http://thinkprogress.org/2006/09/08/conservatives-on-the-path-to-911-unacceptable-defamatory-strewn-with-a-lot-of-problems-zero-factual-basis/

September 8, 2006

Conservatives On The Path to 9/11: 'Unacceptable,' 'Defamatory,'
'Strewn With A Lot of Problems,' 'Zero Factual Basis'


The criticism against ABC's docudrama The Path to 9/11 isn't isolated
simply to Clinton aides. In fact, many conservatives have criticized
the film.

Here are a few examples --

John Podhoretz, conservative columnist and Fox News contributor:


The portrait of Albright is an unacceptable revision of recent history
and an unfair mark on a public servant who, no matter her
shortcomings, doesn't deserve to be remembered by millions of
Americans as the inadvertent (and truculent) savior of Osama bin
Laden.

Samuel Berger, Clinton's national security adviser, also seems to have
just cause for complaint.

[NYPost, 9/8/06]
http://www.nypost.com/postopinion/opedcolumnists/path_missed_real_9_11_story_opedcolumnists_john_podhoretz.htm


James Taranto, OpinionJournal.com editor:

The Clintonites may have a point here.

A few years ago, when the shoe was on the other foot, we were happy to
see CBS scotch "The Reagans."

[OpinionJournal, 9/7/06]
http://www.opinionjournal.com/best/?id=110008907


Dean Barnett, conservative commentator posting on Hugh Hewitt's blog:

One can (if one so chooses) give the filmmakers artistic license to
[fabricate a scene]. But if that is what they have done, conservative
analysts who back this movie as a historical document will mortgage
their credibility doing so.

[Hugh Hewitt blog, 9/6/06]
http://hughhewitt.townhall.com/g/65316903-0da4-4c2e-8bbe-09e4db570437


Chris Wallace, Fox News Sunday anchor:

When you put somebody on the screen and say that's Madeleine Albright
and she said this in a specific conversation and she never did say it,
I think it's slanderous, I think it's defamatory and I think that ABC
and Disney should be held to account.

[Fox, 9/8/06]
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2006/09/08/chris-wallace-slams-abc-on-911-project-i-think-its-slanderous-i-think-its-defamatory-and-i-think-that-abc-and-disney-should-be-held-to-account/


Captain's Quarters blog:

If the Democrats do not like what ABC wants to broadcast, they have
every right to protest it - and in this case, they had a point.

[Captain Quarter's blog, 9/7/06]
http://www.captainsquartersblog.com/mt/archives/008007.php


Bill Bennett, conservative author, radio host, and TV commentator:

Look, "The Path to 9/11? is strewn with a lot of problems and I think
there were problems in the Clinton administration. But that's no
reason to falsify the record, falsify conversations by either the
president or his leading people and you know it just shouldn't happen.

[CNN, 9/8/06]
http://thinkprogress.org/2006/09/08/video-bill-bennett-says-abc-should-correct-those-inaccuracies-in-path-to-911/


Seth Liebsohn, Claremont Institute fellow and produce of Bill
Bennett's radio show:

I oppose this miniseries as well if it is fiction dressed up as fact,
creates caricatures of real persons and events that are inaccurate,
and inserts quotes that were not uttered, especially to make a point
that was not intended.

[Glenn Greewald's blog, 9/7/06]
http://glenngreenwald.blogspot.com/2006/09/bush-supporters-condemn-fictionalized.html


Richard Miniter, conservative author of "Losing bin Laden: How Bill
Clinton's Failures Unleashed Global Terror":

If people wanted to be critical of the Clinton years there's things
they could have said, but the idea that someone had bin Laden in his
sights in 1998 or any other time and Sandy Berger refused to pull the
trigger, there's zero factual basis for that.

[CNN, 9/7/06] http://thinkprogress.org/2006/09/07/miniter-911/


Brent Bozell, founder and president of the conservative Media Research
Center:

I think that if you have a scene, or two scenes, or three scenes,
important scenes, that do not have any bearing on reality and you can
edit them, I think they should edit them.

[MSNBC, 9/6/06] http://thinkprogress.org/2006/09/07/bozell-edit/


UPDATE:

Bill O'Reilly, Fox News pundit:

Ok, we're talking about the run up to 9-11 and this movie that they're
re-cutting now and they should because it puts words in the mouth of
real people, actors playing real people that they didn't say and its
wrong.

[O'Reilly radio show, 9/8/06]

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These rightard assholes are all afraid that the *****'s gonna turn
around and kick 'em in the balls some day.

Harry