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BUBBA GOES BALLISTIC ON ABC ABOUT ITS DAMNING 9/11 MOVIE
(demanding the network "pull the drama")
NY Post ^
| September 7, 2006 --
| Ian Bishop
Posted on 09/07/2006 5:18:52 AM PDT by IrishMike
WASHINGTON - A furious Bill Clinton is warning ABC that its mini-series "The Path to 9/11" grossly misrepresents his pursuit of Osama bin Laden - and he is demanding the network "pull the drama" if changes aren't made. Clinton pointedly refuted several fictionalized scenes that he claims insinuate he was too distracted by the Monica Lewinsky sex scandal to care about bin Laden and that a top adviser pulled the plug on CIA operatives who were just moments away from bagging the terror master, according to a letter to ABC boss Bob Iger obtained by The Post.
The former president also disputed the portrayal of then-Secretary of State Madeleine Albright as having tipped off Pakistani officials that a strike was coming, giving bin Laden a chance to flee.
"The content of this drama is factually and incontrovertibly inaccurate and ABC has the duty to fully correct all errors or pull the drama entirely," the four-page letter said.
The movie is set to air on Sunday and Monday nights. Monday is the fifth anniversary of the attacks.
Based on the 9/11 commission's report, the miniseries is also being provided to high schools as a teaching aid - although ABC admits key scenes are dramatizations.
The letter, written by Bruce Lindsey, head of the Clinton Foundation, and Douglas Bond, a top lawyer in Clinton's office, accuses the ABC drama of "bias" and a "fictitious rewriting of history that will be misinterpreted by millions of Americans."
Clinton, whose aides first learned from a TV trailer about a week ago that the miniseries would slam his administration, was "surprised" and "incredulous" when told about the film's slant, sources said.
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To: Centurion2000
181
posted on
09/07/2006 9:57:30 AM PDT
by
IrishMike
(Democrats .... Stuck on Stupid, RINO's ...the most vicious judas goats)
To: IrishMike
Someone check Sandy Berger's Swiss bank account for a large recent deposit from ABC. This is too juicy.
182
posted on
09/07/2006 9:59:31 AM PDT
by
Dr.Deth
To: Dr.Deth
Sandy Berger's Swiss bank account for a large recent deposit from ABC.
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It would have to be a large deposit, Sandy keeps his valuables in his socks.
183
posted on
09/07/2006 10:03:17 AM PDT
by
IrishMike
(Democrats .... Stuck on Stupid, RINO's ...the most vicious judas goats)
To: stockstrader
So Bill is saying that he was not preoccupied with Monica. Who was the Congressman that he was discussing Troop deployment with when he was (being serviced) under his desk? This was documented in the Starr Report. Nope.....no preoccupation here.
184
posted on
09/07/2006 10:08:12 AM PDT
by
steve7
To: eyespysomething
But more so for Clinton because 8 years > 9 months. In defense of W, and in condemnation of Gore and the MSM, Buss-II took office politically weakened by the Florida recount fiasco. If Bush-II had wanted to tighten airline security, or increase vigilance against terrorism, prior to 9-11, can you imagine the hue and cry that would have arisen from the MSM and the Democrats?
185
posted on
09/07/2006 10:08:38 AM PDT
by
Lonesome in Massachussets
(NYT Headline: 'Protocols of the Learned Elders of CBS: Fake But Accurate, Experts Say.')
To: steve7
He was getting 'serviced' by Monica while he was discussing the dispatch of US troops to Bosnia with Congressman Sonny Callahan of Alabama. How DISRESPECTFUL is THAT to the military and their families????
Oooops, I forget, 'it's his private sex life', right? (s/off)
To: steve7
Nope, no 'preoccupation' there at all.
Remember, the Slick 'apologists' took great pride in Slick's ability to 'compartmentalize', remember?
To: IrishMike
188
posted on
09/07/2006 10:19:12 AM PDT
by
Free ThinkerNY
((((Truth shall set you free))))
To: Jim Robinson; Coleus; nickcarraway; narses; Mr. Silverback; Canticle_of_Deborah; ...
