Comments on: ABC Defends 9/11 Miniseries

Networks Says Criticisms By Ex-Clinton Staffers Are Premature

[rcochran48]

Please do boycott Disney :) it worked so well with Wal Mart.
If Republicans had to endure the Micheal Moore trash, surely the outstanding (eye roll) Democrats in this Country can atleast switch the channel.
Was Clinton NOT distracted by his sexual escapades?
C'mon a little truth will do this Nation good.
Do we know Albright DIDN'T warn the Pakistani government?
We DO know for sure Janet Reno burned men, women and children alive at Waco.
Are we in the cencorship business now?

R

[someday7]

Disney owns ABC. We will boycott Disney the same way we did WalMart until they learn there lesson.

[thinkabout]

Well said "mireason". I have been a Republican since 1972 and never since then. History has shown that members of the Republican Party, right up to the President, while they like others to obey the laws of the nation, when those laws get in their way, they are not above going around them to push their own agenda or to achieve power. I have never seen a Republican (possibly a Democratic one either) administration like this one which has tried so hard to find excuses to keep things from the public and works so hard to push an agenda which appears more geared towards a portion of Americans, not all Americans. Instead of frankness and being forthright, there appears a very strong effort to veil the workings of this administration and Republican controlled Congress from we the people.

The series is admittedly fiction, but why make a fictional account of such a serious real event which sees its fifth anniversary during one day of the airing? September 11, will be remembered as a tragic day, but for those who needed a rallying point to attack other nations one specifically that has a whole lot of oil, but didn't have any WMD that amounted to a threat, 9/11 became a blessing in tragic disguise.

[ronniehm]

"The fact that copies of the series were made available to supporters of one party, and denied to the other"

That's not a fact. For starters, the members of the 9-11 Commission saw it. Jamie Gorelick and Richard Ben-Veniste, both strong Clinton supporters, complained about the movie after they watched it. I guess that undermines your ample proof. Personally, I want to see it more now that Gorelick, Veniste, Albright, Clinton and Berger don't want me to see it. They're hiding something. The thing was co-produced by a member of the 911 Committee. It can't be that far from the truth.

I wonder, would you support ABC if they chose to air Fahrenheit 911?

[mireason]

The comparison between Fahrenheit 911 and this series is a straw man argument. Fahrenheit 911 was released in theaters and the public had to pay to see it. The ABC series is being broadcast on prime time network TV, without commercial interruption.

The real issue is whether this is a thinly veiled attempt to influence the upcoming election while skirting the regulations that apply to political campaigning. The fact that copies of the series were made available to supporters of one party, and denied to the other, should be ample proof that there was no intent on either ABC's or Disney's part to be neutral. The only way that ABC could possibly salvage their reputation, if they persist in their plans to broadcast this admittedly fictionalized account, would be to insert panel discussions of the content by 9/ll Commission members and representatives of both administrations to put the content in a historically accurate perspective, similar to Band of Brothers.

[ronniehm]

Seeker, try thinking for yourself.

[seeker24u]

SINCE THIS MINI-SERIES HAS THE RUSH LIMBAUGH STAMP OF APPROVAL, THAT IS A PREETY GOOD INDICATOR OF ABC's TRUE LEVEL OF OBJECTIVITY.,

[ronniehm]

Wowest, thank you. Now I know why some Democrats think the way they do. It's not the ancestor to 9/11; it's the ancestor to their conspiracy theories.

And Nancy, um ... ABC "yes" movie. Sorry, that's all I've got for ya.

[nancycr1]

ABC "No" movie
The path to 9/11 was "terribly wrong"

The Road to 9-11 should clearly start with a presentation to the Kennedy administration of "Operation Northwoods," a plan to substitute a drone for a planeful of college students (who were really CIA operatives). The drone was then to be blown up over Cuba with the pretense that it was a U.S. airliner that was blown up by the Cubans. This is clearly an ancestor of the 9-11 incidents.