Dems whine about ABC drama


ABC is airing a drama about the buildup to 9/11 which makes the Clinton Administration look bad.

The Democrats- including former members of that administration and some of the more partisan members of the 9/11 Commission- are whining. Some of them actually claim that the drama is actually biased in favor of the Bush Administration!

Right. That Republican bias the networks are so famous for strikes again!

And ABC has at least partially caved.

Surprise!

HT: Drudge

ADDENDUM: Apparently- to the satisfaction of objective people with more information than I- the incident dramatized in the program never literally happened. It isn't simply a matter of a convenient denial by Berger and Albright.

The Democrats were right to complain- and ABC was right to remove the segment. But the Democrats have no right to browbeat ABC into removing story elements which rightly point to the Clinton administration's serious culpability in the events leading up to 9/11, and hopefully ABC will not let them.

This isn't about the flaws of the drama. It''s about the Clinton Administration's culpability for the events leading up to 9/11- and the determination of the Democrats to prevent it from becoming more widely known.

HT: Real Clear Politics, Drudge
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Anonymous said…
Remember the CBS 'Reagan' movie?

Passing fiction off as fact, regardless of motives, is irresponsible at best.

- Scott H
9/07/2006 06:14:00 PM
Robert Elart Waters said…
Yes, it is. On the other hand, when an entity manifestly biased in favor of the Clinton administration and against the Bush administration produces a drama which makes the Clinton adminsitration look bad and the Bush administration not as bad as the complainers would like, why do you jump to the conclusion that fiction is being passed off as fact? It would seem more reasonable to suspect the opposite.
9/07/2006 06:23:00 PM
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