ABC’s Undocu-Drama Airs With Few Changes

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ABC’s Undocu-Drama Airs With Few Changes

Posted on Sep 11, 2006

In spite of (or perhaps because of) all the heat and negative publicity, ABC/Disney ran the first half of its fictionalized “The Path to 9/11” miniseries last night. It trimmed perhaps a minute off the original cut, but left in most of the flagrantly fictional parts. (Looks like netroots aren’t all-powerful, after all…)

Editor & Publisher:

The first part of the controversial “The Path to 9/11” movie aired as scheduled on ABC on Sunday—despite pleas that it be halted by several top officials in the Clinton administraton, among others—and while several last-minute cuts were made, the key scenes that enraged many liberals remained essentially intact.

E&P had seen a review copy earlier this week. After the edits, the finalized first half of the film (at two hours and forty minutes) was, at most, only about a minute shorter than the review copy.

The final film revealed trims at certain points, and some new dialogue, but key scenes extremely critical of former Clinton national security advisor Sandy Berger and Secretary of State Madeline Albright retained most of their bite.

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By Mad As Hell, September 12, 2006 at 2:56 am Link to this comment
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Three thoughts come to mind:

1) Even Fox’s entetainment division that gives us the lowest, most disgusting crap (who gave us “reality TV”?) wouldn’t show this tripe! However, Fox/News (aka Fox/Pravda) would show it in a New York minute!

2) Imagined scene:
“Hey, Mad as Hell. Now that you’ve won the US Open, what are you going to do?”
“I’m goin’ to NOT go to Disney World!”

3) How many twits actually watched this slanderous hunk of propaganda?

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By J. Thomas Duffy, September 11, 2006 at 3:11 pm Link to this comment
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We have the scoop on what ABC is doing

Breaking and Developing News! ABC Fesses Up
Plan For Path To 9-11 Is To Launch Dancing With History Series
Establish Dancing Franchise In Same Vein As CSI, Law and Order; Disney Signs Coulter for New Death Wish Projects
http://puregarlic.blogspot.com/2006/09/breaking-and-developing-news-abc.html

Peace
JTD

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By R. A. Earl, September 11, 2006 at 3:09 pm Link to this comment
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S’long ABC. Be sure to report to your advertisers you have one fewer viewer so you can reduce your advertising rates accordingly.

I know the loss of just little old me ain’t nothing to worry about. But multiply “me” by a few million… and guess what? YOU’RE OUT OF BUSINESS… not that that would be any big loss… 95% of what ABC broadcasts is useless, mindless pap not worth the effort to produce with a result not suitable for human consumption.

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