Following complaints, ABC tweaks its 9/11 mini-series

Chicago Tribune ^

[Sir Gawain]

ABC toned down a scene that involved Clinton's national security adviser, Samuel "Sandy" Berger, declining to give the order to kill bin Laden, according to a person involved with the film who declined to be identified. "That sequence has been the focus of attention," the source said.

The network also decided that the credits would say the film is based "in part" on the 9/11 panel report, rather than "based on" the report, as the producers originally intended.

[george76]

Maybe they could put in a scene of Yasser Arafat waiting in the Rose Garden while Clinton's getting a hummer ....

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Which, you know, happened

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Obviously, the Left's going to need to be put down now that they've developed a taste for this sort of thing.

http://ace.mu.nu/archives/195763.php

[beyond the sea]

Clinton -- Empty Bag of Narcissism

[MonroeDNA]

I'm definitely watching.

[Suzy Quzy]

ABC SUCKS!! They KNOW the Clintons and Arkancide....guess they are VERY afraid!!

I WONDER, and I WANT to hear what the WRITER, Cyrus, says about this!! If he's NOT upset, it will say something BAD about Cyrus!!

[beyond the sea]

Clinton gave the orders.....and the employees at ABC want to stay alive.

Vince, Ron, Jerry (Parks), etc., etc.

[Lucky9teen]

I hate it when it does that:

From ABC (regardling plot of episodes):

NIGHT ONE
September 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 the Blind Sheikh, a radical cleric. A valuable FBI informant helps bring down the cleric and his cell. A manhunt for elusive WTC bomber Ramzi Yousef ensues, and he narrowly escapes capture in Pakistan, where he is linked to the attempted assassination of Benazir Bhutto. Yousef travels to the Philippines, where he tests an innovative small bomb that kills a flight passenger and comes close to bringing down the plane as well. He's almost captured again when a fire at his bomb-making lab exposes to Manila police his plot involving the simultaneous bombings of a dozen airliners.

Yousef is finally brought down when an informant in Pakistan tips off a team of agents working in coordination with FBI counterterrorism expert John O'Neill. Yousef's trail leads them to a rebel named Usama bin Laden.

In 1998, journalist John Miller's interview with bin Laden is broadcast, and O'Neill and others in Washington are alarmed by the al Qaeda leader's fatwa against the U.S. CIA field agent "Kirk" contacts bin Laden's primary opposition, General Massoud of Afghanistan's Northern Alliance, and they concoct a plan to capture bin Laden and bring him to the U.S. to face justice. The plan is never approved for action, but the simultaneous bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa push the Administration to respond with an ineffective missile strike that some think merely elevates bin Laden's stature in the Muslim world. Arrests of al Qaeda operatives at the Canadian-U.S. border and in New York on the eve of the millennium provide further evidence that Muslim extremists are bringing their holy war to America.

NIGHT TWO
The October 2000 bombing of the USS Cole sends O'Neill and his team to Yemen, where he runs afoul of the U.S. Ambassador, who tries to have O'Neill recalled to the States. The investigation in Yemen stalls, but the White House, confident bin Laden is behind the attack, continues to debate how to stop him.

In 2001, counterterrorism czar Richard Clarke's warnings about bin Laden are downplayed, as is an FBI agent's warning to his superiors that some suspicious individuals are learning to fly jet aircraft. O'Neill butts heads with the CIA over their lack of shared information, and while intelligence agencies squabble, al Qaeda terrorists, under the radar, continue with their hijacking plot.

O'Neill, his career stalled by an incident wherein he lost his laptop, and tired of the bureaucracy, retires from the FBI in August and takes over security at the WTC. Shortly thereafter, the Northern Alliance's Massoud, who had pressed the U.S. for assistance against the Taliban and warned that bin Laden might strike, is assassinated by al Qaeda agents. Two days later comes September 11, and O'Neill dies bravely, along with thousands of others, in an attack by the enemy he had devoted his career to thwarting.

In the aftermath, the 9/11 Commission is formed to study the events leading up to that fateful day and to form recommendations to confront the threat of terrorism.

[Suzy Quzy]

There are no sponsors.

[Suzy Quzy]

There are no sponsors.

[george76]

ABC Cuts and Runs, From Bill Clinton

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[Suzy Quzy]

We do NOT know exactly what Sandy Burglar took...we DO know that some he DESTROYED, and some he changed!!! And NOTHING FREAKING happened to him!!!

[Suzy Quzy]

Clinton....the POS between the Bushes.

[Centurion2000]

ABC toned down a scene that involved Clinton's national security adviser, Samuel "Sandy" Berger, declining to give the order to kill bin Laden, according to a person involved with the film who declined to be identified. "That sequence has been the focus of attention," the source said.

Considering that that is exactly what happened, where's the problem showing the truth?

[beyond the sea]

Exactly!

[beyond the sea]

If BS were concrete, Clinton would be an Interstate Highway.

[BurbankKarl]

That is exactly what Sandy Berger did in real life....and he stole the notes from the National Archives to cover it up.

[indcons]

ABC's cave in is typical of the MSM which goes out of its way to display its liberal bias. Sandy Berger, a convicted thief of super-sensitive documents, has business protesting a true portrayal of his antics during the Clinton years.

[BurbankKarl]

You edit in the party on the other line saying "Okay, see you back at the Pentagon, goodbye"

>>>Gee how do you tone it down?

Have him stare at the phone refusing to pick it up?

Or have him inadvertently hang up

[conservative blonde]

No surprise here. I was going to watch the program but now I am not.

[Prokopton]

"Considering that that is exactly what happened, where's the problem showing the truth?"

I haven't read nor heard anywhere that this really happened. Do you have a link?

[BurbankKarl]

most the left thinks Bush flew the planes into the towers...