[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)

[Tarantulas]

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.

[sandra_789]

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.

[Mo1]

ping

[kittycatonline.com]

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.

[airborne]

"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!

[NutCrackerBoy]

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.

[My2Cents]

"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.

[rawcatslyentist]

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!

[nopardons]

bttt

[weegee]

"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.

HA! This from a man who launched missiles on the eve of his impeachment vote.

[cgbg]

If people blame Bill Clinton after seeing this, then the miniseries has failed," said Kean, the former Republican New Jersey governor. "That's wrong and it shouldn't happen."

Kean must have been smoking some very strong weed when he watched the show. :-)

Even with the cut version Clinton came across as focused on the Lewinsky matter and concerned with covering his rear end against charges of "assassination" or "killing innocent women and children" instead of protecting the American people.

[Chaguito]

Such a difference between conservatives and clintonites. The conservative camp wrote numerous articles outlining in detail each of the lies in the film and explaining what was the truth. The film was ridiculed, but nobody demanded that it be withdrawn because of its misrepresentations.

The clintonites simply scream "lies!" without demonstrating the lie and without any evidence of the "truth". Deny, deny, deny, attack, attack, attack, threaten, threaten, threaten.

When Clinton had power the method worked for him. Almost did again.

[skeptoid]

"Thomas Kean, head of the commission that investigated the Sept. 11 attacks and a backer of the film, said on ABC's "This Week" Sunday that he hadn't seen the final cut of the movie but urged Americans to watch it. "If people blame Bill Clinton after seeing this, then the miniseries has failed," said Kean, the former Republican New Jersey governor. "That's wrong and it shouldn't happen."

Some of us think THIS shouldn't have happened: ...

Nero FIDDLED
Clinton BLEW

[The Electrician]

If they can pull off this kind of blackmail while they're out of power, imagine what they must have gotten away with when they were in power (above and beyond all of the crimes that we do know about)...

[Lancey Howard]

BUMP!

Frankly, I'm a little surprised that ABC ended up having the guts to show the general truth about the Scumbag Administration's incompetence and how that incompetence led to the 9/11 attacks.

Kudos to ABC.

[Enterprise]

Bump

[BigSkyFreeper]

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?"

That was actually the character who played the head of the Northern Alliance Ahmed Shah Massoud to which Donnie Wahlberg's character had a face mixed with confusion, pain and anger.

[ChadGore]

John Lehman, another Republican commission members, said on the ABC News show that he's told the film is equally harsh on the administrations of President Bush and his father, former President George H.W. Bush.

"And if you don't like the hits to the Clinton administration, well, welcome to the club," Lehman said. "The Republicans have lived with Michael Moore and Oliver Stone and most of Hollywood as a fact of life."

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*APPLAUSE*

[Recovering_Democrat]

Critics, such as historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr., said it was "disingenuous and dangerous" not to include accurate historical accounts in the movie.

Yes, so Schlesinger was all over that Michael Moore piece of crap. Oh, wait, never mind...