Comments on: VIDEO: Bill Bennett Says ABC Should ‘Correct Those Inaccuracies’ in Path to 9/11

By: Debbie Johnson

Debbie Johnson — Thu, 14 Sep 2006 19:15:31 +0000

Well, as usual, people who have not seen the movie have all kinds of opinions about it. Watch it. It will be available at some point. It follows the 911 Commission’s report exactly. I followed the movie while searching the 911 Commission’s report. BOTH administrations are “bashed”, if that’s what you want to call it. The point of the movie is to learn from our mistakes and try to move forward. Apparently, as we’ve seen throughout the history of this country, extreme liberals can’t learn from history because they’re too busy making up their own version of reality to fit what they already think. (This entire Blog proves my point. Look at all the “opinions” based on what? On talking heads making guesses about “if this is in the movie, then I think it’s slanderous . . .”)

The end of the movie rates the Bush administration’s performance after the Commission provided their report with numerous F’s and D’s, with only one “A”. Once Bush took office, there are plenty of places in the movie that point out his administrations failings as well. The movie is factual and fair, but you will never know because your mind is made up, without having seen it!

Where was all your outrage at having “facts” and “accuracy” when Fahrenheit came out? And, that movie tried to call itself a “documentary”.
Even Chris Matthews scoffed at that one.

By: Bill Kastrinos

Bill Kastrinos — Mon, 11 Sep 2006 17:33:21 +0000

Repeat a lie often enough and it will be believed. Â Adolph Hitler
LA Times, December 5, 2001, Mansoor Ijaz, Muslim advisor to Bill Clinton, and I quote;
“President Clinton and his national security team ignored several opportunities to capture Osama bin Laden and his terrorist associates, including one as late as last year.
I know because I negotiated more than one of the opportunities.”
“As an American Muslim and a political supporter of Clinton, I feel now, as I argued with Clinton and Berger then, that their counter-terrorism policies fueled the rise of Bin Laden from an ordinary man to a Hydra-like monster.”
Sorry, but that’s the truth, and I can show you a number of other articles proving these facts. Â But I know, most of you, don’t want me to bother you with the facts. Your mind is made up.
Clinton lies again, believe it.

By: Nikita Sergeyevich

Nikita Sergeyevich — Sun, 10 Sep 2006 22:00:14 +0000

Comrades Bravo!

These traitors at ABC are betrayers of our new mother land. Where I come from, this Robert A. Iger would be dragged through the streets in front of the tomb of our glorious leader Vladimir Lenin and shot in public. The producers, directors, writers and anyone associated with this propaganda would be picked up in the early hours of the morning by our State Security Chief Lavrenty Beria (The Black Hand) and taken to a Siberian labor camp never too be heard from again.

For many years I have been loyal to ABC and the Pravda (truth) that our Socialist Liberal ally has put forth in order to progress our ultimate goal; the decline and absolute destruction of America and the capitalist traitorous pigâ€™s like ABC.

I ask you Mr. Robert A. Iger, â€œHave you no shame Sirâ€?

Comrades, we must not give up the fight. It has taken us many years to groom you and your elected leaders.

Remember what our great leader Nikita Khrushchev said:

â€œ We can’t expect the American People to jump from Capitalism to Communism, but we can assist their elected leaders in giving them small doses of Socialism, until they awaken one day to find that they have Communism ”

Itâ€™s more important now then ever before that we stand together and stay focused! We can not allow this abomination of propaganda to go forward.

We must do whatever it takes to keep this film from airing on Sunday the 10th, 2006, we only have a few hours left.

It is your duty as loyal Liberal Socialist Democrats to rise up in solidarity and put a stop to this immediately!

Senator Harry Reid, one of our courageous and distinguished Senatorial leaders from the state of Nevada, reminded the capitalist traitorous pigs at ABC of their license from the FCC. Please Senator Reid, weâ€™re your loyal comrades in arms and begging you to use all the glorious power you possess. You must stop this film! You must push forward with an iron fist and crush this despicable display of propaganda.

