Censorship
This, more than any concern over "who gets the blame" in Path to 9/11, is what has got me steamed:
Because one political party here in America decided that it didn't like some of the politically-themed content of a privately-produced film that film got edited, and Americans may never get to see the film as it was intended.
Which isn't to think that this film is all that important. I just don't like how the Democrats threw a fit and made threats trying to get this film pulled. They didn't get it pulled, but they did get some changes...and that's pathetic. If they'd simply threatened to boycott ABC and/or its advertisers that would have been one thing, but they went further than that. They threatened to use government power to pull ABC's broadcast license. That's a whole 'nother ballgame.
What an absolute loss for free speech. If President Bush had tried to pressure Michael Moore into editing or even canning Fahrenheit 9/11 the left would have been screaming about "fascism" being on the march (as if they aren't anyway) and the ACLU would have filed a zillion lawsuits.
Bush gets a lot of nasty rhetoric about "totalitarianism" and "fascism" and "loss of civil liberties" thrown at him, but it isn't his administration or the Republicans using government power to try and silence private film makers.
NEW YORK With the first part of the controversial “The Path to 9/11″ movie set to air on ABC in the U.S. tonight, no one yet knows exactly what scene or lines may have been cut since criticism of the movie ramped up this week.
Because one political party here in America decided that it didn't like some of the politically-themed content of a privately-produced film that film got edited, and Americans may never get to see the film as it was intended.
Which isn't to think that this film is all that important. I just don't like how the Democrats threw a fit and made threats trying to get this film pulled. They didn't get it pulled, but they did get some changes...and that's pathetic. If they'd simply threatened to boycott ABC and/or its advertisers that would have been one thing, but they went further than that. They threatened to use government power to pull ABC's broadcast license. That's a whole 'nother ballgame.
What an absolute loss for free speech. If President Bush had tried to pressure Michael Moore into editing or even canning Fahrenheit 9/11 the left would have been screaming about "fascism" being on the march (as if they aren't anyway) and the ACLU would have filed a zillion lawsuits.
Bush gets a lot of nasty rhetoric about "totalitarianism" and "fascism" and "loss of civil liberties" thrown at him, but it isn't his administration or the Republicans using government power to try and silence private film makers.
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