{"id":9738,"date":"2007-01-26T10:22:38","date_gmt":"2007-01-26T15:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/9738.html"},"modified":"2007-01-26T10:22:38","modified_gmt":"2007-01-26T15:22:38","slug":"fox-news-to-broadcast-the-path-to-911-fiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/fox-news-to-broadcast-the-path-to-911-fiction\/","title":{"rendered":"Fox News to broadcast ‘The Path to 9\/11’ fiction"},"content":{"rendered":"

As you probably recall, ABC aired a fairly ridiculous docudrama on the fifth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks called “The Path to 9\/11.” The film, written by a conservative partisan hoping to shift blame for the attacks to the Clinton administration, included a series of glaring inaccuracies<\/a>, creating dialog that was never uttered, fabricating scenarios that never occurred.<\/p>\n

After public officials, political observers from both sides of the aisle, and 100,000 Americans complained to ABC about the miniseries’ false smear, the network agreed to remove some of the more obvious fiction from a film ABC was touting as “an objective telling of the events of 9\/11.”<\/p>\n

Leave it to Fox News to pick up the lies and put them on the air<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In a move that could rekindle a heated political debate, Fox News said Thursday that it planned to broadcast footage from ABC’s controversial miniseries “The Path to 9\/11” that was edited out of the docudrama amid criticism that it inaccurately portrayed the Clinton administration’s response to the terrorism threat.<\/p>\n

The outtakes, scheduled to air Sunday, depict then-national security advisor Samuel R. “Sandy” Berger refusing to approve a CIA request to attack Osama bin Laden, an event that Berger and the Sept. 11 commission say did not occur.<\/p>\n

The final version of the movie that aired on ABC in early September still included the scene, but it had been toned down after protests from top Democrats.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

A fictional scene from the original movie, for example, featured Berger hanging up on then-CIA Director George Tenet at an important moment. Because this never happened, ABC edited the scene out. Fox News, or more specifically, Sean Hannity’s new Sunday show, “Hannity’s America,” will broadcast what ABC didn’t.<\/p>\n

As it turns out, neither ABC nor the miniseries’ producers gave Hannity or FNC the unaired footage — they got it from a lecture delivered at a school in California.
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Fox News obtained the outtakes by taping a public talk that Cyrus Nowrasteh, writer and producer of “The Path to 9\/11,” gave to a World Affairs Council chapter last Friday at Cal State Channel Islands. Nowrasteh discussed making the docudrama and played several minutes edited out of the movie.<\/p>\n

Fox News had learned of his appearance from an article in a Ventura County paper, and it received permission from the World Affairs Council to record the event, “Hannity’s America” producer John Finley said. The council is a nonprofit educational group.<\/p>\n

“We saw an opportunity and sent a crew out there,” Finley said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Jay Berger, executive director of the California Central Coast chapter of the World Affairs Council, said that though Nowrasteh’s talk to his group was interesting, he was surprised that Fox News was doing a piece on the unaired footage. “I can’t imagine what the news is here,” he said.<\/p>\n

What a good point. FNC believes it’s “news” to air fictional scenes from a docudrama aired on a different network nearly five months ago. Maybe Fox News can explain why this already discredited footage deserves airtime?<\/p>\n

I’m playing coy, of course, to prove the broader point — FNC doesn’t care about news; in this case, the network isn’t even pretending.<\/p>\n

Wouldn’t now<\/i> be a good time for Dems to consider a boycott?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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