[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

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ABC's "Path to 9/11" Still Clear

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by Natalie Finn
Sep 8, 2006, 8:00 PM PT

Don't believe the hype. Or believe it. Either way, don't decide either way until you've watched all five hours.

That's pretty much the gist of ABC's message to potential viewers of the network's two-part miniseries The Path to 9/11, which airs commercial-free Sunday and Monday. (Ironically there will now be a 20-minute break Monday at 9 p.m. to accommodate a speech from President Bush.)

While ABC has stated that the $40 million production is still in the editing process and is being slightly tweaked in response to concerns that it unfairly attacks the Clinton administration for failure to act on terrorist threats in the years leading up to the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, the network has not bowed to pressure from former Cabinet members and left-wing groups to "dump," "yank" or otherwise pull the movie from the schedule.

The Democratic National Committee, for one, submitted a petition signed by 200,000 people calling for ABC to drop the "right-wing, factually inaccurate mocudrama." The Center for American Progress Action Fund announced it had collected 25,000 letters asking for either a heavy edit or a cancellation. "The miniseries presents an agenda that blames the Clinton administration for the 9/11 attacks while ignoring numerous errors and failures of the Bush administration," the advocacy group said in a statement.

Conservative blogs, meanwhile, are putting up a spirited defense. And Rush Limbaugh seems to have high hopes for the miniseries, saying during his radio show last week: "From what I've been told, the film really zeros in on the shortcomings of the Clinton administration." He said today, "What we have here, ladies and gentlemen, is a mob-like reaction from partisan hacks to intimidate an American broadcast network."

[bpjam]

I'd rather see the entire project scuttled than a sanitized version while only blames us and leaves the Clinton Keystone Cops blameless. It isn't exactly 'art' if politicians get to edit it, now is it???

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

AND:

Democratic Bloggers Plan to 'Google Bomb' Controversial 9/11 Docudrama

[beckysueb]

Very odd, too, that the news of sadaam's "innocence" came out this morning. Its all over TV this morning that the CIA says there was no connection between 9/11 and Iraq. Dim talking points for the next few weeks to take the heat off from Path to 9/11.

[LibLieSlayer]

"And Rush Limbaugh seems to have high hopes for the miniseries, saying during his radio show last week: "From what I've been told, the film really zeros in on the shortcomings of the Clinton administration."

This is a friggin' lie. Rush not only has seen the original version, he is one of a few that has a copy on DVD! Lies, Liars, dims and the press... all the same!

LLS

[alnick]

the network has not bowed to pressure from former Cabinet members and left-wing groups to "dump," "yank" or otherwise pull the movie from the schedule.

No, they've just edited the hell out of it in response to said pressure. Sheesh.

[Tribune7]

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