Posted on 09/08/2006 5:44:59 AM PDT by TaxachusettsMan
ABC plans to make minor changes to its docudrama on the run-up to the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks in response to heated complaints from former Clinton administration officials that a number of scenes are fabricated, a network executive said yesterday . . .
The ABC executive said the "adjustments and refinements" are "intended to make clearer that it was general indecisiveness" by federal officials that left the country vulnerable to terrorist attacks, "not any one individual." The executive, who requested anonymity because the network is making only written comments, said small revisions have been underway for weeks.
The network's move came as the children's publishing company Scholastic deleted from its Web site materials about "The Path to 9/11," developed in partnership with ABC, that were being offered to 25,000 high school teachers. "We determined that the materials did not meet our high standards for dealing with controversial issues," Chairman Dick Robinson said.
Democrats ratcheted up the pressure yesterday. Senate Minority Leader Harry M. Reid (Nev.) and four Democratic colleagues wrote to Robert Iger, chief executive of the Walt Disney Co., ABC's corporate parent, urging him to cancel the movie. The Democratic National Committee obtained more than 100,000 signatures on a petition demanding cancellation. Jay Carson, a spokesman for former president Bill Clinton, called ABC's plan to air the movie "despicable."
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
The director and producer need support in the comments section of the forom of 'The Path to 9-11'. The left continues to attack them mercilessly. Please do your part.
http://blogs.abc.com/thepathto911/2006/09/even_futher_cla.html#comments
Make sure to screen capture that... it will disappear, trust me.
You know what's really rich?
SANDY BERGER complaining!
This sleazebag pilfers AND DESTROYS classified documents from the National Archives . . .
and gets a FINE?
I just can't understand why Justice wasn't all over that little escapade.
Same as the State Department granting a visa to the "Moderate Terrorist", Khatemi, who is speaking at Harvard - sans the State Police escort thanks to Governor Romney (R) but with a Boston Police escort thanks to Mayor Menino (D).
Maybe Rush is right and we have a "shadow" government going on in these agencies.
re: #19
Actually, I should say he's Persian-American.
good.....this is all going to hurt the rats in the end....
it would be interesting to see if fat azz michael moore-ons movie met the criteria for Scholastic....
Actually, I guess the movie makers have sold the rights to ABC, so FOX can't show it. Too bad.
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"We determined that the materials did not meet our high standards for dealing with controversial issues," [Scholastic] Chairman Dick Robinson said.
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Would that be THIS Dick?
http://www.fec.gov/finance/disclosure/norindsea.shtml
Presented by the Federal Election Commission
Individual Contributions Arranged By Type, Giver, Then Recipient
Non-Federal Receipts "Exempt From Limits"
ROBINSON, RICHARD
NEW YORK, NY 10012
SCHOLASTIC INC
DNC NON-FEDERAL UNINCORPORATED ASSOCIATION ACCOUNT
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DSCC NON-FEDERAL INDIVIDUALS
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Total Soft Money: 13000.00
Contributions to Political Committees
ROBINSON, RICHARD
CORZINE, JON S
VIA CORZINE 2000 INC
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DEMOCRATIC SENATORIAL CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE
09/30/2000 -10000.00 20020350300
GRUWELL, ERIN
VIA ERIN GRUWELL FOR CONGRESS
03/17/2000 250.00 20035550826
ROBINSON, RICHARD
,
SCHOLASTIC INC
DODD, CHRISTOPHER J
VIA FRIENDS OF CHRIS DODD
08/05/2002 500.00 23020041413
ROBINSON, RICHARD
BASOM, NY 14013
GENESSE COUNTY
CLINTON, HILLARY RODHAM
VIA FRIENDS OF HILLARY
04/01/2005 1000.00 25020301671
Email your local ABC affiliate, demanding they not show the edited version. I just did.
Too bad the title "An Inconvenient Truth" is taken. It would be so much more appropriate for "The Path To 9/11".
It'll be interesting to see what his next official contribution will be.
What has me so incensed here is the blatant and utter hypocrisy that is afoot. Two summers ago, Disney decided to bar Miramax (an associated company) from releasing "Fahrenheit 9/11". Michael Moore and many on the political left in this country cried "censorship!" However, it was nothing more than Disney choosing to not put their brand name, directly or indirectly, on Moore's film. That was a business decision. The film was eventually picked up (of course, we have a free market in America, after all) by another company, Lion's Gate/IFC, I believe.
Now, two years later we have politicians warning a private company not to release a product on the grounds of what is contained within. This isn't Disney deciding to pull the plug, this is government officials telling a private company not to show something. That "something" isn't pornographic in nature, it doesn't breach national security and if anything it finally sheds light on how we arrived at 9/11, from all angles. Ultimately showing that the planning and staging for the event took place long before January 20, 2001, the day President Bush was inaugurated.
The simple fact that those same politicians, many of whom were invited to Washington D.C. screenings of Moore's film in June of 2004 are now decrying David Cunningham's picture should open more than a few eyes. It should prove once and for all that those politicians are for free speech only up to the point that they agree with what is being said.
The definition of censorship, as presented by Meriam Webster is: (a)"the institution, system, or practice of censoring b : the actions or practices of censors; especially : censorial control exercised repressively" (b) "the office, power, or term of a Roman censor". Essentially, only a governmental body can censor. One can self-censor but that's not what is at play here.
Over the past decade, the FCC has increasingly sought to fine speech that consider to be 'naughty' or 'distasteful'. We should also not forget the ramblings of FCC board members like Heather Wilson after the 2004 Superbowl. Her nattering lectures, at the expense of the taxpayer over a breast should ring in the ears of free men everywhere.
Okay, I got a little sidetracked there... But, what is at play here, in 2006, is a cabal of politicians wishing to silence truths about what occured in America on September 11th, 2001 and how we arrived at that reality. That fact should scare every single one of us.
Don't cave, ABC/Disney.
"Clinton Failed to Act - Osama Led Fatal Attack"
Remember 9/11
Hardly surprising when you consider who runs ABC's parent company.
He's a cat?
;-)
Great work, Dio!
Are there no men left in ABC or are they all cowards?
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