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New ABC Docudrama Blames Clinton For 9/11, Praises Bush



September 1, 2006
Posted by Think Progress at 11:20 am

On September 10 and 11, ABC will air a “docudrama” called “The Path to 9/11.” It was written by Cyrus Nowrasteh, who describes himself as “more of a libertarian than a strict conservative [ http://www.libertyfilmfestival.com/libertas/index.php?p=462 ],” and is giving interviews to hard-right sites like FrontPageMag to promote the film.

What will it say about President Clinton? Here’s Rush Limbaugh with a preview [ http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_083006/content/coming_soon.guest.html ]:

A friend of mine [Cyrus Nowrasteh] out in California has produced and filmed — I think it’s a two-part mini-series on 9/11 that ABC is going to run in prime-time over two nights, close to or on 9/11. It’s sort of surprising that ABC’s picked it up, to me. I’ve had a lot of people tell me about it, my friends told me about it…And from what I have been told, the film really zeros in on the shortcomings of the Clinton administration in doing anything about militant Islamofascism or terrorism during its administration. It cites failures of Bill Clinton and Madeleine Albright and Sandy Burglar.

How does it deal with President Bush? Salon has a review [ http://www.salon.com/ent/tv/review/2006/09/01/911_shows/print.html ]:

Condoleezza Rice gets that fated memo about planes flying into buildings, and makes it very clear to anyone who’ll listen just how concerned President Bush is about these terrorist threats — despite the fact that we’re given little concrete evidence of the president’s concern or interest in taking action. Maybe my memory fails me, but the only person I remember talking about Osama bin Laden back in 1998 was President Clinton, while the current anti-terrorist stalwarts worked the country into a frenzy over what? Blow jobs. In the end, “The Path to 9/11” feels like an excruciatingly long, winding and deceptive path, indeed.

The director of the film, David Cunningham, is already backtracking about its accuracy, saying “this is not a documentary [ http://blogs.abc.com/thepathto911/ ].” OK, fair enough. But the movie is being billed as “based on The 9/11 Commission Report [ http://abc.go.com/movies/thepathto911/index.html ].”

Digg It! [ http://www.digg.com/political_opinion/New_ABC_Docudrama_Blames_Clinton_For_9_11_Praises_Bush ]

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[F6 comment -- I still remember the night, about 20 years ago right after Capital Cities had acquired ABC, that Koppel spent [had to spend] a whole 'Nightline' on a profile and interview of RUUSSSSHHHHHHH, opening the show saying of RUUSSSSHHHHHHH 'You ignore him at your peril.' -- and I still remember how infuriated I was at seeing Koppel sucking RUUSSSSHHHHHHH's bunghole throughout that 'Nightline' (not because RUUSSSSHHHHHHH was 'conservative', but because he was then, as he remains now, an outrageous liar and bullshit artist that no 'real' news program should ever validate/accept as legitimate apart from the fact that RUUSSSSHHHHHHH is an outrageous liar and bullshit artist who has the mindlessly servile 'dittohead' followers he does) -- damned near threw a brick through the screen -- see my next post, a reply to this post]