Damn if he does, Damned if he doesn't

For those of you that remember, during the height of the Monica Lewinsky scandal, the U.S. bombed the Al Queda/Bin Laden camp in Afghanistan. The "Right" said (at the time) that this was to distract America from the Lewinsky scandal. The Clinton administration said they did it because nobody was expecting it and therefore they had the element of surprise (you don't have to read The Art of War, to realize how important that is). Whatever the motive, that's what happened.

Now years later, the "Right" is saying Clinton was hamstrung during the Lewinsky scandal and therefore was unable to properly defend America. Not only is this duplicitous revisionist argument stupid it begs the question:

Did those Right Wing smear-mongers, who so fervently pushed the Monica Lewinsky issue in an effort to shame a sitting president, ACTUALLY put our nation in danger?

The Pathway to Independence

ABC is announcing their new docudramedy "The Pathway to Independence" and many people are upset because it seems to be a little loose with the facts. For example, they've managed to flip-flop the roles of France and England. France is now the oppressing empire and England comes to our rescue. Also, if you zoom in on the Declaration of Independence, you can clearly see the signature of somebody named George Washington Bush.

In their defense, some of the changes were made to simply lighten-up the tale of America's birth. The Boston Wine Party scene, for instance, is just down-right hysterical - after the patriots pour the French wine into the Boston harbor, they run around and hit each other over the head with the bottles.

Still, it appears that this Keystone Cop approach to telling the nations story is just not everyone's cup of tea. The ACLU has filed a lawsuit against the producers and the ABC network for defamation of the nation's character. An ABC spokesman was quoted as saying, "What?"

Executive Producer Bob Jones defended his production, "These tweaks of details are minor because the struggle for freedom is the real story here and this includes the struggle from the tyranny of historical fact!" He also explained how the story was embellished, "Even though we worked from a script, there were many times that divine intervention took over. After all, God is the ultimate script doctor."

Depending on the success of "The Pathway..." ABC will decide whether or not to green-light their next project - "Strom Thurmond: A Civil Rights Hero."