US - 9/11 and "The Path to Hysteria"

The new Macarthyism. The screenwriter for "The Path to 9/11" speaks out.

In July a reporter asked if I had ever been ethnically profiled. I happily replied, "No." I can no longer say that. The L.A. Times, for one, characterized me by race, religion, ethnicity, country-of-origin and political leanings--wrongly on four of five counts. To them I was an Iranian-American politically conservative Muslim. It is perhaps irrelevant in our brave new world of journalism that I was born in Boulder, Colo. I am not a Muslim or practitioner of any religion, nor am I a political conservative. What am I? I am, most devoutly, an American. I asked the reporter if this kind of labeling was a new policy for the paper. He had no response.

The hysteria engendered by the series found more than one target. In addition to the death threats and hate mail directed at me, and my grotesque portrayal as a maddened right-winger, there developed an impassioned search for incriminating evidence on everyone else connected to the film. And in director David Cunningham, the searchers found paydirt! His father had founded a Christian youth outreach mission. The whiff of the younger Mr. Cunningham's possible connection to this enterprise was enough to set the hounds of suspicion baying. A religious mission! A New York Times reporter wrote, without irony or explanation, that an issue that raised questions about the director was his involvement in his father's outreach work. In the era of McCarthyism, the merest hint of a connection to communism sufficed to inspire dark accusations, the certainty that the accused was part of a malign conspiracy. Today, apparently, you can get something of that effect by charging a connection with a Christian mission.

Such is the world the left have created - a chilling world as he notes.

It's good to have come to something approaching the end of this saga, whose lessons are worth remembering. It gave us, for one thing, a heartening glimpse (these things don't come along every day) of corporate backbone in the face of phenomenal pressure--and an infinitely more chilling one testifying to the power and reach of politically driven hysteria. A ripe subject for a miniseries, if ever there was one.

He should have said left wing "politically driven hysteria".

The left aided by the left wing media, tried to use forged documents in an attempt to steal the last Presidential election. Think about that for a minute. CBS, one of the largest and oldest media institutions, tried to steal a Presidential election. This is America for heavens sake!

Then look at the left wing hysteria over Plame. The non scandal was fueled by the left wing media who smelt blood - Bush's blood. But they were wrong and Armitage has been offered up as the one who outed her. But the "scandal" was actually started by the left, to be precise, a lefty writer named David Corn. He started the hysteria and the left wing media, even though they knew the truth, were more than happy to play along.

Then when someone makes a movie critical of the left, the left take the unprecedented step of threatening to take away ABC's broadcasting license. You can't get more communist than that. ABC showed great courage by standing up against the communist left. They did censor parts of the movie though. But you can see the unedited parts here.

Not only have the left joined with communists, they've also joined forces with Islamists.

The canary is already dead.