{"id":59,"date":"2006-09-09T15:08:17","date_gmt":"2006-09-09T22:08:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=59"},"modified":"2006-09-09T15:08:17","modified_gmt":"2006-09-09T22:08:17","slug":"the-road-to-911","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2006\/09\/09\/the-road-to-911\/","title":{"rendered":"The Road to 9\/11"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>The controversy surrounding The Road to 9\/11<\/u> has been referenced to that which greeted The Reagans<\/u>, 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”.<\/p>\n

If I recall right, the Drudge Report filled its page full of quotes and excerpts from The Reagans<\/u> — 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.<\/p>\n

The Road to 9\/11<\/u> puzzles me in a way that The Reagans<\/u> 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.<\/p>\n

So The Road to 9\/11<\/u> reminds me more of Stolen Honor<\/u>, 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.<\/p>\n

Thinking about The Road to 9\/11<\/u>, 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”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}