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The Democrats threatened ABC/Disney over "The Path to 9/11" - but what's so extraordinary that legislators in the federal government would use their power so...cravenly? Apparently, the truth hurts. (UPDATE: and now Clinton's lawyers have weighed in) RedState (thanks to the folks at Traditional Values Coalition) is proud to present, the video in dispute. It's broken up into six segments.

"THE PATH TO 9/11"Sunday, September 10 @ 8/7c Monday, September 11 @ 8/7c V Only available on ABC and ABC.com. Shirley Douglas Madeline Albright NIGHT ONESeptember 11, 2001. Teams of terrorist hijackers board four American airliners and take control of the cockpits. Passengers and flight controllers quickly learn something is terribly wrong.... February 1993. On a similarly ordinary day, New York is stunned by a deadly bombing at the World Trade Center. The discovery of a traceable van part at the site leads to the arrest of one of the conspirators, and he is linked to a mosque led by...

After minor edits in response to Democratic critics, the miniseries will air as scheduled. It's already set off a bitter election-year dispute. Walt Disney Co.'s ABC is forging ahead with plans to air a miniseries starting Sunday despite controversy over its efforts to dramatize — and some say unfairly politicize — the events leading up to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Producers said late Friday that they had finished making minor edits to "The Path to 9/11" amid a firestorm of protests from leading Democrats including Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, who warned that telecasting "right-wing political propaganda" might violate...

Can viewers at least watch the ABC miniseries about 9/11, instead of having someone decide for them whether it's an informative "docudrama" or a partisan hack job? ABC and its parent company, Disney, shouldn't cave in to critics who want the network to cancel the five-hour movie, The Path to 9/11, scheduled to air tomorrow and Monday nights. These critics include Senate Democratic leaders, who are worried that the miniseries will portray Clinton administration officials unfairly in the hunt for Osama bin Laden. They wrote a heavy-handed letter to Disney CEO Robert Iger, reminding him of his duty "as a...

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 5 — Days before its scheduled debut, the first major television miniseries about the Sept. 11 attacks was being criticized on Tuesday as biased and inaccurate by bloggers, terrorism experts and a member of the Sept. 11 commission, whose report makes up much of the film’s source material. The six-hour miniseries, “The Path to 9/11,” is to be shown on ABC on Sunday and Monday. snip... On Tuesday, several liberal blogs were questioning whether ABC’s version was overly critical of the Clinton administration while letting the Bush administration off easy. In particular, some critics — including Richard...

It seems like the "09/11 was an inside job" crowd is getting more vocal by the moment. Tonite we even had a post (that was quckly pulled) about the specific "facts" that support the hairbrained notion that the US Government was involved in orchestrating the events of 09/11/2001. I'm sure this whole thing has been addressed by freepers before...is there a link or a place where we can go to find the facts to sucessfully challenge such claims that the steel only melted because of a chemical substance...or that the peformance of the plane on it's approach was impossible, and...

September 11, Where Is The Anger?

The image of featureless steel structures catastrophically crumbling into a fatal dust storm was indelibly imprinted on the minds of millions of people around the world. Yet the enormous plumes of smoke, the soaring balls of fire and the sheer scale of the buildings masked the human face of the tragedy. For the first time, through drama supported by interviews and archival footage, TV audiences will be invited to venture inside the towers to follow the stories of more than a dozen individuals whose daily routine is swept aside by events that changed the world forever. Based on the testimonies...

What would today be like if 11 September 2001 had never occurred? A thought experiment. Let's imagine that in 2001 somehow sped up a day, so that the fateful day fell away unnoticed and rolled off to the side. In September the figures on digital clocks would have jumped from "10" to "12." Perhaps there would have been a moment of confusion, but life generally would have gone on as before. If so, imagine what we would have missed! First of all, we never would have experienced how a really historic moment feels: That odd hardening in the belly, as...

Trust that conspiracy theorists will attempt to exploit the fifth anniversary of 9/11 to spread sensational claims and sensational lies. Moreover, it's a fair bet sensationalist media will collaborate, not because the squawk show host or headline scribbler believes the poisoned foolishness, but because anger, fear and trembling sell. Conspiracy theories are public ghost stories of a sort, campfire horror tales tarted up with government devils, corporate witches and other demons-of-convenience. However, Popular Mechanics magazine and Hearst Communications have provided a handy antidote to the conspiracy theorists' more noxious rhetorical poisons. "Debunking 9/11 Myths: Why Conspiracy Theories Can't Stand Up...

