Watch this space President Bush is on message, Sadamists are taking over the asylum and the Fourth Reich of the Apocalypse is bering down on the free world (if you can afford the subscription). So where is the liberal media in it’s rebuttal or backing of the march for war? Well here it is ABC’s “THE PATH TO 9/11″ which the ever fair and balanced Fox News refers to as:
“the miniseries no one wanted to see”…”From the looks of it, the story is going to be about how stupid the government was: If only they’d listened to one man, all would have been right!”
A few shot well placed advertisements for small cash loans (small cash? classy place) later: (the bold letters are some shitty attempt at Googlejuice by fox )
O’Neill left the FBI in 2001 when he claimed his superiors wouldn’t listen to his warnings about Al Qaeda, and became the head of security at the World Trade Center. He was the subject of a PBS Frontline special called “The Man Who Knew.”
The miniseries seems to be based on the PBS show, which is outlined in painstaking and unintentionally humorous detail on the PBS Web site.
In the TV version, O’Neill is described as “Early 40s to early 50s, a New Jersey native, a tall, burly, no-nonsense man with a taste for the high life, he’s an FBI Special Agent, smart, determined, and tenacious in pursuing the big picture.
“O’Neill is known for his sharp elbows and Irish temper. He is on the trail of Usama Bin Laden from the first World Trade Center bombing in 1993. Hungry to make busts in the pursuit of those responsible for taking American lives, O’Neill becomes a bitter opponent of Al Qaeda along the way, and is loudly and impatiently angry with the State Department honchos who balk his investigations…”
Think Brian Dennehy.
Historians should have a field day with this version of the decade-long terrorist plot. But why not? Screenwriter Cyrus Nowrasteh got his start on another soap opera, “Falcon Crest.” He also wrote the upcoming miniseries “Into the West” and was cited for “The Day Reagan Was Shot.” Marc Platt is the producer, and David L. Cunningham — who helmed the recent miniseries revival of “Little House on the Prairie” and several B-movies — will direct.
The remaining 15 characters needed to make this story of the worst terrorist attack in U.S. history include former local New York TV reporter John Miller, who interviewed Usama in 1998; Richard Clarke (”soon finds himself at odds with high-ranking members of the Administration, even as he chairs meetings devoted to the extermination of Al Qaeda…”); Sandy Berger, national security adviser to President Clinton; a number of FBI agents such as Neil Herman and Bill Miller; some of the actual plotters, such as Mohamed Atta; as well as former U.S. Ambassador to Yemen Barbara Bodine.
And there will be more to come, as the miniseries casts for just about everyone involved in national security and the plotting of the Sept. 11 tragedies. Who will play bin Laden? Or Saddam Hussein? Agents, consult your clients: History is going Hollywood.
Right wing mickies!
ABC has yet to comment on the affair, but it’s on BBC Sunday at 8pm for all to see. In the mean time Sandy Berger and Madeleine Albright have been getting their legal ores in trying to avoid the inevitable re-write of history. Wielding my trusty copy of the 9/11 report and having read the Bob Woodward books I tend to have some belief in though little empathy with the two. What I do realize is that if this was some heroic left wing targeting of the Bush administration’s dislike of swatting at flies (direct address of Bin Laden) Fox News would be staying shtumm, by reacting the lead their audience to a great piece of pro Republican propaganda.
Meanwhile with two years left President Bush should be well into changing the names in Tommy Lee’s Biography “I’m drivin but look who’s eating my Dick Chaney”
hey how’d they get that Saddam ref in there
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