They all remained quiet about Michael Moore...
The slightest criticism of Bill Clinton and they go nuts......but they all loved Michael Moore and Fahrenheit 9/11.
ABC faced growing pressure about its planned miniseries on the buildup to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Former Clinton administration officials, historians and a Democratic petition with nearly 200,000 signatures urged the network to scrap the five-hour drama.It seems the only one defending the mini-series is Thomas Kean, the chairman of the 9/11 commission.
The network said the movie, scheduled to air commercial-free on Sunday and Monday, is being edited to deal with concerns that it distorts history. ABC had no response to the calls to abandon it.
A group of historians, including Arthur Schlesinger Jr. and Princeton University's Sean Wilentz, wrote to ABC parent Walt Disney Co. CEO Robert Iger, urging him to scrap the series. They said that permitting inaccuracies to heighten drama is "disingenuous and dangerous."
"A responsible broadcast network should have nothing to do with the falsification of history, except to expose it," they wrote.
posted by GayandRight @ 12:51 PM
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That's because Michael Moore says stuff they want to hear.
Freedom of speech only works when you agree with what is being said remember?
I doubt that the owner of this blog has met a morsel of unsubstantiated speculation that he didn't like. For further proof of this fact, see the later article on gender intelligence differences that blithely ignores any of thousands of confounding factors that could falsely lead to the same correlation - and he wonders why it hasn't got press coverage (ignoring, of course, the major newspapers that carried the story).
Further, I doubt that the owner or any of the commentors has taken the time to remember the uproar over the CBS miniseries "The Reagans", against which conservatives railed when *their* hero was lambasted. Indeed, they are more than happy to chastise their opponents for criticizing, while at the same time downplaying and dismissing the clamor that is raised every time they are the ones who are criticized.
I guess it's better to be ignorant of one's own contribution to partisan hackery. After all, to admit that *both* sides act like ridiculously hypocritical children has got to be depressing.
By the way, southernontarioan (sic): Freedom of speech only has meaning when it protects those that one disagrees with. If we all agreed with each other, there'd be no need for it. While I can appreciate your attempt at rhetoric, your condescension misses the point.
If the people who populated these blogs spent even half of the time they spend formulating half-assed two-line arguments on contemplating the nuances of genuine politico-social issues, I suspect there would be much less malformed judgements and much more reasoned and beneficial compromises. Although, one of the paths is far easier.
See if you can guess which one.
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