Berger says edit of ‘Path to 9/11′ still inaccurate
Steve Safran September 11th, 2006
Sandy Berger says the version of “The Path to 9/11″ ABC began airing Sunday night is still inaccurate, even after some editing. In a statement released Monday, Berger writes “ABC had an opportunity to edit this film to eliminate scenes that were untrue and in many cases directly contradicted by the 9/11 Report. They did not do so.” Think this one will end up as a lawsuit? “The Path to 9/11″ (Or, as I now call it, “24: With George Tenent as Jack Bauer”) continues tonight.
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1. Rocker | September 11th, 2006 at 2:23 pm
It will not end up as a lawsuit, because that would entail disclosure of a lot of inside info and shine a real spotlight on the unsung heroic efforts of the Clinton administration to derail terrorism in general, and UBL specifically. Yes, I’m being sarcastic. There is such a thing as artistic license…I think they’d have to show more than “this item or that item is technically wrong”…they’d have to show a deliberate effort to mischaracterize the mindset in that administration (and the pre-9/11 Bush admin for that matter too). I doubt seriously they want to go there.
2. Mitch | September 11th, 2006 at 5:00 pm
Agreed. If Sandy brings a lawsuit he’s gonna be asked a lot of questions about what he was stuffing in his socks.
3. Irene | September 11th, 2006 at 5:56 pm
What’s he going to do? Whip a lawsuit from his pants.
Begrer and the Clintons know their legacy. It lies at Ground Zero.
4. thedetroitchannel | September 11th, 2006 at 6:41 pm
cory and steve,
you guys are amazing!
lost remote has just found the only three out of every ten people who still support this current admin.
5. Charlie Sierra | September 11th, 2006 at 10:11 pm
Dear Dumbass_from_Detriot,
I’d make that the 4th person who supports this administration.
There are millions and millions of us, no matter the 24/7 echo chamber coming from the lame-stream drive-by major media companies.
PS. I especially liked the veiled threats from Democrats to pull ABC’s FCC licenses if they didn’t yield to their blatantly and heavy-handed attempts to white(water?)wash history.
ROTFLAMO.
What about our civil liberties? Oh yeah, shutup that’s only to be directed at Republicans. lol.
6. Anonymous | September 11th, 2006 at 11:36 pm
I can’t believe that anyone actually watched the things. Don’t we pretty much know what happened and why didn’t the failure of the two theatrical films force the networks to at least consider the public’s lack of appetite for reminders on this subject?
7. thedetroitchannel | September 12th, 2006 at 5:17 am
ps. and i especially liked your freudian slip “det-R-I-O-T”.
8. Rocker | September 12th, 2006 at 6:08 am
Actually, my comment had nothing to do with Democrats/Republicans. My real point is that everyone…the entire country…people on this thread included…self included…were asleep at the switch with respect to terorrism. UBL went on primetime TV in 1998 with John Miller on ABC and made it very clear he was coming after us…and Miller explained clearly there wasn’t much to stop him. And we yawned and went about our daily business. This whole partisan thing is so old. After the next attack, Repubs can explain their incompetence, and Dems can explain their undermining of things like the Patriot Act.
9. thedetroitchannel | September 12th, 2006 at 6:19 am
hey, neither did mine.
as so often is the case i was simply trying to make a joke.
i would recommend heading over to “lr pal” mike’s blog wkrngm (dot) com and reading his thoughts on the subject.
10. adm | September 12th, 2006 at 8:38 am
Steve, I think that’s “24: With Donnie Wahlberg as Jack Bauer”. Tenet is portrayed (at least in pt 2), as a somewhat bungling bureaucrat who is afraid to take action. Donnie’s CIA Agent, “Kirk,” takes on the Bauer role, but no one will listen to him. The miniseries is in large part about how the bosses never listen to the working man: Richard Clarke is ignored (then marginalized), Kirk is ignored, John O’Neill is ignored (then marginalized), and the INS guy is threatened with repercussions. Northern Alliance leader Massoud might be the only favorably-portrayed boss in the whole thing.
Berger might have a point, but part 2 didn’t cast the Clinton administration in too much of an unfavorable light, except for Tenet. (I didn’t see part 1.)
11. David Johnson | September 12th, 2006 at 1:42 pm
i find it rather amusing that we could have completely avoided the terrorist threat if we had just let the surly new kid on the block put a cap in osama.
\”sure, i may sing bop shoo bop, but i don\’t like it.\”
http://www.all-pictures-photos.com/images/new-kids-on-the-block/new-kids-on-the-block-039-img.jpg
12. WB | September 12th, 2006 at 10:38 pm
I thought the movie was a little slow but understood they had to stretch it over two nights. My understanding didn’t make it more interesting. This movie was not even close to the actual documentary that CBS broadcast at the same time which was a fitting tribute to 9/11.
All the noise about the propagandist intent of “Path to 9/11” certainly helped ratings but I don’t see this as a win for Disney as they have entered a partisan political environment that is beyond ugly. Sadly it seems that the partisan junk spewing out of Washington is so damaging our ability to relate as Americans that we are incapable of identifying something that is claimed to be based on “The 9/11 Commission Report” and then intentionally strays from it as propaganda. I find that incredibly strange as this should be the definition of propaganda in an informed world. If we as a people want to survive this threat we need to apply common sense to our political views at some point.
Overall this will be a loss for ABC as their credibility will take a big hit as the facts come out. Do you really want to watch the “news” from these guys now? Plenty of people will be asking this. Disney will really only suffer from a significant boycott which is TBD. Might happen but who knows? So many people lost interest before day 2 of the drama that they may have already forgotten the lack of fact-checking.
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