Path To 9/11

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toby

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Bill Clinton is trying to stop the airing of this movie. But we already know how he failed to protect us form the terrorist. Well those who pay attention know, now maybe everyone will know. But I can't fault him to much, hind sight is 20/20.

>NEW YORK (AP) -- "The Path to 9/11" will break your heart. It will leave you unnerved, even more than before. And angrier than ever.

A five-hour miniseries that dramatizes a decade's worth of events leading up to the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, this film is plenty gripping. It doesn't forgo artistry for polemics.

Even so, it drives home, step by step, a message any viewer can understand: The people in charge of keeping you safe failed the nation monumentally. Systemically. Shamefully. And continue to, five years after what should have been a terribly sufficient wake-up call

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/storie...ME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2006-09-07-08-34-20
 
this was the biggest terror attack in our history and a very sad day in most of our lives...

abc needs to be TRUTHFUL and with no bias, and the mini series would or could have great promise....

to add spin or partisan bias does a disservice to Americans with 911 victims being used to do such, imho.
 
Its done as a docudrama, which gives them the right to revise history. I hope they don't do that. clinton and his cronies are going to be up in arms cause it makes them look bad.

At least it may spark some interest for people to look into the history of it all and see what actually happened. The libs will hate it. I would be interested to see it just to see how they do. I see abc is making adjustments to the series now as the libs are raising a stink about it. That means they are going to make shit up so the libs don't look so bad. I'm suspicious of anything produced by network television.
 
Anything that is based on historical events should be depicted accurately.

That's why I rate the Patriot as one of the worst movies ever. It was so historically inaccurate it wasn't even funny.

History should be handled responsibly. Don't make shit up to push an agenda. If it happened put it in the movie. If it didn't don't. History is very interesting anyway there is no need to make shit up, often it is stranger than fiction.
 
Gaffer said:
Its done as a docudrama, which gives them the right to revise history. I hope they don't do that. clinton and his cronies are going to be up in arms cause it makes them look bad.

At least it may spark some interest for people to look into the history of it all and see what actually happened. The libs will hate it. I would be interested to see it just to see how they do. I see abc is making adjustments to the series now as the libs are raising a stink about it. That means they are going to make shit up so the libs don't look so bad. I'm suspicious of anything produced by network television.
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Is it at all possible in your 2 by 4 bashing world that the writers/producers may have already "made shit up" to make the 'libs" "look bad."
 
It makes the current admin look bad as well. They continue it on to "5 years past 9/11"...
 
It bashes both Bush and Clinton and goverment in general. But look who is making a big fuss over it.
 
Damocles said:
It makes the current admin look bad as well. They continue it on to "5 years past 9/11"...
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Well to be truthful, I shouldn't really be commenting on it because unlike others here I haven't had the pleasure of a preliminary screening of the mini-series. All I have seen personally is one scene and some commentary. But Rush Limbaugh is really talking it up, in fact I don't think it's going too far out on a limb to say he's eating it up, and we all know what a non-biased and truth seeking, not to mention oxycontin seeking, individual old Rush is...

In fact, it must be the absolute truth if the guy who first publicized that Vince Foster was killed by Bill Clinton with help from Hillary is playing it up...Ice cube glacier Rush--where fact checking is job 1, the way it oughta be.
 
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Yep the guy's name is Cyrus Nowrasteh.

An often cited quote from him as to why people believe his is a conservative is that he called Michael Moore an out of control Socialist weasel.

The guys who made Team America and South Park have said similar things.
 
I'm curious as to whether or not the same affilliates under the Sinclair Group that didn't are Koppel's piece will air this one too. If so they are clearly hypocrites and neo-con cronies.

http://www.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/TV/05/01/abc.nightline/

I personally don't think a story based on historical facts should have to be accurate. Outside of the Sinclair group controversy, I really wouldn't give two $hits.
 
Gaffer said:
Its done as a docudrama, which gives them the right to revise history.
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Can you explain that please? What gives them the right to rewrite history or to put it in your words, "revise history"? If they are displaying it as actual history then they ought to be displaying actual history.

Immie
 
Immanuel said:
Can you explain that please? What gives them the right to rewrite history or to put it in your words, "revise history"? If they are displaying it as actual history then they ought to be displaying actual history.

Immie
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who's that ? clinton or the people making the show ?
 
If they explicity state that it is a docu-drama and that it does not reflect events exactly, I really don't see what the problem is. I may "feel" as though there is an ethical dilemma with something fictional so close to a gaping wound in our history, but I don't think ABC is doing anything definitively wrong. If you're going to say they shouldn't show this because of historical innacuracies, you're going to also have to discount other docu-drama's as well.
 
Just to poke this feeble little fire a bit, I found this when googling "path to 9/11 review" . . . .

I once sat in a car forever waiting for my mom to come out of a grocery store. I thought that was the definition of "interminable." I had no idea "The Path to 9/11" was in my future.

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Controversy could boost viewership, except "Path" is the dullest, worst-shot TV movie since ABC's disastrous "Ten Commandments" remake. It substitutes shaky handheld cameras and dumb dialogue for craftsmanship. It could not be more amateurish or poorly constructed unless someone had forgotten to light the sets.

An appalling secondary concern is the tone makes almost every pre-9/11 American look like a fool.

Look, there's a security guard yawning while terrorists plant the 1993 bomb at the World Trade Center. How dare a security guard work while tired.

Oh, hey, there's an airline agent checking in a 9/11 terrorist even though he has a carry-on bag. Stupid airline agents.

Excuse us all, writer Cyrus Nowrasteh and director David L. Cunningham, for not acting like Hitler Youth in the glory days before ordinary Americans knew commercial planes could be turned into missiles.

Idiots.

Cheap emotions are on orange alert. Of all the people who died in the 1993 attack, who does the camera focus on? Ding-ding-ding, you are a winner if you said "a pregnant woman rubbing her belly."
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http://www.suntimes.com/output/entertainment/cst-ftr-elf08.html
 
Immanuel said:
Can you explain that please? What gives them the right to rewrite history or to put it in your words, "revise history"? If they are displaying it as actual history then they ought to be displaying actual history.

Immie
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Its done as a docudrama. That means they have actors playing parts and reciting lines written for them. With drama in the title they can do pretty much what they want to for "artistic sake". They can create conversations that never happened. And anything else they want to do to dramatize.

Hollywood has made plenty of historical movies. None are ever accurate. They are always subject to the director and producers views of things. A bill and the bimbo sex scene and lots of pyrotechnics wil provoke lots of viewing. That's what hollywood usually does. So it will be interesting to see what they do.

But anything that puts clinton in a bad light the libs will hate. Anything that puts Bush in a bad light the conservatives will hate.
 
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