Double Standard?

Reading through various news reports today, I noticed that Bill Clinton and the Democrats are outraged over a 9/11 miniseries produced by ABC. They're demanding it either be changed or pulled from the schedule because apparently it casts Clinton and his gang in a negative light.

Reading further, I find that the miniseries is tough on the Bush administration as well, but strangely there doesn't seem to be anyone from that camp demanding it be changed or cancelled.

The producers of the "docu-drama" say it was developed from the 9/11 commission report and a variety of other inside sources. It uses some composite characters and creates some fictionalized scenes to support the overall story. Sort of like the movie "Black Hawk Down", I gather.

Let me get this straight. The same Democrats who are howling about this "inaccurate" film and demanding it be cancelled lined up to see the Bush hit piece called Farenheit 911. They touted that film despite its gross distortions and outright lies, and if I remember correctly, Michael Moore never claimed to be using any composite characters or fictional scenes. I also seem to recall that although conservatives were pretty outraged at the propaganda piece, nobody I remember demanded it be changed or cancelled. In fact, President Bush never said anything at all about it as far as I can tell.

The Democrat leadership is screaming that the timing is unfair and politically motivated because it's coming out right before the elections. Well, in contrast to Farenheit 911, which was purposely released on a schedule intended to affect a Presidential election, this miniseries was scheduled to coincide with the fifth anniversary of 9/11. And we're not electing a President this year. That seems to me to blow up the whole "politically motivated" argument.

Isn't what Clinton and his Democrat buddies doing right now exactly what they would call "censorship"? If the GOP had demanded Farenheit 911 be pulled from distribution, dare anyone suggest the other party would have done anything else but scream "Censorship!" from the rooftops? So the First Amendment only applies when the speech is trashing the other side?
I don't know, and for the moment don't much care, how "accurate" the film is. Is the fundamental story accurate and Bill and the gang are obfuscating by claiming that dramatized scenes created to help tell the story didn't happen, even though the decisions made and actual outcomes were accurate? I won't even attempt to guess, but I have a suspicion that may be the case.

But what gets me thinking that this isn't some right-wing hatchet job are some basic facts: It's not being released by "Rush Limbaugh Productions" or "American Nazi Films". It's ABC! Since when did anybody accuse them of being right-wing activists? That certainly stands in sharp contrast to Farenheit 911, which was clearly the product of the proudly anti-American rabid pink liberal Moore.

This should be great news for ABC, assuming they don't cave. They'll get a huge audience for this mini-series just because everyone will want to tune in to find out what all the fuss is about.