Rewrite Wing
It’s brilliant because it’s so simple: just tell the story you want people to believe:
… Limbaugh:
And from what I have been told, the film really zeros in on the shortcomings of the Clinton administration in doing anything about militant Islamofascism or terrorism during its administration. It cites failures of Bill Clinton and Madeleine Albright and Sandy Burglar.
How does it deal with President Bush? Salon has a review:
Condoleezza Rice gets that fated memo about planes flying into buildings, and makes it very clear to anyone who’ll listen just how concerned President Bush is about these terrorist threats — despite the fact that we’re given little concrete evidence of the president’s concern or interest in taking action. …
The director of the film, David Cunningham, is already backtracking about its accuracy, saying “this is not a documentary.” OK, fair enough. But the movie is being billed as “based on The 9/11 Commission Report.”
It’s so much simpler when wishing makes it so.
Problem is, wishing on a major media outlet like ABC can make it “so” in the minds of a lot of uncritical viewers.
Dollars before democracy; enjoy the show.
September 8, 2006 at 10:03 am
More liberal Censorship. We’ll never hear the phrase “Free Speech” come from the left in this “controversy”!
September 8, 2006 at 12:28 pm
Hi, Jim. Thanks for posting! Seriously!
Let me ask you this: if the information is inaccurate — as it has been demonstrably proven to be — is it still “free speech”? We don’t give people on a witness stand the freedom to give false information (perjury). We don’t let advertisers make false claims abou their products. We punish people who lie on federal documents, tax returns, job applications, etc. (Etc., etc.)
So, it’s not really a free speech issue, right? Can we agree on that? And I don’t think any of the bloggers I’ve linked to have said: “These people do not have a right to produce a movie about 9/11.” What they object to is the (dramatic! partisan!) misrepresentation of facts, particularly under the umbrella of credibilty gained by a) referencing the 9/11 Commission Report, b) referring to the piece as a “docudrama”, and c) distributing the film as educational material to schools.
What do you think?