Comments on: ABC Defends 9/11 Miniseries

Networks Says Criticisms By Ex-Clinton Staffers Are Premature

[getcentered]

Karl Rove is the real winner here with the systematic placement of talking points, to redirect public opinion, with half baked stories about whether or not other presidents failed us as well, and in doing so the conservative/GOP public get to relieve themselves from blame for the thousands of needless deaths in Iraq. He needs the folks that voted for Bush to stop feeling bad about having some responsibility for all the dead and injured US service men and women, and the civilian and child deaths and injuries. You all remember the term "Flip Flop" right? Now it is reverberating in the heads of all those GOP voters. See Rove made it a "sin" to change your mind. So what you have is a GOP voting public that is afraid to change their minds but need more talking points to be able to keep their justifications, for whatever policies, in reality. We have been divided, sensationalized and exploited. The great leaders are the ones who can change, like McCain for example. He has switch parties and no one got the media to repeat, "flip flopper" ten billion times because of it. Get Centered! Get Real. If we don't we'll be high on money and low on cash for the rest of our lives. Remember this: The days are long but the weeks are fast. So the next time cursory leaders want to take power in the United States, I'm not going to let them use up a tenth of my life doing it.

[ronniehm]

tjp, by objective, do you mean networks that never show anything you disagree with?

[ronniehm]

No, they're reminding us of what bin Laden was doing between the first WTC attack and the second WTC attack. 7 years of Clinton's watch and 8 months of Bush's watch. But then I guess you'd blame the quarterback who came into the game with 5 minutes to go down 72-3 just because the final score happened under his watch. Yeah, that makes sense.

[tjp1231]

We seem to have only two networks left that are objective: CBS and NBC. I don't see how anyone who is not a Limbaugh follower would ever trust ABC again. I plan to boycott Disney and ABC.

Perhaps it is no accident that ABC was not the home of Edward R. Murrow and Walter Cronkite.

[sagethrasher]

The ignorance of some of the comments posted here shows what a disservice ABC is doing in adding to the general confusion about who, what, when. Keeping track of the actual players involved, the decisions made, and the mistakes made is nearly a fulltime job; there no need to contribute to the confusion by conflating people and events under the name of dramatic license.

This isn't some costume drama taking liberties with Homer or Shakespeare; this is about a complex, multifaceted war we are STILL FIGHTING and the public deserves to see reality. Disney can remake the film however they want in 2101, but not now.

[agnim]

By the look of things, ABC isn't reminding Americans that the 911 'day of infamy' took place on bush's watch.
The media continue to use propaganda to distract and deceive and delude unwitting Americans about who r really culpable for 911.

Little wonder then that a recent CNN poll is suggesting that 43% of Americans still believe that Madman Hussein of Iraq had a hand in 911: The mainstream media continue to feed Americans lies and propaganda for the sake of profit.

[edgeofdoom]

I think that people should question the motives of any group that can afford five hours of prime tv time for a drama staged to inform or misinform the masses just prior to elections. we are not stupid.

[creoleguy32]

Call your cable company to remove ABC

[creoleguy32]

FU*K ABC. There a buch of Nazi who are racist against blacks, *** and I guess npow there right wing kooks! I will call my cable company to see if I can have them removed-i dont even want them in my selection.

[fredegrar]

Maybe we should stop sniping at each other. 9/11 wasn't Clinton's fault. It wasn't Bush's fault. It was Bin Laden's doing. Could someone have prevented it? Sure. The clues were there. Unfortunately, for whatever reason, neither admin did. Let's just go take it out on Osama instead of further dividing ourselves. I'm generally a pretty liberal guy (in a more classical sense of the term than the 'tree-hugging/feminazi/animal rights' sense that a lot of conservatives seem to assume). I like all of Michael Moore's movies, but I know that I can't take all of what he portrays at face value. If we've come to the point where people can't make movies that aren't 100% accurate because we think the general public is too dumb to think critically and they'll just believe whatever they hear, our society is doomed anyway.