Tom Kean does a sneaky double speak in the NYTimes. Oops.

[madfloridian]

Former Gov. Thomas H. Kean of New Jersey, the chairman of the Sept. 11 commission and a consultant on the miniseries, defended the program, saying he thought the disputed scene was an honest representation of a number of failed efforts to capture Mr. bin Laden.

“I pointed out the fact that the scene involving Afghanistan and the attempt to get bin Laden is a composite,” Mr. Kean said, adding that the miniseries format required some conflation of events. But, he said, “The basic fact is that on a number of occasions, they thought they might have been able to get bin Laden, and on those occasions, the plug was pulled for various reasons.”

Mr. Kean conceded that some points might have been more drama than documentary. “Some of the people shown there probably weren’t there,” he said.

9/11 Miniseries Is Criticized as Inaccurate and Biased

What? The scene was correct except some of the people shown just were not there? And you, sir, were heading the investigation of the tragedy called 9/11?

For shame.

[pberq]

1. The coverup continues

[Parisle]

2. Yeah,.... Well, How About This Explanation?

-----Weird things happen in Washington,... many of them under the table. Is anyone prepared to guarantee that the Bush family, long allied with the Saudis and the bin Laden family, did not exert pressure on the government to keep "hands off" the wayward son of their business partners?

[madfloridian]

3. When a consultant admits a scene is a lie....you got problems..

Honestly. You really do.

Have you called your local school system?

[speedoo]

4. Whatever's left of the 9/11 commission's integrity...

Has been sold down the bushco river by this traitor, Kean.

It's now official: There are no more "good Republicans".

[zbdent]

5. Gee, and Ronnie never asked Nancy about astrology ...

or was it about how the gays should die of AIDS?

That was more than enough to force a network to put a "docudrama" into a little-watched offshoot of their media conglomerate ...

[madfloridian]

6. Nowrasteh about friend Limbaugh: "I met him briefly" on set of "24"

Reached Tuesday, Cyrus Nowrasteh, the film’s screenwriter and one of its producers, said he had met Mr. Limbaugh on the set of “24,” the serialized thriller on Fox.

“I met him briefly,” Mr. Nowrasteh said, declining to say if the two men were close. “And that’s it.”

Denying your friends, Mr. Nowrasteh? Or is Limbaugh bloviating again?

[zreosumgame]

7. isn;'t that one of the main complaints about

Oliver Stone and JFK?

[WinkyDink]

9. And Stone didn't send "learning packets" to schools.

[madfloridian]

10. Good point.

It is putting propaganda in our schools.

[WinkyDink]

8. See, that's the thing that must be pointed out to SCHOOLS~~~

FACTS are NEVER "conflated for dramatic purposes" when one is learning HISTORY; they ARE, however, when one is learning PROPAGANDA.