Press Releases: 03/31/10
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MARKING THE 15TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE OKLAHOMA CITY BOMBING, MSNBC FILMS PRESENTS “THE MCVEIGH TAPES: CONFESSIONS OF AN AMERICAN TERRORIST”–WITH RACHEL MADDOW—MONDAY, APRIL 19 AT 9PM
The Two-Hour Film Includes McVeigh’s Confession In His Own Words Heard For the First Time
(NEW YORK, NY) — MARCH 31, 2010 — Fifteen years after the Oklahoma City bombing, Rachel Maddow brings viewers the inside story on the deadliest terror attack on U.S. soil prior to the events of Sept. 11. 168 lives were lost and more then 500 people were injured that day and now, on Monday, April 19 (9-11 PM/ET), MSNBC viewers will hear Timothy McVeigh’s chilling confession in his own words for the first time in “The McVeigh Tapes: Confessions of an American Terrorist.” Drawing from 45 hours of never-before-released interview audiotapes recorded during McVeigh’s prison stay, the film reveals the bomber’s descriptions of the planning and execution of the horrific attack and offers insight into how a decorated American soldier became a dangerous, anti-government terrorist.
The two-hour documentary employs state-of-the-art computer recreations of the interview with McVeigh and his actions on and leading up to the day of the bombing. It also provides biographical background of McVeigh’s life and the path that led to his transformation into an ‘American terrorist.’ In addition, survivors and family members of the bombing victims are given a voice in the film, bravely stepping forward to offer the final word on the true impact and meaning of McVeigh’s brutal attack.
Nine years after his execution, McVeigh’s voice from the grave resonates today as once again anti-government extremism is on the rise. The audiotapes acquired for the film were originally recorded as research for the book ‘American Terrorist: Timothy McVeigh and the Oklahoma City Bombing,’ by Buffalo News reporters Lou Michel and Dan Herbeck, who are interviewed in the film. Excerpts from the audiotapes will be released in the coming weeks.
“The McVeigh Tapes: Confessions of an American Terrorist,” is co-produced by MSNBC and Peacock Productions. Mike Rubin is Vice President, Long Form Programming, MSNBC. Scott Hooker is Senior Executive Producer, MSNBC. Timothy Smith is Senior Producer, MSNBC. Sharon Scott is the Executive-in-Charge of Peacock Productions; Keith McKay is Executive Producer; Toby Oppenheimer is the Producer; and Benjamin Ringe and Knute Walker are Executive Producers, Peacock Productions.
March 31, 2010 at 12:28 pm
Does the left-wing media have no shame? Despicable.
March 31, 2010 at 12:40 pm
If McVeigh only had twitter access, he could complain about how Rachel Maddow never interviewed him.
March 31, 2010 at 1:40 pm
“Despicable.”
Why? They do anniversary docs on 9/11 every year and there have been docs on Jonestown, Waco, and the Unabomber to name only a few other domestic terrorists or cult leaders. Maybe if McVeigh was a Muslim…
March 31, 2010 at 2:33 pm
Yes, fritz, despicable. They are using a wackjob (McVeigh) to denigrate current legitimate protesting of their Lord & Savior, BHO. You would know this if you had read through their press release. A typical left-wing Alinksy tactic. Maybe on the anniversary of The Fuhrer’s death, a media outlet should do a doc comparing the way they shouted down opposing voices to the way the left does today. Would that be okay with you?
March 31, 2010 at 3:27 pm
There is no mention of “current legitimate protesting” in the PR. Looks like a high end (production wise) doc block to me. As to the “Fuhrer”, you Tea Partiers are the ones that talk about him all the time. Perhaps McVeigh hits a little to close to home for comfort.
March 31, 2010 at 5:03 pm
Fritz, LS is referring to the statement that “once again anti-government extremism is on the rise”, which he is apparently unaware of.
March 31, 2010 at 5:29 pm
Thanks Joe. I had to read the PR twice before I noticed that subliminal threat to the county it contains. Everyone knows the only real terrorists are foreign born.
March 31, 2010 at 6:32 pm
Nine years after his execution, McVeigh’s voice from the grave resonates today as once again anti-government extremism is on the rise.
Not surprising that the “network” that foisted Olbermoron and Chrissy Matthews with his special tingles on the public would stoop to such pathetic, cheap tactics and smear people who dare to disagree with the Obamessiah.
