ABC’s controversial 9/11 docudrama — Day 5

September 5, 2006

In case you were away from your computer over Labor Day, [tag]ABC[/tag] has caused a bit of an uproar over its decision to air a docudrama called “[tag]The Path to 9/11[/tag],” giving the film six hours of prime time the evenings of September 10 and 11. Unfortunately, the project seems poised to be little more than a conservative fantasy, in which the Clinton administration is to blame for the 9/11 attacks, and the Bush gang has always been serious about counter-terrorism. ABC is billing the program as “an objective telling of the events of 9/11,” which uses the official 9/11 Commission report as a guide. All available evidence suggests the docudrama will be far different.

Some of the film’s big moments are based on bogus myths that have long since been debunked, and the docudrama itself was written by a conservative activist anxious to help make Hollywood’s entertainment industry less liberal.

In the latest developments:

* Richard Clarke, the former counterterrorism czar, is helping set the record straight and correcting fabricated stories included in the movie.

* ABC has ended its online discussion of the film by yanking the blog it created for the project.

* A number of high-profile conservative bloggers received preview copies of “The Path to 9/11” last week, which seems like an odd step for ABC to take if the docudrama is supposed to be an “objective telling” of the events.

* According to Variety, ABC, which is now airing the movie without commercial interruptions, is “sending 100,000 high school educators a letter from 9/11 Commission co-chair Tom Kean informing them of the various platforms on which the mini is available. ABC and Scholastic have pacted to produce an online study guide.”

Also note, ThinkProgress, which has done a tremendous job taking the lead on this, has created a page that allows readers to share their concerns with ABC directly.

Stay tuned (so to speak).

I sold the balance of my Disney stock this a.m. and notified Disney of the reasons why. My sister will be selling her shares of Disney. I will be contacting all of my family members and asking them to consider doing the same.

  • “ABC and Scholastic have pacted to produce an online study guide.”

    Aside from the fact that this program is total slime, I have to ask: is ‘pacted’ even a word? And would it have broken the writer’s arm to say ‘made a pact’ or would that have been to Biblical?

    I live, therefore I snark. 😉

  • Since ABC uses public airwaves to broadcast its product, I suggest sending them a comment as to how you disapprove of the use of a public resource to use the dead of 9/11 for cheap political purpose.

  • I say lighten up on the criticism of the typos. It’s blogging not creating holy ilterature. I am amazed that CB can turn out 2000 words of quality political posts daily with so few errors.

  • Let me get this straight:

    ABC will be airing this movie without commercial interruptions, and ABC and Scholastic have pacted to produce an online study guide.

    So tell me: Who paying for the airtime for this slimy piece of propaganda? Scholastic? Who the hell owns Scholastic and why are the trying to force-feed America’s school kids right-wing propanganda? Are there any well-known advertisers that we can punish (on the bottom line) for this upcoming travesty?

  • All those good reactions to this piece of corporate filth. Good for Clarke, Benen, et al.

    And prominent elected Democrats have said … what exactly?

    I emphatically agree with Dale: “I am amazed that CB can turn out 2000 words of quality political posts daily with so few errors.”

  • I wrote ABC a letter telling them I would boycott any advertiser on their network if they air demonstrably false information in the mini series.

    I wrote Scholastic and told them that if insist on being involved in partisan politics I will make it my mission in life to keep their products out of our school district forever.

    I called our contact at Disney and told them that we would be cancelling our company trip arrangements with them if ABC airs 6 hours of partisan hackery. I said that I would consider the existing contract null and void since partisan hackery under a Disney owned company’s ‘first amendment’ rights would constitute an attack on some employee’s rights under California and Federal law. IE, incidental costs would be forced political contributions and just being at a business that is demonstrably dishonest and ultra right wing would constitute a hostile work environment.

    I wrote Feinstein and Boxer and inquired if political hackery aired under a false label of education and documentary violated FCC and FEC rules and if they planned to do anything about it.

