Why can't they just leave the poor guy alone?
Posted on 09/09/2006 10:45:19 PM PDT by Lorianne
Less than 72 hours before ABC's "The Path to 9/11" is scheduled to air, the network is suddenly under siege. On Tuesday, ABC was forced to concede that "The Path to 9/11" is "a dramatization, not a documentary." The film deceptively invents scenes to depict former President Bill Clinton's handling of the Al Qaeda threat.
Now, ABC claims to be is editing those false sequences to satisfy critics so the show can go on -- even if it still remains a gross distortion of history. And as it does so, ABC advances the illusion that the deceptive nature of "The Path to 9/11" is an honest mistake committed by a hardworking but admittedly fumbling team of well-intentioned Hollywood professionals who wanted nothing less than to entertain America. But this is another Big Lie.
In fact, "The Path to 9/11" is produced and promoted by a well-honed propaganda operation consisting of a network of little-known right-wingers working from within Hollywood to counter its supposedly liberal bias. This is the network within the ABC network. Its godfather is far right activist David Horowitz, who has worked for more than a decade to establish a right-wing presence in Hollywood and to discredit mainstream film and TV production. On this project, he is working with a secretive evangelical religious right group founded by The Path to 9/11's director David Cunningham that proclaims its goal to "transform Hollywood" in line with its messianic vision.
Before The Path to 9/11 entered the production stage, Disney/ABC contracted David Cunningham as the film's director. Cunningham is no ordinary Hollywood journeyman. He is in fact the son of Loren Cunningham, founder of the right-wing evangelical group Youth With A Mission (YWAM). The young Cunningham helped found an auxiliary of his father's group called The Film Institute (TFI), which, according to its mission statement, is "dedicated to a Godly transformation and revolution TO and THROUGH the Film and Televisionindustry." As part of TFI's long-term strategy, Cunningham helped place interns from Youth With A Mission's in film industry jobs "so that they can begin to impact and transform Hollywood from the inside out," according to a YWAM report.
Last June, Cunningham's TFI announced it was producing its first film, mysteriously titled "Untitled History Project." "TFI's first project is a doozy," a newsletter to YWAM members read. "Simply being referred to as: The Untitled History Project, it is already being called the television event of the decade and not one second has been put to film yet. Talk about great expectations!" (A web edition of the newsletter was mysteriously deleted yesterday but has been cached on Google at the link above).
The following month, on July 28, the New York Post reported that ABC was filming a mini-series "under a shroud of secrecy" about the 9/11 attacks. "At the moment, ABC officials are calling the miniseries 'Untitled Commission Report' and producers refer to it as the 'Untitled History Project,'" the Post noted.
Early on, Cunningham had recruited a young Iranian-American screenwriter named Cyrus Nowrasteh to write the script of his secretive "Untitled" film. Not only is Nowrasteh an outspoken conservative, he is also a fervent member of the emerging network of right-wing people burrowing into the film industry with ulterior sectarian political and religious agendas, like Cunningham.
Nowrasteh's conservatism was on display when he appeared as a featured speaker at the Liberty Film Festival (LFF), an annual event founded in 2004 to premier and promote conservative-themed films supposedly too "politically incorrect" to gain acceptance at mainstream film festivals. This June, while The Path to 9/11 was being filmed, LFF founders Govindini Murty and Jason Apuzzo -- both friends of Nowrasteh -- announced they were "partnering" with right-wing activist David Horowitz. Indeed, the 2006 LFF is listed as "A Program of the David Horowitz Freedom Center."
Since the inauguration of Bill Clinton in 1992, Horowitz has labored to create a network of politically active conservatives in Hollywood. His Hollywood nest centers around his Wednesday Morning Club, a weekly meet-and-greet session for Left Coast conservatives that has been graced with speeches by the likes of Newt Gingrich, Victor Davis Hanson and Christopher Hitchens. The group's headquarters are at the offices of Horowitz's Center for the Study of Popular Culture, a "think tank" bankrolled for years with millions by right-wing sugardaddies like eccentric far right billionaire Richard Mellon Scaife. (Scaife financed the Arkansas Project, a $2.3 million dirty tricks operation that included paying sources for negative stories about Bill Clinton that turned out to be false.)
With the LFF now under Horowitz's control, his political machine began drumming up support for Cunningham and Nowrasteh's "Untitled" project, which finally was revealed in late summer as "The Path to 9/11." Horowitz's PR blitz began with an August 16 interview with Nowrasteh on his FrontPageMag webzine. In the interview, Nowrasteh foreshadowed the film's assault on Clinton's record on fighting terror. "The 9/11 report details the Clinton's administration's response -- or lack of response -- to Al Qaeda and how this emboldened Bin Laden to keep attacking American interests," Nowrasteh told FrontPageMag's Jamie Glazov. "There simply was no response. Nothing."
A week later, ABC hosted LFF co-founder Murty and several other conservative operatives at an advance screening of The Path to 9/11. (While ABC provided 900 DVDs of the film to conservatives, Clinton administration officials and objective reviewers from mainstream outlets were denied them.) Murty returned with a glowing review for FrontPageMag that emphasized the film's partisan nature. "'The Path to 9/11' is one of the best, most intelligent, most pro-American miniseries I've ever seen on TV, and conservatives should support it and promote it as vigorously as possible," Murty wrote. As a result of the special access granted by ABC, Murty's article was the first published review of The Path to 9/11, preceding those by the New York Times and LA Times by more than a week.
Murty followed her review with a blast email to conservative websites such as Liberty Post and Free Republic on September 1 urging their readers to throw their weight behind ABC's mini-series. "Please do everything you can to spread the word about this excellent miniseries," Murty wrote, "so that 'The Path to 9/11' gets the highest ratings possible when it airs on September 10 & 11! If this show gets huge ratings, then ABC will be more likely to produce pro-American movies and TV shows in the future!"
