And don't forget, this isn't just about one scene where Sandy Berger hangs up the phone. They got the timeline for United Flight 93 wrong. They falsely claim Madeleine Albright thwarted efforts to go after bin Laden. They outright lie about the results of the 9/11 Commission report as it concerns Monica Lewinsky somehow interfering with the hunt for bin Laden. The movie never even shows the My Pet Goat episode where Bush dithered while our country was under attack. The film claims that Bush took the President Daily Briefing, the one that sad Osama was determined to hit the US, seriously - and he most certainly did not.
The film lays the blame for 9/11 on Bill Clinton while treating George Bush favorably. That is rewriting history. This mockery of the deaths of 3,000 Americans need to be pulled, now.
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the network is planning to distribute the mini series to thousands of high school students via free downloads. The exposure will leave many young people thinking they are seeing fact rather than fiction.
Nowrasteh has a talent for writing fiction, including the pilot episode of the popular spy series La Femme Nikita, and a little-seen movie, Norma Jean, Jack and Me, in which a shipwrecked man washes up on an Caribbean island and discovers President Jack Kennedy and Marilyn Monroe alive and living out their golden years.
It's unfortunate that ABC would trust the depiction of a still painful and politically volatile subject such as 9/11 to a writer best known for fantastical storytelling.
