"The Path to 9/11" (2006 Docudrama)/Articles & Commentary Part 3)

The following are links to articles & commentary related to the main article "The Path to 9/11" (2006 Docudrama): Part 3: September 11, 2006, and beyond.

Also see:

• "The Path to 9/11" (2006 Docudrama)/Articles & Commentary Part 2) (Links for September 7-10, 2006).
• "The Path to 9/11" (2006 Docudrama)/Articles & Commentary Part 1) (Links from 2005 and for July, August, and September 1-6, 2006).
• "The Path to 9/11" (2006 Docudrama)/Related SourceWatch Resources

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September 2006

September 11, 2006

• News Release: "American Airlines Statement Regarding The Path to 9/11 on ABC-TV," PR Newswire, September 11, 2006.
• Trebor Banstetter, "American Airlines criticizes ABC miniseries on 9/11 attacks," Star-Telegram, September 11, 2006.
• "American Airlines Latest to Hit ABC's 9/11 Film—Legal Action to Follow?" Editor & Publisher, September 11, 2006.
• John Aravosis, AMERICAblog, September 11, 2006:

• "Please call American Airlines and ask them why they let Mohammad Atta kill 3,000 people"
• "American Airlines is threatening to sue Disney/ABC"
• "Disney/ABC shows scene defaming American Airlines AGAIN in second half of mockumentary" (live-blogging during part 2).

• Ira Teinowitz, "American Airlines Protests Its Portrayal in ABC's 'Path to 9/11'. Spokesman Says Airline Looking at 'Possible Legal Actions'," Advertising Age, September 11, 2006.
• Dan Froomkin, "Everything's Political," Washington Post, September 11, 2006.
• Jake Tapper and Cindy L. Smith, "What's Fact, What's Fiction in 'The Path to 9/11'? ABC Entertainment Edits Some Scenes, but Clinton Staffers Still Disappointed," ABC News, September 11, 2006.
• Andrew Wallenstein, "Bush speech to interrupt '9/11' miniseries," Hollywood Reporter (Reuters), September 11, 2006.
• George W. Bush, "President's Address to the Nation," The Oval Office, White House, September 11, 2006, 9:01 P.M. EDT.
• Jamie Holly, "Keith Olbermann’s Special Comment on Bush: Who has left this hole in the ground? We have not forgotten, Mr. President. You have. May this country forgive you," Crooks and Liars, September 11, 2006. re Keith Olbermann
• "'Fiction over fact' in 9/11 show. The first part of a controversial series on the 11 September attacks was misrepresentative despite being re-edited, the Clinton Foundation says," BBC, September 11, 2006.
• Edward Wyatt, "More Questions of Accuracy Raised About ABC Mini-Series on 9/11 Prelude," New York Times, September 11, 2006.
• Steve Gorman, "ABC debuts toned-down version of 9/11 docudrama," Reuters, September 11, 2006.
• David Bauder, "ABC Film on Sept. 11 airs amid Criticism," Associated Press (Forbes), September 11, 2006.
• "Monday's Letters: Readers Weigh in on ABC's 9/11 Miniseries," Editor & Publisher, September 11, 2006.
• John Aravosis, "Disney/ABC appears to praise Bush reaction to PDB with meeting that never happened," AMERICAblog, September 11, 2006 (live-blogging during part 2).
• John Eggerton, Broadcasting & Cable, September 11, 2006:

• "Path to 9-11 Rates Third Despite Controversy"
• Commentary: "Reaction to 9/11"