    Last, I’m wracking my brain for a really cutting ABC sucks donkey dick type t-shirt to make a killing with…

  • I would also like to know who is paying for the airtime. They are using the public airways to blast right wing propoganda into the homes of millions of Americans. Is this an early canpaign contribution? If so, will it be disclosed? Enough is enough.

    I also agree with Dale. You do a great job with very few typos Mr.CB. Bravo!

  • Good tactics Fitz. I don’t have much to threaten Disney with, save a personal boycot, but as an educator, scholastic books are off my list of appropriate classroom tools. Of course my students are older so those materials were never actually on my list. I tried e-mail to ABC a couple of days ago but I got nowhere. I will contact Boxer and Feinstein, but do you or anyone believe Disney cares? I don’t know why exactly, but I feel pretty powerless about this one.

  • Unfortunately, it’s really unsurprising. There’s a very good reason why Disney is known as “Mauschwitz” among those of us toiling in the vineyards here in Okeefenokee West.

    As a writer friend once put it, “the day I get hired to write a science fiction movie about a benign police state, I’ll have no trouble doing it. I’ll just remember my days at Disney.”

    Disney is actually not so benign, but it is definitely a police state. A director friend of mine was once hired to direct an episode of that Tim Allen sitcom that ripped off “This Old House.” The second day of shooting, he and his First Assistant Director went to lunch in the Disney cafeteria, where they engaged in an intellectual discussion of the aesthetic merits of Disney animation vs. Warner Brothers animation, with my friend saying Chuck Jones beat the Nine Old Men any way you looked at it. The next morning, he stopped at the little cubbyhole office they’d given him and there on the desk was a memo personally signed by Michael Eisner, saying that Disney really liked his work and the company was considering hiring him to direct additional episodes, but would be unable to do so if he didn’t keep his “artistic opinions” to himself. Really!! Some brainwashed Disney employee (they send them to “Disney University” when first hired, where all brains are laundered and starched) overheard that, and passed it on up the chain, and within a day it made it to the sixth floor of the Team Disney Building (the one with the Mickey Mouse ears for a skyline).

    Considering all this, hiring an avowed fascist to rewrite history is pretty much right “in character” for DizzyWorld. After all, Uncle Walt would have been happier to have Mickey and Minnie and Goofy and Pluto on the noses of He-111s and Ju-88s than B-17s and B-24s. He was a known supporter of fascist movements here in America in the ’30s.

  • One wonders if ABC bothered to watch this beforehand and if they did, did they bother to find out how factually correct it is. Telling a factually correct story is obviously not as important to as capitalizing on the 5th anniversary of 9/11.

    I would say that ABC can back out now if they wanted to, but I guess they are hoping the controversy will draw viewers it wouldn’t have necessarily generated.

  • When it comes to animation, Chuck Jones, and the like, I would point out one thing: For indulgences, women have chocolate and men have film animation. PS — Chuck Jones was the animation force behind the “Grinch who stole Christmas.”

  • I want to share with you the transcript from the ABC World News from yesterday’s evening broadcast (Sep. 4, 2006). I have sourced this from:
    http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/story?id=2392965

    This story featured Robert Greenwald’s movie, ‘Iraq for Sale, The War Profiteers”. Read through the entire transcript. I thought that ABC’s spin on it was interesting in light of the controversy about their 6 hour docudrama on 9/11.

    I thought especially revealing was this take: “Critics of these kinds of documentaries remind viewers not to expect balance from left-leaning documentaries, such as Michael Moore’s “Fahrenheit 9/11” and former Vice President Al Gore’s global warming film, “An Inconvenient Truth.””
    Also telling was the last paragraph about where the film is to be shown — “in thousands of homes, union halls and churches in time for the November elections.” Wow, not quite the millions of homes where the ABC docudrama will be seen!

    Do you think ABC will air similar qualifiers when their docudrama is broadcast? Jesus, I don’t know if I can take any more of the liberal bias from the MSM.

