"Path" "lulls viewers into complacency, setting them up for propaganda"

[DeepModem Mom]

LAT review: On Dangerous Ground
ABC's miniseries "The Path to 9/11" makes a hopeless muddle of the line between fact and "dramatization."
By Samantha Bonar, Times Staff Writer
(This review was based upon the version of the miniseries that was made available by ABC in mid-August. The network is still editing the two-part series.)

....The miniseries was a massive undertaking, with close to 250 speaking parts, more than 300 sets and a budget of $40 million. The production values and acting skills cannot be faulted, and of course the topic is compelling. But something strange starts happening around hour three of the miniseries, when the film none-too-subtly suggests that then-President Clinton was too busy dropping his trousers and later struggling not to lose his shirt in impeachment hearings to pay much attention to what was going on in the world, terrorism-wise. The film shows real news footage of Clinton's denials of "sexual relations ... with that woman, Monica Lewinsky" in 1998 while O'Neill and other CIA and FBI agents were desperately scrambling to find Bin Laden and thwart more attacks.

And then the partisan politics begin to emerge in the script — big time.

According to "The Path," the Clinton administration was too concerned with such trifles as respecting international laws and treaties, protecting civil liberties, following diplomatic protocol, displaying cultural sensitivity and pursuing larger goals (like Mideast peace) to bring down the bad guys....

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Although it claims to be based in part on the 9/11 Commission Report, writer-producer Nowrasteh, a self-described conservative, said in an interview with frontpagemag.com that the report goes back only as far as 1998, and that he did his own research for the years 1993 to 1998.

Yet even if there are not outright lies in the film, as some are claiming — Albright, for one, has called a scene depicting her actions as "false and defamatory" — there are many omissions. Notably, one of the most famous images of Sept. 11, President Bush's frozen response while visiting a Florida classroom when he was told of the attacks, is not depicted...."The Path" is an irresponsible film, with its factual distortions wrapped in a really terrific package that lulls viewers into complacency, setting them up for the propaganda that is to follow....

http://www.calendarlive.com/tv/cl-et-911review9sep09,0,5881837.story?coll=la-home-headlines

[ClintonTyree]

1. Heaven forbid Clinton should concern himself with "trifles".......

"such as respecting international law, treaties, protecting civil liberties, following diplomatic protocol, displaying cultural sensitivity and pursuing larger goals (like Mideast peace)"! :eyes:

Let's compare that to the cowboy in office now, who strips of us our civil liberties, ignores the constitution, pisses off the entire world and wipes his ass with international treaties. Diplomatic protocol? Those words aren't in *'s vocabulary, along with most other words of the English language.

A majority of the people in this country would take Clinton back as President in a heartbeat over the goggling murder monkey we have in office now.

Screw Disney, ABC and everything connected to them. :mad:

[HuffleClaw]

2. " At the same time, a fine ribbon of misogyny starts to unwind...

...alongside the wide streak of rah-rah masculine bravado in the film, with just about every woman in authority portrayed as an arrogant witch..."

yup. its official. its a far right hackjob for sure.

[DeepModem Mom]

4. Thanks for adding that line -- that observation by the writer...

is an interesting one.

[TahitiNut]

5. With Patricia Heaton you expected something else? (Ha!)

She's a low-talent hack that depends on connections and direction. At the best she can be, she's a foil - a cardboard target for jokes.

[Solly Mack]

3. Well yeah - mark of good propaganda

draws you in emotionally...makes you raw...then it feeds you the talking points

and at the end, there will be that last, usually overwhelming, dose of emotional appeal as to cement the whole experience

Bush's "Why America must Torture to secure America" speeches have been laying the groundwork for this ABC hit piece. - and then to air a speech by Bush on 911 during the hit piece....just another hit

Then the media blitz of the "anniversary" of 911 will add to this campaign of manipulation...and Bush will give at least one more speech on "Why we must torture" next week.

So there will be a confluence of actual events (planes did crash into the WTC, people died) conflated with lies (ABC hit piece/Bush speeches) conflated with framing reality(ABC hit piece/Bush's speeches)

and all in less than 10 days.

all meant to leave a lasting impression...or the "essence of truth" on the minds of the public.

[RedEarth]

6. TFM's will believe it without question