Funny how when Bush was President, dissent was the “highest form of patriotism.” Now, peacefully protesting gets one likened to a terrorist. At least the Tea Party people aren’t rooting for the U.S. to lose wars and for members of the military to be slaughtered, as Code Pinko and ANSWER did for the better part of the last 8 years.
March 31, 2010 at 6:49 pm
It was accepted as true patriotism by the left when American liberals showed up at protests with signs reading “I’m here to kill Bush”. But, call Obama a socialist and the liberal media blows a gasket and calls you a racist.
Liberals hate dissent…well, dissent that they disagree with. If you don’t toe the liberal line, you’re a racist terrorist. I am beginning to believe liberals have some sort of neurological disorder. A wackjob left-wing professor at California State Univ started an anti-Palin website ahead of her planned speech on campus. Why? Among other things “her polarizing rhetoric and intolerance of views that differ from her own run counter to the very “Idea of a University” “. Pt meet kettle.
March 31, 2010 at 6:54 pm
Yes, it’s all the same, isn’t it? A pointless war and attempts at reforming health care are exactly the same.
March 31, 2010 at 7:05 pm
It’s all the fault of those terrorist code pinkies. :-0
March 31, 2010 at 7:32 pm
Yes, it’s all the same, isn’t it? A pointless war and attempts at reforming health care are exactly the same.
Really? Where did we say that? What’s with the straw man nonsense, Joe?
March 31, 2010 at 7:55 pm
I’m responding to the false equivelancy that keeps getting foisted upon those of us who have problems with right-wing anti-government groups. The attitude is “some people on the left said terrible things about Bush, therefore the left and right are exactly the same in the dissent dept.”.
They also do this in defense of their fears about Obama, as if his attempt to do something about the criminal health care situation in this country is equivelant to George Bush hauling off to war without a clue what was going on there, or why it was necessary.
April 1, 2010 at 5:36 am
Sorry, Joe, but not everyone feels as you do about the war, or that “some people on the left said terrible things about Bush.” Funny how you continue to willfully ignore the threats of violence and death wishes that followed Bush for the better part of 8 years, well before any wars. The left couldn’t handle the fact that he won. And many of us actually support the necessary evil of going to war. Believe it or not, there are some things worse than war.
Shocking as it may be to some who can’t think beyond themselves, there are many of us who believe that what Obama and the Dems are ramming down our throats is what’s criminal and needs to be stopped. For all of the pro-choice activists who ran around for years screeching about how the government has no right to tell them what to do to/with their bodies, they’re pretty silent now that a left-leaning government wants even more control over our bodies.
April 1, 2010 at 7:20 am
Do me a favor and watch this video, Joe & Fritz.
http://hotair.com/archives/2010/03/31/video-remember-when-the-media-thought-hateful-political-rhetoric-was-cool/
You’ll see it’s not all about the war. For many it’s about the election. Also, as you’ll notice towards the end, these people call themselves D-E-M-O-C-R-A-T-S.
BTW, just because you don’t like the war, doesn’t mean it’s acceptable to carry signs saying you’re gonna kill the president. FWIW, if Iraq becomes a stable democracy, it’s a world changer. The middle east could be radically different 50 years from now if things work out the way Bush & Co. hope. If not, it’s a relatively small price to play, in historical terms, in attempt to bring peace to most of the world.
April 1, 2010 at 9:14 am
Bottom line is, when they agree with it, it’s ok. When they don’t, it’s evil and bad. Not much you can say beyond that.
April 1, 2010 at 9:26 am
How disappointing you are today, Joe.
You really barely bothered to slap a thin veneer of rationality on your underlying argument which is when my guys did it it was AOK b/c what Bush did was far worse, evil almost, than anything my Lord and Savior, BHO, would ever do.
April 1, 2010 at 12:26 pm
I’m not saying the left’s threats of violence were ok, and never voiced anything different. But I despise false equivelancy. People should talk about one topic at a time, without the incessant “what about you guys” BS. Sending kids to die for no good reason, and attempting to reform health care, are not the same thing. A violent fringe ignored by the mainstream left, and a similarly violent one one on the right being promoted by Fox News and The Republican Party, are also not the same.
April 1, 2010 at 1:05 pm
You’re correct Joe, there is no equivalency. At least among the number of loons on the left compared to the current right of center protestors. Because the corrupt left-wing media didn’t report on it in an attempt to marginalize them while simultaneously attempting to create a sympathetic Oval Office figure, that’s why many don’t understand the blind hatred of the left for so long. It’s simply under-reported while a few people on the right are way over-reported. Also, save your ridiculous “sending kids off to die, blah, blah, blah…”, that debate is long over. Get over it.
