kane

First, Moore didn't get a pass. He was vigorously attacked by the right for his movie. So much so that Bush's dad's investment group actually bought up a chain in theatres in the south so that it wouldn't show down there. Moore sparked a cottage industry of people that wrote books, started websites and made movies that slammed his film.

Second, this movie is supposedly a docudrama so it is based on true events, but has some fictionalized accounts in it. One of the executive producers on the movie is a republican governor that was part of the 9/11 commission and he himself said that much of it is not accurate. However, there are a lot of people out there that don't realize this. They will watch is and take it as fact. If it's me and there is a movie coming out based on some things I was involved in that was fiction and made me look bad you can bet that I would fight.

Lastly, this is politics as usual and I think it's no coincidence that this show is being broadcast two months before an election. A little while back there was a TV movie about Reagan that didn't paint him in a very good light and the republicans flipped out about it and eventually pressured the network to not air it. but now that Clinton is fighting something he doesn't like somehow that is bad.

to me this mini series is nothing more than a 4 hour election commercial. The repubs can say, " see how weak the democrats are on terrorism? We're better vote for us."

It's all pretty bad.

That said I think any docudrama shouldn't be made. Either make a fictional account of something or make a real factual documentary.