from the Truly Tacky Department
I'm not watching any September 11th events. So many of them seem to be pushing for something that doesn't feel entirely genuine.
On the other hand what the HECK do you suppose the message is these people meant to send? Sick puppies.
and since fiveandfour actually asked . . .there's also this. lots of yelping about the ABC movie, which is bound to have a huge viewership now even though the one review I've read was pretty funny:
I once sat in a car forever waiting for my mom to come out of a grocery store. I thought that was the definition of "interminable." I had no idea "The Path to 9/11" was in my future.
This is what happens during 4 1/2 lonnnng hours of "Path." Terrorists talk about killing Americans for Allah. FBI and other security officials try to track them but fail. 9/11 happens.
You don't say.
This is the most anticlimactic, tension-free movie in the history of terrorist TV
On the other hand what the HECK do you suppose the message is these people meant to send? Sick puppies.
and since fiveandfour actually asked . . .there's also this. lots of yelping about the ABC movie, which is bound to have a huge viewership now even though the one review I've read was pretty funny:
I once sat in a car forever waiting for my mom to come out of a grocery store. I thought that was the definition of "interminable." I had no idea "The Path to 9/11" was in my future.
This is what happens during 4 1/2 lonnnng hours of "Path." Terrorists talk about killing Americans for Allah. FBI and other security officials try to track them but fail. 9/11 happens.
You don't say.
This is the most anticlimactic, tension-free movie in the history of terrorist TV
How ironic that at the exact moment your post loaded onto my screen that a reminder message about my company's annual moment of silence and memorial also came up.
ReplyDeleteThe other day I came across the names of some people I knew who had been in the Twin Towers and - boom! - instant tears. Guess that means I'm not quite ready to watch the "5 years later" stuff being so kindly and altruistically hosted by the media. Shucks, what a shame.
but have you signed any petitions telling ABC where exactly they can put their documentary?
ReplyDeleteI haven't seen any petitions. Whenever I see one of the "Cs" breathlessly promoting what they're planning to do, as if they're giving us all a chance to come together as one and heal or something, I turn the channel. It just touches my irate button so successfully that I go from rational and calm to foaming at the mouth in the blink of an eye. I figure that can't be good for me, so I've put Project Avoid Network TV (aka PANT) in motion. Thus far it's going pretty well - I've had nary an eye twitch, teeth gritting or fist clench in about a week.
ReplyDeleteThough I am interested in those petitions...
here you go.
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I wasn't particularly troubled by it until I read that they'd distributed preview copies to a whole bunch of right leaning pundits (Limbaugh, O'Reilly etc) and wouldn't let Clinton have a copy. Hmmm. Sounds a tad POLITICAL and I don't begrudge politics, but not with this...nosirree.
I actually left a message and I never do that. It's just so incredibly infuriating how politics of late (or a certain political party, anyway) keeps finding lower and lower depths to stoop to. And the lower they dive, the lower everyone gets dragged down.
ReplyDeleteWhile my intellectual side takes interest in seeing how "history" gets determined, my emotional side can't help but be enormously outraged by things like this which hint that apparently "history" is made by whoever can tell the most insulting lies. Makes me wonder what else has happened in the past that books in no way get right!
moveon.org also has a petition going. Yes I signed it. Funny my crit partner nad I were talking about this today. I'm not watching anything. I remember a couple weeks ago when, on the news (which I never watch and had on by accident), they were talking about the tapes being released and playing some of it and I couldn't find the remote =(
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