• Josh Grossberg, "Viewers Tune Out Path to 9/11," Eonline.com, September 11, 2006.
• Steve Gorman, "ABC's 9/11 miniseries eclipsed by football," Reuters, September 11, 2006.
• Steve LaBate, Review: "The Path to 9/11 (part one of two)," Paste Magazine, September 11, 2006.
• Max Blumenthal, "ABC 9/11 Docudrama's Right-Wing Roots," The Nation, September 11, 2006; AlterNet, September 13, 2006.
• "Bill Maher Takes on The Path to 9/11," truthdig, September 11, 2006.
• Jamie Holly, "Your Morning Dose of ABC’s Political Smear," Crooks and Liars, September 11, 2006.
• Greg Sargent, "ABC Consultant Richard Clarke Blasts First Installment Of Film, Hints At ABC 'Conspiracy'," TPM Cafe, September 11, 2006.
• William E. Jackson, Jr., "The Hidden Agenda of ABC's The Path to 9/11: Not the HOW but the WHY," The Huffington Post, September 11, 2006.
• Rachel Sklar, "ABC: Lies, Obfuscations And False Promises," The Huffington Post, September 11, 2006.
• John Fund, "Clinton Officials Have a Point on Docudramas - Let's Clean Them All Up," The Huffington Post, September 11, 2006.
• Bill Robinson, "ABC's 9/11 Mockumentary: A Quick Review," The Huffington Post, September 11, 2006.
• Steven G. Brant, "The Path of Lies mixed with Truths leading to The Path to 9/11," The Huffington Post, September 11, 2006.
• Judd Legum, "Thank You For Fighting For The Truth," Think Progress, September 11, 2006.
• Think Progress, September 11, 2006:

• "Path to 9/11 Trounced By Football, Ties CBS Rerun"
• "9/11 Commission Vice Chair: Path to 9/11 Is 'Not Good For the Country'"

• Media Matters for America, September 11, 2006:

• "ABC retained fabricated scene showing Clinton officials aborting mission to capture bin Laden"
• "On Nightline, ABC's Ross reported simply that bin Laden 'was able to slip away' from Tora Bora"
• "Despite Last Minute Re-cut ABC/Disney's Path to 9/11 Still rife with Misinformation, Fabrication and Misleading Scenes. Network Gets Facts Wrong on American Airlines in Opening Scene of Highly Discredited Miniseries"
• "On Reliable Sources, Kurtz highlighted Medved's criticism of Democrats to suggest 'liberal hypocrisy' in response to The Path to 9/11, ignored possibility of 'hypocrisy' by Medved and other conservatives"
• "NBC's Lauer failed to challenge Bush's suggestion, contradicted by multiple sources, that he 'couldn't have' foreseen wars in both Afghanistan and Iraq in days after 9-11 attacks"
• "Kristol accused Democrats—not Republicans—of turning 9-11 anniversary 'into a partisan fight'; falsely claimed Bush never attacked Clinton terror policies"
• "Cable and broadcast coverage of September 11 anniversary skewed right"
• "WSJ's Fund claimed Berger and Albright 'persuaded ABC to alter scenes involving them'—but central falsehoods remain"
• "Numerous reviews of ABC miniseries failed to note controversy surrounding its factual accuracy"

• "ABC affiliate KMGH downplayed falsehoods in Path to 9/11," Colorado Media Matters for America, September 11, 2006.
• Rush Limbaugh, Transcript: "Path to 9/11 Edits Were Minor, Irrelevant; Bob Iger Stood Firm In Face of Pressure," rushlimbaugh.com, September 11, 2006.
• Noel Sheppard, "Thoughts on 'Path to 9/11' Part I," NewsBusters, September 11, 2006.

September 12, 2006

• Richard Williamson, "American Could Pull Ads From ABC," ADWEEK, September 12, 2006; MediaWeek; BrandWeek.
• Colin Mahan, "ABC 9/11 films angers airline. American Airlines mulling legal action after seeing how it is portrayed in ABC docudrama," TV.com, September 12, 2006.
• Walter Shapiro, "The never-ending War. The president uses the fifth anniversary of our national tragedy to promise a global conflict that will last decades," Salon, September 12, 2006.
• Editorial: "President Bush’s Reality," New York Times, September 12, 2006.
• "When a true story is basedd on fiction," New York Times (International Herald Tribune), September 12, 2006.
• Editorial: "Blunder, blame and Sept. 11," Chicago Tribune, September 12, 2006.
• Edward Wyatt, " New York Times, September 12, 2006.
• Editorial: "The Fictional Path to 9/11," New York Times, September 12, 2006.
• Lisa de Moraes, "Sunday Night Football Bulls Past 9/11 Programs," Washington Post, September 12, 2006.
• Frazier Moore, "Lessons Learned From ABC's 9/11 Folly," Washington Post, September 12, 2006.
• Skip Kaltenheuser, "Comment. Stumbling on the Path to 9/11," Asia Times, September 12, 2006.
• "Changes to ABC's show on 9/11 found wanting," Associated Press (Washington Times), September 12, 2006.
• Jonathan Chait, "A Fictitious Spin on the War on Terror," Los Angeles Times (Salt Lake Tribune), September 12, 2006.
• Ray Raymond, "ABC rebuffs pressure to deep-six 9/11 mini," The Hollywood Reporter, September 12, 2006.
• Media Matters for America, September 12, 2006:

