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The left-wing blogs are going ballistic.  ABC, not known for their conservativism, is set to broadcast a movie about what led up to the 9/11 attacks called Path to 9/11.

So the CIA, the Northern Alliance, surrounding a house where bin Laden is in Afghanistan, they’re on the verge of capturing, but they need final approval from the Clinton administration in order to proceed.

So they phoned Washington. They phoned the White House. Clinton and his senior staff refused to give authorization for the capture of bin Laden because they’re afraid of political fallout if the mission should go wrong, and if civilians were harmed…Now, the CIA agent in this is portrayed as being astonished. “Are you kidding?” He asked Berger over and over, “Is this really what you guys want?”

Berger then doesn’t answer after giving his first admonition, “You guys go in on your own. If you go in we’re not sanctioning this, we’re not approving this,” and Berger just hangs up on the agent after not answering any of his questions.

If this is true, it definately shows a tremendous amount of ineptitude on the part of the Clinton administration.  But if this did not happen, then maybe the liberals have a point.  Remember the CBS fiasco with the Reagan movie in 2003 that was so full of errors that it angered a great portion of the nation and was pulled from broadcast television?

Kos goes on to discredit the entire quote which he calls a ‘work of fiction.’

That ABC is airing the film is gross negligence. They are now no different than Fox News, and should be treated as such.

So what are the liberal blogs all upset about?  They are mad because ABC did not place most of the blame for 9/11 on President George W. Bush.  Liberals are so used to having the MSM marching in lockstep with them, they can not stand it when the MSM makes decisions on their own.  Judging from the information on the website dedicated to the movie, blame is equally placed on Bill Clinton and George Bush.  But that is not enough for the far left, they want the movie edited to the point to where President Bush is destroyed politically and publicly humiliated.  And if they can take some revenge for the elections they lost in 2000 and 2002 and 2004, so much the better.  The left could care less about the truth.  The truth be told, the left’s very own hero in Bill Clinton bares a goodly portion of the responsibility for the attacks that left over three thousand Americans dead.  The problem is these moonbats don’t want the American people to realize that terrorism started long before 9/11 and George Bush.  This country has been at war with the terrorists for many years.  Fortunately this country finally has a president who is willing to take the war to the terrorists.

I plan on watching the movie.  We will soon see whether ABC is willing to stand on truth or cave in to the liberals who are intent on hiding Bill Clinton’s corrupt legacy.  Sandy Berger may have had a larger role is stopping the arrest of Osama bin Laden than we realize.  But then again the movie is a docudrama with different parts highlighted to make sure the viewing audience understands the main points.  The movie also highlights the role of the Clinton administration in briefing the new Bush administration and how ‘W’ dropped the ball.  The White House has repeatedly said this never happened.  So where is the truth? Stay tuned.

Other blogs including these have more on The Path to 9/11 including:

BlackFive has more, including how the liberal blogs are launching a campaign to force ABC to either make drastic changes to the movie or to pull it from broadcasting all together.

Dean Barnett posting on Hugh Hewitt has some reservations on the accuracy of the film since it is a docudrama.  He fearing that too much might have been dramatized in the movie for it to be a historical document.  Dean says those who to back this movie “will mortgage their credibility.”

Tags: TV, President Bush, War by Chuck
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This is why I do not watch CNN.  They have come up with such an outrageous poll, I do not see how anyone can take it seriously.

President Bush’s unpopularity — due largely to the war in Iraq — seems likely to affect GOP candidates in congressional midterm elections in November, according to a CNN poll released Wednesday.

Fifty-five percent of 1,004 Americans said they would be less likely to vote for a candidate who has supported Bush administration policies, according to the poll conducted by Opinion Research Corporation on behalf of CNN. Forty percent said they would be more likely.

