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House And Senate Reach Agreement On Federal Spending Database ... "I'm pleased that the House leadership agreed with us that all federal spending should be accessible through this website. It doesn't matter if it's a grant, an earmark, or a contract, this legislation will allow the public to know how their tax dollars are being spent," said Sen. Obama ...
The path to distortion
Paul Mirengoff
John Podhoretz has a good take on ABC's docu-drama "The Path to 9/11." His conclusion -- that the show is "entirely unworthy of your time on the fifth anniversary of the attacks" -- didn't surprise me, but the reasoning that gets him to that conclusion provides plenty of insight about the path in question.
Do read the Podhoretz piece, friend and neighbors, and while doing so keep in mind his untarnished reputation as a left-wing apologist for the Clinton administration. And that's what all the fuss is about? A boring movie that doesn't tell anyone who's been paying attention anything they didn't know and won't convince the ones who haven't? It is to laugh! The Dhimmicrats ham-handed attempts to suppress it are newsworthy in themselves, but not because the movie itself is important.
Will ABC Trample 9/11 Dead?
Dan Riehl
The controversy over The Path To 9/11 continues to grow. This is a particularly repugnant bit of fascist-like bragging from the DNC. Here's the good news: the suits at ABC and the Walt Disney Company have started panicking under pressure, thanks to your ferocious response to the outrageous decision to put this irresponsible miniseries on the air. But until Disney quits defending its plan to broadcast conservative propaganda -- fraudulently presented to Americans as "based on the 9/11 Commission Report" -- the company should plan to keep taking every bit of heat we dish out.
Precisely as many conservatives have long been pointing out, Liberals and many Democrats wish to pretend 9/11 never happened. They want to sweep the threat of Islamo-fascism under the carpet because they are too weak to deal with it. And as long as America remembers, Democrats can forget any chance of taking power back. That is really what this debate is about. ...
Radio-Canada reporter hit for backing Afghan mission (H/T)
OTTAWA (Reuters) - One of Canada's top television reporters has been suspended from her job for praising the country's increasingly troubled military mission in Afghanistan, the company said on Friday.
Christine St-Pierre, a veteran Ottawa correspondent for French-language public broadcaster Radio-Canada, wrote an open letter to Canada's 2,300 troops telling them to ignore mounting criticism of the mission. ...
Video: Clinton takes strong, principled stand against lying
Allahpundit
My head hurts.
ABC cancels “Path to 9/11″ web ads?
Update: Lefties squat on “Path” domain name
Sure looks that way. Krempasky thinks maybe they’re not cancelling the program altogether, just pushing it back a few weeks, but why would they do that? Unless the edits are extensive, they might as well cash in on the controversy and 9/11 anniversary and air it as scheduled.
Of course, they could just pull it altogether. Would we better off? JPod’s seen it and calls it “a stiff” while the Chicago Tribune’s TV critic labels it “the most anticlimactic, tension-free movie in the history of terrorist TV” and, for good measure, “the dullest, worst-shot TV movie since ABC’s disastrous ‘Ten Commandments’ remake.” If you’re wondering what political page he’s on, this might clue you in: ...
On not kicking the can down the road
Scott Johnson
If diplomatic efforts continue on their present trajectory, does President Bush intend to order military action in an effort to set back Iran's nuclear program? He has previously made clear his position that Iran's acquisition of nuclear weapons would be "unacceptable." Is this statement empty verbiage? Is Iran's acquisition of nuclear weapons to be accepted? Or is this a problem that President Bush will kick down the road to his successor? Because I think he means what he says on the critical issues related to the war on terror, I have thought that if the United States is capable of undertaking military action that would retard Iran's nuclear problem, President Bush would order it to do so before the end of his term.
President Bush's overview of the global war on terror earlier this week (click here for the speech) adds further evidence of President Bush's thinking on the subject. The speech was full of comments pertinent to Iran, but here is one especially salient paragraph:
The Path To Teheran
Dan Riehl
With all this talk of things 9/11, Jules Crittenden reminds us that Iran is the issue of the day ... in several forms and with various challenges. ...
The 9/10 mindset
How will moonbats commemorate the fifth anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks? By talking about anything except the terrorist attacks. Here's a prime example from Bremerton, Wash (via the Kitsap Sun): ...
Root causes: 9/11 hijackers vow on video to avenge … Bosnia
Bosnia. Where the U.S. intervened, for entirely altruistic reasons, to stop the wholesale slaughter of Muslims.
You’re welcome. ...
... Now, if you’ll permit me a moment of shameless google-bombing: Loose Change. Loose Change. Loose Change. Loose Change. Loose Change. Loose Change. Loose Change. Loose Change. Loose Change. Loose Change. Loose Change. Loose Change. Loose Change. Loose Change. Loose Change. Loose Change. Loose Change.
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ABC Drama Marks 50th Anniversary of 9/11
(2051-09-11) — As part of the nation’s month-long celebration of the 50th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, ABC television tonight will show an educational drama called ‘The Path from 9/11‘. ...
Bibi Says Bush Will Cowboy Up On Iran
Benjamin Netanyahu paid a visit to New York, hoping to build support in America for a bid to replace Ehud Olmert as Israel's Prime Minister. As part of that effort, he gave a speech last night in which he told the audience that George Bush has just about run out of patience with international diplomacy regarding the Iranian nuclear program: ...
