Editor of FRONTLINE: Bush's War is a freeper?

[progressoid]

Last night I decided to don my hazmat suit and see what the freeps think of Bush's War on Frontline. It's the usual mindless drivel... liberal crap, PBS should be defunded, full of lies etc.

Then I ran across a couple posts by "filmcutter" who claims to have been it's editor (maybe just a technician?). S/he seems sincere and her/his posts are mostly about Frontline and PBS.
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/posts-by:filmcutter/
S/he also gets a fair amount of flack about it from the other freeptards.





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I was the editor on this project and I can tell you that we gave it all we had to make sure it would stand the test of time. I hope you all watch, and if it applies, enjoy the program.
your humble conservative editor.


1 posted on 03/24/2008 9:40:29 AM PDT by FilmCutter
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I was the editor (the cutter of pictures and sound) and proud to be a part of this program.

Here are some other reviews:

Salon.com TV Daily
http://www.salon.com/ent/tv/daily/2008/03/24/monday/index.html
“Frontline’s two-part series on the most deeply stupid, tedious war in the history of the world.”

Daily Kos (ranked #13)
(this was initially a diary entry, but it appeared on the homepage in a “Diary Rescue” post)
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/3/22/224011/588
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/3/22/85419/9463

Media Matters, Eric Boehlert (#49)
http://mediamatters.org/columns/200803180001
“Bush Bash’s PBS (again) and the New York Times Helps”
What a strange coincidence that the Bush administration recently submitted the largest funding cut ever proposed for public broadcasting, and next week, PBS’ distinguished Frontline series will mark the fifth anniversary of the Iraq invasion by airing Bush’s War, which PBS describes as television’s definitive documentary analysis of the war.

Gothamist (rank #141)
http://gothamist.com/2008/03/23/after_spending.php
“Noteworthy Television This Week: A Look Back at the War”
Also includes a nice plug for the web site: “And no worries if you miss it, since they will have the video on the show’s website along with oodles of extras.”

Pajamas Media (rank #202)
http://pajamasmedia.com/2008/03/bushs_war.php
via Jules Crittenden “Forward Movement”
“FRONTLINE ‘Bush’s War’: Not About Bush or His War”

Watching TV Online, Textuality (rank #2540)
http://www.textually.org/tv/archives/2008/03/019434.htm

Jules Crittenden (rank #6679)
http://www.julescrittenden.com/2008/03/24/bushs-war/
“Cheney-Rumsfeld Junta lied, people died. Surge? What surge?”

Cyberjournalist.net (rank #7875)
http://www.cyberjournalist.net/frontlines-bushs-war-promises-innovative-online-experience/
“FRONTLINE ‘Bush’s War’ promises innovative online experience”

I hope you all watch !

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[Warpy]

1. Watching that evil sack o crap Rumsfeld

strutting and preening before the cameras last night was more than I could take. I confess I flipped the channel for a moment until he was gone. I hope tonight's episode is more of how it all went so terribly wrong. Last night was a damning account of how they lied us into this mess in the first place.

The only quibble I have is that it really should have been called "Cheney's War" since Cheney has always been the driving force behind it, much more so than Stupid was.

[Cleita]

5. Speaking of Cheney's war,

I just heard on Thom Hartmann that the day after Cheney visited Saudi Arabia, the Saudi leaders were preparing their citizens for nuclear fall out, "in case the USA drops nukes on Iran". :wtf:? What's happening? Thom said his Western source was a German newspaper. I'll be looking for it today. I wish Frontline or some news show follows up on this new rumor ASAP!

[progressoid]

6. I couldn't watch the last 45 minutes.

I could feel the veins in my temples throbbing. Every time they would show another one of those criminals (Cheney, Rumsfeld, Feith, Wolfowitz, Kristol etc), I'd get more pissed.

I agree about the prezledent. He's sort of a secondary character in this tragedy.

[Rob H.]

11. The thing that got me was

how much Rumsfeld's behavior and decisions seemed to be shaped by his perceived affronts to his apparently massive ego. General Shinseki says 400,000 troops are needed for a post-invasion Iraq? That's more than 300,000 too many, says Rumsfeld. The CIA is in charge in Afghanistan? Fine, but they're not getting any U.S. Army support unless I'm put in charge, says Rumsfeld.

I'm more convinced than ever that Rumsfeld and Cheney are Pure Evil. FTR, though, even with people like Richard Perle--who speaks in a reasonable enough tone of voice and seems rational until you realize that what he's actually saying is batshit insane--given screen time, the only person I muted was sycophantic shithead Bill Kristol. He's been wrong about pretty much everything he's said about Iraq and he still got quoted? WTF?

[Warpy]

13. Quoting those men in light of what everybody now knows,

that the whole rationale for war against that country was a tissue of lies, is very instructive to a lot of people. I'm sure, given the nanosecond of memory the average American seemingly possesses for current events, that this is the best tactic for exposing all those evil SOBs.

Of course, to address the phenomenon in the OP, some of them will relive the glory days because their self delusion prevents them from seeing what a clusterfuck the whole enterprise turned into.

Let's hope the second part of the series addresses just that for the rest of us to see.

[Rob H.]

18. "...some of them will relive the glory days...

because their self delusion prevents them from seeing what a clusterfuck the whole enterprise turned into.

You said it--I remember seeing a PBS special, The Case for War: In Defense of Freedom, and what you wrote describes Richard Perle to a T. He'll go to his grave telling anyone who'll listen what a great idea it was to invade Iraq. I remember watching it and yelling "LIAR!" at the TV whenever he repeated claims that had long since been debunked. He's a conscienceless piece of shit just like Rumsfeld and Cheney, imo.

[ThomWV]

2. That was probably the very best television show I have ever seen

It should be seen by every person in this country. I can tell you one thing for sure, I will not accept any further arguments that the MSM doesn't give us anything of substance. Last nights program was substance topped with substance. It certainly laid out the groundwork for a war crimes trial against Rumsfeld, if not outright charges of treason. It also showed us now utterly useless Condi is, was, and will be. Tenet was, as we thought, worthless, and Powell comes out as constantly pissed off and outwitted. Bush, well, if this were well viewed I am sure he would be impeached.

[Old and In the Way]

10. Totally agree....I told my wife the same thing.

I*t should be required watching for every American. It's the least that we can all do to understand how we got to where we are today. Of course, I didn't really learn much new...but that's because places like DU were actually focused on what these criminals were doing to our country. What is powerful is the visual distillation of events that happened over a few years...it allows the average person to connect the dots and see the entire progression of this administration's willful deception to invade and occupy a country that had absolutely nothing to do with 9/11.

I challenge any of the dead-enders defending this administration to refute what this documentary is clearly telling us....that this administration's actions are war crimes and they need to be held accountable for their actions.

[sharesunited]

3. There are several editor credits for the show.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/bushswar/etc/credits.html

[progressoid]

7. Yep.

It's hard to tell where this person might be on the food chain. Might be an assistant to an assistant or the lead editor. :shrug:

ETA: or just some schmuck on a computer in his mom's basement.

[stray cat]

4. It was well done and educational -

[grasswire]

8. very interesting

I wonder if PBS knows they have a member of a bigoted hate site working on their political projects.

Here's another post:



The Zell factor (Kathleen Parker nails it)

Posted by FilmCutter to WoodstockCat
On News/Activism 09/06/2004 10:57:10 AM PDT · 16 of 67


I was one of those journalist pumping my fist in the air saying yessssss! Incognito of course, less my enthusiasm jeopardise my position

wink wink.
FilmCutter

[progressoid]

9. Ugh.

I missed that post.

That Kathleen Parker gives me the willies.

[greyl]

12. I think it's more likely a liberal trolling Freerepublic.

Why do you believe the person?

[progressoid]

15. I don't necessarily believe (hence the question mark)

And it seems quite a few freeps think s/he is a troll too! Even if s/he's not a troll, apparently just working for PBS is a sacrilige and deserving of banishment! :)

[Uncle Joe]

14. I thought overall it was a good program, but they seemed to give Bush an out or free pass,

when two people said he was troubled by the lack of evidence, just before the war until Tenet told him it was a "slam dunk".

No commentary on the ludicrous inept leadership vacuum by Bush of going to a war based on two words of a "sports analogy". That critical particular part of the program seemed to be more sympathetic to Bush, while taking "the buck stops here" concept of Presidential leadership and hiding it in the attic.

As I stated above however, I believe it was a good program and well worth watching.

Thanks for the thread, progressoid.

[CitizenRob]

20. This is news, not editorial. A lack of commentary is a GOOD thing.

[Uncle Joe]

21. There was commentary as well from various people

throughout the program.

One man said they had to choose Colin Powell to be the front man for selling the war because he was the only one in the administration with any credibility and everyone else knew in a nanosecond as to why, he said can you imagine Cheney trying to do that at the U.N.?

[CitizenRob]

23. There is a difference between the subjects giving opinion and the documentry makers giving opinion.

[Uncle Joe]

24. I should have been more clear in my first post, but subject opinion is what I'm referring to. n/t

[CitizenRob]

25. Well with only 5 hours to tell this story they may not have time for every bad opinion. hehe.

[progressoid]

27. Yes, that ticked me off.

It was a good summary but the "faulty intelligence" BS kept popping up. They did mention the "intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy" etc. but it seemed to be overshadowed by blaming the CIA.

I just hope a lot of people saw it. Hopefully PBS will re-run it this summer.

[lonestarnot]

16. Is it on again tonight since it was/is a 2 part series?

[greyl]

17. Yep, part two tonight. You can also watch the whole thing at pbs.org

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/bushswar/?campaign=pbshomefeatures_1_frontlinebrbushswar_2008-03-25

[lonestarnot]

22. Yeah! I watched last night and have no idea how I fell asleep before the end, but I did.

I guess because I knew all that. Fell asleep very pissed all over again. That can't be good for a person.

[CitizenRob]

19. I can see why the editor, conservative or not, would be proud. It's GREAT journalism.

Too bad it's about 6 years too late.

[mucifer]

26. Actually, Frontline has been doing these films for years.

This is lots of interviews and clips from many Frontline films edited together. I've seen some of them before.