    Anyway, here is the transcript for you to judge:

    By DAN HARRIS

    “Sept. 4, 2006 — He’s tackled Wal-Mart and Fox News with his scathing documentaries. Now, filmmaker Robert Greenwald is releasing a documentary which argues that private companies helping to fight the war in Iraq don’t have the nation’s best interests in mind.

    “Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers” debuts in limited release this week, and presents an assault on companies that provide the kinds of services in Iraq that the military once handled itself, such as supplying food, water and mail delivery for the reconstruction.

    In the film, former KBR/Halliburton water purification specialist Ben Carter is interviewed and says when a motor went out on a truck, they would “buy a new truck … and bill the government.”

    Greenwald also interviewed relatives of four Blackwater Security guards who were mutilated in Fallujah in March, 2004. One mother claimed her son died because the company cut corners, failing to supply armored vehicles or maps.

    “My son is not walking the earth because people he trusted and worked for did not care about him,” said Donna Zovko, whose son Jerry Zovko was among the four Blackwater employees killed by insurgents in 2004.

    Greenwald requested interviews with the contractors he is criticizing, but they turned him down.

    Blackwater told ABC News it couldn’t comment on the Fallujah incident because it’s the subject of a lawsuit, and Halliburton offered a statement saying the film includes “yet another rehash of inaccurate, recycled information.”

    Critics of these kinds of documentaries remind viewers not to expect balance from left-leaning documentaries, such as Michael Moore’s “Fahrenheit 9/11” and former Vice President Al Gore’s global warming film, “An Inconvenient Truth.”

    “Finally, the left has figured out their answer to talk radio — and it’s documentaries,” said Prof. Richard Lichter of George Mason University.

    “Iraq for Sale” was produced more like a political campaign than a traditional movie, largely funded by 3,000 small donations made on the Internet.

    It’s being released on a small scale this week and will then be screened in thousands of homes, union halls and churches in time for the November elections. “

  • Point of clarification: The term ‘pacted’ was quoted from the Variety article as near as I could tell and I was in no way inferring that CB was the creator of it. The person being commented on was the author of the Variety article, not CB.

    Now back to our regularly scheduled program…….

  • Maybe the making and airing of this fictional fairey tale came out of the 20 million the WH has to spend on their propaganda program to manufacture and broadcast only news favorable to the WH.

    You can email these people at ABC regarding any complaints you have about this Swiftboat style of journalism.

    “Let’s flood ABC (and Disney) with complaints, facts, threats of boycott, etc. Here are some ABC employees affiliated with the miniseries:

    patrick.k.preblick@abc.com, jonathan.hogan@ abc.com, erin.felentzer@ abc.com

    The Bush administration’ s utter failure to act on terror warnings (at the very least) is common knowledge and a matter of record. Let ABC know that we are not that stupid and will not take this lightly.”

  • My earlier comment should have read: Since ABC uses public airwaves to broadcast its product, I suggest sending the FCC a comment to show how much you disapprove of the use of a public resource to use the dead of 9/11 for cheap political purpose. This type of trashing of a national tragedy is more offensive than seeing a nipple at the Superbowl halftime show and should be publicly documented as such.

  • “Telling a factually correct story is obviously not as important to as capitalizing on the 5th anniversary of 9/11.”

    Factually correct? From Disney? The guys who said they could change the Pocahantus story (making her eighteen and him a tall blond) because it was a ‘legend’?

    I suppose that’s how you go from history to legend to myth. Ignore the facts that mess with your story.

  • My apologies to Curmudgeon. He commented on the Variety quote and then on his own post. Perhaps I was too Bilblical in my wrath, maybe even Gad-like.

    The compliments to CB still stand.

    Thanks for that review info, lou. This shows the screwed up notion of balance the newspapers have. Not including every detail of the Repug spin they call unbalanced. But this 9/11 doc seems to just include untruths.

  • “Perhaps I was too Bilblical in my wrath, maybe even Gad-like.”

