I Think You Forgot Something

As for ABC's 9/11 movie, I agree with the Dean Barnetts of the world that if a specific, crucial, damning act didn't happen, a docudrama shouldn't suggest that it did. Even so, the hysterics on display among Democrats stem largely from the shock of being portrayed in a negative light by someone on their own team; i.e., major network broadcast television.

And Howard Kurtz doesn't  quite deliver on describing the height of that hysteria in  Disney To Alter Show on Pre-9/11 Runup:

Democrats ratcheted up the pressure yesterday. Senate Minority Leader Harry M. Reid (Nev.) and four Democratic colleagues wrote to Robert Iger, chief executive of the Walt Disney Co., ABC's corporate parent, urging him to cancel the movie. The Democratic National Committee obtained more than 100,000 signatures on a petition demanding cancellation. Jay Carson, a spokesman for former president Bill Clinton, called ABC's plan to air the movie "despicable."

Oh, they did more than that. An excerpt from the letter:

Presenting such deeply flawed and factually inaccurate misinformation to the American public and to children would be a gross miscarriage of your corporate and civic responsibility to the law, to your shareholders, and to the nation.

The Communications Act of 1934 provides your network with a free broadcast license predicated on the fundamental understanding of your principle obligation to act as a trustee of the public airwaves in serving the public interest....

But you'll have to read Stephen Spruiell, not Kurtz, to ponder the spectacle of Democratic leadership threatening ABC's broadcast license because they don't like a movie.

UPDATE: Malkin has the big roundup; Podhoretz says that unlike Bill Clinton, Madeleine Albright and Sandy Berger have every right to complain about being misrepresented. Sounds right to me.

Comments

[Stuart Emmons]

The term were looking for here is goose stepping morons.
I hope ABC adds the security film of Mr. Berger stealing documents from the National Archives. Or even better Clinton contridicting himself while explaing why he let Bin Laudin kill Americans.