Right-wing miniseries not released on DVD; wingnuts blame Clintons

Nobody but nobody doubts the DLC has the shabbiest operation in American politics. In election after election, DLC dead wood is a drag on the entire Democratic ticket. What should be easy victories always become frustrating ordeals.

Despite the feebleness of a DLC-led party, the wingnutosphere thinks everybody in the Democratic Party controls everything in the universe from some secret bunker somewhere. And the dinosaur media laps up this paranoia so efficiently that it seems to become legitimized in the minds of the casual newspaper reader or TV viewer.

Just in the past day or so, the Far Right intelligentsia has manufactured another paranoid, ridiculous meme that was promptly picked up by the mainstream press. The Los Angeles Times strikes yet again, as it becomes the first mainstream outlet to report this nonstory. The real story here should be conservatives' paranoia. But no. The Times actually takes them seriously.

Last year, ABC/Disney financed and broadcast 'The Path To 9/11', a miniseries that accused Bill Clinton of causing the 9/11 terrorist attacks. The widely ridiculed docudrama was written and directed by an ultraconservative doofus named Cyrus Nowrasteh. Nowrasteh got a Conservative Fool Of The Day entry after admitting that the most controversial scene in his miniseries was based on a made-up event - then later claiming that it was real after all (although it wasn't). ABC made a very slight edit to this scene, but Nowrasteh claimed Bill Clinton had forced them to. It was also suspected that Nowrasteh used a fake account on IMDB to post a good review of one of his own movies. (The review was posted before that film was even released.)

In other words, Cyrus Nowrasteh is nothing but a kook who doesn't deserve any serious press for his drastic and paranoid claims. Yet serious press is exactly what he gets.

So here's today's right-wing plen-T-plaint: A bunch of DVD's are scheduled for national release this month. These include the third season of 'Grey's Anatomy' and some miniseries I've never heard of. But Nowrasteh's 'The Path To 9/11' is nowhere on the list. I can't imagine anyone actually wanting to buy it, can you?

Nowrasteh claims the failure to release 'The Path To 9/11' on DVD is being orchestrated by what the Times calls "powerful forces" to avoid spoiling Hillary Clinton's presidential run. (The Times also buys Nowrasteh's claim to be a victim of death threats before the miniseries aired, even though this claim has never been proven.)

Naturally, the spittle contingent over at Free Republic is all over this story. They're suggesting that ABC's stockholders sue the network for failing to release the miniseries on DVD. Seriously.

The kookish ramblings of Cyrus Nowrasteh and Freak Rethuglic hardly even deserve to be dignified with a response, but an allegedly serious paper like the Los Angeles Times already has. So now the spittle floodgates are open! Prepare yourself for years of operatic shrieking about how Hillary Clinton supposedly used her secret super powers to prevent the release of some stupid propaganda DVD that nobody wanted to buy anyway.

But since this is positively one of the dumbest right-wing beliefs we've heard in a long time, you might as well enjoy some laughs at the wingnutosphere's expense!

(Source: http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/homeentertainment/la-et-path5sep05,1,1332927.story?coll=la-headlines-entnews)