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When does the DVD for Path to 9/11 Come out??

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The DVD may never come out. All I can suggest is that you keep an eye out at Amazon or one of the other places that sell DVD's. You can get to Amazon's page from the imdb page for Path.

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You're right about that. It won't be released. It's called censorship.

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There wont be DVD available until Hillary Cliton is done with her presidential race. The Clitons dont want the truth about Bill's and Sandy Berger's incompetence to come out while she is a candidate.

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i just wish theyd release the dvd already jeez, mite have to resort to getting a bootleg on ebay at some point and there rarely on there

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ABC (owned by Disney) was going to release the DVD initially in January, then pushed the date out 6 months. Those 6 months have come and gone and no DVD. Expect it following the funeral of the Clintons.

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I taped it off TV - but would sure like a copy on DVD. I keep checking every few months to see if it out.

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Citizenright like his right wing, yet so wrong colleagues feel the need to resort to name-calling (by referring to the Clintons as Clitons) because they lack the intellect and subtlety to satirize.

Oh how witty, clever and irreverent you conservatives are. Perhaps you should go into show business. Oh wait, that's right, your small minded brains are incapable of creating something unique or original. You spend your time making ad hominem attacks on people who won't bother to defend themselves against third grade, name-calling juveniles like yourself.

How much time did it take for you to think of "Clitons"? Did you come up with that on your own or are you like all the other conservative dilettantes that get their "ideas" from the fair and balanced infotainment stooges like Hannity, O Reilly, Limbaugh and the like.

Pathetic.

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All of this bovine scatology to criticize me for using Cliton? My, how witty, clever and irrelevent you liberals are. Maybe you should give Talk Radio a try. What? Already tried it and it bombed, several times? Awwwww. Nobody wants to listen to your hateful anti-American, anti-intellectual screeds it seems. Hmmm.

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Right-on, citizenright!
Liberals are so full of crap that anybody who dares give them a reality check is a moron. Actually, liberals hate life and themselves and take it out on others. It's always somebody else's fault when something goes wrong ion their lives. Cry-babies.
Speaking os Sandy Berger: He stole documents from the National Archive and stuffed them in his underpants and hid them in some random construction site. He gets caught, is sentenced to a $50,000 fine and the oh-so caring and compassionate liberals keep shtoom about it. I thought they were all about bipartisanship and working together? Hmmm, I wonder what those documents contained. Maybe evidence for Billary's incompetence re 9/11?
And why did Billary demand Path to 9/11 be cut? Because he didn't want people to find out the truth about his botched and weak-kneed presidency. He's just too damn vain. When did Bush ever demand cuts for movies making fun of him and accusing him of this and that? He couldn't care less about his haters. Only self-agrandising liberals and other vain and pussilanimous weaklings demand that.

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"Liberals are so full of crap that anybody who dares give them a reality check is a moron. Actually, liberals hate life and themselves and take it out on others. It's always somebody else's fault when something goes wrong ion their lives. Cry-babies."

Something tells me you've been called a moron by more than just liberals.

Moron is completely bipartisan - both sides have them and you must be their poster child.

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tAlk Radio? What are you 89? bovine scatology indeed

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Yes, there are many right-wingers who make idiotic comments, as this thread demonstrates. But it's also clear that the DVD has been suppressed for political reasons, although the politics probably has more to do with avoiding controversy than with directly supporting Hillary Clinton (remember, ABC largely resisted pressure from the Clinton camp to make significant changes or pull it). As to the question about whether the Right ever did anything like this, one only has to look at the efforts made to suppress Michael Moore's Farenheit 9/11. Disney (which controls ABC, makers of The Path to 9/11), pulled out of the project (which was financed through its Miramax subsidiary), and the Weinstien brothers, owners of Miramax, had to finance it themselves and then sold the distribution rights to Lions Gate. There was then a concerted effort by various right-wing groups to keep the film from theaters and Moore from speaking on college campuses. The sad truth here is that both sides come out with the same desire to suppress viewpoints not to their liking by focusing on specific factual errors (evident in both cases) as the basis for engaging the larger arguments and instead opting for censorship.

