Clinton The Critic

According to this article in the New York Post (HatTip to Drudge), Clinton (the former, not the future, president) is so “furious” over the impending ABC docu-drama over his role, or lack of it, fighting terrorism before 9/11 that “he is demanding the network ‘pull the drama’ if changes aren’t made.”

Among other complaints,

Clinton pointedly refuted several fictionalized scenes that he claims insinuate he was too distracted by the Monica Lewinsky sex scandal to care about bin Laden….

Does that mean he was distracted but just not “too distracted”? That, of course, depends on what the meaning of both “too” and “distracted” is.

Or maybe he wasn’t distracted at all, since, as he assured us once, he did “not have sex with that woman, Ms. Lewinski.”

I suspect that Clinton’s drama criticism is about as reliable as his personal assurances.

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  1. Cobra September 9, 2006 at 4:10 pm | | Reply

    From the New York Post article:

    >>>”Although the movie thrust Lewinsky into the mix as a White House distraction, the 9/11 commission’s report found Clinton was “deeply concerned about bin Laden” and that he received daily reports “on bin Laden’s reported location,” Clinton’s letter notes.

    In another scene, CIA operatives working with Afghani anti-al Qaeda fighter Ahmed Shah Massoud, the leader of the Northern Alliance who was assassinated by bin Laden days before 9/11, gather on a hill near bin Laden’s residence at Tarnak Farms – the terror thug easily in their grasp.

    “It’s perfect for us,” says Kirk, a composite character played by Donnie Wahlberg. But the team aborts the mission when an actor portraying Berger tells them he can’t authorize a strike.

    “I don’t have that authority,” the Berger character says.

    “Are there any men in Washington,” Massoud asks Kirk later in the film, “or are they all cowards?”

    The reps for an outraged Clinton wrote to Iger that “no such episode ever occurred – nor did anything like it.”

    The 9/11 commission report ECHOES HIS DENIAL, and found that Clinton’s Cabinet gave “its blessing” for a CIA plan to capture bin Laden and determined that ex-CIA Director George Tenet squashed the plan.

    The third contested scene focuses on Albright, who is depicted alerting Pakistani officials in advance of a 1998 U.S. missile strike against bin Laden in Afghanistan – over the objections of the Pentagon. The movie claims the tip-off allowed bin Laden to escape.

    But the 9/11 commission reported that it was a member of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff – NOT Albright – who met with a senior Pakistani Army official prior to the strike to “assure him the missiles were not coming from India.”

    In other words, this corporate/right winged/Rovian attempt at LYING to the American people YET AGAIN has been exposed.

    The circle of lies, from “Weapons of Mass Destruction”, to “Saddam’s links to Al Qaeda”, to “we’ll be greeted as liberators” to “Iraqi Oil will pay for the occupation” to “insurgency is in it’s last throes” is already abyssmal. This right winged propaganda film masquerading as a “docu-drama” is the coup-de-grace.

    There are plenty of FACTUAL things to criticize ex-President Clinton about.

    INVENTING things that didn’t happen based on hate radio mythology will only serve to defeat the message.

    –Cobra

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