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Saturday, September 09, 2006
Path to 9/11
Defamatory Sandy Berger Scene
in 9/11 Show is the
Culmination of the Entire First Half: it is Impossible to Edit
it Out
by John in DC - 9/09/2006 04:33:00 PM
Okay, I just watched the Sandy Berger scene. It is beyond defamatory. The reports you've read do not do it justice.
We are 1 hour 54 minutes into the film, it is the culmination of the entire first two hours of the film. CIA agents on the ground with Commander Massoud have found bin Laden. They have him pin-pointed in a house. They are looking at the house with binoculars. They are on the phone with the CIA, that has patched in Clinton National Security Adviser Sandy Berger. Berger, like a bumbling ass, sits there, looking every which way, refusing to give them clearance to grab bin Laden who is in their literal grasp. The woman at the CIA has to lecture Berger about how intelligence works, like he's some kind of moron. Berger literally looks like a deer caught in the headlights. He's clueless, an idiot, a moron, unfit to serve in any public office - hell, I wouldn't hire the guy to mow my lawn. After a very long pause, the agents are begging Berger to take some responsibility, stop being such a wuss, stop trying to cover his chicken-shit ass, you see Berger reach forward and the phone line goes dead. Clearly Berger has ended the call. Osama gets away. And Sandy Berger is personally responsible for killing 3,000 Americans and bringing down the World Trade Center twin towers.
Not only is this scene far more defamatory than any review I've seen to date, this is the key scene of the entire first half of the movie. You can't cut it, or a good portion of the movie just makes no sense. But Disney/ABC can't leave the scene is because it simply did not happen. CIA agents weren't on the ground, they weren't with Massoud, nobody had bin Laden in their grasp, and Berger never refused to give the order to get the guy.
The entire culmination of the first half of the show is one big fat lie. This isn't just a small scene with a small error. It's the scene and it NEVER HAPPENED AT ALL.
Disney/ABC took a national tragedy and turned it into their own personal soap opera. If this thing airs, Disney and ABC are going to see the kind of campaign that they have never seen before. If they thought the past week has been hell, just wait for the next seven weeks leading up to the election when we take them on legislatively, legally, and in the public sphere for abusing the memory of 3,000 dead Americans.
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American Airlines to blame for
9/11,
ABC/Disney Falsely Claims
by John in DC - 9/09/2006 02:12:00 PM
I'm just wondering when American Airlines is going to realize that it's about to be defamed in the entire English-speaking world.
As I first noted yesterday, I have the entire "Path to 9/11" video. And one of the very first scenes makes it explicitly clear that American Airlines had Mohammad Atta in its grasp, warning lights flashing on the computer screen, yet the airline simply blew off the threat and helped Atta kill 3,000 Americans.
Unfortunately, it's a total lie.
Here's what the "Path to 9/11" claims American Airlines did on the morning of September 11. According to Disney/ABC, American Airlines at Boston Logan had Mohammad Atta at its ticket counter and a warning came up on the screen when he tried to check in. The AA employee called a supervisor who kind of shrugged and said, blithely, just let him through. The first employee, shocked, turned to her supervisor and said, shouldn't we search him? The American Airlines supervisor responds, nah, just hold his luggage until he boards the plane. The scene is clearly intended to make American Airlines look negligent.
Only problem? It never happened.
First off, Disney/ABC got the airport wrong. The warning for Mohammad Atta's ticket popped up in Portland, Maine, not at Boston Logan as the tv show claims (this is on page 1 of the September 11 Commission report).
Second, the security rules at the time said nothing about searching a passenger who has a "warning" pop up, they only required that the bags be held until the passenger boarded. The Disney/ABC tv show, on the other hand, clearly tries to imply that American Airlines violated the security rules in letting Atta go. This simply isn't true. (This is also on page 1 of the report.)
But most importantly, Disney/ABC implicated the wrong airline.
And I quote the Director of the FBI:
On September 11, at 6:00 AM, Mohamed Atta and Abdul Aziz al Omari
boarded a U.S. Airways flight leaving Portland, Maine en route
to Boston's Logan Airport.
The 9/11 Report, on page 1 of all things, makes clear that it
was in Portland that Atta's warning came up. And FBI director
Mueller makes clear that Atta flew US Airways Express from Portland
to Boston. So, Disney/ABC, in the first ten minutes of its error-riddled
tv show - a show about to be broadcast to the entire English-speaking
world this Sunday - paints American Airlines as one of the most
irresponsible air carriers on the planet. An air carrier that
is directly responsible for killing 3,000 Americans because its
own employees are too lazy to follow safety rules.
And Disney/ABC got it totally wrong, defaming one of the largest airlines in the world.
I really hope someone at American Airlines realizes that come
12 hours in Australia and New Zealand, when the show starts to
air, no one is going to fly American ever again. (I of course
tried to call American's government affairs office in DC to let
them know this and the woman hung up on me. Oh well.)
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Disney/ABC Markets Defamatory
9/11 Show as "Exactly What Happened" in Ads Abroad
by John in DC - 9/09/2006 12:22:00 PM
This is the ad for the show that Disney/ABC has running on channel 7 in Australia. My inner lawyer is just relishing the lawsuits that Disney/ABC and every TV network around the world are going to face come Monday morning. As the other stories now prove, Disney/ABC knew OVER ONE YEAR AGO that their show was riddled with inaccuracies, they refused to fix it, and then they ran ads claiming the show was "exactly what happened." That is a prima facie case for libel, even against a public figure.
