Kean blows off blogosphere ‘grandstanding.’
By on Sep 9th, 2006 at 12:18 pm
Kean blows off blogosphere ‘grandstanding.’
Former Gov. Tom Kean (R-NJ), consultant to The Path to 9/11, “continued to defend the movie as a ‘first-class project,’ adding that…much of the hostile reaction was political grandstanding from partisans who had seen little if any of the film. ‘That’s the blogosphere, frankly,’ Kean said of the controversy.”
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Former Gov. Kean has apparently sold out his morality to ABC/Disney, so he deserves contempt and shame! His son must be defeated in his bid to become a Senator > the US does not need another fool in DC!
September 9th, 2006 at 12:26 pmYeah—And Tom Keane also defends “The 9-11 Commision Report’ as a ‘first-class’ project. Most people are coming to the realization of what a ‘first-class crock’ that is.
September 9th, 2006 at 12:28 pmI read Kean’s comment where it was posted on the blogosphere. Since the blogosphere has no credibility, that must mean that Kean is full of sh!t. [logic?!]
September 9th, 2006 at 12:30 pmWhy do we still not have Osama and the other leaders of AlQeada?
Why has this gone on longer than WWII with no forwards momentum?
Why is Pakistan called an “ally” in the war on terror?
Why is Saudi Arabia called an “ally” in the war on terror?
Why was hundreds of billions allowed to be spent on profiteering on the war on terror and the Iraq war when we STILL have not hardened Americas soft spots here on our own soil where we are most worried about attacks?
Why do we let Pakistan tell us that we cannot go in and get Osama?
Why do we let Saudi Arabia get away with smiling to our faces and funding AlQeada under the table?
Why do we let Saudi Arabia get away with Islamic Whabbi brain washing of their people to the point that their people willingly die in Iraq and on 911 to help AlQeada?
Why do the Bush/Evangelicals types in America get away with diverting Americas attention away from Saudi Sunni extremism that actually has attacked America on several occasions including on 911?
Why do the Bush/Evangelical types in America get away with doing everything in their power to prevent a final peace in the Israel/Palastine question?
Why has it become acceptable that America now puts itself up on a throne and makes dictates to people all around the world like a King instead of using the Reason that our founding fathers based their “mold” for America on? Are we saying America is now to stupid to influence people in any way except through violence?
Why has America allowed its racists to rename and/or obfusicate their true intentions and lead America away from its own soul?
Why is America allowing fundamentalists in America to force us to act like the very fundamentalists that cause all the problems in the middle east?
Why is America allowing its peoples future be gutted for the financial gain of a few large corporations and a short term growth of fake paper money on the stock market?
Why has America totally debased itself by rejecting our past of down to earth honesty for big top showmanship and aristocracy excess?
Why, 5 years after 911 do we still look like fools that could be hit at any moment?
September 9th, 2006 at 12:39 pmI think it is interesting that the 9-11 commission was bi-partisian and now the evidence collected in it is being used for partisian grand standing. Bush (and his followers) are such good unitiers.
September 9th, 2006 at 12:40 pmI find Tom Kean’s behavior odd at this particular time. He has a son running for Senate in New Jersey and this looks like it should hurt his son’s political chances. Frankly, I was alwarys a little bothered by Kean being named by Bush as Chairman of the 9/11 Commission, a commission that Bush was against. Kean has always provided cover for Bush’s flank. Here he is trying to provide cover for Republican in general and Americans are becoming tired of Bush hacks shoving crap down our throats.
September 9th, 2006 at 12:43 pmGerald stop asking such hard questions. You are going to give the neocons a headache!!!
September 9th, 2006 at 12:44 pmThe US needs a new law to outlaw the children of politicians becoming elected stooges themselves > nepotism has always been a bad thing! George Bush Junior was never remotely qualified to be president, and we all suffer for his inbred stupidity!
September 9th, 2006 at 12:45 pm.
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They are all full of shit.
Take a look at this European trailer which is STILL being shown:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHgbeJu1WGk
September 9th, 2006 at 12:46 pm.