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I served in the Military Like a REAL AMERICAN!!! There wasn't a draft when I enlisted I CHOSE to do it. Unlike Liberal Wienies like you, and Billary. I didn't run and hide from my duty. The truth about Billary is he was a Psychical and Moral, YELLOW COWARD!!! Nobody in the Military liked him. He was a pussy, the reason America is really hated around the world, is because he made us look like pussies. When the *beep* hit the fan the world knew we would always answer the call to deal with it. After eight years of Billary, nobody would rely on us again. Thats why nobody supports us anymore. Bin Laden would not have had to sack to do what he did, had Billary not placated him for eight years. Those bastards really hated Clinton. They don't care for Bush much, but they do respect him, because they know he won't back down. They know he will keep hurting them until Noon on January 20th, 2009. I just hope the next President has the balls to keep up the pressure, because if we back down again. I believe we will be hit again, and within three years of the start of the next presidency. And this time I don't believe Osama will restrain himself when it comes to possibly hitting with a Nuclear Bomb. The Reason Iran won't use Nukes is the same reason the Russians wouldn't. DETERRENCE, They destroy everything they know and hold dear if they were to attack us. However Osama, does not have to worry about that. He doesn't care if we take him, and everything he holds dear out, as long as he takes us with him.

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Really? This is the best you could come up with? Really? Sounds just like what the Clinton's have done from day one...attack.

But we know...the only way to deal with others is to attack first...which you did poorly at best. Can't even come up with anything better? Really???

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President Donald will make sure it's released.

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http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/homeentertainment/la-et-path5sep05,0,2302280.story?coll=la-home-entertainment

Among the nearly two dozen television DVDs slated for nationwide release on Sept. 11 is the second season of "Bones," the third season of "Grey's Anatomy" and the miniseries "The Starter Wife" that aired earlier this year. Not on the list on that day or any other in the near future is last year's highly controversial "The Path to 9/11."

The $40-million, five-hour ABC miniseries, which recently received seven Emmy nominations and drew a combined two-night audience of more than 25 million viewers, is for now on the path to nowhere. Its Amazon page reads: "Currently unavailable. We don't know when or if this item will be back in stock."

With no date for the release, questions are being raised about whether political pressure is behind its current status as a stalled or discarded DVD project. The reasons are murky, but the miniseries' writer, Cyrus Nowrasteh, believes it's crystal clear: Powerful forces are out to protect Bill Clinton's presidential legacy and shield Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) from any potential collateral damage in her bid for the White House.

Nowrasteh, also one of the miniseries' many producers, said he was told by a top executive at ABC Studios that "if Hillary weren't running for president, this wouldn't be a problem."

"Whatever anyone may think about me or this movie, this is a bad precedent, a dangerous precedent, to allow a movie to be buried," added Nowrasteh, who received death threats even before the miniseries was broadcast last September. "Because the next time they'll go after another movie. The Bush administration may go after a movie. The next administration may go after a movie. No matter who it is, they may go after a movie. I think this town needs to stand up."

Even before "The Path to 9/11" aired on ABC late last summer, the docudrama ignited a political firestorm, almost entirely from high-profile Democratic leaders who viewed its account of events leading up to the terrorist attacks as a right-wing hatchet job on the Clinton administration and its efforts to capture or kill Osama bin Laden. Attempts to pressure ABC to cancel the miniseries at the time were unsuccessful, but last-minute network edits were imposed to quell the critical outcry.

An ABC spokeswoman reached Tuesday would say only that the company "has no release date at this time," and she declined to comment further.

Meanwhile, Sen. Clinton's campaign staff did not return an e-mail or a phone call seeking comment.

Last year, a Clinton spokesman referred to the ABC enterprise as "despicable," and then Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and four other Democratic senators signed a letter to Disney Chief Executive Robert A. Iger stating that if the miniseries were shown it would "deeply damage" Disney's reputation. As a result of the tumult, ABC was unable to attract advertisers for the miniseries.

