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Posted by David Totheroh on 09/09/06 19:32
Curtin/Dobbs wrote:
> ===Examples of Bipartisan Hypocrisy===
>
> From "Variety":
>
> ...Criticism of "The Path to 9/11" carries strong echoes of the barbs hurled
> at CBS over "The Reagans." Reagan partisans railed against scenes showing
> Nancy Reagan consulting an astrologist and Reagan condemning AIDS victims.
>
> Conservative drumbeat against "The Reagans" started months before the mini
> was slated to air and intensified after a copy of the script was leaked. Eye
> ultimately decided to sell the project to sister company Showtime -- a move
> that, *ironically*, prompted howls of protest from liberal groups who
> accused CBS of censorship.
>
> Cliff Kincaid, editor of publications for conservative watchdog group
> Accuracy in Media, said the Democratic outcry is a bit of a surprise.
>
> "Usually Democrats can count on the support of big media in Hollywood," he
> said. "It's like things are upside down now."
>
>
>
> ===I say to the Libs, just let the miniseries air, after all, lefty,
> Oscar-winning film director Paul Haggis is producing the official Richard
> Clarke approved mini-series of events leading up to and after 9/11.
>
> ...Curtin/Dobbs
Conservatives On The Path to 9/11: Unacceptable, Defamatory, Strewn
With A Lot of Problems, Zero Factual Basis
The criticism against ABC s docudrama The Path to 9/11 isn t isolated
simply to Clinton aides. In fact, many conservatives have criticized
the film. Here are a few examples
John Podhoretz, conservative columnist and Fox News contributor:
The portrait of Albright is an unacceptable revision of recent history
and an unfair mark on a public servant who, no matter her shortcomings,
doesn t deserve to be remembered by millions of Americans as the
inadvertent (and truculent) savior of Osama bin Laden. Samuel Berger,
Clinton s national security adviser, also seems to have just cause for
complaint. [NYPost, 9/8/06]
James Taranto, OpinionJournal.com editor:
The Clintonites may have a point here. A few years ago, when the shoe
was on the other foot, we were happy to see CBS scotch The Reagans.
[OpinionJournal, 9/7/06]
Dean Barnett, conservative commentator posting on Hugh Hewitt s blog:
One can (if one so chooses) give the filmmakers artistic license to
[fabricate a scene]. But if that is what they have done, conservative
analysts who back this movie as a historical document will mortgage
their credibility doing so. [Hugh Hewitt blog, 9/6/06]
Chris Wallace, Fox News Sunday anchor:
When you put somebody on the screen and say that s Madeleine Albright
and she said this in a specific conversation and she never did say it,
I think it s slanderous, I think it s defamatory and I think that ABC
and Disney should be held to account. [Fox, 9/8/06]
Captain s Quarters blog:
If the Democrats do not like what ABC wants to broadcast, they have
every right to protest it and in this case, they had a point. [Captain
Quarter s blog, 9/7/06]
Bill Bennett, conservative author, radio host, and TV commentator:
Look, The Path to 9/11″ is strewn with a lot of problems and I think
there were problems in the Clinton administration. But that s no reason
to falsify the record, falsify conversations by either the president or
his leading people and you know it just shouldn t happen. [CNN, 9/8/06]
Seth Liebsohn, Claremont Institute fellow and produce of Bill Bennett s
radio show:
I oppose this miniseries as well if it is fiction dressed up as fact,
creates caricatures of real persons and events that are inaccurate, and
inserts quotes that were not uttered, especially to make a point that
was not intended. [Glenn Greewald s blog, 9/7/06]
Richard Miniter, conservative author of Losing bin Laden: How Bill
Clinton s Failures Unleashed Global Terror :
If people wanted to be critical of the Clinton years there s things
they could have said, but the idea that someone had bin Laden in his
sights in 1998 or any other time and Sandy Berger refused to pull the
trigger, there s zero factual basis for that. [CNN, 9/7/06]
Brent Bozell, founder and president of the conservative Media Research
Center:
I think that if you have a scene, or two scenes, or three scenes,
important scenes, that do not have any bearing on reality and you can
edit them, I think they should edit them. [MSNBC, 9/6/06]
UPDATE:
Bill O Reilly, Fox News pundit:
Ok, we re talking about the run up to 9-11 and this movie that they re
re-cutting now and they should because it puts words in the mouth of
real people, actors playing real people that they didn t say and its
wrong
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