The Worm Turns

In the upcoming issue of Guitar One Magazine, a list will be published of the best guitar solos in rock music. Topping the list as number one is Jimi Hendricks. He is on the list for a couple of tunes. I would have made the number one pick as Jimmy Page for Stairway to Heaven, but he is number 5 or 6, I think. I heard this on the radio this morning taking son to school and running errands. I think the issue comes out September 19.

So, we hear of the "editing" ABC is doing on "The Path to 9/11" set to air Sunday and Monday nights. I told you that would happen, didn't I? At a breathtaking level of hypocracy being shown, the open minded, freedom of speech loving, Democrats on Capitol Hill have made some incredible threats to the network to influence the production. Yesterday, we saw Sen. Harry Reid, from Nevada call for the network to pull the movie and just not run it. We saw Reid and Sen. Chuckie Schumer of New York use a vailed threat that the license of ABC could run into trouble with the government if the movie is shown. Wow. I thought it was the evil Republicans who were the ones to use dictatorial practices.

This movie is based on the 9/11 Commissions's report. It does have some dramatization as it is a movie, after all. The problems for the Clintonistas is that is shows the events leading up to 9/11, while they were in power. President Clinton called for ABC to not run the movie, too. He is still trying to cobble together some kind of legacy for his 8 year taxpayer-funded romp around the world and doesn't want to have more tarnish rubbed into the record. Sandy Berger, the former National Security Advisor to Clinton, was caught and convicted of stealing government documents from the National Archives just before he was to testify, under oath, to the 9/11 Commission. He was stuffing the papers into his trousers. Nothing suspicious there, right?

John Podesta, former chief of staff for Clinton, now runs a liberal activist think tank in D.C. So he led a letter writing campaign to ABC demanding the movie not run. Over 25,000 letters arrived at ABC. ABC stated yesterday that some minor editing has been done now.

Where was the left's indignation of false statements being made in Michael Moore's 9/11 movie? That movie, embraced by every liberal on the planet particularly in Hollywood, even was awarded with an Academy Award. Jimmy Carter gained a new best friend and they sat together at the Democractic convention. Anyone on the left claiming that it was wrong to make up lies about a sitting president over anti war sentiments? No. They couldn't rush dinner invitations quick enough to Moore and his wife. When conservatives voiced complaints over a made for tv movie on the life of Ronald Reagan, did CBS "edit" scenes from that movie? No. It was shown as it was orginally meant to be shown. And don't forget the upcoming movie to be trotted out at the Canadian film festival on 9/10 showing the assassination of President Bush, using his real face. Anyone on the left have a problem with that? No.

Tom Kean, Co-Chair for the 9/11 Commission said he saw nothing untrue portrayed in the movie. He served as a consultant and screened the movie with others in Washington. If we don't look back clearly and fully into history, we won't learn how to avoid tragedy in the future.

This strong arming of ABC smacks of the old days in the Clinton administration. Remember the use of the IRS audits to intimidate people viewed as enemies of the administration? Remember the people on the payroll placed there to discredit the "bimbos" and potential sex scandals? Remember Hillary Clinton claiming the existance of a "vast right wing conspiracy" on the Today Show? Remember that the democrats placed Jamie Gorelick on the 9/11 Commission, even though she was deputy Attorney General under Janet Reno and the engineer of the wall thrown up between the FBI and CIA prohibiting the two agencies from sharing intelligence. This wall of secrecy has a direct link to the 9/11 tragedy.

So, all this righteous indignation from the left is quite amusing this time around. They aren't used to Hollywood not being a mouthpiece for them.

Richard Clarke, former counter-intelligence head, was let go by the Bush administration and this unleashed his furor in retaliation. He wrote a book blaming the administration solely for the 9/11 attack. Again, President Bush had only been in office for 8 months. Michael Scheurer, former CIA agent head of the bin Laden unit, completely discredited Clarke, as others have, and states Clinton had 8 to 11 times to get bin Laden. Clarke doesn't like the ABC movie. Nor do Madeline Albright, parade watching partner of lunatic North Koreans, or Tim Roemer, 9/11 democrat appointee. Roemer enjoys playing pundit on talk shows now and his favorite talking point is the failure, in his mind, of the administration to implement the commission's recommendations. He doesn't say, however, that 80% have been implemented to date. I guess the administration doesn't have the right to disagree with any of the recommendations.

I hope ABC finds the courage to do the right thing. I'll be watching.

"The war we fight today is more than a military conflict. It is the decisive ideological struggle of the 21st century." - President George W. Bush addressing the American Legion