As someone just mentioned to me, when this is all over ABC is going to stand for Albright, Berger and Clinton.
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Maureen Dowd asks why anyone
would make things up about 9/11
by Joe in DC - 9/09/2006 11:37:00 AM
Maureen Dowd weighs in on the ABC/Disney scandal. She asks the
right question -- because both Bush and Disney are making things
up about 9/11:
Why do presidents and filmmakers dealing with the most stunning events in recent American history feel the need to go beyond facts?
Dowd also provides some insights and answers her own question:
The ABC movie promoted itself as a serious work based on the 9/11 commission report and featuring Tom Kean, the commission’s co-chairman, as a co-executive producer. (It’s impossible to imagine Earl Warren producing a movie about the events in Dallas.) But if it’s making a claim upon people’s attention as a trustworthy and accurate description of events that bear on all our lives, you’ve got to stick with the truth. You can’t pick and choose when you want it to be history and when you want it to be art. (Quel art.)Sandy Berger yelped about a scene that depicted him refusing to authorize a military strike to kill Osama and slamming down the phone on a C.I.A. officer at a key moment. Cyrus Nowrasteh, the Republican and Limbaugh pal who served as the writer and a producer, told KRLA-AM in Los Angeles that the scene was improvised.
They distorted history to throw in a standard cliché of melodrama? (The 9/11 Commission Report as Douglas Sirk would have filmed it.) Why compromise your movie by adding tacky things that don’t increase its aesthetic power and detract from its moral power?
This week, President Bush will continue to undermine the moral
power of "September the 11th" for partisan political
purposes. ABC and Disney are doing the same thing.
The American people can handle the truth about 9/11...for most of us, it's not history, it's part of our lives.
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NYT: FBI Agents Warned Disney/ABC
that Film Was Inaccurate
A Year Ago, Disney/ABC Refused to Fix It
From the
New York Times
Sept. 9, 2006
John in DC wrote: "Disney/ABC was told about the errors a year ago and refused to correct them. You want libel? You got libel. This is an intentional tort now, full-blown malice." The New York Times wrote:
Two retired F.B.I. agents said today that they had rejected advisory roles on the disputed ABC mini-series, “The Path to 9/11,” because of concerns about the program’s accuracy.One of the agents, Thomas E. Nicoletti, was hired by the producers of the mini-series in July 2005 to oversee its technical accuracy, but left after less than a month because of scenes he believed were misleading or just false....
Chief among Mr. Nicoletti’s concerns were scenes that placed people at places they had not been present at and scenes that depicted events that were out of chronological order.
“There were so many inaccuracies,” he said.
Mr. Nicoletti said he asked the producers to make changes, but was rebuffed. “I’m well aware of what’s dramatic license and what’s historical inaccuracy,” Mr. Nicoletti said. “And this had a lot of historical inaccuracy.”
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Friday, September 08, 2006
Democratic party leader Howard Dean calls on Disney/ABC
to reveal funders of slanderous 9/11 fictional documentary
by John in DC - 9/08/2006 08:03:00 PM
A lot more legal terms being thrown around by senior Democrats. Use of the public airwaves is a term mentioned by a lot of Democrats in the past few days. The simple fact is that we do not give companies like Disney/ABC access to the public airwaves so that they can illegally try to influence our elections. When that happens, we step in and take away their rights to broadcast, as any democratic government would do when any entity, private or public, tries to illegally undercut our democracy.
Disney/ABC had better stop kissing up to the current administration and start worrying about the next one.
From an email I just received from the DNC:
Today, Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean called on ABC/Disney to reveal who poured $40 million into the slanderous 9/11 propoganda film they plan to start airing starting Sunday, and issued the following statement:"It's deeply disappointing that ABC would put something on the air that has been proven to have factual inaccuracies about one of the most important events in our nation's history. ABC should not air this distortion of history.
"The fact that the writer/producer of the piece is a well known conservative raises additional concerns and questions. The American people deserve to know who funded this $40 million dollar slanderous propaganda. Use of the public airwaves is a privilege conferred upon broadcasters in the public interest. It comes with a responsibility to the American people and a responsibility to the truth."
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NEW: ABC Apologists
Defend Flawed
Miniseries as Fake but True
From Media Matters
ABC's heavily promoted miniseries,
The Path to 9/11,
billed as being "based solely and completely on the
9/11 Commission Report" has now proven to be a
fraudulent attack on former President Bill Clinton
and whitewash of President Bush's record. Filmmakers
have acknowledged basing the film in part on a book
by a Bush administration
PR official.
Discover the Secret
Right-Wing
Network Behind ABC's 9/11 Deception
Less than 72 hours before ABC's
"The Path to 9/11"
is scheduled to air, the network is suddenly under siege.
On Tuesday, ABC was forced to concede that "The Path
to 9/11" is "a dramatization, not a documentary."
The film
deceptively invents scenes to depict former President Bill
Clinton's handling of
the Al Qaeda threat.
All About Youth With A Mission (YWAM) and the Making of a Film
Starting in July, along with
our 'normal' discipleship
efforts in YWAM, we will officially join The Film Institute -
a new auxiliary branch of Youth With A Mission focused
on tranforming film and television from the inside out.
TFI's first project is a doozy: simply being referred to as:
The Untitled History Project, it is already being called
the television event of the decade and not one second has
been put to film yet. Talk
about great expectations!
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