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The three lying Macaca traitors (R, C, B) along with their monkey-master rove are trying to blame Clinton for the 9-11 terror attacks, when it occurred on their watch… Did Clinton force Bush to steal the 2000 Presidential Election? Did Clinton force Bush to order the CIA and the FBI to stop investigating any possible Saudi-terror links? Did Clinton force Bush to go on a month-long Vacation after receiving the warning that Bin Laden was determined to strike inside the U. S.? Did Clinton force Cheney to do a NORAD practice drill on 9-10 that involved hijacked jets being rammed into buildings? Did Clinton force Bush to abdicate his role as commander-in-chief on 9-11? Did Clinton force Cheney to slow down the FAA notification to NORAD on 9-11? Did Clinton force Cheney to give GO SLOW orders to NORAD interceptors on 9-11? Much about 9-11 needs to be investigated. So ABC-TV should drop their right-wing propaganda piece, “The Path to 9-11″ and start doing some real investigative work…
September 9th, 2006 at 12:49 pmCheers.
Mr. Kean, I don’t need to eat dung to know what it is by its smell. This ABC production is pure S…T and sadly you know it is, but you have put back on your Repugnant hat in place of the bipartisan one you wore on the Commission and obviously, would rather join with the Repugnant lie machine orchestrated by Mehlman, Rove and the creep in the WH. So be it. You deserve all the negativity that will flow your way.
September 9th, 2006 at 12:50 pmLet’s make sure that Kean’s son, who’s running for senate in NJ (Home of large number of 911 victims) loses in November.
September 9th, 2006 at 1:18 pmI smell lawsuits galore, esp. regarding airing this pile of crap overseas.
Disney shareholders should be concerned, unless they really believe that Clinton, Albright and Berger will sit still during this major libel.
September 9th, 2006 at 1:21 pmFormer Gov. Tom Kean (R-NJ), consultant to The Path to 9/11, “continued to defend the movie as a ‘first-class project,’ adding that…much of the hostile reaction was political grandstanding from partisans who had seen little if any of the film.
This is the Kean that won’t talk to Clinton, Albright, Clarke, et al, great attitude for someone producing a “factual” documentary – don’t even talk to those involved. I’m writing a biography of George Bush, but I’m not going to talk to Bush, his family, or anybody that knows him. Oh, and I guess it’s not just the blogosphere that’s pissed. I guess that’s why ABC won’t let Clinton, Albright, or Clarke view the film.
September 9th, 2006 at 1:35 pmThis lists Disney holdings and companies
http://www.cjr.org/tools/owners/disney.asp
September 9th, 2006 at 1:45 pmMost of the blogosphere hasn’t seen it because ABC refuses to release a copy to anyone other than the right-wing media. This obvious selectivism is further proof that ABC has something to hide. Besides, we have enough confirmed evidence that this film was meant to be a partisan political attack on the Clinton administration, not an objective drama based on the 9/11 Commission report.
So now, I am making a film about how George Bush was sniffing cocaine while Governor of Texas, and has a scene of Bush in the White House getting drunk and yelling obscenities at his staff. It’s called “The Path to the White House”. I’ll just put a disclaimer on it that says “for dramatic and narrative purposes, this movie contains fictionalized scenes”.
September 9th, 2006 at 1:49 pmAt the moment he cashed that check he became an irrelevent shill purging any and all credebility. How much money did you make off the misery and nightmare of our nation?
Please privide us a break down of dollars per body Mr. Kean.
September 9th, 2006 at 2:08 pmKean puts to rest the erroneous notion that somehow there are reasonable republicans out there (like Kean, Chaffee, Lugar, Leiberman, etc.) that won’t jump at every opportunity to enbue power on the already powerful and self enrichment, at the expense of the truth, America and Americans.
Republicans, whores to the core, every last one.
September 9th, 2006 at 2:10 pm.
Tom Kean was Bush’s whore on the 9-11 commission. What more can we expect of this piece of trash. He laughs at the blogosphere? Well let us see what the blogosphere can do to make sure his dimwit son loses his election.
September 9th, 2006 at 2:13 pmKean has always been Bush’s guy on the 9/11 commission.
September 9th, 2006 at 2:15 pmRemember Bush didn’t want the commission at all. Kean played his role well — he comes off as a moderate Republican, but we can plainly see (if we didn’t know it before), that when it comes down to brass tacks, he will side with his commander, right or wrong.
His son is also running for office in NJ and I have no doubt that is playing a role in this matter as well.
In fact, didn’t Kean say a couple of days ago, that he had not talked to Clinton about this controversy because Clinton was supporting his son’s opposition, and so “of course” he didn’t reach out to Clinton on this.
