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Stephen Colbert sank his teeth into the “Path to 9/11” controversy on Monday, shaming ABC’s truth-challenged drama: “What better way to commemorate a national tragedy than turning it into a miniseries?”
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Maher, along with guests Rob Thomas, P.J. O’Rourke and Joan Walsh, ripped into ABC’s undocu-drama, which pins the blame for 9/11 on Bill Clinton. Maher reminds us: As president, Clinton had a meeting a week about bin Laden; George W. Bush, before 9/11, had zero. Watch it on the jump.
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A satire of ABC’s “The Path to 9/11” has popped up on YouTube. It envisions how ABC would dramatize Vietnam, the San Francisco Earthquake and the Revolutionary War. Not gut-bustingly hilarious, but significant in terms of how quickly these kinds of things appear nowadays. (h/t: AMERICAblog)
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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…)
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Harvey Keitel, who stars in ABCs upcoming 9/11-themed miniseries, appeared on CNNs Showbiz Tonight to relate his own concerns over the projects manipulation of history. When asked if a work derived from 9/11 held a special obligation to the truth, Keitel responded: Absolutely, you cannot cross the line from a conflation of events to a distortion of the event. No. Where we have distorted something we have made a mistakeand that should be corrected.
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Courtesy ABC
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Several progressive bloggers have set up an online clearinghouse dedicated to exposing the fabrications in ABC/Disney?s upcoming miniseries “The Path to 9/11.” It urges ABC/Disney to scrub the film of outright falsehoods, or else shelve the film completely.
UPDATE # 1:
ABC makes some minor changes to the film.
(much more after the jump…)
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On Wednesdays Countdown, 9/11 commissioner Richard Ben-Veniste, above, added his voice to those criticizing ABCs credibility-challenged 9/11 docudrama, saying: It was quite clear, as the 9/11 commission report states, that Clinton authorized the CIA and the American forces to get Bin Ladencapture or killand this miniseries does not depict it accurately.
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Roger Cressey, a top counter-terrorism official to Bush II and Clinton, called ABC’s upcoming miniseries “The Path to 9/11” something “straight out of Disney and fantasyland. Its factually wrong. And thats shameful.
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From AMERICAblog
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ABC is planning to air a six-hour ?docudrama? on the fifth anniversary of 9/11 that lays the lion?s share of the blame for the Sept. 11 attacks on President Clinton. The progressive blogosphere is in a rage—as evidenced by the satirical photo above—over perceived bias on the part of the filmmakers and ABC/Disney. (Check out the controversy.)
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From ABC News
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The disease is “worse than AIDS. It’s called the winner’s complex,” the former Soviet leader said in an ABC News interview. “You want an American-style democracy here [in Russia]. That will not work.”
Gorbachev railed against Cheney and Rumsfeld, calling them “hawks protecting the interests of the military ? shallow people.”
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ABC News gets an extremely rare (maybe unprecedented) look at the inside of Guantanamo Bay. Watch it.
The head interrogator denies all use of torture, and even refers to his interrogations as “custodial interviews.”
The room pictured above—which has a plush lazy chair—is supposedly one of the interrogation rooms.
This sugar-coated look at Gitmo feels sort of like the tours of North Korea that Westerners sometimes get.
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A “senior law enforcement official” has told ABC News that the government, in trying to root out confidential sources, is tracking the phone numbers the news organization calls.
Maybe we should just start calling him George “Big Brother” Bush.
Update: An official acknowledges its “backtracking” of journalists’ phone records.
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ABC via Think Progress
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In an ABC interview, Bush says he saw people screaming for help on TV and “realized that our government was—could have done a better job of comforting people.”
“Could have done a better job of comforting people”? How about “could have done a better job saving people”?
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