Comments on: Writer of ABC’s 9/11 ‘Docudrama’ Is Avowed Conservative Activist http://thinkprogress.org/2006/09/01/nowrasteh-conservative-activist/ Thu, 26 Nov 2009 01:02:19 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Pop + Politics : Blog Archive : 9/11: the disney version http://thinkprogress.org/2006/09/01/nowrasteh-conservative-activist/comment-page-8/#comment-982281 Pop + Politics : Blog Archive : 9/11: the disney version Thu, 12 Oct 2006 17:36:07 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/09/01/nowrasteh-conservative-activist/#comment-982281 [...] Clinton spokesman Jay Carson told the LA Times that the film, which ABC is billing as a “docudrama” based on the 9/11 Commission’s findings, is “indisputably wrong.” Cyrus Nowrasteh admits that the film’s most controversial scene – where a Clinton administration official passes up an opportunity to kill Osama Bin Ladin — was based on nothing at all, telling a right-wing radio station that the scene was “improvised.” [...] [...] Clinton spokesman Jay Carson told the LA Times that the film, which ABC is billing as a “docudrama” based on the 9/11 Commission’s findings, is “indisputably wrong.” Cyrus Nowrasteh admits that the film’s most controversial scene – where a Clinton administration official passes up an opportunity to kill Osama Bin Ladin — was based on nothing at all, telling a right-wing radio station that the scene was “improvised.” [...]

]]> By: Dr. Mary Ann Armenteros http://thinkprogress.org/2006/09/01/nowrasteh-conservative-activist/comment-page-8/#comment-806644 Dr. Mary Ann Armenteros Tue, 12 Sep 2006 05:25:05 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/09/01/nowrasteh-conservative-activist/#comment-806644 <strong>Thank you Mr. Nowrasteh for first of all your interest and your effort to get this out to the public. We needed this! I feel that the docudrama was very well done and personally, I felt it was most accurate from my own research over the last five years.</strong> Thank you Mr. Nowrasteh for first of all your interest and your effort to get this out to the public. We needed this! I feel that the docudrama was very well done and personally, I felt it was most accurate from my own research over the last five years.

]]> By: Dr. Mary Ann Armenteros http://thinkprogress.org/2006/09/01/nowrasteh-conservative-activist/comment-page-8/#comment-806645 Dr. Mary Ann Armenteros Tue, 12 Sep 2006 05:25:05 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/09/01/nowrasteh-conservative-activist/#comment-806645 <strong>Thank you Mr. Nowrasteh for first of all your interest and your effort to get this out to the public. We needed this! I feel that the docudrama was very well done and personally, I felt it was most accurate from my own research over the last five years.</strong> Thank you Mr. Nowrasteh for first of all your interest and your effort to get this out to the public. We needed this! I feel that the docudrama was very well done and personally, I felt it was most accurate from my own research over the last five years.

]]> By: Grouchy’s Liberaltopia » The Path to 9/11 Propaganda http://thinkprogress.org/2006/09/01/nowrasteh-conservative-activist/comment-page-8/#comment-805566 Grouchy’s Liberaltopia » The Path to 9/11 Propaganda Mon, 11 Sep 2006 22:45:25 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/09/01/nowrasteh-conservative-activist/#comment-805566 [...] The director of the mini-series is David L. Cunningham who is a board member of the neoconservative organizations (see below), and the writer is Cyrus Nowrasteh who, while claiming he’s a libertarian, supports neocon media projects that kowtow to the Bush line. It is hardly, as Nowrasteh has called his TV film, “an objective telling of the events of 9/11.” That would be ‘objective’ solely in the Ann Coulter sense of the word. [...] [...] The director of the mini-series is David L. Cunningham who is a board member of the neoconservative organizations (see below), and the writer is Cyrus Nowrasteh who, while claiming he’s a libertarian, supports neocon media projects that kowtow to the Bush line. It is hardly, as Nowrasteh has called his TV film, “an objective telling of the events of 9/11.” That would be ‘objective’ solely in the Ann Coulter sense of the word. [...]

]]> By: stan http://thinkprogress.org/2006/09/01/nowrasteh-conservative-activist/comment-page-8/#comment-804637 stan Mon, 11 Sep 2006 18:10:17 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/09/01/nowrasteh-conservative-activist/#comment-804637 I would never blame michael moore for his pseudo-documentaries. he is one man up against the entire US right wing government pseudo-documentaries. he is just as believable as the BUSH gang. I would never blame michael moore for his pseudo-documentaries.
he is one man up against the entire US right wing government
pseudo-documentaries.

he is just as believable as the BUSH gang.