If this film isnâ€™t stopped from airing on ABC, Sunday night, Iâ€™m afraid all our efforts since the cold war and the aspirations of our great leaders from glorious years past and Nikita Khrushchevâ€™s dreams and predictions will have been lost.

If we loose now, the great Liberal Socialist Democratic Party, we have nurtured, will decline into the ash heaps of history never too be heard from again.

You must!…. I repeat, you must contact our comrades in arms at their offices in Washington.

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By: Pierre Legrand’s Pink Flamingo Bar » Perfect, being the enemy of the good, freezes us into silence. ABC Path to 9/11

Sat, 09 Sep 2006 23:55:01 +0000

[...] If ABC pulls the movie it won’t only be because of the actions of the left wing but also because of the actions of these folks. We didn’t support them when they needed it. Thanks to ThinkProgress. 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, doesnâ€™t deserve to be remembered by millions of Americans as the inadvertent (and truculent) savior of Osama bin Laden. Samuel Berger, Clintonâ€™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 â€œThe Reagans.â€ [OpinionJournal, 9/7/06] Dean Barnett, conservative commentator posting on Hugh Hewittâ€™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 thatâ€™s Madeleine Albright and she said this in a specific conversation and she never did say it, I think itâ€™s slanderous, I think itâ€™s defamatory and I think that ABC and Disney should be held to account. [Fox, 9/8/06] Captainâ€™s Quarters blog:If the Democrats do not like what ABC wants to broadcast, they have every right to protest it â€” and in this case, they had a point. [Captain Quarterâ€™s blog, 9/7/06] Bill Bennett, conservative author, radio host, and TV commentator:Look, â€œThe Path to 9/11? is strewn with a lot of problems and I think there were problems in the Clinton administration. But thatâ€™s no reason to falsify the record, falsify conversations by either the president or his leading people and you know it just shouldnâ€™t happen. [CNN, 9/8/06] Seth Liebsohn, Claremont Institute fellow and produce of Bill Bennettâ€™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 Greewaldâ€™s blog, 9/7/06] Richard Miniter, conservative author of â€œLosing bin Laden: How Bill Clintonâ€™s Failures Unleashed Global Terrorâ€:If people wanted to be critical of the Clinton years thereâ€™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, thereâ€™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] Bill Oâ€™Reilly, Fox News pundit:Ok, weâ€™re talking about the run up to 9-11 and this movie that theyâ€™re re-cutting now â€” and they should because it puts words in the mouth of real people, actors playing real people that they didnâ€™t say and its wrong. [Oâ€™Reilly radio show, 9/8/06] [...]

By: Make Them Accountable / Some honorable conservatives

Make Them Accountable / Some honorable conservatives — Sat, 09 Sep 2006 22:50:13 +0000

[...] Look, â€œThe Path to 9/11â€³ is strewn with a lot of problems and I think there were problems in the Clinton administration. But thatâ€™s no reason to falsify the record, falsify conversations by either the president or his leading people and you know it just shouldnâ€™t happen. [CNN, 9/8/06] [...]

By: JPark

JPark — Sat, 09 Sep 2006 01:44:55 +0000

#56 I don’t know about ABC sponsors but NOBODY is sponsoring this piece of shit.

Oh, Hendler is funny again. And seemingly all scrambly trying to get the neocons ahead on this one.

By: 186k Per Second - » Path to 9/11: Nutroots - Pedal to the Metal!

186k Per Second - » Path to 9/11: Nutroots - Pedal to the Metal! — Fri, 08 Sep 2006 23:57:07 +0000

[...] This is not a partisan issue. Numerous conservatives â€“ including Brent Bozell, former Reagan aide Bill Bennett, author Richard Miniter, and others â€“ have said that ABC should correct the factual errors in the series. [...]

By: 186k Per Second - » Path to 9/11: Nutroots - Pedal to the Metal!

