'DC 9/11' is too pro-Bush, and too late [Boston Globe lib whines & cries]

The Boston Globe ^ | September 6, 2003 | Mark Jurkowitz

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If "DC 9/11: Time of Crisis" could ever be cut down to a bite-size portion, it would make the best presidential reelection ad ever conceived, one that would force every Democratic challenger to abandon the chase for the White House.

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"stale"...

NOT a word I would ever have thought could be applied to the events of 9/11.

But, then again, there's just no accounting for journalists.

[SkyPilot]

He is, to put it in Hollywood terms, part John Wayne and part Gary Cooper, with a little Jimmy Stewart tossed in for good measure.

So what's their point?

Memo to the squishy minds at the Globe: Your favoritie Senator (besides a drunken murderer), is part Eva Perone, part Jezebel, with a little Rosie O'Donnel tossed in for good measure.

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i'll be watching, there is so little that good on showtime, this will be welcome.

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' But the biggest problem facing "DC 9/11" is that the effort feels stale. '

What type of drugs is this shallow POS on??

[roderick]

Most Americans, of all political stripes, would agree that in the frantic days after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, George Bush's steely leadership and deft tone helped stabilize a nation . . .

True enough. I also remember Congressional 'Rats accusing him of cowardice for closing down domestic air travel while he took command of the situation aboard Air Force One.

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BY Mark Jurk

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[Old Sarge]

Good post, FRiend, so let's play, "Stop The Tape!" a little:

(Bush) is, to put it in Hollywood terms, part John Wayne and part Gary Cooper, with a little Jimmy Stewart tossed in for good measure.

Funny, but in Hollywood terms, he's an idiot, a fictitious President, a f___ing idiot, and other words we don't care to hear.

It's notable, though, to see GWB compared to the heroes of old, instead of the contemptible spoiled crowd of Socialists we have today.

(But George Takei as Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta? He'll always be Sulu from "Star Trek."

No arguement here.

One also can't discount the emotional power of some of the indelible moments from those days. Even in a film this worshipful, the depiction of Bush's first trip to visit the survivors and rescuers at ground zero in New York will bring a lump to your throat.

Oh, I don't know, the media and Hollywood are certainly TRYING to discount 9/11 from any meaning whatsoever!

Lump to your throat? Not me. Raw anger is all I still feel.

But the biggest problem facing "DC 9/11" is that the effort feels stale. -SNIP - ...a shiny post-mortem of the days following Sept. 11 feels dated and darn near irrelevant.

Only to people like YOU LEFTISTS in the media, Mr. Jerkowitz.

...Secretary of State Colin Powell (portrayed here as a squishy multilateralist)...

Again, can't argue with the factual portrayal of things...

In light of all that's happened since the towers fell in New York, maybe that could have been the opening scene of a much more interesting film.

More interesting, but less true to the facts of life, now that the sheeple have had their wake-up call, and with you Leftists in America trying to rub their collective tummies and trying to put them all back to sleep.

[Dog]

Welcome back buddy....!

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I'll bet anything the same "reviewer" absolutely LOVED Timothy Bottoms when he played Dubya on "That's My Bush!"

[JimVT]

'DC 9/11' is too pro-Bush, and too late By Mark Jurkowitz, Globe Staff, 9/6/2003

Hey, Mark...what the hell....maybe it'll make up for that crap Martin Sheen is foisting on dumb TV viewers.

[YaYa123]

Well poo! President Bush's speech comes on at 8:30!

Poor planning on someone's part.

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I LOVE him in that flight suit. In fact, I've got sort of a collection. He doesn't just LOOK like a pilot...there's an undefinable posture and expression that shows he IS one. It's just something only pilots have.

[Peach]

Stale.

As Muslim extremists explore ways to bring America to its knees, the AP describes a movie that captures events surrounding 9/11 as stale.

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Don't you get both the East Coast and West Coast Showtime feeds? Watch/tape it at 11 on Showtime West.

Or, heck, just wait a day or so. It is Showtime after all; I'm sure they'll be airing it 436 times in the next week and a half.

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Not the AP. The Boston Globe. A wholly-owned subsidiary of The New York Times.

[Peach]

Thanks for the correction. Although they're pretty much all the same to me.

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Hey, Mark...what the hell....maybe it'll make up for that crap Martin Sheen is foisting on dumb TV viewers.

Mark's going to be very unhappy with The Worst Wing this fall, because the new writers are greatly increasing the amount of Republican/conservative POVs on the show. They think (correctly, IMHO) the main reason the program's ratings collapsed last year is that Aaron "Shroom" Sorkin fired the show's GOP consultants, got rid of the only Republican characters (who only showed up once every six weeks or so anyway) and pretty much turned it into a 60-minute ad for the DNC.