DC 9/11: Triumph of a Bush

[JackieO]

"Having just been told the country was under attack the commander in chief appeared uninterested in further details. He never asked if there had been any additional threats, where the attacks were coming from, how to best protect the country from further attacks, or what the current status of NORAD or the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Nor did he call for an immediate return to Washington. Instead, in the middle of a modern-day Pearl Harbor, he simply turned back to the matter at hand; the day’s photo op. Precious minutes were ticking by, and many more lives were at risk. 'Really good readers, whew!' he told the class as the electronic flashes once again began to blink and the video cameras rolled. 'These must be sixth graders.'"- From James Bamford's "Body of Secrets"

To say "DC 9/11: Time of Crisis," the Sept. 11 docudrama that airs on Showtime this Sunday, is a piece of Leni Riefenstahl-esque propaganda would be a cliché, and it would be wrong. The Nazi propagandist's films were much too crude to compete with this level of celluloid revisionism. This is 21st Century propaganda, with all the bells and emotional whistles of Hollywood's most sophisticated productions. Imagine the "West Wing" without the liberal whining, a Bruckheimer blockbuster without the bimbos, "24" without the complicated plotlines, and you have "DC 9/11," a two-hour feel-good saga that blends news footage, fictionalized scenes and fictionalized scenes made to look like news footage into a highly-effective pseudo-historical soap opera, not unlike USA Network's recent Giuliani puff-pic "Rudy." The only difference is this film (which GNN secretly obtained an advance copy of) immortalizes an embattled politician seeking re-election. It is an altogether new genre, the made-for-TV campaign adver-movie.

http://www.guerrillanews.com/war_on_terrorism/doc2839.html

[WhoCountsTheVotes]

1. Bush's biggest failure was 911

Among all his other failures destroying the economy was a biggie, but Bush should go down in history as the president who was too busy paying off his Saudi benefactors and business partners to do anything about 911, and instead spent two years covering it up.

We should now refer to Bush as ** - one * for the fact he wasn't elected, and the second ** for the fact he failed the major function of a US President, defending the United States.

[DoYouEverWonder]

2. Bring it on!

What assholes. This is going to make the flyboy pics look like a good idea.

I hope this :nuke: right in their faces.

Too many of us have copies of what really happened, that it is no longer possible to revise the visual history of that day. I can't wait till the guys at Take Back the Media get a hold of some of this footage.

[Old and In the Way]

3. Yes, this will surely cut in both directions.

Let the fiction be shown along side the reality....and then people can realize what the extent of the lies and spinning that they are being manipulated with.