Disney's Dubious Path to 9/11

[mousepod]

Originally Posted by Nephythys

I would conjecture- (edited to remove conjecture) but I suspect that there is some truth to my conjecture.

You can't second your own motion, Neph.

But I get your point.

I'm going to watch the full unedited version tonight (if I can stomach it).

Like I said last week, my problem with ABC showing the movie had nothing to do with my pro-Clinton or anti-Bush stance. It had to do with a "news organization" (which plays by different rules than "entertainment", especially during election time), using the public airwaves to disseminate fiction dressed up as truth. Period.

It's the government's hypocrisy that irks me. In this case, the FCC, which allows things like this to happen, while consistently overstepping its bounds to censor broadcasters for "obscenities". The FCC was crap under Clinton, and it's been crap under Bush. The pandering to the moral right is nothing new for the past several decades in both the Dems and the GOP.

[Nephythys]

Originally Posted by mousepod

You can't second your own motion, Neph.

But I get your point.

I'm going to watch the full unedited version tonight (if I can stomach it).

Like I said last week, my problem with ABC showing the movie had nothing to do with my pro-Clinton or anti-Bush stance. It had to do with a "news organization" (which plays by different rules than "entertainment", especially during election time), using the public airwaves to disseminate fiction dressed up as truth. Period.

It's the government's hypocrisy that irks me. In this case, the FCC, which allows things like this to happen, while consistently overstepping its bounds to censor broadcasters for "obscenities". The FCC was crap under Clinton, and it's been crap under Bush. The pandering to the moral right is nothing new for the past several decades in both the Dems and the GOP.

From what I hear-

*The Bush administration does not get off the hook on this one.
*The main message is that gov't red tape and beauracracy caused alot of problems- that certain action should have been taken- and wasn't. That is factual.
*That the people you come away hating are the enemy- the terrorists who want to see us dead or converted.

Let us know- I will be interested to hear another opinion.

[Ghoulish Delight]

Originally Posted by Nephythys

*That the people you come away hating are the enemy- the terrorists who want to see us dead or converted.

Yes, because nothing makes the world better than finding reasons to hate.

[Nephythys]

Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight

Yes, because nothing makes the world better than finding reasons to hate.

I fail to see any reason to twist what I said into that statement- but if it makes you happy to do so...whatever.

[scaeagles]

Originally Posted by mousepod

It had to do with a "news organization" (which plays by different rules than "entertainment", especially during election time), using the public airwaves to disseminate fiction dressed up as truth. Period.

I guess I'm not sure why you said this. Was this produced by ABC news? I'm not being rhetorical - I don't get it. ABC is an entertainment company and a news company.

[scaeagles]

So it is a dem vs. republican thing rather than a distrust of government in general. Got it.

I suppose my problem is that you have people being interviewed that want to pull a CYA by a commission with members that want to pull a CYA.

I don't really know what he answer is. The whole special prosecutor stuff was enacted to avoid the government investigating the government, but that is typically worse. Fill in the example that you beleie fits best.

[scaeagles]

I think the ratings reference made earlier was in regard to Sunday night.

[Nephythys]

Originally Posted by scaeagles

I think the ratings reference made earlier was in regard to Sunday night.

ah- thanks

[BarTopDancer]

Hate does nothing but waste energy and spawn violence.

[Ghoulish Delight]

And my point is that the acts speak for themselves and if the point of a dramatized/fictionalized retelling is indeed to engender more hatred, then it's a pointless exercise that I would find distasteful.

Hate has its place...using hate as a lightning rod for political or entertainment purposes never has its place in my book.