Damn the Constitution, the government and the nation… they are always trumped by the Republican party and family political aspirations.
So now, I am making a film about how George Bush was sniffing cocaine while Governor of Texas, and has a scene of Bush in the White House getting drunk and yelling obscenities at his staff. It’s called “The Path to the White Houseâ€. I’ll just put a disclaimer on it that says “for dramatic and narrative purposes, this movie contains fictionalized scenesâ€.
Comment by Kg Prophet — September 9, 2006 @ 1:49 pm
Can we add the scene where Karl Rove the alien scoops out Bush’s brain and replaces it with the neural tissue of a cockroach and a re ciever to take Cheney’s commands, and the the Gannon tentacle sex scene with GW, Laura, Condi, Rumsfeld, Frist, Delay, 6 midgets, a donkey, and a chicken?
All artistic license of course.
September 9th, 2006 at 2:16 pmbones why do you hate midgets, donkeys and chickens? They would never willing submit to advances of that bunch!!!!
September 9th, 2006 at 2:20 pm21
Don’t forget to add in that Laura Bush is a unconvicted murder.
September 9th, 2006 at 2:29 pm
Kean is getting tremendous advertising for this docu-drama. Many will watch just because progs have been screaming bloody murder. Of course, once people watch, they will be fully indoctrinated into whatever this docu-drama says, because people pretty much don’t have any pre-conceived notions as to what happened.
September 9th, 2006 at 2:30 pmI don’t know if it’s possible, but I wonder why lawyers for Clinton, Berger, etc., aren’t thinking about getting a court injunction against this so-called docudrama.
September 9th, 2006 at 2:31 pmI wish there was another accurate docudrama in the works that shows Bush telling the individual from the CIA: “Okay, you’ve covered your ass.” when he was warned about Bin Laden preparing to strike the WTC. Of course, the corporate-owned media wouldn’t dream of such a thing.
I HATE that Bush is talking in the middle of it, but I do doubt this piece-of-crap fantasy is going to change anyone’s minds when it comes to choosing individual Senators and Representatives in November. It’s just so coldly calculating. It should say produced and directed by Karl Rove at the beginning.
Kean should be discredited. Certainly, there should be some dirt on him that hasn’t come to light.
#26, mid,
I explained it all before. Whereas, this might make Clinton and his cronies look bad, Hill’reh has had a strong record for supporting the War On Terror ever since she became Senator, so she will not be hurt by this docu-drama. Moreover, as far as this docu-drama hurts progs, it helps Hill’reh, so they have no interest in stopping this train.
September 9th, 2006 at 2:34 pmmidwestblue – go to daily kos. There is a review of what possible/probable legal action could be in the worls.
September 9th, 2006 at 2:36 pm#16 Kg P
September 9th, 2006 at 2:36 pmSounds like you have the start of a super idea for a film on the chimp.
mid,
THERE is the prog we’ve all come to know. If you don’t like someone’s policies, don’t compete in their arena, just find dirt and try to hurt them personally.
September 9th, 2006 at 2:37 pmI knew the minute that Keane was appointed to co-chair the commission that a grave mistake had been made and commented to a 9/11 web site that collected relevant data about 9/11 and the people who petitioned for the creation of the commission that this man did not have the integrity and unbiased will to do a good job. He was and still is a political hack of the republican party. The Commission report was a fraudulent effort to keep accountability and responsibility away from the dolt in the White House. All this commisssion could report was that there “was a lack of imagination”. We weren’t looking for a Pulitzer Prize in literature, we just wanted the truth which never happened.
September 9th, 2006 at 2:40 pm#16 – go for it, it is at least true as opposed to the crap they are making up about the Clinton administration…
September 9th, 2006 at 2:41 pmIf this movie goes on as planned it will confirm one thing: Republicans believe that they have to lie in order to win elections. That says a lot.
Also, the next time anyone claims “liberal media”, here is your prime example that it is a myth.
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September 9th, 2006 at 2:42 pmIf you don’t like someone’s policies, don’t compete in their arena, just find dirt and try to hurt them personally.
