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Posted September 8, 2006 at 12:41 pmIf you’re so inclined, consider this message from the DNC:
The ABC television network — a cog in the Walt Disney empire — unleashed a promotional blitz in the last week for a new “docudrama” called “The Path to 9/11″. ABC has thrown its corporate might behind the two-night production, and bills it as a public service: a TV event, to quote the ABC tagline, “based on the 9/11 Commission Report”.
That’s false. “The Path to 9/11″ is actually a bald-faced attempt to slander Democrats and revise history right before Americans vote in a major election.
The miniseries, which was put together by right-wing conservative writers, relies on the old GOP playbook of using terrorism to scare Americans. “The Path to 9/11″ mocks the truth and dishonors the memory of 9/11 victims to serve a cheap, callous political agenda. It irresponsibly misrepresents the facts and completely distorts the truth.
Tell Walt Disney CEO Robert Iger to keep this propaganda off the air.
If you are going to make up scenes, you should make up characters. Ascribing fictitious actions to real people (like Madeline Albright) and omitting actions of real people (like Condoleeza Rice) is either misleading or malicious.
And this from Disney, that wouldn’t distribute Fahrenheit 9/11 because they “did not want a film in the middle of the political process where we’re such a nonpartisan company and our guests, that participate in all of our attractions, do not look for us to take sides.”
The Clinton administration shouldn’t get a pass, but nor should they be villainized. See Think Progress for lots more backstory.
