[Slightly different version at Orange]
ABC’s crapumentary “The Path to 9/11” is evidently one of the most blatant political propaganda pieces ever marketed by a major media organization. I think we can use Hollywood’s most brilliant propaganda tool, the movie blurb, to put it in its proper context. There are folks around here who would have no problem taking video and audio clips from ABC advertising and adding our own special blurbs. And providing them to the rest of us to spread around the Net and elsewhere as widely as possible. Here are a few choice blurbs to start with:
“It’s utterly invented…It’s 180 degrees from what happened.” — Former Bush terrorism czar Richard Clarke
“…none of that ever happened” –9/11 Commissioner Tim Roemer
“As we were watching, we were trying to think how they could have misinterpreted the 9/11 Commission’s findings the way that they had.” — 9/11 Commissioner Richard Ben-Veniste
“They’re making things up.” — Unnamed FBI agent hired as an advisor to the film, who then quit.
“the actors, scenes and statements in the series are not found in — and, indeed, are contradicted by — our findings.” 9/11 Commissioner Jamie Gorelick
“Flimsy fiction…. It could not be more amateurish or poorly constructed unless someone had forgotten to light the sets.(zero stars). ” — Doug Elfman, Chicago Sun-Times
“like being led around the world, half-drunk and half-blind.” — Heather Havrilesky, Salon
“fictionalized” — 911 Commission chair Thomas Kean
“ham-fisted….fails to tell an inherently dramatic story well” Rob Owen, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
