Right-wing sour grapes about movie "censorship"

The right-wing thought police has a weird idea of what censorship is.

To them, the Pentagon's suppression of journalists' coverage of war deaths isn't censorship. To them, a government ban of video games they don't like also is not censorship. But failing to release an unpopular TV miniseries on DVD quickly enough is.

In 2006, ABC (which now seems to stand for Anti-Barack Channel) aired 'The Path To 9/11', a miniseries that blamed Bill Clinton for the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. ABC is owned by the Walt Disney Company.

So what's the Far Right to do? They're blaming Disney for censoring the very miniseries that the company conceived, bankrolled, distributed, and broadcast. ABC aired the docudrama even after it was proven that it was full of errors.

If not for Disney, 'The Path To 9/11' never would have existed. So how are they censoring it?

Conservatives claim Disney is censoring the series because they haven't rerun it or put it out on DVD yet.

Maybe that's because there's no demand for it, perhaps? For all the visibility the wingnutosphere has, it has only a few diehard followers. There's probably not enough people out there who are willing to buy this shit.

The right-wing intelligentsia (or more accurately, stupidsia) is milking the bogus controversy for all its worth. Right-wing hatchet man David Bossie and talk radio loudmouth John Ziegler have teamed up to make a direct-to-video documentary titled 'Blocking 'The Path To 9/11'' - which is all about (you guessed it) the big, mean conspiracy to "censor" ABC's miniseries.

Although it's a direct-to-video release, it will be shown in some movie theaters just before the election.

When this turns out to be a box office disaster, what's next? 'Blocking 'Blocking 'The Path To 9/11'''?

If you want censorship, how about when conservatives cowed CBS into canceling its airing of 'The Reagans' because they claimed its depiction of Ronald Reagan wasn't positive enough? 'The Path To 9/11' was shown on network TV. 'The Reagans' was not.