    Good one, Dale. You’re a stand-up guy. Maybe even Gad-like. 🙂

  • this movie is identical in function and timing to the “swift boat” attack on sen kerry in 2004.

    there is nothing more to be said about it other than this is a another karl rove’s third-party pre-election stunts to draw attention away from the bush administration’s domestic and foreign policy failures

    but

    as long as people fight about the content of the film or its fairness ,

    then

    they will not be spending time talking about george bush’s six years of presidential incompetence.

    or about

    the failure of a republican congress to engage in oversight of the president’s mistakes and misrepresentations.

    the proper line of criticism on this film should not be its content but it’s deployment in september as a political tactic in an election year – as yet another political lie designed by rove to allow bush and the republican party to avoid scrutiny and criticism.

  • I agree with orionATL. The content of the film is suspect, but it is the timing of the release that makes this film such a threat to the democratic process. It is, however, one thing to buy campaign ads, but quite another to hijack the airways to produce political theatrics. This is an unjust enrichment for the Republicans, if they want six hours on the public networks, they ought to pay for the six hours and warn the public ahead of time so the public can watch something else.

  • Dems are fighting back!
    From raw story-“The Ranking Member of the House Rules Committee, New York Democratic Congresswoman Louise M. Slaughter, called on ABC to run disclaimers”

    Swift boating requires swift responding.

  • In reality, is was Republicans who dragged their feet on this issue in the 90’s. It was destroying Clinton, not fighting terrorists which was the main priority for the GOP back them.

    Tom Delay once denounced the Clinton’s bombing of Afghanistan as “violating their sovereignty”
    I think if Clinton had gone after the Taliban and Bin Louden in the 90’s all the Republicans would have apposed it. Hell, they would have impeached for it. (However the only thing they could pin on him was lying about a blow-job)

  • The only congress member I have seen comment on this is Louise Slaughter who is calling for disclaimers. I am floored that we haven’t heard anything from the Clintons yet, but I am confident they will not take this swift-boating lying down. Maybe an injunction is in the works. I think most teachers in this country, if they are unionized, are Dems and will not elect to use the material in their classrooms. I am praying that all of the above is true.

  • ***Last, I’m wracking my brain for a really cutting ABC sucks donkey dick type t-shirt to make a killing with…***
    —————————————————————————-Fitz

    Here’s an idea for you to play with—

    In the original “Fantasia,” Mickey—as “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice,” shakies hands with the music conductor, Mr. Leopold Stokowski. Consider this as your starting point.

    Next, think about the recent post here, showing a photograph of Rumsfeld gladly shaking the hand of Saddam Hussein.

    Finally, you could play this two ways—by having “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice” shaking hands with a current archnemesis of the United States, such as Hussein or ObL, or even a generic terrorist who wears a hood and has a bomb strapped to his chest—of by just having him shake Hitler’s hand. You “should” be able to beat a copyright-rap by replacing Mickey’s face with Mike Eisner’s–but keep the rest, big mouse-ears and all….

  • The petition

    We, the undersigned, having lived in a political climate in which the tragedy of September 11th, 2001 has been perpetually used for partisan political advantage are tired of this event, in which 3,000 Americans lost their lives, being manipulated, twisted, and spun, in order to advance the agenda of right wing Republicans.

    The Walt Disney Company owned ABC Television Network has decided to contribute to this unfortunate trend by airing a fictionalized, distorted, “docudrama” written by conservative activists, and inconsistent with the findings of the 9/11 Commission Report entitled Path to 9/11, on the anniversary of the horrendous attacks.

    To this we say, NO MORE FICTION.

    What we need now are more real answers and real truths regarding the events of September 11th and our government’s response to them.

    To this we say, NO MORE POLITICS.

    We will not stand idly by while this tragedy is used to distract and scare the American people into voting for any political party.

