ABC ignores Democrats, won't pull The Path to 9-11docudrama [Is this the last word?]

Sun-Sentinel ^ | September 8 2006, 9:50 AM EDT | Hal Boedeker

[BenLurkin]

Top Senate Democrats urged the Walt Disney Co. on Thursday to cancel The Path to 9-11, but ABC said it would air the epic docudrama about events leading up to the terrorist attacks five years ago.

"Presenting such deeply flawed and factually inaccurate misinformation to the American public and to children would be a gross miscarriage of your corporate and civic responsibility to the law, to your shareholders and to the nation," Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid and four others wrote.

Reid and his colleagues sent the letter to Bob Iger, Disney's chief executive officer. The senators warned Iger that if the miniseries aired, "The reputation of Disney as a corporation worthy of the trust of the American people and the United States Congress will be deeply damaged."

A network spokeswoman said ABC has no plans to drop the five-hour program, which will air Sunday and Monday. WFTV-Channel 9 will air the commercial-free program, General Manager Shawn Bartelt said.

The program depicts events in The 9-11 Commission Report, starting with the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center. In a statement, ABC acknowledged that, like other docudramas, the miniseries contains fictionalized scenes and composite characters.

"No one has seen the final version of the film, because the editing process is not yet complete, so criticisms of film specifics are premature and irresponsible," the ABC statement said. "We hope viewers will watch the entire broadcast of the finished film before forming an opinion about it."

But Democrats weighed in fiercely on the $40 million production. The Democratic National Committee called the production "irresponsible, slanderous, fraudulent" and asked Democrats to tell Iger "to keep this right-wing propaganda off the air." The Democrats said they had collected more than 100,000 signatures in an online petition addressed to Iger.

[mewzilla]

Last word? Not when they could keep chopping right up until airtime.

[BenLurkin]

Condi should be writing letter complaining about the expression on the face of the actress portraying her . . .

[Triggerhippie]

They haven't seen it and are protesting it... What idiotic thing will the dems do next?

[Lucky9teen]

Every time I see that actress, I think of Sherry on "24"....dang

[sandbar]

So they'll show it with Clinton looking like a hero.

[GianniV]

Iger - call a press conference and tell these people to buzz off. Where are your balls, Iger?

[NormsRevenge]

Regis Philbin: Is that your Final Answer?

[areafiftyone]

I Don't think so READ THIS POST

Pols pound 'Path' Under fire, ABC MULLS YANKING MINI! (Dems Have Succeeded in Censorship!)

[Only1choice____Freedom]

"Presenting such deeply flawed and factually inaccurate misinformation to the American public and to children would be a gross miscarriage of your corporate and civic responsibility to the law, to your shareholders and to the nation," Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid and four others wrote.

Wouldn't be the first time.

[capt. norm]

Last word? Not when they could keep chopping right up until airtime.

Not quite.

The local station "backup" copies of the mini-series will be delivered via satellite this afternoon or tonight. This will be for emergencies should satellite failure of some kind occur.

It's done all the time, automatically with network shows so that local affiliates don't get caught with their pants down.

If the edits haven't been made by tonight, they won't happen at all.

[Names Ash Housewares]

"Presenting such deeply flawed and factually inaccurate misinformation to the American public and to children would be a gross miscarriage of your corporate and civic responsibility to the law, to your shareholders and to the nation," Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid and four others wrote"

Translation:

Exposing the gross incompetence of the Clinton administration in combating terrorists that lead to 9/11, and presenting the true legacy of said administration in an election year will really hurt our chances at winning back the house. Please, your our buds there at ABC, Pull the movie. Thanks, - Your pals the Democrats.

P.S. You better pull it or you'll be sorry!

[Puppage]

From what I heard, wasn't about shutting it down. It was about nix'n some elements of the content.

[Gordongekko909]

See, whenevr the Left airs something we don't like (such as, oh, I don't know, everything Michael Moore does, ever), conservatives usually respond with rebuttals. Boycotts, at most. The only exception I can think of is that wildly inaccurate made-for-TV movie about the Reagans that public pressure cancelled.

Leftists can't argue; they can only censor. I've heard this piece described as "inaccurate" plenty of times, but I still have no idea what, precisely, the Left even thinks is inaccurate about it. 'course, they're not going to tell us. That would require them to argue evidence and stuff, which is where we win all the time, as opposed to vomiting up broad, sweeping emotional rhetoric, which we either avoid on principle or simply aren't as good at.

[GianniV]

I love how any critical evaluation of the Clinton years is "right-wing propaganda."

Disney/ABC is right-wing? Are you kidding me? You want find a more pro-gay outfit in the world.

[oolatec]

They were never going to pull it. That wasn't the issue. It was all about editing it to suit the DNC whims.

[MadeInAmerica]

No way in hell will they air this as is. They will make the changes the Clinton thugs are crying for or trash the whole project.

[Rockitz]

Keep up the letter and e-mail campaign! Disney only understands $.

[Nathan Zachary]

ABC has already caved in and edited out the truth.

This is just another example of democrat censorship, a violation of the first amendment they took office swearing to uphold.
There is no freedom of speech, the RATS want to control what everyone hears and reads.

This is nothing new however. They've been doing this for decades. Remember John F-ing Kerry attacking the media for showing a Veterans documentary?

[nina0113]

Guess we'll find out Sunday night. What would they put on instead, a Mork and Mindy marathon?