Amid an election-year debate over who can best defend America, U.S. congressional Democrats urged ABC on Thursday to cancel a TV miniseries about the September 11 attacks that is critical of former Democratic President Bill Clinton and his top aides.Boy, this thing really has these guys bothered. All the more reason to watch it and comment on it at the open thread that I'll post sometime before 8pm Eastern time on Sunday night.
Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid of Nevada denounced the five-hour television movie, set to air in two parts on Sunday and Monday nights, as "a work of fiction."
Reid and other leading Senate Democrats wrote to Robert Iger, president and CEO of ABC's corporate parent, the Walt Disney Co., urging him to "cancel this factually inaccurate and deeply misguided program."
Chronicling events leading to the September 11 attacks, the movie suggests the Clinton administration was too distracted by the Monica Lewinsky sex scandal to deal properly with the gathering threat posed by Islamic militants.
Thursday, September 07, 2006
Congressional Dems Demand ABC Cancel "The Path to 9/11"
It was bad enough when former Clintonists started trying to get ABC to cancel "The Path to 9/11" docudrama which is set to air Monday and Tuesday, but now Dems in Congress are getting into the act:
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