Posted on 09/08/2006 7:54:30 AM PDT by CometBaby
Under growing pressure from Democrats and aides to former President Bill Clinton, ABC is re-evaluating and in some cases re-editing crucial scenes in its new mini-series “The Path to 9/11” to soften its portrait of the Clinton administration’s pursuit of Osama bin Laden, according to people involved in the project. Among the changes, ABC is altering one scene in which an actor playing Samuel R. Berger, the former national security adviser, abruptly hangs up on a C.I.A. officer during a critical moment in a military operation, according to Thomas H. Kean, a consultant on the ABC project and co-chairman of the federal Sept. 11 commission. Mr. Berger has said that the scene is a fiction, and Mr. Kean, in an interview, said that he believed Mr. Berger was correct and that ABC was making appropriate changes.
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What this means, is that ABC has now established that if something is produced that is critical of Democrats, it can be edited or removed.
Once again the cover-up becomes a bigger story than the event.
They should include the scene where he stuffs the incriminating documents down his pants and burns them when he gets home. They should include at the end that he pleaded guilty to doing this.
I won't watch this travesty; instead, I'll wait for the "Director's Cut" of the DVD to come out.
Image the NYT fury had Bush complained about his adminstrations portrayal.
Yes, the cover up is the bigger story. The question is, is that really better for the dems? Now people are going to watch this show in droves with a skewed view of it. They are going to assume that Clinton was scared of its content for a valid reason and read things into the film that were probally never even there before ABC edited it. I ask, what is worse, viewing it with the original scenes, or the viewers (in light of Clinton's reactions) creating their own scenes. Bad move by Clinton and the dems.
I just don't think it's going to get very good ratings either way.
The sheeple want to catch crap like Desperate Housewives and American Idol.
I won't watch it either. This sounds contrived to gain publicity, just to add viewers. There was probably never any intention of airing its original content.
Not according to the guy on the other end of the phone that got hung up on. Idiots.
I'll wait and see the movie. They can only edit so much and the movie is primarily about Clintons 8 years in office. It's not like they have actors on a film set today saying new lines.
I will however buy the directors cut if it becomes available.
Pure. unabashed censorship.
Those damn right wingers and their assault on the press and free expression!!
Oh wait....
Once a burglar, always a burglar.
The information concerns words written and spoken between the Clinton administration regrding terrorism. At the close-out of the crime spree they issued a report for the new White House, or someone. Maybe Congress. But the point is that despite all the jawing Clinton did about how he was fighting terror, there was nary a WORD that mentioned al Quieda in the document.
Surely someone remebers what and where this documents exists.
Isn't Desperate Housewives a Sunday night program? Unless they moved it, it won't be on this week. I must be one of those sheeple, because I watch that show faithfully. ;-)
....the Clinton administration's LACK ofpersuit...
Had to fix that 'inadvertent' omission ;)
But the parts critical of Bush will be untouched. Republicans are so stupid.
I can't wait for Monday -- Rush will no doubt let us know what cuts were actually made.
You have my condolences. I watched it once, and it was 10 minutes of my life that I'll never get back.
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