"Path To 9/11" Clinton Assassination Scene Screen-Grab

[Hissyspit]

I'm assuming this is a screen grab from the "Path To 9/11" video. The point isn't that this event didn't happen and thus should not be dramatized. The point is that within the context of all the other Swift-boat type lies within the mini-series, it makes Clinton and the administration look even weaker than what we have heard about previously in the film, that they would "protect" these type of people through inaction. THAT is what DIDN'T happen and it is one more part of the slander/libel picture. The implication is that Clinton didn't even have the character to protect HIMSELF much less the citizens of the United States. But this only works when they combine this real event with the LIES of the rest of the film, such as the Berger incident.

Nice. Now I'm watching a scene where a movie of President Clinton is being projected on a screen, it's footage from some Clinton speech, and a Taliban guy walks up and shoots several times at Clinton's head, you see a good 5 or 6 or more bullets make holes in the screen in the middle of Clinton's head, just like he's assassinating Clinton.

Yes, we now have Disney/ABC throwing in mock assassinations of Bill Clinton. Did the Taliban really stage such a mock assassination of Clinton with bin Laden watching, and somehow we got a blow-by-blow of the entire scene? Or did Disney/ABC decide to throw in a mock assassination of Clinton just for the fun of it? You decide.

http://americablog.blogspot.com/2006/09/disneyabc-adds-mock-assassination-of.html

ON EDIT: Added my comment from thread to original post.

[AutumnMist]

1. Call me crazy

but I do remember something about this from elsewhere years ago. And I don't think it was just clinton either.

Now maybe I am off my rocker, or maybe it was some other public figure, but I do remember something about a training tape and shooting projected images.

[magellan]

3. I just checked, it was Clinton

http://www.michigandaily.com/media/storage/paper851/news/2001/09/28/News/Bin-Laden.Shown.In.Terrorist.Training.Tape-1407509.shtml?norewrite200609100323&sourcedomain=www.michigandaily.com

I had thought it was Bush Sr.

[Hissyspit]

4. The point isn't that this event couldn't or didn't happen.

and thus should not be dramatized. It's al Qaeda after all. The point is that within the context of all the other Swift-boat type lies within the mini-series, it makes Clinton and the administration look even weaker, that they would "protect" these type of people through inaction. THAT is what didn't happen and it is one more part of the slander/libel picture.

[magellan]

2. Fascinating

This actually happened -- who was the star?

[MADem]

5. Ahhh, it all makes sense now!!! This movie is EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENED

...and the only way these GOP asshats could have known about THAT scene is if they had been there!!! Because they SAID it's all true, and based on the 911 Report, and so on....

ERGO....It WAS a rightwing conspiracy to take over the government all along!!

Oh, my, I feel so much better for KNOWING that!!! :puke:

Seriously, that sort of scene is sick on a number of levels. It shows how low they will cheerfully go. They're quite insane, I suspect.

[Kingshakabobo]

6. I believe this is from an Al Queda recruiting video.

IIRC, they showed them in their ninja outfits shooting video of Clinton. Also, they showed the Cole with a hole in it. I remember these vids.

[Rosemary2205]

23. Forget Mickey - lets run Al Queda recruiting videos instead?

This is what Disney considers family values? Al Queda recruiting videos?

My God...........

[Contrary1]

7. They must have looked at President Clinton

as a threat to their organization.

Which explains why no such film has surfaced with Junior as the target.

[Hissyspit]

8. Yes, the IRONIC point. n/t

[radwriter0555]

10. Then why did they wait until bush was in office to perpetrate 911?

?

[Hissyspit]

11. Part of the 'threat' from Clinton was that they wouldn't get the reaction

they wanted from him and his administration that they would get from a Republican administration, but I would think that logistics had as much to do with it.

[JI7]

15. remember Clinton stopped the planned attacks on the LAX

unlike the Chimp and 9/11.

[liberaldemocrat7]

16. Because Clinton would not deal with the Taliban for the oil pipelines

and as soon as Bu$h took office the negotiations began. However Bu$h really pressured the Taliban to go along with a deal that they did not want. Bu$h threatened to invade Afghanistan in July 2001 and as soon as you can say blowback the Taliban got Al qaeda to strike us first.

[radwriter0555]

21. uh wasn't 911 planned long before july 2001? like airplane pilots training

in the US the year before?

Al queda never took credit for 911.

[The Straight Story]

9. More:rehearsing an attack on world leaders at a golf tournament

Video claims to show terrorists training

REUTERS , SYDNEY
Tuesday, Jan 15, 2002,Page 1

The Australian Broadcasting Corp (ABC) has obtained a video it said showed al-Qaeda militants rehearsing an attack on world leaders at a golf tournament and on a motorcade in what appears to be Washington.

The ABC broadcasted extracts from the video Sunday night and said the tape would be sent for detailed analysis by US military intelligence.
.....

The ABC said the amateur video film in its possession was handed to its reporters by Northern Alliance officials.

Running for more than six hours, it shows al-Qaeda members rehearsing hostage-taking scenarios and assassinations, according to the extracts.

In one scene, the scenario looked like a Washington road system, ABC said. In another, trainees with weapons hidden in golf bags carried out a rocket launcher attack on dummies meant apparently to represent world leaders at a golf tournament. A man pretended to play golf in the background.

The video also shows trainees carrying out a kidnapping after stopping a car, and storming buildings where dummies with balloons over their hearts represented their opponents.

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2002/01/15/119985/print

[slor]

12. Could just as easily been...

a freeper training video too.

[greyl]

13. I don't understand how that means Clinton is weaker. (?) nt

[Hissyspit]

14. It doesn't mean he is weaker. It IMPLIES he is weaker than if the scene

were not in there by mixing a truth with the lies in the film. Please reread my OP.
Al Qaeda are shown as a threat to Clinton's own life as well as the security of the country. Something should be done about them. Then the rest of the film has a bunch of scenes where Clinton and his people are falsely being unwilling to capture or deal with this threat. The assasination film is real, but the implication created by the context of the narrative it is put into is FALSE.

[greyl]

17. Do you think it would be better to not show that image? nt

[mdelaguna2000]

18. So they've reproduced terrorist propaganda for all to see?

If this was in a terrorist video, how horrible that they would mass reproduce it, in effect re-disseminating terrorist propaganda themselves. This whole film project is truly evil - aiding the enemy.

[fasttense]

20. It's just the same as if brush read Bin Laden's letter in a speech

Oh wait, never mind.

[Hissyspit]

22. Evil evil if al Jazeera does it.

A great historical service if ABC does it. /sarcasm

[TomClash]

19. I suspect

this is some rightwing nutjob wet dream.

[Generic Other]

24. Freudian GOP viagra induced wetdream terrorism

Lame and limp.

[whistle]

25. So Disney approved this???

[seabeyond]

26. so it happened. was it in the 911 commission? and compare to king

saying about the video of bush assination in britian allowing a whole lot of crazies to get ideas, this is ok and that video? is not

[gully]

27. In a way this is ironic b/c the RW talking heads have been using the

faux assassination of * in a movie as a distraction from "The Path." In some odd attempt to defend the film makers I've heard time and time again "well yeah but what did you think of a fake * assassination in a recent movie?!" Well, it would appear the movie they're defending does the same damn thing.

I'm half laughing really.

[Hissyspit]

28. kick