• "Providence Journal issues correction to 'incorrect..' Path to 9/11 review"
• "Update: Disney/ABC decided to air flawed partisan miniseries on 9/11 anniversary"
• "Part two of ABC's 9-11 'docudrama' contained falsified scenes bolstering Bush"

• Max Blumenthal, "The Swift Boat Connection of ABC's 9/11 Deception," The Huffington Post, September 12, 2006.
• Rachel Sklar, "Path To 9/11 Tough On Bush Administration? Not By A Long Shot," The Huffington Post, September 12, 2006.
• Steven G. Brant, "FLASH: ABC's Path to 9/11 discussed on PBS Newshour tonight," The Huffington Post, September 12, 2006.
• Bruce Wilkey, Opinion: "Truth Or Pretzel?" The Chattanoogan, September 12, 2006.
• Paul McLeary, "Path to 9/11: A Belch in the Nation's Slow Digestion of a Day," CJR Daily, September 12, 2006.
• Art Moore, "DAY OF INFAMY 2001: Path to 9/11 producer sees ABC 'victory'. Says controversial film maintained message amid unprecedented pressure," WorldNetDaily, September 12, 2006.
• Chad Groening, "Former Clinton Aide Critical of Attempts to Shut Down ABCs 911 Special," WDC Media News (AgapePress), September 12, 2006.
• Tim Graham, "N.Y. Times Finds No 'Soviet-Style' Clinton Attacks in Editorial on 'Path to 9/11'," NewsBusters, September 12, 2006.
• Clay Waters, "NY Times Follows a Pro-Democratic 'Path to 9-11'," NewsBusters, September 12, 2006.
• Rush Limbaugh, Transript: "Path to 9/11 Exposed the Real Bill Clinton," rushlimbaugh.com, September 12, 2006.

September 13, 2006

• Ruth Marcus, "ABC's 'Path' Not Taken," Washington Post, September 13, 2006.
• Daniel B. Wood and Gloria Goodale, "History by miniseries: Too fast, too loose? ABC's Path to 9/11 ignited a furor over political meddling—and how it will play in an election season," Christian Science Monitor, September 13, 2006.
• David Leigh, "BBC did not know of 9/11 film's link to religious right," Guardian Unlimited (UK), September 13, 2006.
• Ruben Navarrette, Jr., Opinion: "True colors fly over 9/11 miniseries," Seattle Times, September 13, 2006.
• William E. Jackson, Jr., "The Path to 9/11: Where Does ABC News Stand?" The Huffington Post, September 13, 2006.
• Steven G. Brant, "PBS Newshour on The Path to 9/11: A Bad Idea From The Start," The Huffington Post, September 13, 2006.
• "Open letter from David Brock to ABC/Disney," Media Matters for America, September 13, 2006.
• "ABC 9/11 Flick a Hysterical Document," Wonkette!, September 13, 2006.
• Rush Limbaugh, "Liberals Still Obsessed with Rush & Path to 9/11," rushlimbaugh.com, September 13, 2006.