186k Per Second - » Path to 9/11: Nutroots - Pedal to the Metal! — Fri, 08 Sep 2006 23:57:07 +0000

By: « Full-Figured Body Politic

« Full-Figured Body Politic — Fri, 08 Sep 2006 23:12:58 +0000

[...] It’s not just “Clintonistas”, as ABC’s Senior Washington Correspondent John Cochran called them yesterday. Bill Bennett and a host of conservatives, prominent historians, and the signatures of over one hundred twenty thousand Americans on one anti-Disney effort alone are also calling on Disney/ABC to put this thing out of its misery. So why aren’t they? It is a bad, bad corporate move to associate Disney, Mickey Mouse and ABC with partisan posturing, and especially posturing that uses the smoke and deaths of 9/11 as political backdrop to try to prop up alternate “fictionalized” versions of history. It’s the kind of thing that gets remembered for a long, long time. [...]

By: CalGal

CalGal — Fri, 08 Sep 2006 21:22:27 +0000

My goodness! When Bill Bennett agrees it’s wrong to put this movie out with those fictional scenes, there’s got to be something seriously wrong!

By: Juan C

Juan C — Fri, 08 Sep 2006 21:07:11 +0000

Hey, katy. Thank you very much. Very useful link.

By: Juan C

Juan C — Fri, 08 Sep 2006 20:57:18 +0000

Your comparison, while interesting, is still apples to oranges.
Comment by coachjason

I agree. I exaggerated. But, the difference is in the consequences but not in the source of the issue: Free will.
I think that whenever you put a t-shirt of Coca-Cola, you are indirectly supporting a company that kills union workers in BogotÃ¡, for example. Or if you have an account in Citibank then you agree their money-laundring for drug-dealers and corrupt leaders. So, it is your, our responsibility to know who or what are we supporting whenever we engage with some project or buy some stuff.

By: Republicans are the fear and smear party

Republicans are the fear and smear party — Fri, 08 Sep 2006 20:36:04 +0000

This docudrama is about as accurate as Mel Brooks’ “History of the World – Part 1.”

By: BiLLYzKiDD

BiLLYzKiDD — Fri, 08 Sep 2006 20:05:24 +0000

ABC is now FOX, Jr!!!!

By: Think Progress » Conservatives On The Path to 9/11: ‘Unacceptable,’ ‘Defamatory,’ ‘Strewn With A Lot of Problems,’ ‘Zero Factual Basis’

Fri, 08 Sep 2006 19:42:29 +0000

[...] Bill Bennett, conservative author, radio host, and TV commentator: Look, “The Path to 9/11â€³ 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] [...]

By: Sharon Cox

Sharon Cox — Fri, 08 Sep 2006 19:32:20 +0000

Thank You Trueblue, I will watch it, another Thank’s for joining my fight to stop troll terrorism………Blessings…Peace for the children of the world

By: trueblue

trueblue — Fri, 08 Sep 2006 19:30:45 +0000

Robespierre’s Ghost,

Found this link on FDL this morning.
Certainly not complete, but a good start. :)

By: Robespierre's Ghost

Robespierre's Ghost — Fri, 08 Sep 2006 19:26:15 +0000

Why hasn’t anyone compiled a master list of ABC’s sponsors? I don’t just want to boycott ABC, I want to boycott the people who pay for their bullshit as well. We need to compile a comprehensive list of everyone who contributes a single penny to ABC and distribute it to EVERYONE opposing this piece of garbage, be they left, right, or somewhere out in space.

By: katy

katy — Fri, 08 Sep 2006 19:22:59 +0000

juan – Rolling On The Floor Laughing…

keep this handy, for future reference:
http://www.webopedia.com/quick_ref/textmessageabbreviations.asp

as an “old lady”, i needed to educate myself about those things…

By: trueblue

trueblue — Fri, 08 Sep 2006 19:19:52 +0000

Ted Koppel: The Price of Safety

A REAL documentary!
Airing Sept 10 @ 8:00pm Discovery Channel

Watch that Sunday instead of this crappola!