Comment by Jason M. Hendler — September 9, 2006 @ 2:37 pm
Oh my god, I’m ROFL!!!!!!!! Cheney smears Joe Wilson by saying his “wife” got him a junket, Bush campaign smears McCain by saying Mrs McCain has a “black baby”. Rumsfeld calls Americans, including Iraqi veterens “Nazis” and terrorist sympathizers and anti-American, Rush Limbaugh denegrates blacks, Mexicans, women, Muslims, Neil Boortz calls Mohammed a “ragpicker” and a republofascist has the nutz to point a finger and complain about “dirt” and “character assassination”. Oh my god, now that’s hilarious!
September 9th, 2006 at 2:45 pmUp yours Kean. Bloggers are the american public, idiot. You are a disgrace to our country and every member on the 9-11 Commission for allowing this re-write of history.
September 9th, 2006 at 2:46 pmThat European trailer is despicible. There’s a comic book version of the 9/11 report with more integrity than this garbage.
I put together a little saturday afternoon round up, most of this is already ere though:
http://icestationtango.blogspot.com/2006/09/path-to-path-to-911-reshaping.html
September 9th, 2006 at 2:47 pmFOR THE RECORD
(Copyrights lifted for the sole purpose of bitch slapping any and all Rape-public-cans, a.k.a Fake Americans)
COMPARE CLINTON TO BUSH
Actually, it was the GOP congress who cut the military budget. Clinton was quite strong on defense:
CLINTON Developed the nation’s first anti-terrorism policy, and appointed first national coordinator of anti-terrorist efforts.
CLINTON Stopped cold the Al Qaeda millennium hijacking and bombing plots.
CLINTON Stopped cold the planned attack to kill the Pope
CLINTON Stopped cold the planned attack to blow up 12 U.S. jetliners simultaneously
CLINTON Stopped cold the planned attack to blow up UN Headquarters
CLINTON Stopped cold the planned attack to blow up FBI Headquarters
CLINTON Stopped cold the planned attack to blow up the Israeli Embassy in Washington
CLINTON Stopped cold the planned attack to blow up Boston airport
CLINTON Stopped cold the planned attack to blow up Lincoln and Holland Tunnels in NY
CLINTON Stopped cold the planned attack to blow up the George Washington Bridge
CLINTON Stopped cold the planned attack to blow up the US Embassy in Albania
– Tried to kill Osama bin Laden and disrupt Al Qaeda through preemptive strikes (efforts denounced by the G.O.P.).
– Brought perpetrators of first World Trade Center bombing and CIA killings to justice.
– Did not blame Bush I administration for first World Trade Center bombing even though it occurred 38 days after Bush left office. Instead, worked hard, even obsessively — and successfully — to stop future terrorist attacks.
–Named the Hart-Rudman commission to report on nature of terrorist threats and major steps to be taken to combat terrorism.
-Clinton sent legislation to Congress to TIGHTEN AIRPORT SECURITY. (Remember, this is before 9/11) The legislation was defeated by the Republicans because of opposition from the airlines.
-Clinton sent legislation to Congress to allow for BETTER TRACKING OF TERRORIST FUNDING. It was defeated by Republicans in the Senate because of opposition from banking interests.
-Clinton sent legislation to Congress to add tagents to explosives, to allow for BETTER TRACKING OF EXPLOSIVES USED BY TERRORISTS. It was defeated by the Republicans because of opposition from the NRA.
-Clinton increased the military budget by an average of 14 per cent, reversing the trend under Bush I.
-Clinton tripled the budget of the FBI for counterterrorism and doubled overall funding for counterterrorism
-Clinton detected and destroyed cells of Al Qaeda in over 20 countries
-Clinton created national stockpile of drugs and vaccines including 40 million doses of smallpox vaccine.
-Of Clinton’s efforts says Robert Oakley, Reagan Ambassador for Counterterrorism: “Overall, I give them very high marks” and “The only major criticism I have is the obsession with Osama”
-Paul Bremer, Bush’s appointed leader (Civilian Administrator) of Iraq disagreed slightly with Robert Oakley as he believed the Clinton Administration had “correctly focused on bin Laden.
-Barton Gellman in the Washington Post put it best, “By any measure available, Clinton left office having given greater priority to terrorism than any president before him” and was the “first administration to undertake a systematic anti-terrorist.”
What was the name of that 8/6/01 PDB Ms. Rice????
September 9th, 2006 at 3:50 pmOn Thursday, I emailed the Tom Kean, Jr. campaign here in NJ where he is running for the Senate against Bob Menendez. I respectfully asked what he thought about ABC’s airing of this factually incorrect movie. I quickly received a canned response, but with a promise that I would get an answer. Needless to say, I am still waiting.
