The Road to 9/11
The controversy surrounding The Road to 9/11 has been referenced to that which greeted The Reagans, which lands one to that cute and lazy “Independent” stand that we’ve landed on the partisan yin-yang. Republicans outraged, Democrats outraged — with enough room for each to claim “Hypocrite”.
If I recall right, the Drudge Report filled its page full of quotes and excerpts from The Reagans — the focal point being dialouge about Nancy Reagan consulting Astrology. I vaguely recall something about scoffawing AIDs — a case which is “Doth protesteth too much”. The Astrology stuff I will defer to the journalist who recently released a book of interviews with our recent presidents: if you look at the decisions that were attributed to Astrology, they were all pretty good decisions. Nonetheless, a depiction that was reportedly relatively positive met the rage of Reagan fans due to its failure to rise to the level of Haliography — and thus shoved off to be not seen on Showtime.
The Road to 9/11 puzzles me in a way that The Reagans can’t, even if you assume that it portrayed Ronald Reagan as the anti-Christ. It is the sheer import that ABC brought to bear on the film. It was to be broadcast sans advertisements — a sign of import I last remember tied to a broadcast of Schindler’s List. These pretenses have gradually been dropped — the study lesson that they developed for schools to use in class was abandoned, they have declared it “a drama”, its claim to be a representation of the 9/11 Report has been dropped, and ABC says they are making their last minute changes.
So The Road to 9/11 reminds me more of Stolen Honor, a broadcast of remarks from that cadre of Vietnam veterans bitter due to Kerry’s war protests, which Sinclair Broadcasting owned stations broadcast in prime-time during the 2004 campaign. The bias of Sinclar Broadcasting was shown when the executive said that its just counter-programming to the bias shown in the news proper when they reported negative developments in Iraq.
Thinking about The Road to 9/11, and looking over the constellation of these anti-Clintonites. Dick Morris now claims, belatedly, that his suggestion to Bill Clinton on becoming a “Great President” was to reform Welfare, and Defeat Terrorism (presumably as George W Bush is). Which is something that is not terribly believable, but falls into line with the mish-mashing of the claims that have spewed upward to this film about Clinton’s gross negligence of “The Gathering Threat”.