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"Path to 9/11": Lousy TV

I watched a half hour. I found it bathetic. The acting is miserable. It's disjointed and hard to follow. It's a GOP commercial for more wiretapping, racial profiling and xenophobia.

I'm changing the channel now. Did anyone else watch it?

Update: I tuned back in for the last half hour. They replayed the disclaimer that this is not a documentary and that it is based on several published reports in addition to the 9/11 Commission report, and some scenes are fictionalized. They also shamelessly played President Clinton's statement that he did not have sexual relations with "that woman" and showed a picture of Monica Lewinsky. Then they played scenes with Sandy Berger, basically alleging he made a decision not to kill bin Laden when he could have, which in turn resulted in the Embassy bombings.

Then they showed a pale, President Clinton with the volume almost muted saying "We will do everything in our power...."

Pure fiction. Pure dreck. I hope Bill Clinton,Madeline Albright and Sandy Berger sue ABC.

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    Re: "Path to 9/11": Lousy TV (none / 0) (#1)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Sun Sep 10, 2006 at 07:17:11 PM EST
    Bo. Not much more to say than that.

    Re: "Path to 9/11": Lousy TV (none / 0) (#5)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Sun Sep 10, 2006 at 07:46:22 PM EST
    True to my principles, I avoid the living room and the T.V. I'm not watching a politicized version of 911. Not me. Why, ABC might call doing a viewer poll [never happened]. I want to report not watching ABC. My wife, on the other hand, said, "I think I'll watch it." Because our log cabin is small, we have earphones, so if one of us watches the T.V., the other doesn't have to listen. After a while, she wanders into the computer room where I'm being principled and says. "I don't know if that movie is contraversial or not. What it is, is, it's just not very good. So I'm watching the other channel. They've got this amazing footage of..." And she proceeds to describe it in great detail - the footage from the French Journalists during the actual attack on the Twin Towers. Now there's an outcome I can get with. It never occurred to me it would simply be a bad movie. I'll settle for that...

    Re: "Path to 9/11": Lousy TV (none / 0) (#6)
    by jimakaPPJ on Sun Sep 10, 2006 at 07:49:11 PM EST
    Well since no one watched, why all the screaming??

    Re: "Path to 9/11": Lousy TV (none / 0) (#9)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Sun Sep 10, 2006 at 08:29:38 PM EST
    If anyone was screaming, your question would be a valid one, PPJ.

    Re: "Path to 9/11": Lousy TV (none / 0) (#10)
    by Sailor on Sun Sep 10, 2006 at 08:44:59 PM EST
    Just like ppj to claim 'no one watched' based on a 3 person sample of a left leaning blog.

    Re: "Path to 9/11": Lousy TV (none / 0) (#2)
    by orionATL on Mon Sep 11, 2006 at 12:11:43 AM EST
    funny. i've read a comment similar to this on another web log. maybe technical incompetence trumps questions about fair representation of about history or about the morality of misrepresentation.

    Re: "Path to 9/11": Lousy TV (none / 0) (#3)
    by learned hound on Mon Sep 11, 2006 at 12:11:43 AM EST
    The main points: dark people are killers, Pakistan is full of killers, New York is full of dark killers from Pakistan. Can I watch the football game now? Please?

    Re: "Path to 9/11": Lousy TV (none / 0) (#4)
    by pax on Mon Sep 11, 2006 at 12:11:43 AM EST
    Before I ever cared about, or paid attention to politics or those that claim to be able to run our country, I loved football. I'm watching Peyton and Eli. It's what I would be doing normallly and I see no reason to watch what I already know is a pack of lies....

    Re: "Path to 9/11": Lousy TV (none / 0) (#7)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Mon Sep 11, 2006 at 12:11:43 AM EST
    I watched it too, up to the Sandy Berger scene they were supposed to revisit. Not. I then fired off an email to Albuquerque abc affilate (owned by hearst} expressing my desire they be sued and their sponsers boycotted.

    Re: "Path to 9/11": Lousy TV (none / 0) (#8)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Mon Sep 11, 2006 at 12:11:43 AM EST
    I refused to watch that fake Rove drivel. I have seen a few trickles coming in about it and it's bad. I heard it is pure gop talking points. I can't wait for the fiction of tomorrow where they show "the decider" being manly.

    Re: "Path to 9/11": Lousy TV (none / 0) (#11)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Mon Sep 11, 2006 at 06:40:39 AM EST
    Having watched the first half of the ABC "Lets trash Clinton" mini series, I will retire to my shop and work on my hotrod for the second half. I wrote to my local newspaper two days after Bush was "Selected" in 2000 and said he was "Dumber that a bag of hammers". Within days I recieved several hate mails denouncing me as fool. Well look into the mirror if you voted for him to see who the real fools are.