It is rare for me to expend my valuable attentional resources focusing on television. I would much rather spend time enlightening myself through the creation of prose, smelling a glorious Lilac bush, or reading the genius that is Hemingway. However, tonight I made the decision to visit a friend's house and examine the ABC docudrama, The Path to 9/11. I am sorry that I did.
This "film" was nothing more than right wing propaganda; merely a conservative talking point, produced to provide poltical gain to the neocons. Which may have been acceptable had it been a finely constructed piece of propaganda filmmaking, like Hitler Youth Quex by the Nazis, and Mission to Moscow by the USSR. But, like most Bush administration endeavors, this film was bungled in every possible way.
This "film" was nothing more than right wing propaganda; merely a conservative talking point, produced to provide poltical gain to the neocons. Which may have been acceptable had it been a finely constructed piece of propaganda filmmaking, like Hitler Youth Quex by the Nazis, and Mission to Moscow by the USSR. But, like most Bush administration endeavors, this film was bungled in every possible way.
The lighting was horrendous, the angle choices made by the director were those of a neophyte and did nothing to further the film's "hidden" agenda, and the script was very Clancy-esque; self-indulgent, formulaic and pablum. Three oversights that do not provide optimal conditions for brainwashing the consuming masses.
Here are a few choice quotes from the desperately transparent script:
John O'Neil: We are at war here.
Richard Clarke: Yes, a war on terror! I only hope that in the future the press realizes this, and does not expose essential programs used to fight this war; in the name of civil liberties. Thus, informing our enemy, rendering the programs useless, and leaving the American people helpless against the evil that wants us dead.
Pakistani Fighter: Are there any men left in Washington? Or do they no realize the danger this man [Osama Bin Laden] poses? If this democratic presidential administration does not capture him today, in 1998, who can tell what ravages he will perpetrate on the America in as soon as three years.
Patricia Carver: You should have captured Bin Laden! We had information to capture him, but you [Richard Clarke], President Clinton, and the democratic party are too weak on terror! Do you not realize that if we refuse to capture him and fight him in the middle east, he will only be emboldened to fight us here on our American streets, cities, and airplanes!
News Reporter, after American bombing of a Sudanese Phramaceutical plant: Many here in Sudan question why Mr. Clinton has decided to bomb their peaceful town, whose only purpose was to manufacture medicine for AIDS patients, when he is the one that is too busy cheating on his poor presidential candidate of a wife to properly fight the war on terror.
John O'Neil: We are at war here.
Richard Clarke: Yes, a war on terror! I only hope that in the future the press realizes this, and does not expose essential programs used to fight this war; in the name of civil liberties. Thus, informing our enemy, rendering the programs useless, and leaving the American people helpless against the evil that wants us dead.
Pakistani Fighter: Are there any men left in Washington? Or do they no realize the danger this man [Osama Bin Laden] poses? If this democratic presidential administration does not capture him today, in 1998, who can tell what ravages he will perpetrate on the America in as soon as three years.
Patricia Carver: You should have captured Bin Laden! We had information to capture him, but you [Richard Clarke], President Clinton, and the democratic party are too weak on terror! Do you not realize that if we refuse to capture him and fight him in the middle east, he will only be emboldened to fight us here on our American streets, cities, and airplanes!
News Reporter, after American bombing of a Sudanese Phramaceutical plant: Many here in Sudan question why Mr. Clinton has decided to bomb their peaceful town, whose only purpose was to manufacture medicine for AIDS patients, when he is the one that is too busy cheating on his poor presidential candidate of a wife to properly fight the war on terror.
2 comments:
So....catch night 2 and the glowing portrayal of the Bush administration?
You think hemmingway is a genius?
That explains everything.
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