Hmmm, an event that happened on 9/11/2001 and movie to be aired on the weekend before the five year anniversary. Nope, can’t think of any logical reason for picking that date. Yep, sure sounds like a conspiracy.

Rick

All that said, the Dems may be overstepping their bounds with alleged accusations of revoking ABC’s broadcasting license. They’re perfectly within their rights to pressure ABC into dumping the mini-series, but threatening censorship on the network for non-compliance is a far greater sin than airing a propaganda film. I hope the Dems don’t get stupid about this….because threating license revokation would be getting stupid.

The series is reportedly harsh on both Dems and Repubs; only your side is whining.

And, WOW, Bush got a memo saying something might or might not happen on some indeterminate date!!!!

Perhaps he should have started some domestic/international surveillance to uncover the plot; no, can’t do THAT. I know, he shold have started monitoring international terrorist money flows; whoops, can’t do that either.

Yes. Spare me.

2.) I can’t help but think the timing of this is just a little suspect. The Republicans have to play the terrorist card again to keep from getting wiped off the map in November, but they can’t play it right now because polling shows the Republicans and Democrats to be polling fairly even on who does the best job on terrorism. Solution? Take the Democrats down a few points and let the Republicans hammer away.

3.) If this were a prime-time show that would critique the Bush Administration over Iraq as opposed to the Clinton Administration over terrorism, or even if it were going to point out the memos that Bush got about a threat in the month leading up to the attack (while Bush was on vacation in Texas), you know full well the Republicans would be squawking twice as loud. Spare me.

But I don’t recall any Republicans in Congress threatening to pull licenses and send producers to sleep with the fishes if CBS had broadcast the thing, as Insufficiently Sensitive points out. See any difference there, folks? The spectacle of Democrats horrified by an unbalanced presentation of political events by a major network on a single show they think for once gores their own precious ox is…well it’s completely typical of Democrats these days, so far given to narcissistic fixation that they can’t even see any irony in bleating their protestations over the injustice of it all, while their book shelves are lined with Michael Moore’s books, and the rest of the stuff ABC and the other networks churn out hourly reinforces their worldview.

But to act like the Mafia and threaten a broadcast license for failing to present the Mafia viewpoint is way over the line. Even the Republicans didn’t do that when CBS proposed the series on The Reagans.

So if the Democrats take over the Congress, may we expect a continuation of this sort of thuggery to enforce the broadcasting of their party line?

Reding says: “they hardly have moral authority to criticize a miniseries that’s far more balanced: it even plays into their narrative that the Republican Congress was more interested in prosecuting Clinton for the Lewinsky scandal than fighting terrorism.”

Partisan? You can quibble over whether it’s erroneous, but based on descriptions I’ve heard here, I hardly think it’s “partisan.”