If anything, this poll has shown that the Democrats have done a better job of selling their message than has President Bush.  The US is winning the war on terror.  We have not had a terror attack on this country since that fateful September day.  Somehow the America people have bought into the Democratic package that this country is not safe, that the war in Iraq is a distraction, that we can not win this war—hook, line and sinker.  The only problem is that the only solution the Democrats have is to cut and run.  I would see that question on a poll, but I am not holding my breath.

The poll definately has some problems.  The idiotic question of whether Saddam Hussein was personally involved in the 9/11 attacks on the United States is still being asked even though the White House acknowledges he was not.  This one question, in my mind, puts the entire poll into question.

Asked whether former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein was personally involved in the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, 52 percent said he was not, but 43 percent said they believe he was. The White House has denied Hussein’s 9/11 involvement — most recently in a news conference August 21, when President Bush said Hussein had “nothing” to do with the attacks.

The CNN article stops right there.  There is absolutely no mention of how Democrats rated in the same poll.  But of course there does not need to be one if the power brokers at CNN are trying to influence public opinion. This is what CNN is trying to hide.

Only 12 percent of those questioned said they are satisfied with what Congress has done so far this year, according to poll results released Tuesday.

Eighty-four percent said they wished Congress had done more.

Sixty-four percent of those questioned disapprove of the way congressional Republicans are handling their jobs, while 31 percent approve.

Democrats fared little better. Fifty-seven percent said they disapprove of how Democrats in Congress are doing, as opposed to 35 percent who approve of how Democrats are doing their jobs.

Let’s look at some of these numbers.
Those satisfied with Congress in general—12%
Those satisfied with Republicans in Congress—31%
Those satisfied with Democrats in Congress—35%
Those satisfied with President Bush—41%

So both Republicans and Democrats in Congress are within the margin of error when it comes to the public’s perception of who is doing the better job.  President Bush’s numbers are higher than significantly higher than Congress in general and both of their respective parties.  CNN normally has a link to PDF file showing the questions asked and the demographics of the respondents.  This time they did not so I don’t know if they called as many Republicans as Democrats.  Past history shows that the Opinion Research Corporation oversamples Democrats significantly.

There are other numbers which show this perceived discontent with Republicans is in actuality a discontent with incumbents, something else not disclosed in the CNN article.

A majority — 55 percent — said they are more likely to back a challenger in races on this year’s ballot. Such anti-incumbent sentiment is higher than the 48 percent recorded as “pro-challenger” in a similar survey in 1994, when the GOP took control of both houses of Congress.

Nonetheless, 48 percent said that, if most of the present members of Congress were replaced with new members, there would be no difference. By contrast, 42 percent said such a scenario would change Congress for the better, and 7 percent said it would change Congress for the worse.

Now this is significant—a significant number of respondents believed replacing Congressional members would have virtually no impact.  This seems to suggest the attitude in and around Washington was the problem, not the members of Congress.  Just something to think on.

Most respondents believe that Republicans are better leaders of the country than Democrats while Dems are more ‘progressive.’

Nearly half of the respondents — 49 percent — said they considered the GOP the party of strong leadership. But 56 percent said they considered the Democrats the party of change, with 49 percent considering them the more forward-looking party.

I am not sure these numbers mean a thing since the poll also found that only 9% of respondents believed the economy was ‘very good.’  The economy is growing at a fantastic rate and the unemployment is at an unbelievably low 4.7%.  I wonder if the only ones Opinion Research Corporation was able to reach by phone were people who did not have a job while everyone else was working.

With Opinion Research Corporation and CNN conducting these surveys, is it little wonder so many believe the MSM is siding with the Democrats in this upcoming election.  Poll after poll the Democrats are oversampled just to push their agenda.  The MSM are driving Bush’s poll numbers down and pumping up their Democratic cohorts.  ‘Journalists’ like David Gregory do not even attempt to hide their bias as he routinely quotes from the Democratic talking points.  Then he pretends to be insulted when confronted with his overt bias.  Little wonder the MSM is losing what little credibility they have left.

Tags: Democrats, President Bush, Bias, Politics, War by Chuck
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