LCD Lite, anyone?
If an akturr can’t understand it, it’s gotta be false
A particular point of contention was a scene in which O’Neill, observing reams of Arabic documents, asks his assistant, “Do we have Arab translators?” only to be told, “I don’t know of any. I’ll call around.”
“Keitel couldn’t understand why the FBI didn’t have Arabic translators, so the dialogue was changed on the spot,” said a script supervisor.
*eye roll*
Then there’s the BDS crowd:
The perverse obstinance of ABC/Disney in plowing ahead with their political hit piece on the Democratic party, “The Path to 9/11”, will likely not only subject them to defamation suits from Bill Clinton himself, and from his cabinet officials that they smeared, they deserve to be prosecuted by the Federal Election Commission (F.E.C.) for campaign finance law violations. And if enough of us raise our voices, we can make it happen.
Although it was previewed only to hard core right wing ideologues (even Clinton was refused a request for an advance copy), enough has leaked out about its gross distortions of fact and malicious bias for there to be a mounting groundswell of condemnation of the planned broadcast, and demands that it be pulled entirely. Especially suspicious is the fact that the production, with a reported cost of 40 million dollars, is to be aired without commercials. And if that weren’t bad enough, they are coordinating with the White House to let Bush give a speech right in the middle of the second installment.
Winners of the Makin’ Shit Up Award of the Week!
The White House had all the broadcasters scurrying Friday to reschedule its primetime lineups for Monday to make room for Bush, who is slated to give a speech at 9 p.m. ET ...Fox will bump the premiere of new drama “Vanished” by 18 minutes ... CBS is slotting “The New Adventures of Old Christine” to air at 8:30 p.m., and the special 9/11 edition of “Two and a Half Men” will follow Bush at 9:25 p.m.
ok—I made that 2 1/2 ‘Men’ part up.
Air Force Lt. Col. [Ret.] Robert “Buzz” Patterson told WND he recognizes the television production conflates several events [hence the fictionalized part e-C], but, in terms of conveying how the Clinton administration handled its opportunities to get bin Laden, it’s “100 percent factually correct,” he said.
“I was there with Clinton and (National Security Adviser Sandy) Berger and watched the missed opportunities occur,” ...
I dunno ‘bout y’all, but I’m headed to Safeway to get some munchies for tonight’s movie marathon.
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