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‘Path to 9/11’ tells a sad, riveting tale~ ...is unsparing, and its viewpoint draws criticism
MSNBC ^ | Sept 7, 2006 7:05 a.m. PT | FRAZIER MOORE - AP COMMENTARY

Posted on 09/09/2006 4:25:29 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach

NEW YORK - "The Path to 9/11" will break your heart. It will leave you unnerved, even more than before. And angrier than ever. A five-hour miniseries that dramatizes a decade's worth of events leading up to the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, this film is plenty gripping. It doesn't forgo artistry for polemics.

Even so, it drives home, step by step, a message any viewer can understand: The people in charge of keeping you safe failed the nation monumentally. Systemically. Shamefully. And continue to, five years after what should have been a terribly sufficient wake-up call.

Then "The Path to 9/11" leaves the viewer with a chilling coda: a recap of the "report card" issued last December by the 9/11 Commission, which accused the government of failing to protect the nation against another attack, and assigned failing grades in five areas, with a dozen Ds and just one A (actually, A-minus).

(Excerpt) Read more at msnbc.msn.com ...


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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach; maica

No hands raised here either.


61 posted on 09/09/2006 12:42:35 PM PDT by Freee-dame
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To: onyx

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Yes, Bless 9/11 Lifesaver RICK RESCORLA, and his brave Widow SUSAN who has most faithfully helped us all to NEVER FORGET the difference he made in so many lives that were under attack by hate.

Her crowning joy wws her unveiling of RICK RESCORLA's 'Follow Me' statue at Ft. Benning GA last April 1st.

http://www.RickRescorla.com/The%20Statue.htm
(Statue Pictures)

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62 posted on 09/09/2006 1:04:32 PM PDT by ALOHA RONNIE ("ALOHA RONNIE" Guyer/Veteran-"WE WERE SOLDIERS" Battle of IA DRANG-1965 http://www.lzxray.comr)
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To: OldFriend
Dime to donuts the hollywood liberals are already writing a TV movie that will blame Bush for 9-11 as well as the 'failed' war in Iraq. In fact, I'm willing to bet that someone already has a screenplay written based in part on the Senate's report this week.
63 posted on 09/09/2006 1:09:20 PM PDT by rintense
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To: ALOHA RONNIE


What a wonderful photo gallery.
Not a dry eye witnessed the unveiling of his remarkable statue. It's really, really nice. (I hate to say life-like... but you know what I mean)?


64 posted on 09/09/2006 1:13:26 PM PDT by onyx (1 Billion Muslims -- "if" 10% are fundamentalists, that's still 100 Million who want to kill us.)
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To: onyx

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You are correct.

It's all in RICK's eyes, onyx, it's all in his eyes.

Just as I was blessed to tell this 'Follow Me' Statue's sculptor the night before its worldly unveiling at Ft. Benning GA.


AR

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65 posted on 09/09/2006 1:36:01 PM PDT by ALOHA RONNIE ("ALOHA RONNIE" Guyer/Veteran-"WE WERE SOLDIERS" Battle of IA DRANG-1965 http://www.lzxray.comr)
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To: potlatch


  President Bush

  Lee Greenwood

272x200-posted-at-600x430-border=10

66 posted on 09/09/2006 4:54:35 PM PDT by devolve (---------------- - now playing: 911 Tribute & Lee Greenwood -)
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To: devolve

That is the most beautiful graphic, everyone will enjoy it and the music.


67 posted on 09/09/2006 5:00:48 PM PDT by potlatch (Does a clean house indicate that there is a broken computer in it?)
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To: potlatch


Thanks potlatch

More coming right up

Slick Wilie will be thrilled



68 posted on 09/09/2006 5:38:24 PM PDT by devolve (---------------- - now playing: 911 Tribute & Lee Greenwood -)
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To: A.Hun

The second segment is dedicated to trashing Condi Rice.


69 posted on 09/09/2006 5:42:31 PM PDT by OldFriend (I Pledge Allegiance to the Flag.....and My Heart to the Soldier Who Protects It.)
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To: devolve

I'll await the unveiling!


70 posted on 09/09/2006 5:44:21 PM PDT by potlatch (Does a clean house indicate that there is a broken computer in it?)
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To: OldFriend

I wonder if the monday night part after the president's 18 minute speech will be all about his first 8 months. (keeping in mind his transition time was take up with algore BS rather than actual transition)


71 posted on 09/09/2006 5:52:40 PM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: longtermmemmory

Whatever is in the second part will be anticlimacitc after all the hysteria over the first segment plus it will have to be delayed due to the President's address to the nation.


72 posted on 09/09/2006 5:55:32 PM PDT by OldFriend (I Pledge Allegiance to the Flag.....and My Heart to the Soldier Who Protects It.)
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To: OldFriend

you should see the Youtube comments.

One person posted the european trailer along side many anti-Path to 9/11 clips, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHgbeJu1WGk

also lined here http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1698631/posts?page=1

The leftists are going NUTS. They skip over the fact that 9/11 commission people actuall worked on this film.


They are just saying it is ALL wrong. I suspect they want the Path to 9/11 to be some sort of frensh kook conspiracy theory olver stone type film.


73 posted on 09/09/2006 6:19:30 PM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: OldFriend; All

these are the edited clips,

posted by traditional values coalition

http://www.traditionalvalues.org/clinton_abc.html


74 posted on 09/09/2006 6:27:39 PM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: devolve

I can't believe it but I missed how it morphed the first time I saw it! That is a wonderful effect.


75 posted on 09/09/2006 7:21:43 PM PDT by potlatch (Does a clean house indicate that there is a broken computer in it?)
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To: devolve

Goodun!


77 posted on 09/09/2006 8:07:05 PM PDT by Seadog Bytes (OPM - The Liberal 'solution' to every societal problem. (Other People's Money))
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To: Seadog Bytes; potlatch; Lady Jag; IPWGOP


Thanks Seadog

Lady Jag posted a still .jpg format photo I adapted for Frame #1 - only about 27K after I did some mods to it

The animated "Praying Hands" .gif I cropped, resized, composited as a "still" to make Frame #2 is also from LJ

Potlatch did some painting on Frame #2 and animated it

Early today I dinked around and added 3 transition frames

A huge 960K at 544x400

Lousy for 56K dialuppers

Now 272x200 - 186K after cutting colors under 130 I believe

I use a dinky circa 2000 WebTV Plus on 56K dialup and know how huge files can make connections take for-never sometimes

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You morphs are very slick and you have a great imagination

Jack Murtha said to say "RUN!"

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He's really thrilled with potlatch's latest animated cartoon....





78 posted on 09/09/2006 8:38:15 PM PDT by devolve (---------------- - now playing: 911 Tribute & Lee Greenwood -)
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To: devolve; Seadog Bytes

79 posted on 09/09/2006 8:43:22 PM PDT by potlatch (Does a clean house indicate that there is a broken computer in it?)
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To: A.Hun
At this late stage, other than cosmetic changes (maybe dropping some lines), there isn't a whole lot that could be done to a 5 hour mini-series. IMHO.

All the objections seem to be that, for eight long years, the film portrays the Clinton administration as doing nothing.

Well, that's what they did.

It's a little hard to edit around that fact and still have a story.

80 posted on 09/09/2006 8:53:40 PM PDT by okie01 (The Mainstream Media: IGNORANCE ON PARADE)
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