Angry in the Great White North

From Reuters:

Amid an election-year debate over who can best defend America, U.S. congressional Democrats urged ABC on Thursday to cancel a TV miniseries about the September 11 attacks that is critical of former Democratic President Bill Clinton and his top aides.

Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid of Nevada denounced the five-hour television movie, set to air in two parts on Sunday and Monday nights, as "a work of fiction."

Reid and other leading Senate Democrats wrote to Robert Iger, president and CEO of ABC's corporate parent, the Walt Disney Co., urging him to "cancel this factually inaccurate and deeply misguided program."

Well, ABC folded, and scenes that portray Bill Clinton as a weak leader will be reshot or deleted.

I haven't been following this all too closely. Frankly, attempting to portray real events in a dramatic movie when key players are still alive (and still politically powerful) seems to be a fool's errand. But it was clear something was up when I saw this on my Feedburner ad management page:

Networks should probably stick to sitcoms and ripping off each other's reality shows. Leave the history to the historians and documentary producers.