Murty's efforts were supported by Appuzo, who handles LFF's heavily-trafficked blog, Libertas. Appuzo was instrumental in marketing The Path to 9/11 to conservatives, writing in a blog post on September 2, "Make no mistake about what this film does, among other things: it places the question of the Clinton Administration's culpability for the 9/11 attacks front and center... Bravo to Cyrus Nowrasteh and David Cunningham for creating this gritty, stylish and gripping piece of entertainment."
When a group of leading Senate Democrats sent a letter to ABC CEO Robert Iger urging him to cancel The Path to 9/11 because of its glaring factual errors and distortions, Apuzzo launched a retaliatory campaign to paint the Democrats as foes of free speech. "Here at LIBERTAS we urge the public to make noise over this, and to demand that Democrats back down," he wrote on September 7th. "What is at stake is nothing short of the 1st Amendment."
At FrontPageMag, Horowitz singled out Nowrasteh as the victim. "The attacks by former president Bill Clinton, former Clinton Administration officials and Democratic US senators on Cyrus Nowrasteh's ABC mini-series "The Path to 9/11" are easily the gravest and most brazen and damaging governmental attacks on the civil liberties of ordinary Americans since 9/11," Horowitz declared.
Now, as discussion grows over the false character of The Path to 9/11, the right-wing network that brought it to fruition is ratcheting up its PR efforts. Murty will appear tonight on CNN's Glenn Beck show and The Situation Room, according to Libertas in order to respond to "the major disinformation campaign now being run by Democrats to block the truth about what actually happened during the Clinton years."
While this network claims its success and postures as the true victims, the ABC network suffers a PR catastrophe. It's almost as though it was complacent about an attack on its reputation by a band of political terrorists.
Mental illness on display.
Buy copies of the DVD as Christmas gifts for your favorite moonbat... great stocking stuffers...
So the question is, why would ABC, a flaming left-wing, liberal, Democrat MSM TV station and its owner the Disney empire, put out a miniseries that defines Bill Clinton and the Democrat Party as major culprits in just standing by and enabling 911 to occur along with many other earlier terrorist attacks on the USA and Americans to go down without effective American response?
DOES NOT SEEM LIKE SOMETHING THE HATE-AMERICA ABC WOULD DO.
In fact, there are many Democrat Party Jew haters, John Dingle, John Conyers, Cynthia McKinney, Maxine Waters, William Jefferson, Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Barbara Lee, Harry Belafonte, etc, for example. Actually there are quite a few more.
YES. AND MANY OF THEM ARE WHAT IS CALLED "BORN JEWISH."
THESE ARE 'JEWS' WHO WERE BORN WITH JEWISH NAMES , BUT ARE NOT JEWS IN ANY WAY---ONLY RABID LEFTWINGERS. HAVE YOU HEARD OF NOAM CHOMSKY ? OR HILLARY'S FRIEND (THE IDIOT FROM TIKKUN MAGAZINE) ? TAKE IT FROM THERE. THEY WANT ISRAEL WIPED OUT.
If the Democrat Party does not retake either the Senate or the House this upcoming November, it will further weaken and start to break apart.
I SURE HOPE SO.
Reason two could be that there are Democrat liberals that actually love this country,
I STRONGLY DOUBT THAT.
The third reason could be that the MSM has come to realize that the USA is truly at war and is under attack,
THE MSM ITSELF IS THE ENEMY OF THE US.
I just know one thing. the chickens are coming home to roost for the true culprits of 911,
I CERTAINLY HOPE SO.
Terrific idea.
That bears repeating:
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And these people can't figure out why they can't win elections.
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Why can't they just leave the poor guy alone?
Unknown? The writer was hired by Steven Spielberg to write the acclaimed "Into the West" series. So I guess he's not so "unknown" after all.
These paranoid rants by the extreme left are very amusing, and Bob Iger should laugh at them as well. They have no power at all, not over the FCC, or Hollywood, or anything. Not Clinton, Reid, Markos et al. They are to be laughed at and ignored.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA ... that's funny
Strap magnets to Peter J, and get free electricity!
A hotter Conservative Babe does not exist. That the author dares to criticize her proves nothing more than he is a fag.
The reason for Hitchens' inclusion in the article is that it was written by Max Blumenthal, son of the infamous Sidney "Sid Vicious" Blumenthal. Since Sid and Hitchens had a big spat during the Clinton impeachment proceedings, son of Sid thinks he is gaining a measure of revenge by calling Hitchens "right-wing." After all, there can be no worse of an insult than "right-wing" in the Blumenthal mind set.
This line is illuminating. Sounds like the head of ABC will block the show unless the producers make the show acceptable to the Clintons.
It has already been viewed in Australia - how can they cancel it now?
I think the hysteria being shown by the dems is more fun that irritating earwigs....
Huff and Puffington is a riot.
Bingo. The rabid lefty loons, acting in character, have launched a massive ad-hominem attack against the network, producers, actors and watchers of the miniseries, instead of logically, coherently and systematically showing where the so-called inaccuracies are.
Because they can't.
What else would you expect from the MSM establishment?
I just didn't expect them to admit it.
Another possibility--ABC is in cahoots with Clinton, and this has all been an ad ploy to build up interest in a tv movie--which when viewed will actually play on the IT'S ALL BUSH'S FAULT (TM) angle, so that in a few months, when election day draws near, more people (read: all those illegal aliens the Dems said could vote if they wanted to, regardless of proper paperwork or citizenship) will vote for Billary!!!
Call me paranoid and pass the tinfoil, but they are just sneaky enough to do such a thing! There's something fishy about this whole situation, something not quite right...
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