He is mad as hell and he is not going to take it anymore! It seems he is a bit miffed that ‘The Path to 9//1″ portrays him in a negative light. He is calling on ABC to pull it or change it. ABC has put a disclaimer on the opening scene. What I find to be the irony in this is that Clinton led by poll numbers and continues to live by them. If the reports are true, the people meantioned in this article have not even seen the movie. This is based on hearsay!
A furious Bill Clinton is warning ABC that its mini-series “The Path to 9/11″ grossly misrepresents his pursuit of Osama bin Laden – and he is demanding the network “pull the drama” if changes aren’t made.
Clinton pointedly refuted several fictionalized scenes that he claims insinuate he was too distracted by the Monica Lewinsky sex scandal to care about bin Laden and that a top adviser pulled the plug on CIA operatives who were just moments away from bagging the terror master, according to a letter to ABC boss Bob Iger obtained by The Post.
The former president also disputed the portrayal of then-Secretary of State Madeleine Albright as having tipped off Pakistani officials that a strike was coming, giving bin Laden a chance to flee.
“The content of this drama is factually and incontrovertibly inaccurate and ABC has the duty to fully correct all errors or pull the drama entirely,” the four-page letter said.
The movie is set to air on Sunday and Monday nights. Monday is the fifth anniversary of the attacks.
Based on the 9/11 commission’s report, the miniseries is also being provided to high schools as a teaching aid – although ABC admits key scenes are dramatizations.
The letter, written by Bruce Lindsey, head of the Clinton Foundation, and Douglas Bond, a top lawyer in Clinton’s office, accuses the ABC drama of “bias” and a “fictitious rewriting of history that will be misinterpreted by millions of Americans.”
Clinton, whose aides first learned from a TV trailer about a week ago that the miniseries would slam his administration, was “surprised” and “incredulous” when told about the film’s slant, sources said.
Albright and former National Security Advisor Sandy Berger also dashed off letters(Sandy wrote his on the back of documents found in his pants) to Iger, accusing the network of lying in the miniseries and demanding changes.
Those are the facts!
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Why does this surprise anyone? These fucks will do anything to protect his bullshit “legacy”…….
1. Surplus – never existed
2. middle east peace…HA!
3. fight terrorism? oh my
Legacy of Klinton era.. bullshit, blowjobs, surrender in Somalia, daring abduction of 8 year old cuban boy, and burning the shit out of the Branch Davidians…
way to go, Bill.
AMEN
I bet the Democrats porpose a bill to move September to another place on the calender so as not to have this kind of reminder affect anymore election:shock:
Whats bubba afraid of is he afraid that ABC will ruin his image in the liberal camp? wow it looks like slick willie has something to hide:lol:
I think he’s more concerned with slander…
Path to 9/11
Writer admits ‘improvised’ scenes; FBI consultant quit show, ‘they made things up.’
(from rawstory…)
5.
OI will make the same appeal to you that I do to these other folks when they quote markedly conservatively biased sites like Freepers, Rush Limbaugh and Newmax: Yoiur sources are highly questionable. Rawstory is like Newsmax- they try to scoop stories ahead of time and the result is they are wrong about 50% of the time. Thinkprogress has been caught circulating just plain lies before.
Credible sources, people!
6-Yes, as of yesterday Ted, Thinkprogress had a link to atrios claiming that Bubba was denied a copy. When i followed the link…it said “according to a source”…Wouldn’t everyone be allowed such freedom when writing.
So we are qibbling over whether or not Sandy Berger slammed a phone down?
“Mr. Berger’s character is also seen abruptly hanging up during a conversation with a C.I.A. officer at a critical moment of a military operation. In an interview yesterday with KRLA-AM in Los Angeles, Cyrus Nowrasteh, the mini-series’ screenwriter and one of its producers, said that moment had been improvised.
“Sandy Berger did not slam down the phone,”Mr. Nowrasteh said. “That is not in the report. That was not scripted. But you know when you’re making a movie, a lot of things happen on set that are unscripted. Accidents occur, spontaneous reactions of actors performing a role take place. It’s the job of the filmmaker to say, ‘You know, maybe we can use that.’ “
We are quibbling over inaccurate descriptions of Clinton officials response to made-up situations.
But, again, I will say: Who Cares? Clinton and the left should relax. As long as the show is not pretending to be factual then that’s OK by me.
If they put a disclaimer at the beginning that says “this is a fictional, dramatized account blahblahblah”…that’s fine.
It’s…just…a…movie.
It’s made up. Pretend stuff. Why get upset over something that isn’t real?
Please, don’t get me started on sources.
So now I have to scream “crappy source Peejz” everytime you post something from a rightwing news site?
Why do you see the speck that is in your brother’s eye, but don’t consider the beam that is in your own eye?
Of course you don’t SF, but in the case of Think Progress…just be careful..you are smarter than the average reader and between them, Atrios and Kos, they are writing for the lowest common denominator that doesn’t have the ability to fact check. I wasn’t kidding about those links in 7. That is but 1 example. All I would urge is caution…you know we will pounce, just as you would to us.:wink:
Somebody using pheromons to attract women, whether is real it?
Where they can be got?