TV Docudrama Blames Clinton for 9/11

NewsMax.com ^ | 9/06/03 | Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff

[kattracks]

An upcoming TV docudrama chronicling President Bush's actions in the immediate aftermath of the 9/11 attacks blames President Clinton's "weakness" for leaving America vulnerable to the disaster.

Titled "DC/9/11: A Time of Crisis" and set for broadcast Sunday night on Showtime, the film "rarely misses a chance to suggest that the Clinton administration's weakness was to blame for the disaster," reported the New York Times on Friday.

In one poignant exchange, Bush is shown telling Prime Minister Tony Blair, "I want to inflict pain . . bring enough damage so they understand there is a new team here, a fundamental change in our policy."

Besides blaming Clinton for 9/11, the film's positive portrayal of President Bush as a decisive commander-in-chief during America's darkest hour has rankled liberal critics, who complain that "DC 9/11" will likely give Bush a political boost heading into an election year.

"Simultaneously dull and disgraceful," fumed the Washington Post's Tom Shales on Saturday, "'DC 9/11' . . . uses the tragic attack on America in 2001 as the basis for a reelection campaign movie on behalf of George W. Bush."

"The two-hour film often plays like a propaganda piece for the president," complained the Boston Herald's Amy Amatangelo.

In a particularly irksome development for Bush-haters, Timothy Bottoms was chosen for the film's lead role. Bottoms' positive portrayal of Bush in "DC 9/11" is a far cry from his previous role playing the president before the 9/11 attacks, when he portrayed Bush as a stumbling ignoramus in the 2001 Comedy Central send-up, "That's My Bush."

Beyond Bottoms' uncanny physical resemblance to Bush, "DC 9/11" offers dead-on physical impersonations of National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice, played by Penny Johnson, and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, played by John Cunningham.

The film was written and produced by Lionel Chetwynd, who purportedly had access to many White House insiders.

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[TomGuy]

Geraldo had a debate with Posner and another Dem consultant a bit earlier.

You might want to catch this Geraldo broadcast, if you missed it.

from TV Guide

9:30 PM Channel 46 FNC Saturday, 6

At Large with Geraldo Rivera
60 min.


Category: News, Talk & Discussion



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[Optimist]

will likely give Bush a political boost heading into an election year

the basis for a reelection campaign movie on behalf of George W. Bush

often plays like a propaganda piece for the president

YEAH BABY!

[GraniteStateConservative]

For those who wanted to see how Penny Johnson Jerald looks as Condi in the new Showtime DC 9/11 movie.

[Optimist]

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forget the link or photo?

or was this just a ping to the thread?

[GraniteStateConservative]

#32.

[cyncooper]

An upcoming TV docudrama chronicling President Bush's actions in the immediate aftermath of the 9/11 attacks blames President Clinton's "weakness" for leaving America vulnerable to the disaster.

No wonder Shales panned the movie.

Let's see, that makes three books just out plus this movie that have done some research and lay out the unpleasant facts.

The truth is coming out faster than I could have hoped....though I always knew it would.

[Optimist]

gracias

[Bogey78O]

Has any got a quote on the guy about the film version of Primary Colors?

[uglybiker]

...the Muslim terrorists who actually flew the buildings into the WTC and the Pentagon...

Uhh....you might want to rephrase that. ;-)

[Bogey78O]

Why not get it to someone who has the material to encode it to the internet?

If I had showtime I could do a straight rip using my TV tuner card. Alas I dropped them last year.

[maica]

Chetwynd "wanted to do it properly - get a true insider's vision of what went on. Having been a supporter of this campaign and being a supporter of the administration, I hoped to obtain access to people within the administration," he explained. "This could be the great docudrama of our time."

Do Showtime productions eventually get to DVD, Blockbuster or other channels? I don't want to miss this docudrama.

[Checkers]

That's a man, baby!

[Schakaljager]

I would do that if I had showtime. You can still check out binary newsgroups though, maybe someone will post it.

[exit82]

Right you are. The word should be "planes" not "buildings".

Thanks for the correction. Thinking about the Bent One does things like that to me.

[rintense]

Just a bit too late! DrDeb has posted that she can tape the movie too...

[rintense]

??? Any freepers you know who have this capability?

[Victoria Delsoul]

Thanks for the info.

[nwrep]

[ahadams2]

actually Ann, the correct warning would be do not go near any DNC leased apartments in Georgetown.

[Duramaximus]

Duramaximus blames the Klintons for the 9*11*2001 tragedy - Showtime follows suit with a movie!