[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!!!

[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?

[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?

[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?

[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.

[arasina]

But the movie, which includes some documentary news footage, has already drawn scattered criticism. Writing in the Toronto Sun, columnist Linda McQuaig compared it to Hollywood's mythologizing of figures like Wyatt Earp and added that it "is sure to help the White House further its two-pronged reelection strategy: Keep Americans terrified of terrorism and make Bush look like the guy best able to defend them."

And Texas radio commentator and self-styled populist Jim Hightower has derided "D.C. 9/11." On his syndicated radio program this week, 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, Bush-on-film is transformed into an infallible, John Wayne-ish, Patton-type leader, barking orders to the Secret Service and demanding that the pilots return him immediately to the White House."

ROFL! Worried, are ya, McQuaig and Hightower? And you haven't even seen the film!

[rwfromkansas]

I will have my pastor tape this one for me if he gets Showtime. IF not, I will try my sister. If not that, then my brother.....lol.

It may be something I would like to show in my history classroom about Sept. 11, in addition to the CBS 9-11 documentary. I like the idea of showing a movie in addition.