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ABC makes some changes to 9/11 series
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| 9/10/06
| David Bauder - ap
Posted on 09/10/2006 9:36:29 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
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To: NormsRevenge
This photo, supplied by ABC, shows Harvey Keitel who plays FBI counterterrorism expert John O'Neill, in a scene from ABC's miniseries'The Path to 9/11.' The two-part film is a dramatization of the events detailed in The 9/11 Commission Report and other sources which airs on Sunday. Sept. 10, and Monday, Sept. 11, 2006. Former Clinton administration officials criticized the miniseries, saying it distorts history so drastically that it should be corrected or shelved.(AP Photo/ABC, Peter Stranks)
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posted on
09/10/2006 9:37:10 PM PDT
by
NormsRevenge
(Semper Fi ......Help the "Pendleton 8' and families -- http://www.freerepublic.com/~normsrevenge/)
To: NormsRevenge
I've been watching it, and I've seen three disclaimers, and they all mentioned the 9/11 report. So I'm not sure what these guys have been watching.
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posted on
09/10/2006 9:42:30 PM PDT
by
Tarantulas
( Illegal immigration - the trojan horse that's treated like a sacred cow)
To: NormsRevenge
The screwed-up Associated Press can't get anything right.
"The affect of the changes is to deflect specific blame. It ends with actor Donnie Wahlberg, head of the CIA team in Afghanistan, saying, "Are there no men in Washington?" "
THIS IS DEAD WRONG.
The character who made the comment was the Afghani (Pakistani?) standing next to Wahlberg.
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posted on
09/10/2006 9:43:09 PM PDT
by
sandra_789
(.)
To: NormsRevenge
but if it blames Bush using lies, that okay and we all must go see it, right?!
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posted on
09/10/2006 9:43:14 PM PDT
by
4rcane
To: NormsRevenge
NORM,
What did you think?
I saw it as a disaster for Clinton, Allbright, and the Burglar.
They all came out looking terrible in the cut version.
Pasty faced Clinton intoning "I did not have sex with that woman" was left in and used early on.
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posted on
09/10/2006 9:45:26 PM PDT
by
sandra_789
(.)
To: pinz-n-needlez; onyx; ohioWfan; Texasforever; BigSkyFreeper; Tamzee; mrs tiggywinkle; Dog; ...
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posted on
09/10/2006 9:46:52 PM PDT
by
Mo1
(Think about it .. A Speaker Nancy Pelosi could be 2 seats away from being President)
To: NormsRevenge
Hey, I'm just happy ABC had the guts to make a halfway-decent documentary about 9/11 at all! I was expecting a paen to the Religion of Peace. It's not too surprising that they caved in at the last minute and made some edits to appease their ideological Ascended Masters. We should encourage them to continue to try to produce worthwhile documentaries, and hopefully as time passes, they might get the nerve up to produce more of a similar vein, with a hopefully not-leftist-lean.
To: sandra_789
The Clinton administration was a disaster in general for everybody except terrorists.
I am a bit biased tho, mind you. ;-)
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posted on
09/10/2006 9:49:34 PM PDT
by
NormsRevenge
(Semper Fi ......Help the "Pendleton 8' and families -- http://www.freerepublic.com/~normsrevenge/)
To: NormsRevenge
"White House terrorism czar Richard Clarke shares a limousine ride with FBI agent John O'Neill and tells him:
"The Republicans are going all-out for impeachment. I just don't see in that climate the president's going to take chances" and give the order to kill bin Laden. "
But in the film aired Sunday, Clarke says to O'Neill: "The president has assured me this ... won't affect his decision-making."
O'Neill replies: "So it's OK if somebody kills bin Laden, as long as he didn't give the order. It's pathetic."
Quite a change!
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posted on
09/10/2006 9:50:16 PM PDT
by
airborne
(Fecal matter is en route to fan! Contact is imminent!)
To: NormsRevenge; All
.
NEVER FORGET
3 Free Offers from the Sudan, refused by the CLINTONS during the 1990's, to give us our No. 1 Terrorist Enemy OSAMA bin LADEN on a silver platter =
The Attacks of September 11, 2001
NEVER FORGET
.
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posted on
09/10/2006 9:50:29 PM PDT
by
ALOHA RONNIE
("ALOHA RONNIE" Guyer/Veteran-"WE WERE SOLDIERS" Battle of IA DRANG-1965 http://www.lzxray.com)
To: NormsRevenge
I'm not fanatical about the content difference between the original and edited - in other words, was it crucial to land those particular direct hits on those individuals.
But I'm concerned with the precedent set of letting the Clinton Administration people in to make editorial changes to protect their legacy. Legacy protection extending to editorial privileges on major TV shows has overnight become the standard. No Republican Presidents, to my knowledge, have ever come close to the post-term legacy cultivation that the Clintons have. If the GOP post-Administrations continue as they have, shunning the strong-arm tactics with media that were used in this case, that would be a more honorable course. But it will be throwing away an effective partisan tool that the other side uses masterfully and without conscience.
To: NormsRevenge
"The Republicans are going all-out for impeachment. I just don't see in that climate the president's going to take chances" and give the order to kill bin Laden. Of course, the left would blame the Republicans for diverting the nation's attention away from terrorists and were obsesses with Clinton's private life.
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posted on
09/10/2006 9:51:56 PM PDT
by
My2Cents
(A pirate's life for me.)
To: NormsRevenge
O'Neill replies: "So it's OK if somebody kills bin Laden, as long as he didn't give the order. It's pathetic." Is it just me, or does that sound WORSE than saying he's preoccupied with impeachment?
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posted on
09/10/2006 9:53:11 PM PDT
by
Howlin
(Who in the press will stick up for ABC's right to air this miniseries? ~~NRO)
To: Mo1
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posted on
09/10/2006 9:53:26 PM PDT
by
onyx
(1 Billion Muslims -- IF only 10% are radical, that's still 100 Million who want to kill us.)
To: NutCrackerBoy
But I'm concerned with the precedent set of letting the Clinton Administration people in to make editorial changesThe Clintons still remain more powerful domestically than even the President.
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posted on
09/10/2006 9:53:33 PM PDT
by
Jeff Chandler
(Peace begins in the womb.)
To: sandra_789
The character who made the comment was the Afghani (Pakistani?) standing next to Wahlberg. The Northern Alliance leader Ahmed Shah Massoud
To: NormsRevenge; sandra_789
Even in the editied caveate heavey version the entire Clinton administration comes across as the spineless boobs they were and remain.
The boots on the ground knew what had to be done and couldn't do the job because they were hamstrung by the spineless politcal appointees more worried about their PR image than in defending America.
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posted on
09/10/2006 9:54:40 PM PDT
by
SandRat
(Duty, Honor, Country. What else needs to be said?)
To: NormsRevenge
How are they gonna try to edit out the Trade centers in the next to be released Simpsons season 9? The commentary on that episode might get very interesting!
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posted on
09/10/2006 9:54:45 PM PDT
by
rawcatslyentist
(If a monkey bangs away at a typewriter twice a week for ten years it could write an M. Dowd column.)
To: 4rcane
I watched it. After it was over I turned to CBS and watched the documentary of Ladder Company 7 FDNY on 9/11 made by the two French brothers in real time. It made me cry every time that I see it.
At the end of the documentary, the song "Danny Boy" played as photos of all firefighters killed in the towers were shown 4 at a time.
I didn't need an edited version of events on ABC to tell me that Clinton was negligent.
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