Posted on 09/06/2006 10:17:32 PM PDT by Libloather
Three From Clinton Administration Urge Disney to Cancel or Revise Sept. 11 Miniseries
By JESSE McKINLEY
Published: September 7, 2006
Three members of the Clinton administration have written the chairman of the Walt Disney Company, ABCs parent, to complain that the networks coming two-part miniseries The Path to 9/11 is fraught with factual errors and fabrications.
The letters ask that the five-hour movie, scheduled for broadcast Sunday and Monday, be either edited for accuracy or canceled, and ABC gave a small indication yesterday that some changes might be made.
One of the officials, former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, said in her letter to the Disney chairman, Robert A. Iger, that although she had requested a copy of the film, ABC had not given her one. But, Ms. Albright said, she has been told by people who have seen it that it depicts scenes that never happened, events that never took place, decisions that were never made and conversations that never occurred.
It asserts as fact things that are not fact, she wrote.
The concerns of Ms. Albright, as well as those in letters from Samuel R. Berger, former national security Adviser, and Bruce Lindsey, a Clinton White House aide who is now chief executive of the Clinton Foundation, were echoed yesterday by several Democratic members of Congress.
ABC, meanwhile, continued to explain that the miniseries, though largely drawn from the report of the Sept. 11 commission, was a dramatization, not a documentary.
But the network appeared to be leaving the door open to last-minute changes in t the film, which cost almost $40 million and is to be shown without any advertisements.
It is common practice to continue to make edits to strengthen a project right up to the broadcast date, said Hope Hartman, an ABC spokeswoman.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
WHOA!!
That is a scary national security team
check this out! Now you know the hezbocrats are in panic mode over this.
Washington Post - Four senior House Democrats -- John Conyers Jr., Jane Harman, John D. Dingell and Louise M. Slaughter -- have written Iger to demand that the inaccuracies be corrected. Spurred by the Center for American Progress, which is headed by Clinton chief of staff John D. Podesta, 25,000 people have sent letters of protest to ABC.
We'll see how much control Rush's friend, the producer of this documentary, has over at ABC.
EEK! :)
Since when does the clinton administration care about factual errors?
I'd say its even money that ABC kills anything in there that makes Clinton looks bad at all.
This sort of thing that I expected they would do. It may be good if we tell ABC that people want to see the movie, so they won't have second thought. Please contact them:
http://abc.go.com/site/contactus.html
IMHO, we don't need to say anything about Clinton, etc., a simple message that we want to watch the movie I think suffices.
Where can Berger stuff five hours more of embarrassing facts?
Even with RINOs and platform differences, the GOP is our best bet to bring us back to our roots. The Republicans are quite reliable on a lot of key issues. Unless the RINO is absolutely worse than the Dem and/or the other candidate has a good chance of winning, the risk isn't worth it.
In thirty years of editing network television programs, not more than once or twice did I make an edit after the show had been delivered. Common practice?
Poppycock!!
"Now that the truth about bin Laden and al Queda is about to come out, revealing what a waste of human flesh he was in the Oval Office, it's panic time."
I totally agree. Notice this past week that hitlery's "insiders" are now speaking to the fact that she might not even run in 08? Who knew? Komrade klintoon is putting up major roadblocks for her potential run and this TV-movie will hopefully be the final nail in the klintoon's coffin.
I never thought she'd run. Most of what's been pushed by the slimey leftwing media is just trial runs, designed to give her an idea what the public thinks. Now that this movie will show how careless and unconcerned klintoon was regarding our nation's security, she'll be lucky to win re-election in NY.
I just heard on the radio that Clinton himself asked that the show be pulled. I'll try to see what the feed was, but it was on during 'Coast to Coast'.
True, culpability falls upon both sides of the aile.
Still, I vividly remember how the ousted Clinton regime basically sabotaged the Bush Administration by preventing the incoming administration access to government facilities, destroying government equipment and how their cronies in congress created every possible roadblock to prevent a Republican administration from doing it's job.
And all the while the attack was being planned and only months away. Can you imagine Osama watching events in the news how the Democrats were preventing President Bush from assuming his responsibilities? He had to be laughing and thinking "fine work, my friends".
GRRRRRRR!
Just give the cleaning lady, Mad Maddie, a mop and a bucket and tell her to shut the h*ll up.
My apologies to Wanda Skutnik (Call Northside 777).
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The Sleazoid Clinton Machine is striking again. Hope no one ends up like Vince, Ron, Jerry Parks, etc. this time.
I'll bet not enough control at ABC. There will be changes. I'd bet on it.
There is Clinton's wild card. This stinks.
If the dems were really nervous about this, why wouldn't they be QUIETLY trying to squash it?
Uh-oh.
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