Whenever I hear New York Senator Hillary Clinton talk tough about terrorism, I'm always surprised that a bolt of lightning doesn't strike her atop her $3,000.00 haircut. If I wasn't so angered by her calculating rhetoric I'd probably roll on the floor laughing each time she spoke with her trademark shrill, piercing voice. She's tough on terrorism as long as it brings her closer to her ultimate goal of sitting in the Oval Office. And with the Clintons, talk is cheap therefore they are all talk. But as far as actions, Bill and Hillary's political history reveals they are easily...

How many times can you watch two hijacked planes explode into the World Trade Center? How often can you watch the Twin Towers fall How many times can you stand seeing scores of New Yorkers run in panic as the debris cloud swallows streets With the fifth anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks less than a month away, viewers need to steel themselves for a barrage of retrospectives, re-creations and endless replays of the most devastating terrorist attack on U.S. soil. The majority will be earnest, respectful even. But at what point does remembrance cross over into ghoulishness? The unofficial...

NEW YORK - The agency created to oversee rebuilding of the World Trade Center site and downtown Manhattan after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks will go out of business this fall, its chairman said Tuesday. "We've completed our mission," said Kevin Rampe, who has served as president and chairman of the Lower Manhattan Development Corp. The LMDC, created by Gov. George Pataki and then- Mayor Rudolph Giuliani months after terrorists destroyed the trade center in 2001, chose plans to redesign the 16-acre site with office buildings, a memorial, a performing arts center and a transit hub. Rampe said the agency...

While I'm not sure which maximum-security federal prison will be stuck with Zacarias Moussaoui for the rest of his life, it looks like we in New York are getting stuck with the awful Freedom Tower. We haven't had much of an opportunity to express our opposition to this sorry design that will alter our skyline. Now there's a Web site - www.twintowersalliance.com - that allows iconoclastic Gothamites a chance to vent. I was the first journalist to sign the list of those demanding that the towers be rebuilt, at a time when there were only about 100 signatures on file....

C Lee Hanson was on the phone with his son - a passenger on United Flight 175 on September 11 - and heard him say "Oh my God!" just before watching his airplane crash into the World Trade Centre. Hanson's testimony on Monday at the sentencing trial of September 11 conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui was one of several emotional stories told by survivors or family members of victims of the deadly hijackings. Hanson, 73, said he received two calls from his son Peter, who was travelling to California with his wife and two and a half-year-old daughter on September 11, 2001....

Few historians can hope to match the tremendous success of the history-trained fiction writer Caleb Carr, whose book, The Alienist (1994) was a chilling look at the world of late 19th-century America through the eyes of a detective and practitioner of early criminal forensics. Carr made the New York Times list and attained a reputation for engrossing (if rather lengthy) novels. Michael Shaara’s equally impressive Killer Angels (1974) has become a classroom staple for Civil War courses and was the basis for Ronald Maxwell’s movie, Gettysburg. More recently, Newt Gingrich and Montreat History Professor Bill Forstchen’s trilogy of Civil War...

The Taliban’s former spokesman, Rahmatullah Hashemi, is now an undergraduate at Yale University, The New York Times reveals in a lengthy cover story by Chip Brown in its Sunday magazine this weekend. The cover line reads, “He was the Taliban’s spin doctor. So what’s he doing at Yale?" In fact, the story shows, Hashemi was at Yale once before—in 2001, appearing at a forum representing the Taliban, a few months before the 9/11 terrorist attacks. A small clip of Hashemi appears in Michael Moore’s “Fahrenheit 9/11” film. “In some ways,” Hashemi, 27, says today, “I’m the luckiest person in the...

The beautiful Empire State Building took one year and 45 days to build. It was completed in the depth of the Great Depression and is still considered one of the great architectural marvels of all times. But it's been nearly five years since the twin towers, along with 2,752 human beings, disintegrated into dust, and ground zero is still just a hole in the ground. If the government had been involved back in 1930 when the site for the Empire State Building was being excavated, King Kong would have had to find another building tall enough to hoist Fay Wray...

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