    As a result of ABC’s unfortunate decision, we, the undersigned will be taking action with our wallets and our viewership. Until ABC decides not to air the program, or issues an apology and airs a counter balancing program actually rooted and consistent with the findings of the 9/11 commission report, we will boycott all enterprises owned by the Walt Disney Company including:

    ABC Owned Television Stations
    ABC Radio
    ABC Sports
    Disney-ABC Television Group
    Disney Consumer Products
    ESPN, Inc.
    Walt Disney Parks and Resorts
    The Walt Disney Studios
    Walt Disney Internet Group

    For an accurate list of the distortions and manipulations of the truth so evident in this program, please visit thinkprogress.org

    Sign the petition:
    http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/BoycottDisney/index.html

  • I thought you might like to know that an advert has just been on BBC Television in the UK stating that this programme is coming soon to BBC2.

    Sadly it seems we in the UK follow where you lead again and like you, most people who watch this programme will not see the programme for what it is: one sided rubbish.

  • I am boycotting any network and/or manufacturer that would support a docudrama that depicts lies of any kind in regards to 9/11.

    I will not watch the show but I will get a list of advertisers and post it on every blog I can so people will know the companies which support the rewriting American history.

    It’s not bad enough that we have had our congressional rights stripped from us but now Neocons want to sell us a new version of the path that led to 9/11???? They will get away with it unless we stand up and say enough is enough!

    Tell ABC to tell the truth…..
    http://www.workingforchange.com/activism/action.cfm?itemid=21317&afccode=htmlcc

    Contact your local ABC affiliate; tell them to tell the truth. For a list of who that is in your area go to….
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ABC_television_affiliates

    Email Disney and tell them to tell the truth….
    investor.relations@disneyonline.com
    Or call Disney at (818) 553-7200

    It was just announced that Scholastic has pulled their support of the ABC program or else I would have given their contact info as well!

    There is no better time then the present so ACT NOW!

  • There must be some truth to the miniseries since the Democrats are so upset by it. I hope ABC doesn’t give into the pressure. I’ve noticed that Scholastic has kowtowed to the Democrats and removed their study guide. Does anyone know where to get the original study guide?

  • “docudrama” is the last fig leaf the so-called journalists have left on their wimpy, unprofessional bodies … the very existence of this genre of tv program is questionable if not unjustifiable.

    if it is fiction, label it as drama, disclaim the truthfulness completely, and don’t attempt to make the half-hearted, misleading gesture that the content might be partially true.

    if it is truth, present it as a news story and do away with the cheesy dramatization.

    tv journalism (if it still deserve this noble term) today has already been politicized enough. viewers do not need such a bastard genre of “docudrama” to further confuse their perception.

  • Ignore post 32 by Ted … troll. Using the double standard, it’s ok if conservatives get riled up against something and protest, but not if democrats/liberals/moderates/normal people do. I suggest he sit in a room by himself and be forced to watch this ABC lie fest crap over and over and over again … like Groundhog Day. Everybody else gets to get on with their lives.

  • I just cancelled my subscription to Scholastic a Magazine I use in my class. It’s a bit late for them to start verifying the accuracy of their materials, isn’t it? They really should have thought about those “high standards” first and not in reaction to public outcry.

  • Has anyone seen the movie other than the 900 at the original showing? by the way they only saw an hour. Does the truth hurt?

  • I’m outraged about what Disney (ABC’s parent company) is doing by broadcasting the bullshit docudrama “The Path to 9/11.” Let’s be proactive and EMAIL them and let them know what we think! Personal emails are best, individually emailed out one at a time…more likely to get through spam filters and the like. Give your thoughts a voice and let Disney know what you think of companies that profit off of this sort of demagogy.

    Some of the film’s big moments are based on bogus myths that have long since been debunked, and the docudrama itself was written by an outspoken conservative activist.
    In the latest developments:
    –Richard Clarke, the former counterterrorism czar, is helping set the record straight and correcting fabricated stories included in the movie.
    –ABC has ended its online discussion of the film by yanking the blog it created for the project.
    –A number of high-profile conservative bloggers received preview copies of “The Path to 9/11” last week, which seems like an odd step for ABC to take if the docudrama is supposed to be an “objective telling” of the events.
    –According to Variety, ABC, which is now airing the movie without commercial interruptions, is “sending 100,000 high school educators a letter from 9/11 Commission co-chair Tom Kean informing them of the various platforms on which the mini is available. ABC and Scholastic have partnered to produce an online study guide. [Call and send an email to Scholastic Books to protest the student resource guide they created to go along with the movie. Apparently they’ve taken down some of their materials, but it’s still unclear where they stand on this issue. Key emails: rrobinson@scholastic.com, investor_relations@scholastic.com, news@scholastic.com.]

