'D.C. 9/11' Spins Tale of President on Tragic Day (New Movie)

Washington Post ^ | 6/19/03 | By Paul Farhi

[Jewels1091]

LOS ANGELES, June 18 -- In the hours after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, a bold, forceful President Bush orders Air Force One to return to Washington over the objections of his Secret Service detail, telling them: "If some tinhorn terrorist wants me, tell him to come and get me! I'll be at home, waiting for the bastard!"

Well, the president didn't actually speak those words. But it's close enough for the Hollywood version of events. In a forthcoming docudrama for the Showtime cable network, an actor playing the president spits out those lines to his fretful underlings in a key scene.

The made-for-TV film, "D.C. 9/11," is the first to attempt to re-create the events that swirled around the White House in the hours and days immediately after the strikes on the Pentagon and the World Trade Center.

[Jewels1091]

Morton Kondracke is a consevative?????

******PLEASE*****Whoever gets Showtime, tape this!!! I'll pay for tape and shipping and handling!!!!!!!

[WestCoastGal]

Me too, I don't get Showtime. Help!!!

[Howlin]

Me three!!!!!!

[mystery-ak]

Make that three of us.

[McGavin999]

LOL, that's exactly what I was going to say. Who's the Freeper who is going to tape this for us?

[McGavin999]

OH NO, not you too! I was hoping you'd have Showtime. I got rid of HBO finally (only got it for the 9-11 documentary and then promptly forgot about it. Just paid the darned bill each month. I switched to Starz and have at least watched a few of the movies.

[PackerBoy]

I will tape it .. if you ping me whenever it is about to air.

[mystery-ak]

..how many copies can you make...LOL

[WestCoastGal]

The article says it's going to be aired around the 9-11 anniversary.

[Phsstpok]

Okay. We have a movie that apparently portrays events roughly as they happened and the Toronto newspaper complains that it will simply encourage Bush's re-election. They don't say that it's innacurate, just that they disagree with the results. This is the reason that the proposed TV movie about the real life heroism of GHWB in WW2 in 1990 was "shot down." Nothing that would "help" the evil Republican could be permitted, even if it was simply the presentation of true facts.

In the meantime the grotesque John Travolta movie which twisted the truth about the campaign in '92 to somehow make Clinton look good was a "must produce" for Hollywierd. Same thing with the fantasy film "The American President," which attempted to make the generic point that a liberal Democrat president must be good and any criticism of him is just mean sprited attempts to keep him from doing the right thing. Neither were true. That wasn't important. They promoted the right side (the left) so they served a higher purpose.

Truly a triumph of the will.

[Slyfox]

Will Peter Jennings play his smarmy-assed self or will they get some other hack to do the honors?

[reg45]

Penny Johnson Jerald is almost as good looking as the real Condi Rice.

[EllaMinnow]

Did you see this? I checked IMDB, and Timothy Bottoms is playing President Bush. Mary Gordon Murray is playing Laura. Didn't she used to be on "Ryan's Hope" or something?

[Howlin]

Oh, my stepdaughter gets Showtime! I'll tape it for us!

[jackbill]

This bull-shit about President Bush running around the country on 9/11 makes me sick.

On December 7, 1941, the United States was attacked by the Japanese at Pearl Harbor. Approximately 2,500 Americans were killed and much of our Navy was destroyed. We didn't hear a damned thing from our President - Franklin Delano Roosevelt - until the next day, when he appeared before the Congress.

Where was FDR for 24 hours? Was he ashamed to appear before the American people (we did have radio you know) because he had set Pearl Harbor up?

[Jewels1091]

THANK YOU!!!!!!!!

[Jewels1091]

****Like it was said, how many copies can you make??? Does anyone have a 2 deck VCR who can make several copies??????

[ladyinred]

And of course we have some whiney leftist complaining this will help reelect Bush! I have never seen anything like these people! Sheesh!

[SuziQ]

Hightower said the movie will present Bush as "a combination of Harrison Ford and Arnold Schwarzenegger. . . . Instead of the doe-eyed, uncertain, worried figure that he was that day,

It must just FROST Jim Hightower every day that George W. Bush is in the White House. As far as I could tell, Bush only seemed 'uncertain' once that day, in the hastily called press conference in Shreveport on the way to the secure bunker in the Plains. I suspect that had more to do with the hurried nature of the flight and decisions that had to be made in minutes based on information that no one really had at that point in time.

[jammer]

What is wroooooooooooong with you people? How can you stand to miss the morality plays embodied in The Sopranos and Sex in the City? And to top it off, do you mean to say that you miss Queer as Folk? The cultural icon of the millenium? I'm disappointed.