I also made the suggestion to the Menendez camp that they should make Mr. Kean go on the record about what he thinks about this schlock that Tom Kean, Sr.father was paid for. I know New Jerseyans would like to know.
September 9th, 2006 at 5:01 pmI don’t really care if Kean blows off the blogosphere. What matters is that the factual inaccuracies in this movie be corrected, or else the whole project be scrapped.
September 9th, 2006 at 5:16 pmPeople will remember which side Kean chose to be on. His legacy is now tarnished.
September 9th, 2006 at 5:55 pmI am a repubican too and am not grandstanding! I STRONGLY urge ABC to correct the falsehoods and misrepresentations in the upcoming “Path to 9/11†before it is shown. And I am not the only conservative saying this.
John Podhoretz, conservative columnist and Fox News contributor says: 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.
James Taranto, OpinionJournal.com editor says: 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.”
Dean Barnett, conservative commentator posting on Hugh Hewitt’s blog says: 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.
Chris Wallace, Fox News Sunday anchor says: 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.
Captain’s Quarters blog says: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.
Bill Bennett, conservative author, radio host, and TV commentator says: 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.
September 9th, 2006 at 7:51 pmABC doesn’t want to correct this movie. They put out 40 million for fascist lies, get sued and cough up 5-10 million. They get kickbacks if the republofascists keep the gevrnment thant make 50 million look like peanuts. However, if the democrats win, I think ABC, DIsney and their TV and radio holdings need to be broken up for anti trust violations.
September 9th, 2006 at 9:12 pmBill Bennett’s comments (quoted in No. 41) is right on point. (I can’t believe I’m writing this. God help me!)
But the point is, no one says the film should treat Clinton with kid gloves, or that it should gloss over or omit any mistakes Clinton made. If I had any sense that the film was accurate, no matter how it makes Clinton look, I would have no objection to it. But you can’t advance the discussion about 9/11 and the mistakes we may have made (as a country, mind you) if you start out with falsehoods and distortion.
Why are the defenders of this film so afraid of the truth?
September 9th, 2006 at 9:54 pmFormer Gov Tom Kean.
Apparently we have a new “Mr Conflict of Interest.”
September 9th, 2006 at 10:24 pmnot sure if this has been mentioned… haven’t read these posts yet…
yesterday, randi rhodes interviewed ROGER CRESSEY… he was very sympathetic towards kean… said he thought the filmmakers USED kean to give the movie more cred… and kean wanted to do this, maybe not knowing how bad it was, because he wanted to address the audience after to tell them how bushco had not followed any of the commissions recommendations…
i could be mistaken, but i think this is who cressey was talking about…
September 9th, 2006 at 11:07 pmi know you can get randi’s show on podcast… i don’t see the audio of that interview on her site…
that is not to say that i mean to absolve kean of anything…
September 9th, 2006 at 11:12 pmjust sayin’…
a better man would acknowledge his mistake and call for a shutdown.
Kean wrote the book on grandstanding – he should know!
September 10th, 2006 at 8:36 am#8 The US needs a new law to outlaw the children of politicians becoming elected stooges themselves > nepotism has always been a bad thing! George Bush Junior was never remotely qualified to be president, and we all suffer for his inbred stupidity
The stupid ones are the 58M citizens who voted in two elections for this underqualified-way-in-over-his-head individual. I guess the people were duped once again by the slick but shallow political campaigning. Americans fall for the bells and whistles all of the time. They do not have the ability to assess the true qualities and integrity of people running for elected office. As a result, we have a political system devoid of any vision and lacking in sound leadership.
September 10th, 2006 at 8:56 am[...] This stuf is just obscene, and is a pure, very pure example of the fear the “experts” have of us normal fellows and gals. [...]
September 11th, 2006 at 8:17 pm[...] Absent from the Dad Kean lyrics is any mention of how he pimped his credibility from the 9/11 Commission to endorse ABC’s crockudrama The Path to 9/11, a move that had nothing to do with truth-telling but probably had a great deal to do with trying to make Democrats look bad at the start of the fall campaign season. I guess we’ll have to see if that part of the song turns up as a bootleg. [...]
November 12th, 2006 at 8:52 am