

NEW YORK Cyrus Nowrasteh, who penned the screenplay for the recent ABC miniseries “The Path to 9/11” – widely criticized for factual inaccuracies and concocted or conflated scenes –hit back today at critics, including reporters at The New York Times and Los Angeles Times. His column, “The Path to Hysteria,” appears online today at the Wall Street Journal's site. Its subhed: "My sin was to write a screenplay accurately depicting Bill Clinton's record on terrorism."

The movie was edited at the last-minute under orders from ABC after the complaints of inaccuracies and alleged unbalanced treatment of the Clinton and Bush administrations, which came from liberals, former Clinton aides, an FBI agent who had quit as a consultant to the film, 9/11 Commission co-chair Lee Hamilton, and some conservatives, as well. The movie also lost its original description as being primarily based on the 9/11 Commission report.

“Clearly, those enraged that a film would criticize the Clinton administration's antiterrorism policies--though critical of its successor as well--were willing to embrace only one scenario: The writer was a conservative hatchetman,” Nowrasteh writes.

Other points in the piece:

-- “A New York Times reporter wrote, without irony or explanation, that an issue that raised questions about the director was his involvement in his father's outreach work. In the era of McCarthyism, the merest hint of a connection to communism sufficed to inspire dark accusations, the certainty that the accused was part of a malign conspiracy. Today, apparently, you can get something of that effect by charging a connection with a Christian mission.”

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003123574
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ima_sinnic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-18-06 03:18 PM
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1. stuff a sock in it, you disgusting waste of oxygen
-- whining because your distorted slop was really not received very well at all, but attributing that to the fact simply that you are a "conservative."
and a "christian martyr" to boot! what a surprise -- NOT.
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LynneSin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-18-06 03:22 PM
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2. A 'docudrama' is creating star-crossed lovers on the Titanic
Or a Nurse who thinks she lost her beloved during the Pearl Harbor bombing and decides to marry his best friend.

Path to 9/11 is nothing more than propaganda. Joseph Goebbels would be proud of this asshole
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