]]> By: ADAPPTT - A Diary, Articles Political, Parenting, Tech and other stuff » Writer of ABC’s “The Path to 9/11″ ‘Docudrama’ Is Avowed Conservative Activist http://thinkprogress.org/2006/09/01/nowrasteh-conservative-activist/comment-page-8/#comment-801640 ADAPPTT - A Diary, Articles Political, Parenting, Tech and other stuff » Writer of ABC’s “The Path to 9/11″ ‘Docudrama’ Is Avowed Conservative Activist Mon, 11 Sep 2006 03:50:44 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/09/01/nowrasteh-conservative-activist/#comment-801640 [...] Think Progress » Writer of ABC’s 9/11 ‘Docudrama’ Is Avowed Conservative Activist [...] [...] Think Progress » Writer of ABC’s 9/11 ‘Docudrama’ Is Avowed Conservative Activist [...]

]]> By: Nikita Sergeyevich http://thinkprogress.org/2006/09/01/nowrasteh-conservative-activist/comment-page-8/#comment-800316 Nikita Sergeyevich Sun, 10 Sep 2006 22:36:20 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/09/01/nowrasteh-conservative-activist/#comment-800316 <strong>Comrades Bravo!</strong> These traitors at ABC are betrayers of our new mother land. Where I come from, this Robert A. Iger would be dragged through the streets in front of the tomb of our glorious leader Vladimir Lenin and shot in public. The producers, directors, writers and anyone associated with this propaganda would be picked up in the early hours of the morning by our State Security Chief Lavrenty Beria (The Black Hand) and taken to a Siberian labor camp never too be heard from again. For many years I have been loyal to ABC and the Pravda (truth) that our Socialist Liberal ally has put forth in order to progress our ultimate goal; the decline and absolute destruction of America and the capitalist traitorous pig’s like ABC. I ask you Mr. Robert A. Iger, “Have you no shame Sir”? Comrades, we must not give up the fight. It has taken us many years to groom you and your elected leaders. Remember what our great leader Nikita Khrushchev said: “ We can't expect the American People to jump from Capitalism to Communism, but we can assist their elected leaders in giving them small doses of Socialism, until they awaken one day to find that they have Communism " It’s more important now then ever before that we stand together and stay focused! We can not allow this abomination of propaganda to go forward. We must do whatever it takes to keep this film from airing on Sunday the 10th, 2006, we only have a few hours left. It is your duty as loyal Liberal Socialist Democrats to rise up in solidarity and put a stop to this immediately! Senator Harry Reid, one of our courageous and distinguished Senatorial leaders from the state of Nevada, reminded the capitalist traitorous pigs at ABC of their license from the FCC. Please Senator Reid, we’re your loyal comrades in arms and begging you to use all the glorious power you possess. You must stop this film! You must push forward with an iron fist and crush this despicable display of propaganda. If this film isn’t stopped from airing on ABC, Sunday night, I’m afraid all our efforts since the cold war and the aspirations of our great leaders from glorious years past and Nikita Khrushchev’s dreams and predictions will have been lost. If we loose now, the great Liberal Socialist Democratic Party, we have nurtured, will decline into the ash heaps of history never too be heard from again. You must!.... I repeat, you must contact our comrades in arms at their offices in Washington. Now I’ve done all the work all you have to do is contact our comrades below by e-mail or call: Clinton, Hillary Rodham- (D - NY) Class I 476 RUSSELL SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510 (202) 224-4451 Web Form: clinton.senate.gov/contact Reid, Harry- (D - NV) Class III 528 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510 (202) 224-3542 Web Form: reid.senate.gov/contact/email_form.cfm Kerry, John F.- (D - MA) Class II 304 RUSSELL SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510 (202) 224-2742 Web Form: kerry.senate.gov/v3/contact/email.html Landrieu, Mary L.- (D - LA) Class II 724 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510 (202) 224-5824 Web Form: landrieu.senate.gov/contact/index.cfm Levin, Carl- (D - MI) Class II 269 RUSSELL SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510 (202) 224-6221 Web Form: levin.senate.gov/contact/index.cfm Rockefeller, John D., IV- (D - WV) Class II 531 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510 (202) 224-6472 Web Form: rockefeller.senate.gov/services/email.cfm Schumer, Charles E.- (D - NY) Class III 313 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510 (202) 224-6542 Web Form: schumer.senate.gov/SchumerWebsite/contact/webform.cfm Kennedy, Edward M.- (D - MA) Class I 317 RUSSELL SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510 (202) 224-4543 Web Form: kennedy.senate.gov/senator/contact.cfm Feinstein, Dianne- (D - CA) Class I 331 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510 (202) 224-3841 Web Form: feinstein.senate.gov/email.html Leahy, Patrick J.- (D - VT) Class III 433 RUSSELL SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510 (202) 224-4242 E-mail: senator_leahy@leahy.senate.gov Stabenow, Debbie- (D - MI) Class I 133 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510 (202) 224-4822 Web Form: stabenow.senate.gov/email.htm Durbin, Richard- (D - IL) Class II 332 DIRKSEN SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510 (202) 224-2152 Web Form: durbin.senate.gov/contact.cfm Lincoln, Blanche L.- (D - AR) Class III 355 DIRKSEN SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510 (202) 224-4843 Web Form: lincoln.senate.gov/webform.html Feingold, Russell D.- (D - WI) Class III 506 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510 (202) 224-5323 E-mail: russell_feingold@feingold.senate.gov Harkin, Tom- (D - IA) Class II 731 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510 (202) 224-3254 Web Form: harkin.senate.gov/contact/contact.cfm Bayh, Evan- (D - IN) Class III 463 RUSSELL SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510 (202) 224-5623 Web Form: bayh.senate.gov/WebMail1.htm Biden, Joseph R., Jr.- (D - DE) Class II 201 RUSSELL SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510 (202) 224-5042 E-mail: senator@biden.senate.gov Boxer, Barbara- (D - CA) Class III 112 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510 (202) 224-3553 Web Form: boxer.senate.gov/contact Menendez, Robert- (D - NJ) Class I 502 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510 (202) 224-4744 Web Form: menendez.senate.gov/contact/contact.cfm Nelson, Bill- (D - FL) Class I 716 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510 (202) 224-5274 Web Form: billnelson.senate.gov/contact/email.cfm Obama, Barack- (D - IL) Class III 713 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510 (202) 224-2854 Web Form: obama.senate.gov/contact/ Byrd, Robert C.- (D - WV) Class I 311 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510 (202) 224-3954 Web Form: byrd.senate.gov/byrd_email.html Cantwell, Maria- (D - WA) Class I 717 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510 (202) 224-3441 Web Form: cantwell.senate.gov/contact/index.html Conrad, Kent- (D - ND) Class I 530 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510 (202) 224-2043 Web Form: conrad.senate.gov/webform.html Dayton, Mark- (D - MN) Class I 123 RUSSELL SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510 (202) 224-3244 Web Form: dayton.senate.gov/contact/email.cfm Dodd, Christopher J.- (D - CT) Class III 448 RUSSELL SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510 (202) 224-2823 Web Form: dodd.senate.gov/index.php?q=node/3130 Comrades Bravo!

