Is Clinton's candidacy blocking the "Path to 9/11" DVD?

[DeepModem Mom]

LAT: Is Clinton's candidacy blocking the "Path to 9/11?"
Screenwriter of documentary says ABC exec said delay has been prompted by unflattering portrayal of previous administration.
By Martin Miller, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
September 5, 2007

Among the nearly two dozen television DVDs slated for nationwide release on Sept. 11 is the second season of "Bones," the third season of "Grey's Anatomy" and the miniseries "The Starter Wife" that aired earlier this year. Not on the list on that day or any other in the near future is last year's highly controversial "The Path to 9/11."

The $40-million, five-hour ABC miniseries, which recently received seven Emmy nominations and drew a combined two-night audience of more than 25 million viewers, is for now on the path to nowhere. Its Amazon page reads: "Currently unavailable. We don't know when or if this item will be back in stock."

With no date for the release, questions are being raised about whether political pressure is behind its current status as a stalled or discarded DVD project. The reasons are murky, but the miniseries' writer, Cyrus Nowrasteh, believes it's crystal clear: Powerful forces are out to protect Bill Clinton's presidential legacy and shield Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) from any potential collateral damage in her bid for the White House.

Nowrasteh, also one of the miniseries' many producers, said he was told by a top executive at ABC Studios that "if Hillary weren't running for president, this wouldn't be a problem."...

Even before "The Path to 9/11" aired on ABC late last summer, the docudrama ignited a political firestorm, almost entirely from high-profile Democratic leaders who viewed its account of events leading up to the terrorist attacks as a right-wing hatchet job on the Clinton administration and its efforts to capture or kill Osama bin Laden. Attempts to pressure ABC to cancel the miniseries at the time were unsuccessful, but last-minute network edits were imposed to quell the critical outcry....

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/homeentertainment/la-et-path5sep05,0,2302280.story?coll=la-home-entertainment

[AZBlue]

1. They should kill it. It's a big lie.

[aquart]

2. Really? Not the outright lies and pathetic distortions? Really?

How nice to keep using that piece of inept rightwing propaganda to blame the Clintons for 9/11. Yeah, they're being ever so thoughtful by holding it back.

Lack of audience might also be a reason.

[DeepModem Mom]

3. Could be they don't want to fight through another firestorm for a piece of...

as you say, rightwing propaganda.

[bluestateguy]

4. Everybody on DU was in such a tizzy over that movie...and for what?

It did mediocre in the ratings, and had no effect on the elections.

And then there was John Kerry's "botched joke". Oooh! Let's panic! John Kerry's "joke" is going to ruin everything!

Oops.

[AlCzervik]

5. and it was never on Itunes like everyone was saying it would be.

the screams of "Boycott apple!" were crazy. My husband works for apple and a poster told me my husband should "Demand a meeting with Steve Job!!" yeah, like that would ever happen.

[snowbear]

6. Geez, I thought we heard the last of that POS flick...

Seven Emmy nominations??!?!?!?

[Old and In the Way]

7. Of course, it might be this administration blocking it.

BC just might have one hell of a libel case against these people. And a high profile civil suit means a discovery phase that might shed a little too much light on what the Clinton administration really did in the 90s trying to nail OBL and it might also expose what the Bush administration actually knew and ignored before 9/11.

[Colobo]

8. Regardless if it's garbage or not, they should be able to sell it.

After all, most of what's on TV is garbage in the first place...

[AtomicKitten]

9. Disgraceful propaganda piece.

I applaud anybody that puts the kibosh on it.

[RamboLiberal]

10. Damn propaganda piece wouldn't sell much - release it

I'd rather see it die quietly on the market than let it get more free publicity this way. Whomever buys it isn't going to vote for Hillary anyway!

[rinsd]

11. Jesus H Christ! Why the fuck are Rush Limbaugh's paranoid fantasies news?