I recently spoke to my father (was Army Sergeant/medic stationed in Germany during Korean war) about the war on terror. His first point was that Americans should be on our knees daily thanking God that George W. Bush is President, Dick Cheney is Vice President and Donald Rumsfeld is Secretary of Defense.
His second point was that if the demoncrats win the White House praying to God will be all that will be left cause the demoncraps will not use our great military properly.
I completely agree with his sober points.
If we dont want our future American generations to be speaking Arabic and wearing turbans the GOP is the only way to go. Warts and all.
189
posted on
09/07/2006 10:44:23 AM PDT
by
cpforlife.org
(A Catholic Respect Life Curriculum is available at KnightsForLife.org)
To: IrishMike
I always wondered what it would be like to see the true liars have to defend themselves and they are vigourously to the applause of many of us out here just happy to see them having to finally become accountable.
To: IamConservative
Been wondering about point 2 myself. Something is very odd here, and doesn't quite add up.
191
posted on
09/07/2006 11:41:10 AM PDT
by
redgolum
("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)
To: jackv
My thoughts as well. Why she thinks it shouldnt' be shown just made me remember why I stopped watching that show - I don't care for her one bit.
192
posted on
09/07/2006 12:14:49 PM PDT
by
fml
To: IrishMike
The letter, written by Bruce Lindsey, head of the Clinton Foundation, and Douglas Bond, a top lawyer in Clinton's office, accuses the ABC drama of "bias" and a "fictitious rewriting of history that will be misinterpreted by millions of Americans." Still waiting to see Lindsey's letter complaining about Mikey Moron's fictitious rewriting of history in "Bowling for Columbine" and "Fahrenheit 9/11".
To: IrishMike
he was quoted as saying, "if you don't pull that dayam thaing, i'm gonna
raise ya taxes agin...."
194
posted on
09/07/2006 1:00:25 PM PDT
by
ripley
To: Guenevere
Bubba made a huge tactical error in stiring this, many people probably are going to watch now that otherwise wouldn't (have watched)... one thing we can always count on -- his ego. Always gets in the way of his so-called political sense.
To: IrishMike
it's about time that he got a taste of his own medicine.
196
posted on
09/07/2006 1:02:46 PM PDT
by
ripley
To: no dems
Not if enough of us encourage them otherwise... the threats from three congressmen would make me more determined to put it on if I was ABC -- what happened to free speech?
To: Toespi
CBS and the Viacom sent it over to Showtime and they showed it there.
To: Free ThinkerNY
saxophone- playing instant nausea.
199
posted on
09/07/2006 1:06:40 PM PDT
by
ripley
To: IrishMike
A hypothesis about why Clinton is
well, Bubba.
Hes someone who was born and raised in Arkansas, a state with its own particular flavor of politics. All his experience, prior to building national following was local Arkansas style politics. By that, I mean the good ol boy way of getting things done; the fundamental belief that politics done Arkansas style is politics done right. To Bubba, it doesn't matter that what he wants is wrong. It matters only that he wants it and that he gets his way, no matter what the cost. He really doesn't know why so many people hate him and his way of getting things done. His early successful experience Arkansas style validated his internal belief that this is how things are done.
He reached the highest office in the land with the support and help of people from outside Arkansas who bought into his Arkansas style of getting things done for the sake of their own political ambitions. Its a variant of the Emperor has no clothes theme. Bubba truly didnt know that the whole world didnt play by Arkansas rules and his more sophisticated supporters chose not to tell him. In other words, the non-Arkansan pols who supported him knew that bubba was an amoral, ruthless win at all costs guy who actually believed the whole country played the game the way they did in Arkansas. They took a chance with a bright guy with some quirky beliefs and values to get ahead themselves.
And they won. They pulled it off. They got what they wanted, and the country got a president who had his odd Arkansas style corrupt belief system validated.
Thats why Clinton cant understand why some of us hate him and will until the day he dies. He truly cannot understand that heretofore, politicians of his ilk never made it to the top of the political ladder. Because there were enough people who refused to go along with the quirky brand of politics played in backwater places like Arkansas.
Unfortunately, the genie is out of the bottle and people, once exposed to this particular variant of political corruption, are much more likely to accept it again in the future.
200
posted on
09/07/2006 1:16:11 PM PDT
by
oneolcop
(Take off the Gloves!)
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