    The Tier 1 email addresses are the honchos who are directly responsible for buying into this sort of partisan historical revisionist production and broadcasting it into the minds of MILLIONS of people:
    Tier 1
    Robert.A.Iger@disney.com, anne.sweeney@disney.com, albert.cheng@disney.com, rich.ross@disney.com, gary.marsh@disney.com, scott.garner@disney.com, sean.cocchia@disney.com, peter.murphy@disney.com, george.bodenheimer@disney.com, jewell.engstrom@disney.com, nicole.nichols@disney.com, patti.mcteague@disney.com, siobhan.kenny@disney.com, paul.lee@disney.com, david.stainton@disney.com, meredith.metz@disney.com, alex.wallau@disney.com, david.westin@disney.com, mike.shaw@disney.com, george.mitchell@dlapiper.com, jestrin@packetdesign.com, john.bryson@edisonintl.com, monica.lozano@laopinion.com, john.chen@sybase.com, gary.wilson@nwa.com, leo.odonovan@mbna.com, tom.staggs@disney.com, David.K.Thompson@disney.com, david.thompson@disney.com, andy.bird@disney.com, alan.braverman@disney.com, kevin.mayer@disney.com, Ronald.iden@disney.com, zenia.mucha@disney.com, preston.padden@disney.com, Thomas.staggs@disney.com, brent.woodford@disney.com,

    The Tier 2 email addresses are people who are indirectly involved by working for Disney, and you should still let them know what you think of the company they’re working for – and what its doing:
    Tier 2
    jedwards@fa.disney.com, Rebecca_buxton@online.disney.com, jns@disney.com, terry.brinkoetter@disney.com, amie.m.gorrell@disney.com, oliver.lambert@disney.com, jeff.archambault@disney.com, Michael.eisner@disney.com, don.robinson@disney.com, kevin.t.graham@disney.com, chelle.plasse@disney.com, nidia.tatalovich@disney.com, gary.foster@disney.com, joe.aguirre@disney.com, simon.camerer@disney.com, kim.kerscher@disney.com, kevin.t.graham@disney.com, patti.mcteague@disney.com, lara.j.mahaney@disney.com, Scottie.bowditch@disney.com, zoraya.suarez@disney.com, rhoades@disney.com, Alexander@disney.com, chris.chandler@disney.com, john.maloney@disney.com, mark.elliot@disney.com, ed_scott@corp.disney.com, matt.sites@disney.com, jim.warneke@disney.com, tim.flowers@disney.com, joe.christman@disney.com, Robert.falco@disney.com, ernest.petti@disney.com, inez.ho@disney.com, seshasaye.kanthamraju@disney.com, brian_fan@studio.disney.com, carol.nicolau@disney.com, wendy.p.yao@disney.com, daneault@disney.com, Lonnie.mccaskill@disney.com, brian.r.fling@disney.com, Emily.b.moak@email.disney.com, Michael.melo@disney.com, murray.barnett@disney.com, george_kalogridis@wda.disney.com, chin@fa.disney.com, steve_goldberg@fa.disney.com, maria.kleinman@disney.com, dan_adler@studio.disney.com, bruce.jennings@disney.com, eric.guaglione@disney.com, bill.r.mona@disney.com, sophie.hoysted@disney.com, zoe.duffelen@disney.com, heidi.trotta@disney.com, Robert.deuel@disney.com, betsy.e.sanchez@disney.com, angie.deluca@disney.com, steve.wadsworth@disney.com, donna.morong@disney.com, sharrin.summers@disney.com, stanl@fa.disney.com, nick_mansur@corp.disney.com, cindy_shuldtad@dlr.disney.com, michelle.bergman@disney.com, mark.elliot@disney.com, nick_porcino@studio.disney.com, gary.foster@disney.com, clint.hayashi@disney.com, ellen.antoville@disney.com, rruth@studio.disney.com, steve.sligh@disney.com, Christine.elliot@disney.com, tiffany.palmero@disney.com, Christine.d.asay@disney.com, Emily.b.moak@disney.com, Michael.t.cain@disney.com, tamstorf@fa.disney.com, nidia.tatalovich@disney.com, Julie.mills@disney.com,

