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.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
This is just like the way the Bush WH went ballistic on Michael Moore for his "interpretation" of 9/11, right?
It's not?
The DUmmies have been on an email campaign to have ABC pull the film?
You mean, like "censorship"?
Oh, well. They have a right to express their opinion. They just need to STHU next time I express mine.
"Fahrenheit 9/11" was a grotesque parade of ignorance.
"Good night and good luck" was packed full of lies, got Oscars.
That was CBS. The movie was pulled but shown on I believe on the Showtime cable network. It was seen but by a smaller potential audience.
hehe very nice...
Then Rush should be able to tell us if they tinker with the film (since he's seen it already).
" i wonder which DNC member is really behind this - Dean? Reid? Pelosi? Soros? Chavez?"
My thought too. Someone who REALLY doesn't want the beast to be POTUS or wants someone else to be.
"Heavy flak, Captain, we are over the target!"
"Roger that."
I am so glad that the Lewinsky angle is present in this film. Clinton and his cronies always screamed that it was his personal life. Now all the nincompoops who bought that line of garbage will see how his diddling in the Oval office impacted our security.
I have a sneaking suspicion you may be correct. I just can't believe the sycophant ABC would allow a denial of everything they've worked to create in the interest of "fairness" alone.
Contact ABC....we need to flood them with support!
http://abc.go.com/site/contactus.html
Just letting you know you should support and show in its entirety, "The Path to 9/11." The rancorous noise coming from Clinton and the DNC is insulting to the American Public. For them to insult the American public by insinuating we're too stupid to be able to sort out fact from fiction is incredulous! They are the one's who supported Michael Moore's fictional tale that thousands accepted as truth, perhaps it is time to tell another type of story. A story more closely to the line of truth.
'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.'
LOL! Yeah, I clearly remember Clintons outrage when Fahrenheit 9/11 was released...not.
What happened to freedom of artistic expression, Bill?
Helen Thomas
Ms. Lewinsky...Well, that's another story.
Of course its censorship when Republicans don't like something when the Leftists don't like something its freedom!
I bet that's what it is.
You should put that link up as a seperate thread ???
Five dollars says that Clinton ends up looking good.
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