The Path To Censorship

A furious former President Bush is warning ABC that its mini-series "The Path to Kuwait" grossly misrepresents his actions in the first Iraq war - and he is demanding the network "pull the drama" if changes aren't made.

Imagine the screams. Imagine the outrage. Censorship! Abuse of power!

Actually it would never have happpened. Republicans know better than to even whisper a suggestion that a broadcast TV network should edit, or, God forbid, withdraw a drama on network TV.

But when ABC puts up a mini-series “The Path to 9/11” that dramatizes the ineffective policies and actions of the Clinton administration in the happy-go-lucky Nineties, the old Clinton War Room swings into action. As reported in The New York Post:

A furious Bill Clinton is warning ABC that its mini-series "The Path to 9/11" grossly misrepresents his pursuit of Osama bin Laden - and he is demanding the network "pull the drama" if changes aren't made.

But wait. I thought the Democrats believed that the war on terror was a Bush Lie, a put-up job to scare the American people. I thought that President Clinton believes that Global Warming is the number one problem in the world.

Why should the Clintonoids and the former president care about 9/11? It’s just a law-enforcement problem, isn’t it? Really not that important when compared to global warming, institutional racism, gay marriage, and embryonic stem cell research.

So maybe the Democrats are misleading us on the war on terror as well. They know it is important, and they know that the American people think it is important.

The problem is that they can’t appear to take the war too seriously. Their base won’t let them.

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Christopher Chantrill blogs at www.roadtothemiddleclass.com. His Road to the Middle Class is forthcoming.

Comments:

Posted by: Gary Stamper on 09/07/06 2:44pm

The "War on Terror," the way it's being fought, is bound to go the way of the "War on Drugs, the "War on Poverty," and now, the "War on the Left".....failure. Proof is all around you, but this administration doesn't care if it's right, just that it's in control. Come away from the darkside, Chris. You can be a conservative without being a neocon!

Posted by: Gary Stamper on 09/07/06 2:43pm

Further, most democrats aren't against the war on terror, they are against squandering it, our treasury, and our children's future in the wrong place and in the wrong manner for war profiteering. You know that, when the Clinton administration warned the new Bush administration their biggest problem would be Osama Bin Laden, they were ignored. Keep pointing that finger, Chris....your shadow is showing.

Posted by: Gary Stamper on 09/07/06 2:37pm

"Republicans know better than to even whisper a suggestion that a broadcast TV network should edit, or, God forbid, withdraw a drama on network TV."... How quickly you've forgotten the screaming and demands around the Reagan TV movie.....and convenient, too! The fact is, there are made-up scenes that never happened in this tripe piece of propaganda. Disney, ABC, and you, should all be ashamed to support this drivel.

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