No, it won’t happen because corporate interests rule the US media, and smearing the Democrats near election time is at the top of their agenda. In the Reagan case, you also had the sympathy factor as old Ronnie was suffering from Alzheimer’s and couldn’t exactly defend himself.
Well, thank you; I’d hoped that others might find my little attempt at satirical overstatement mildly amusing. However, that was before I found out that the film itself apparently goes out of its way to concoct an entirely fictional scene in which the Clinton administration prevents the CIA from going after bin Laden, yet does not bother to depict Bush’s very real actions during the actual attacks. I can’t compete with that.
I thought your post was brilliant, Terrifel.
I would ordinarily suggest that we boycott the sponsors, but…
I haven’t seen Road to Guantanamo, so I can’t comment on that, but there was a thread about the progam on Bush getting assassinated. I don’t see your link, though; Bush being killed and the aftermath doesn’t sound to me as though it’s highly partisan. As someone in the thread said, if however it’s going to be a “Bush is dead! Hahah! He deserved it!” film, then doubtless there’d be a pitting.
Certainly, because the Right didn’t have any problems with “The Reagans” docudrama, huh?
I wonder if the film will have some scenes detailing how Bush explicitly undermined the recommendations of the Hart-Rudman commission, and how he put Cheney in charge of a task force to study the issue that never once met, and how he gave FEMA responsibility for handling terrorism, under the leadership of Bush’s former campaign manager Joe Allbaugh.
Will those things be in the movie?
And remember it ain’t over yet. Didn’t the Reagan mini-series pretty much go down to the wire before it get switched over the Showtime? There was a front page article in my paper today about the uproar that Path to 9/11 was generating not only in the lefty blogosphere but among Democrats in Congress. Seems to me that if they want to make a docudrama and include “composite” scenes then they should at the very least have fictional characters in those scenes. Having Berger do or say something that vehemently denies and that is not in the 9/11 report is just sleezy.
There was some reference to that in today’s newspaper article, but there were no details. How does one go about reaching out to a -sphere? I’d also be quite curious to see how they handle the stuff concerning Bush. There’s plenty of material to portray him in a not-so-positive light, too.
I’ll bet that the anti-terrorism effort by Clinton in 1996 will be ignored.
Kind of funny how the Republicans were resisting Clinton’s anti-terror initiatives in 1996, but the attacks nearly 8 months after leaving office were his fault.
Back to ‘docudrama’ land: if ABC is admitting this is nothing like a documentary, and shouldn’t put too much reliance on the factual nature of this abomination, then why are they spending a lot of money to incorporate it into school lessons?
Lots more details at the link.
Including links to student resource sheets and discussion guides.
I have no intention of watching this piece of dreck, but I ask of any Dopers who might, a small favor. If there’s a shot from inside the towers of a plane heading towards it, get me a screencap of that, would you? I happen to think that would be a breathtakingly dramatic shot.
Including links to student resource sheets and discussion guides.
I get “url not found” on all three links.
I got an e-mail from the DFC or Democratic Party or some such thing that mention this Scholastic partnership. That’s serious, Pitworthy scuzz even if the movie itself isn’t.
Weird, me too. Yet according to the quotes and comments posted on Tuesday on this Daily Kos site, several people accessed and read the educational materials that Scholastic had posted, and contacted Scholastic about them. Apparently there was a lot of parental reaction, and a poster on that comment board who claimed to work for Scholastic said that the complaints were being brought to the executives’ attention.
Later posters noted that (at least some of) the links to the educational materials were now missing from the Scholastic site, and I can’t find a trace of them anywhere. Did Scholastic pull the formerly-linked items off their site on further investigation (and/or out of fear of bad publicity)?
Wandering about, I’ve seen several references to those sites being up, being down again, leading to rumors that they were bailing, then counter-rumors that they weren’t, and so on and so forth.
Anybody seen anything to reference how much money this splendid excercise in patriotic fervor is costing ABC?
Now cnn.com’s reporting as their lead story that senior Clinton administration officials are demanding that the movie be pulled unless or until egregious falsehoods involving them get straightened out.
This could get interesting. Will we see the Republicans who screamed for the Reagan movie to be deep-sixed now stoutly defending ABC’s right to show this historical reenactment?
From the CNN link I just posted: