Scholastic Publishers' Cowardly Cave to Clintonistas

ABC's upcoming documentary film on 9/11 is generating a ton of "controversy" because it doesn't assign the entire blame for that day's terrorist attacks entirely to Chimpy BushMcHitler. In fact, the Clintonistas, who largely ignored the growing Islamofascist threat throughout the 1990s, have been leading the charge. Apparently, it's okay to whale on Bush, but to dump on the Clintonistas for their not inconsiderable sins of omission, not to mention their evisceration of the military throughout the previous decade.

The Scholastic publishing enterprise has just decided to cave to the Clintonistas' propagandists, according to a report viewed on the Web today:

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Children's publishing company Scholastic said that it is removing materials from its Web site originally created for use in conjunction with ABC's "The Path to 9/11" amid growing controversy over the docudrama.

The company said it will create a new classroom discussion guide for high school students that focuses more specifically on media literacy, critical thinking, and historical background.

Scholastic is removing materials from its site that were created for classroom use in conjunction with ABC's docudrama, "The Path to 9/11."

"After a thorough review of the original guide that we offered online to about 25,000 high school teachers, we determined that the materials did not meet our high standards for dealing with controversial issues," Dick Robinson, Chairman, President and CEO of Scholastic said in a statement.

A thorough review, eh? Who reviewed it? Let's find out:

Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, former National Security Adviser Sandy Berger, Clinton Foundation head Bruce Lindsey and Clinton adviser Douglas Band all wrote in the past week to Robert Iger, CEO of The Walt Disney Co. (Charts), to express concern over "The Path to 9/11."

Ah, let's see. The complainants were, in order: the most embarrassing and ineffective Secretary of State ever to occupy the office, who embarrassed the nation by cozying up to nice, peace-loving guys like non-nuclear proliferator Dear Leader Kim Jong-Il and Palestinian thug-ocrat Yasser Terrorat in the process; the former National Security Advisor who recently made off with, and destroyed, priceless (and probably incriminating) pre-9/11 documents from the National Archives by stuffing quantities of them in his pants before illegally carrying them out; and two of the Billmeister's most partisan advisors. Might this obviously nonpartisan quartet not be interested, like all doctrinaire lefties, in altering historical truth just a bit? Perish the thought.

Meanwhile, the heroes at Scholastic have apparently pulled an all-nighter to create new "study guides" geared toward completely ignoring the serious implications that, by all indications, will be aired in this broadcast.

If Dick had substituted the term "high standards" in his statement above with the phrase "always pro-Democrat, pro-left standards," his statement might have been a bit more honest. Can we seriously imagine that any mainstream publisher of educational material, already beholden to the lefty, all-Democrat teachers' unions, would have been equally industrious in censoring anti-Bush material at the administration's request?

But wait, Dick has more:

"At the same time, we believe that developing critical thinking and media literacy skills is crucial for students in today's society in order to participate fully in our democracy and that a program such as 'The Path to 9/11' provides a very 'teachable moment' for developing these skills at the high school level. We encourage teachers not to shy away from the controversy surrounding the program, but rather to engage their students in meaningful, in-depth discussion."

What a nifty sidestep. One major "teachable moment," we'd imagine, might involve developing student's "media literacy skills" by pointing out how this film might be in error if it implies anything nasty about a do-nothing Democrat administration that could have knocked off Bin Laden before he even had a chance to put 9/11 into motion.

Covering their collective tush further,

Scholastic's new guide states that it had no involvement with developing the ABC docudrama and that the company is not promoting the program.

In a way, this whole episode of self-censorship, lashed on by the always vigilant history re-writers on the Clinton team, is highly instructive. The Democrats' earnest desire in the Global War on Terror is, in the end, to "cut and run." Just the way Scholastic cut and ran when the now-emeritus but always alert Clintonistas cranked up their negative PR machine and who knows what else. Hopefully, voters will finally begin to notice this kind of historical whitewashing before they start showing up at the polls this November. Folks need to buckle down here vote for their own self-preservation and not for the interests of the value-less and cowardly party situation-ethicists that feels they should be in power now, well, because they should.

This incident also highlights the relentlessness of the left in its continuing effort to weaken American culture by destroying any attempt by educators, artists, writers, or filmmakers to articulate objective truth over anti-American, leftist propaganda. It will be interesting to see if ABC caves over the next 24 hours and re-edits the program—to be aired Friday—to exonerate the very individuals who, by their political cowardice, opened the way for 9/11 to occur.

Can you imagine the MSM howling if the Bushies ever tried anything like this?

BTW, note the source of this largely approving report: CNN. Or, as Rush Limbaugh would have it, the "Clinton News Network." Indeed.

UPDATE: ABC has apparently edited out at least a portion of its 9/11 film under pressure from the Clintonistas:

After much discussion, ABC executives and the producers toned down, but did not eliminate entirely, a scene that involved Clinton's national security advisor, Samuel R. "Sandy" Berger, declining to give the order to kill Bin Laden, according to a person involved with the film who declined to be identified because of the sensitivities involved.

"That sequence has been the focus of attention," the source said, adding: "These are very slight alterations."

In addition, the network decided that the credits would say the film is based "in part" on the 9/11 commission report, rather than simply "based on" the bestselling report, as the producers originally intended.

ABC, meanwhile, is tip-toeing away from the film's version of events. In a statement, the network said the miniseries "is a dramatization, not a documentary, drawn from a variety of sources, including the 9/11 commission report, other published materials and from personal interviews."

In other words, ABC is caving, just like the Scholastic Press. Meanwhile, the lefties are now clamoring for the entire film to be spiked. I'll lay 50-50 odds right now that the project gets scrubbed. The left has been unable to stand up for Amerikkka after 9/11. But when their own do-nothing cowardice is exposed, they sure as hell have the guts to stand up for their own collective and worthless tushes. Citizens, take note. And remember this the next time you hear another anti-Bush fusillade from the usual suspects.

Say, what ever happened to First Amendment Rights? Guess some animals really are more equal than others.