Press Release–Hollywood-September 9, 2006
ABC Entertainment announced today that it has decided to pull its controversial film The Path to 9-11 in the wake of searing criticism from former Clinton administration officials who have yet to see the film. Former president Bill Clinton applauded the move saying that ABC made the, “right decision” and took “courageous action”, which he went on to compare to his relentless pursuit of Osama Bin Laden.
ABC also announced that a second film will replace The Path to 9-11. The new film, slated for airing next month, will be a two-part, four hour epic recreation of the dozens of phone sex calls between the president Bill Clinton and his intern, Monica Lewinsky.
The former president’s only complaint about the new film is that the part of Monica Lewinsky is being played by John Travolta.
Would the Clinton’s prefer this look at the administration’s legacy, or did that not happen either? This whole episode is an embarrassment.
ABC Gets More Pressure to Toss 9/11 Film
Former national security adviser Samuel R. Berger and former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, whose depictions are at the center of the controversy, asked Thomas Kean, the Republican ex-governor of New Jersey who led the commission looking into the attacks, to use his influence with filmmakers to pull it.
You can’t fix it,” Berger said on CNN. “You gotta yank it.”
Sandy Burglar (If the slacks don’t fit, you must admit) knows something about yanking it, after all it was he who yanked highly classified national security documents from the National Archives, by stuffing them down his pants, taking them home and then destroying them, all the while claiming it was an inadvertent mistake. Sandy Berger has tons of credibility on this topic. About as much as Paris Hilton doing a public service announcement for humility and abstinence.
This whole episode is tailor made for the blogosphere. On the left, righteous indignation that their boy Bubba would even have his legacy questioned. Don’t we understand that the 1990’s was an era of peace and prosperity?
On the right, Gateway Pundit offers up a reasonable theory for the white nuckle fear on display by the Clintonites over this movie.