April 1, 2010 at 1:21 pm
Right LS, the “debate is long over”, but I can’t have one about Tea Party loons taking over the GOP and threatening civil war against the government without having Bush and Code Pink dragged into it. Make up your mind.
April 1, 2010 at 1:27 pm
– Tea Party loons taking over the GOP and threatening civil war against the government –
Debating a ridiculous premise is pointless, regardless of what the Left did while Bush was president. How’s that?
April 1, 2010 at 1:45 pm
How’s that?
Lovely. Like I’ve said, I hope I’m wrong, but I don’t appreciate my fears being tagged “ridiculous”. Now if you’ll excuse me, I have to go work on spelling ‘equivalency’..
April 1, 2010 at 1:55 pm
LS; I’m not sure how the video relates to showing a doc about Tim McVeigh. The shows reference is to the current rise in the anti government extremist militia movement not the Tea Parties.
I can though sure see the comparison between the antiwar protesters in the video and the current Tea Party protesters .
They are identical to me.
They both think the country is going to hell in a hand basket and they can’t stand the POTUS, with both comparing him to Hitler and Stalin etc. As well they both carry silly signs and wear funny hats.
I thought the antiwar protesters were idealists wasting there time and being used by those with a political & financial agenda and I think the current Tea Party crowd are idealists waisting their time and being used by those with a political & financial agenda.
Same protests; different ideology.
April 1, 2010 at 5:43 pm
Fritz, if they are identical to you then your moral compass has been destroyed. Name one self identified Republican who has advocated killing the President. Go ahead. I’m waiting, but you can’t. The left is the most vitriolic group in this country and has been for a long time. Everyone knows it, you’re just so embarrassed to be part of it you pretend not to see it. Liberals aren’t a political group. They’re a hate group.
Joe: There you go again, making up your own facts. The tea-party does not threaten civil war. Are you that mentally handicapped that you can’t argue a position without such nonsense? C’mon, I’ve read your stuff, you’re better than that. Did you take a pill this morning that turned you into Keith Olbermann? Threatening civil war? Beyond stupid.
April 1, 2010 at 5:47 pm
^LS: You lost me after Fritz.
April 1, 2010 at 5:48 pm
– fritz3 Says:
April 1, 2010 at 5:47 pm –
Laughing. Tears, even.
April 1, 2010 at 6:08 pm
LS, you’ve read my stuff enough to know I think the Tea Party movement is a bad thing that the GOP should keep its distance from.
Three things I believe, which may seem contradictory to some: 1. It’s a real movement, with lots of “normal” people in it. 2. The epithet “tea baggers” is stupid and should not be used against it. 3. At it’s heart, it does not support the ideals of democracy, and is a threat to it.
Your results may vary.
April 1, 2010 at 8:09 pm
“3. At it’s heart, it does not support the ideals of democracy, and is a threat to it.”
Joe, please point out three basic tenets that Tea Partiers have that proves they are anti democracy or more specifically, as an American group, anti American.
April 1, 2010 at 8:23 pm
Joe, please point out..
There’s no point, Grammie. You all know my concerns about the Tea Party movement, and you all have a thousand examples of how wrong I am. Like I’ve said half a dozen times, if you’re right and I’m wrong, everybody goes home happy.
Just keep your eyes open, and when people like Michelle Bachmann go on TV inquiring about un-American members of Congress, and telling her constituents they don’t have to pay taxes or follow the law…tell them to shut up.
April 1, 2010 at 9:05 pm
Joe, I asked b/c I don’t know what you base your opinion on.
I follow this site loosely and was completely away from my computer for a month due to illness.
However, do as you please.
April 1, 2010 at 9:24 pm
Grammie, my impression of the movement is that they are anti-government on a virulently libertarian level, and feel that President Obama is “un-American” and stealing “their country” from them. They seem incapable of accepting the results of the election, and have what I consider to be an unfortunately religious level of anger about it. People like Beck and Palin and Bachmann – all mainstream Republicans figures – have fed that anger in a dangerous way.
This “you’re anti-American” fervor started with the 2002 mid-terms, when Bush accused Democrats of not caring about national security, and has been steadily growing ever since. I have no problem with political debate, but when one side starts accusing the other of being un-American and unpatriotic, it’s getting out of hand, and that’s my concern with the rabid right. They’ve concluded that “their America” is being threatened by Obama and the Democrats, and they’re not going to take it.