September 14, 2006

• Eric Alterman, "Lying About 9/11? Easy as ABC," The Nation, posted September 14, 2006 (October 2, 2006 issue).
• Barbara Bodine, Opinion: "Path to 9/11 ill serves nation's history," The Providence Journal (RI), September 14, 2006.
• Sam Kornell, "ABC’s of 9/11. Former U.S. Ambassador Barbara Bodine Refutes The Path to 9/11," Santa Barbara Independent (CA), September 14, 2006.
• "Editorial: 'Faction' TV. ABC's detours on the path to 9/11," The Sacramento Bee (CA), September 14, 2006.
• Sasha Stone, "TELEVISION: The Road Already Taken: The Path to 9/11," Santa Monica Mirror (CA), September 14, 2006.
• Adam Hill, "'The Path to 9/11' airs despite 'too soon' controversy," Dawgnet News, September 14, 2006.
• John Aravosis, "Conservatives continue to claim that Disney/ABC mockumentary was 'based on the 9/11 Commission Report'," AMERICAblog, September 14, 2006. re Ann Coulter's "If only bin Laden had a stained blue dress," Townhall.com, September 13, 2006.
• Art Levine, "Note to ABC's "9/11" Hacks: Read the Graphic Novel Version," The Huffington Post, September 14, 2006.
• Sherman Yellen, "How America got Moused by the Right," The Huffington Post, September 14, 2006.
• John Amato, "Jon Stewart reaches out to the president while Little Richard gives us the low down...," Crooks and Liars, September 13, 2006. re Stewart's "take" on Bush's 9/11 speech.
• Jack Cashill, Commentary: "Clarke, O'Neill and 'The Path to 9/11'," WorldNetDaily, September 14, 2006.
• Victor Davis Hanson, "The Path to 9/11: A Postmortem," RealClearPolitics (Fox News), September 14, 2006.

September 15, 2006

• David De Sola, Opinion: "Fact check: ABC's 'Path to 9/11' a waste of time," Daily Trojan (University of Southern California), September 15, 2006.
• Joe Conason, "Jersey hustler. Why did former Gov. Kean, once a respected statesman, mislead the public and the press about the accuracy of ABC's Path to 9/11?" Salon, September 15, 2006. Free preview or subscription required. re Thomas H. Kean
• John Aravosis, "A question for Disney/ABC: Are Christo-fascists better than Islamo-fascists?" AMERICAblog, September 15, 2006.
• "Following ABC's falsehood-ridden Path to 9/11, Coulter's column repeated false claims about Pres. Clinton's handling of terror threat," Media Matters for America, September 15, 2006.

September 18, 2006

• "Writer of 'Path to 9/11' Movie Hits Back at Media Coverage," Editor & Publisher, September 18, 2006.
• Clay Waters, "NY Times Won't Stop Pummeling 'The Path to 9-11'," NewsBusters, September 18, 2006.

September 19, 2006

• John Aravosis, "Disney/ABC rep refuses to disavow false claim that American Airlines is responsible for September 11," AMERICAblog.com, September 19, 2006.
• "Writer of 9/11 Film Compares Critical Backlash to the Salem Witch Hunt," Editor & Publisher, September 19, 2006.
• "TUESDAY'S LETTERS: Bronstein and BALCO, Nowrasteh's Op-Ed," Editor & Publisher, September 19, 2006.

September 22, 2006

• Judd Legum, "FULL TRANSCRIPT: Clinton Takes On Fox News," Think Progress, September 22, 2006.

September 23, 2006

• Mindy Belz, "Conspiracy theories. Entertainment: They may explain political protest of ABC’s 9/11 film but rarely describe how networks work," World Magazine, September 23, 2006 (issue). re David Horowitz

2007

• John Aravosis, "FOX to broadcast false 9/11 story from Disney/ABC's fake documentary - Disney/ABC refuse to assert their copyright, YouTube illegally broadcasts video," AMERICAblog, January 26, 2007.
• "Fox News to broadcast 'The Path to 9/11' fiction," The Carperbagger Report, January 26, 2007.
• John Aravosis, "President Clinton contacting head of Disney over rekindled 'Path to 9/11' controversy," AMERICAblog, January 26, 2007.
• John Aravosis, "ABC Entertainment president personally attacks Sandy Berger, says error-riddled 'Path to 9/11' was totally true," AMERICAblog, January 26, 2007.