Posted by lugnut on 09/08/06 17:26

On Fri, 8 Sep 2006 09:25:43 -0700, "Curtin/Dobbs"
<curtin-dobbs@comcast.net> 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.
>

For what it's worth, though, the producers of The Reagans never
claimed their film was "100% based on fact," did they? Seems the
people behind the 9/11 film are insistent that everything in their
film comes directly from the 9/11 Commission Report, and I think
that's what's really got them in trouble - if they'd claimed "creative
license" from the start, it might not be quite as easy to dispute the
details.

-lugnut

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