    ABC personnel emails
    abcaudr@abc.com, Patrick.k.preblick@abc.com, jonathan.hogan@abc.com, Stacey.goldfaden@abc.com, wendy.figliuolo@abc.com, Julie.carruthers@abc.com, charles.a.gallo@abc.com, erin.felentzer@abc.com, netaudr@abc.com, investor.relations@disneyonline.com, stossel@abc.com, Edmund.w.poor@abc.com, brian.frons@abc.com, frank.valentini@abc.com, Lauren.kapp@abc.com, anne.x.sweeney@abc.com, brian.frons@abc.com, jill.phelps@abc.com, steve.jones@abc.com, peter.salinger@abc.com, brian.ross@abc.com, randall.bloomquist@abc.com, ernie.fears@abc.com, chris.j.berry@abc.com, Michael.t.connolly@abc.com, john.e.mcconnell@abc.com, abcradio@abc.com,

    Also, sign the online letter protesting the airing of this program here: http://thinkprogress.org/tellabc

    Don’t let ABC mislead the public through its dramatization of Sept. 11th – Don’t let this go!

    FORWARD THIS ON TO YOUR FRIENDS!!!!!!!!!!!

  • I’m very disappointed that ABC would present such an inaccurate depiction of these important events.

    They are obviously playing politics.

    I will not only stop watching ABC but I plan to contact all ABC advertisers and ask them why they are supporting a network that is presenting false/biased information about the events of 911.

    They should be ashamed and so should their advertisers.

  • So I’m a troll (according to #34) for not wanting ABC to knuckle under to pressure. Seems to me that Freedom of Speech, Freedom of the Press, and Artistic License is all at stake here.

    Where’s the outrage from the left that these freedoms are being threatened? Where’s the ACLU, the artistic community, the Hollywood crowd? Why isn’t CBS and NBC outraged that ABC is being threatened?

    Oh, I’m sorry, it’s the Democrates that are outraged so it’s justified to squash the Bill of Rights.

  • If ABC and Iger wimps out and does not show the 9/11 movie we will sell our Disney stock and boycott ABC and Disney Shows. Thank you.

  • Saw Tucker Carlson this morning arguing that this is a “free speech” issue. Well, free speech doesn’t allow you to shout “fire” in a crowded theatre. And free speech doesn’t allow you to slander people at will. The writer of this mockudrama has admitted making up scenes out of whole cloth. I’m no lawyer, but I know that to publish things that you know are wrong and say that they’re true constitutes “reckless disregard” for the truth. This is one of the things that you have to prove in a slander suit. Add to that that this is obviously intended as propaganda. Thousands of high school students watching this and taking it as a true record of that day.

  • As #41 stated, “…but I know that to publish things that you know are wrong and say that they’re true constitutes “reckless disregard” for the truth.”

    Tell that to the New York Times and Dan Rather, among others.

  • watched it last nite. details i knew from the 911 commission report were accurate. the details i didnt know, dramatic license considered, i didnt have any problem have any problem believing at all. you people who excuse balless government bureaucrats for inaction make me sick.

  • #43 HEAR HEAR!!! The Kool-Aid drinking crowd of the “Bush lied, men died” mentality would be the first ones to proclaim the inaction of the Bush Administration if their families were killed or threatened.

    Thank God (oops can I mention God in this Blog?) that we have a President who is one of action instead of one of inaction like Clinton/Carter.

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