What a nice example of “the politics of meaning”

The New York Post reported Clinton himself had also written ABC, demanding the show “be pulled” if corrections were not made. Specifically, he sharply disputed the characterization that he was too preoccupied by the Monica Lewinsky scandal to do much about terrorism.

Criticism of “The Path to 9/11″ carries strong echoes of the barbs hurled at CBS over “The Reagans.” Reagan partisans railed against scenes showing Nancy Reagan consulting an astrologist and Reagan condemning AIDS victims.

Conservative drumbeat against “The Reagans” started months before the mini was slated to air and intensified after a copy of the script was leaked. Eye ultimately decided to sell the project to sister company Showtime — a move that, ironically, prompted howls of protest from liberal groups who accused CBS of censorship.

Cliff Kincaid, editor of publications for conservative watchdog group Accuracy in Media, said the Democratic outcry is a bit of a surprise.

“Usually Democrats can count on the support of big media in Hollywood,” he said. “It’s like things are upside down now.”

Meaning - if the politics smear Repubs and it gets less airplay, that’s censorship, but if the audience is going to see Dem politicos in a bad light, well that’s just mean-ness, and should be stopped at all cost.

But ABC should keep their eye firmly on the demographic numbers - even with a resoundingly successful nutroots and DNC e-mailo form and letter writing campaign generates, oh, say 700 thousand pre-fabricated “me too” complaints from the faithful - that means that there’s still around 299 million other potential viewers that just might like to see it.