The Real Path To 9/11
Dan Riehl
The real path to 9/11 can be seen right here via Powerline. And it's a long path. Read it all and you'll see how miserably Clinton failed no matter, as per Hugh Hewitt, they hate to admit it.
Viewer discretion is advised
Michelle Malkin
TS at Seixon (hat tip: Allah) has helpfully crafted a TV slate for ABC to "insert into every scene the champions of free speech nutroots or poor Bill Clinton objects too (because, from the looks of this massive jihad they are waging , it appears ABC will be using this slate quite a bit):" ... What does ABC stand for? Marooned in Marin quips: ABC Stands for "Altered By Clinton"
NOW, they get tough...
Top Secret
... If I were the head of ABC, I'd yank the series, citing "chilly wind-like" fears, angry Democrats were planning to revoke the broadcasting license (ahem - censorship- ahem) and toss that steaming pile of crap right back on their laps...BUT , JOM commenter "MayBee" has an even better idea: ...
Broken "Path"
Michelle Malkin
From the nutroots in full-blown Rove Derangement Syndrome mode...
To the top of the Democratic Party...
...the protests against ABC's 9/11 docu-drama, "Path to 9/11," have become completely unhinged. ...
“Why they hate us”: The website
Karol thinks it’s serious. I clicked through a few and was presented, in immediate succession, with photos of Abu Ghraib, an SUV, and Wackeys. Which makes me think it’s either a very sly parody of the “root causes” hand-wringers or else a rather crude misunderstanding of the jihadi grievance mindset.
Assuming, that is, that the “they” in the title is a reference to people in the Middle East. If it’s a reference to western progressives, then yeah, it’s serious. And dead on.
Miserable failure: More Clinton counterterror catastrophes
So many inconvenient truths to keep track of. So many great scenes that could have been dramatized, and weren’t.
Maybe they should pull “Path to 9/11.” Reshoot it, make everything nice and sourced this time. Not only would it enhance the movie’s credibility, it would give super-secret right-wing Rovian gestapo infiltrator operative/screenwriter Cyrus Nowrasteh all the license he needs to really destroy Billy Jeff.
SeeDubya’s angling to consult on the new script, and has helpfully retrieved this anecdote, as related by Michael Scheuer last year on Hardball, from the memory hole: ...
*** 11:44 I Don't Know About Osama's, But My Beard's Pretty Chafed Tonight
... Consider me galvanized. A while back I mentioned that the old See-DubyaTron laptop went kerflooey and took all my IE bookmarks with it. But after seeing these posts, I went digging around for an old, old backup CD that had a version of my bookmarks on it, along with two links in particular that will help set the record straight. ... First is this in the WaPo, from 2004: “Legal Disputes Over Hunt Paralyzed Clinton’s Aides”. If anything, it lets Sandy Berger slightly off the hook, and places the blame for letting OBL escape the crosshairs somewhere else: ...
Dems to ABC: We’ll Yank License, Talking Points
(2006-09-08) -- Top Senate Democrats, outraged over inaccuracies in the upcoming ABC mini-series 'The Path to 9/11', today said that in addition to yanking the network's broadcast license, if the show airs Democrats might also withhold from ABC News the daily distribution of Democrat talking points.
Video flashback: U.S. drone had Osama onscreen — in 2000
Remember this? I didn’t. But two different readers e-mailed in to remind me. The Internet has a long memory, my friends.
Important to note: according to CNN’s report, Predators weren’t armed with missiles at the time. It would have taken between three and seven hours to hit the base with missiles after Osama had been spotted.
Why wasn’t it hit? Watch the clip and see. ...
*** 03:10 Bin Laden in 1998
This is only a trick question if you happen to be a Democrat. If, as he now insists, Clinton was all over bin Laden once he became known, how is it ABC managed to get to him on camera for an interview in 1998, while lil' Willy was busy hosting Arafat in the Lincoln Bedroom? Bin Laden not only acknowledges his terrorism, he states clearly the US is a prime target. ...
*** 03:16 Who Is Mansoor Ijaz?
Mansoor Ijaz, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, is chairman of a New York-based investment company. ... Clinton Let Bin Laden Slip Away and Metastasize
President Clinton and his national security team ignored several opportunities to capture Osama bin Laden and his terrorist associates, including one as late as last year.
I know because I negotiated more than one of the opportunities. ...
Thursday Night Funny: Rise of the Rove-ABC conspiracy theorists
Allahpundit
From the liberal blog Jesus’ General, whose weirdo blogger likes to be referred to as JC Christian: ...
The Evils of Ideology (H/T: Russ Vaughn)
By Theodore Dalrymple
... It is curious how even now, after all the calamities of the twentieth century, the lengths to which people are prepared to go to pursue an end is taken by others as a sign of the worthiness if not of the end itself, at least of the motives of the extremists. The fact that people are prepared to blow themselves up in an attempt to murder as many complete strangers as possible is taken as proof of the strength of their humanitarian feelings and outrage at a state of injustice. ...
Charm Offensive
From The Boston Herald: Furor at Harvard: Khatami visit part of anti-Israel tilt? by Brett Arends. A furious row has broken out at Harvard over the decision to invite Mohammad Khatami, the pro-Hezbollah former president of Iran, to speak on Sunday.
And it has revived growing questions about whether the university itself is falling under the sway of anti-Israel sentiment. ...
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