"The substitution of propaganda for fact is dangerous"

[Coexist]

http://glenngreenwald.blogspot.com/2006/09/bush-supporters-condemn-fictionalized.html

Some gems from the Right on a docudrama - guess which one?!

<snip>
ED GILLESPIE, RNC Chair
"And I think it was important that it be historically accurate. And if they didn't intend to make it historically accurate to make sure
that viewers understood that it was not intended to be historically accurate but a fictional portrayal. So we made two requests: One is having historians review it for accuracy if you're going to broadcast it. And if you're unwilling to do that, inform the viewers that it's not historically accurate. That's not censorship, that's common sense. . ."


<snip>
ED MORROW, National Review
"The substitution of propaganda for fact is dangerous. It's not by accident that tyrants create "history" to justify their schemes. Hitler couldn't have taken control of Germany without the many anti-Semitic myths that had been allowed to fester and go unchallenged. Stalin and Mao couldn't have kept a heel on the neck of their countries without self-glorifying myths that demonized anyone who stood in their way. In this case, simple justice demands that the lies about Ronald and Nancy Reagan must not go unchallenged but, in a larger sense, truth itself must be defended. Attempts to distort our history must be resisted. Historical truth is simply too valuable to be made a plaything for biased filmmakers rewriting it to fit their politics."

<snip>
Seth Leibsohn, National Revew
"We should all be ashamed of bad history, though — of dressing up fiction as fact. What offended us was a portrayal of Reagan that put words in his mouth he never uttered and attributed positions to him he never held. . . .

Perhaps if the CBS miniseries attempted accuracy, there would have been less concern. But we don't need false portrayals of living (but incapacitated) historical figures, in the nastiest forms possible. It's not decent, and it sure is not helping us understand history better — something we could all afford to do . . . "

GEE - imagine that.

[opihimoimoi]

1. Evil Peeps in the past have attempted this to no avail over the Long Term

The TRUTH will PREVAIL

They can RUN but They Cannot Hide from the TRUTH

[Alacrat]

2. I hope when all this is over, Bill Clinton will set the record straight

I hope he comes out and says exactly what went on. ABC isn't the first media outlet to say Clinton could have taken osama out, but let him go. I've heard the reasons for not doing it were, civilian casualties, and taking a Saudi Prince with him, as reasons why Clinton passed on hitting osama, both seem very valid. I'm not taking up for Reagan, but he wasn't in any shape to defend himself from possible false statements, at least Bill is.

[katty]

3. yes, and no one does that better than the bush/neocon lapdog media

[Coexist]

4. they are "righteous" and we are "whiners"

I am so sick of it.