Thus far, few have noted the DVD's absence in the marketplace. Among those who have are conservative talk-radio host Rush Limbaugh, who questioned last month why the disc isn't available on the nation's retail shelves. (Limbaugh and Nowrasteh have met on several occasions but do not regularly socialize, Nowrasteh said.)

With a possible writers strike and fall television premieres around the corner, the DVD's release hasn't galvanized Hollywood as a cause célèbre. But voices traditionally associated with the political left are disturbed by the DVD's uncertain fate. This isn't about politics, said film director Oliver Stone, but about the right of artists to have their work distributed.

"This is a shame; it's censorship in the most blatant way," said Stone, who has hired Nowrasteh for several writing projects. "I'm not vouching for its accuracy -- it's a dramatization -- but it's an important work and needs to be seen."

Average: four monthsThe time between a program's television broadcast and subsequent DVD release varies, but these days it's generally around four months. However, for TV movies and miniseries -- mostly because so few are made these days -- the rules are less clear.

For instance, HBO's movie "Buried My Heart at Wounded Knee," an adaptation of Dee Brown's famous book, and the USA Network's miniseries "The Starter Wife," about a Hollywood power wife scorned, premiered in late May and will be out on DVD Tuesday.

Still, there are plenty of miniseries, most of them produced years ago, that never make it to DVD. The chief reason is usually a perceived lack of interest and profit.

"It's really up to the studios when they want to release the DVD," said Gord Lacey, founder of tvshowsondvd.com, a website that tracks DVD releases from television. "But this is odd. It may be this is a very sensitive subject and they [ABC Studios] don't want to go through the PR nightmare again."

In 2003, after vehement protests from Republicans, CBS yanked its scheduled miniseries "The Reagans." Republicans complained that the docudrama created a distorted and unflattering picture of the former president. Eventually, the program was shown on CBS' much-less-watched sister network, the pay cable outlet Showtime, and was later released on DVD.

Initially, Nowrasteh was told by executives at ABC Studios that the miniseries would have a DVD release in January. Then, April. Then, this summer. Currently, Nowrasteh has not been notified of a specific release date for the DVD.

Despite a virtually nonexistent Emmy marketing campaign, "The Path to 9/11" claimed seven nominations, though none in the more prestigious categories for writing and directing. As the miniseries' writer and a producer, Nowrasteh is entitled to revenue from DVD sales, but it would be fractions of a penny for a disc sold. DVD sales, too, could potentially help ABC offset its considerable financial losses on the project.

"I go to Blockbuster and I see a lot of crap on the shelves," added Nowrasteh. " 'Path to 9/11' deserves to be available to people who want to see it or buy it or rent it or whatever. Every controversial movie I can think of, whether it's 'Fahrenheit 9/11,' the Reagan miniseries . . . they were all released; they were broadcast. You can get them on DVD."

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So are the suits at ABC protecting HRC or is it that they are afraid of her wrath, should she be elected?

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Look, it's pretty simple. Entertaiment is a supply and demand business. If enough people want the DVD release and make it known that they will purchase it, then it will get out there.

Right now, the higher ups are scared of the Clintons. I would be too...knowing what happens to the enemies of the Clintons. However, after this fiasco of a Democratic Party Nominating process wears out...then maybe it will be a warmer climate for the Path to 9/11.

So, my suggestion is that everybody who wants this movie released to make it known to ABC that they would buy it (and assure them that others would as well). In the end, pure capitalistic greed will overcome any potential liability.

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It is nice to see a capitalist idealist posting here. :)

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So now that hillary is out of the race, whats the details with the release?

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http://cgi.ebay.com/PATH-9-11-RARE-DVD-UNEDITED-VERSION-UN-CUT-/260663 392460?pt=US_DVD_HD_DVD_Blu_ray&hash=item3cb0bfb8cc

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I can "loan you a copy"
J

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What's the current status: Nothing being done ?

If I had known at the time that it wasn't going to be repeated --by abc-- and it would become hard to get I would have taped it.

Kisskiss, Bangbang

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