Tuesday, September 12, 2006
Lies, lies, everywhere
Bush has created an incredible atmosphere where lies and zealotry are allowed to obscure the truth with no repercussions. It's completely ridiculous. The latest example is this whole ABC mini-series 'The Path to 9/11'. Now the NY Times is reporting that one former FBI agent was asked to be consultant on the show but when he tried to point out inaccuracies, he was ignored. So even BEFORE all the public flap happened, even before Clinton, Berger, and Albright complained about the scenes, the producers had to be aware that they were making stuff up. And they did it anyway.
Their argument that this is a "dramatization" is just ridiculous. They must be completely insensitive to the sentiments of the American people if they think that making up inflammatory scenes involving specific individuals is alright when it comes to 9/11. I'll all for blaming government officials for letting Bin Laden fly planes into the twin towers, but please, let's not make stuff up! Movies use fictional people when they want to dramatize aliens attacking Earth, they don't defame real people.
And please, let's just stop all the lying!! It feels like Nixon all over again!
Their argument that this is a "dramatization" is just ridiculous. They must be completely insensitive to the sentiments of the American people if they think that making up inflammatory scenes involving specific individuals is alright when it comes to 9/11. I'll all for blaming government officials for letting Bin Laden fly planes into the twin towers, but please, let's not make stuff up! Movies use fictional people when they want to dramatize aliens attacking Earth, they don't defame real people.
And please, let's just stop all the lying!! It feels like Nixon all over again!
# posted by Chris @ 1:18 PM 