These traitors at ABC are betrayers of our new mother land. Where I come from, this Robert A. Iger would be dragged through the streets in front of the tomb of our glorious leader Vladimir Lenin and shot in public. The producers, directors, writers and anyone associated with this propaganda would be picked up in the early hours of the morning by our State Security Chief Lavrenty Beria (The Black Hand) and taken to a Siberian labor camp never too be heard from again.

For many years I have been loyal to ABC and the Pravda (truth) that our Socialist Liberal ally has put forth in order to progress our ultimate goal; the decline and absolute destruction of America and the capitalist traitorous pig’s like ABC.

I ask you Mr. Robert A. Iger, “Have you no shame Sir”?

Comrades, we must not give up the fight. It has taken us many years to groom you and your elected leaders.

Remember what our great leader Nikita Khrushchev said:

“ We can’t expect the American People to jump from Capitalism to Communism, but we can assist their elected leaders in giving them small doses of Socialism, until they awaken one day to find that they have Communism ”

It’s more important now then ever before that we stand together and stay focused! We can not allow this abomination of propaganda to go forward.

We must do whatever it takes to keep this film from airing on Sunday the 10th, 2006, we only have a few hours left.

It is your duty as loyal Liberal Socialist Democrats to rise up in solidarity and put a stop to this immediately!

Senator Harry Reid, one of our courageous and distinguished Senatorial leaders from the state of Nevada, reminded the capitalist traitorous pigs at ABC of their license from the FCC. Please Senator Reid, we’re your loyal comrades in arms and begging you to use all the glorious power you possess. You must stop this film! You must push forward with an iron fist and crush this despicable display of propaganda.

If this film isn’t stopped from airing on ABC, Sunday night, I’m afraid all our efforts since the cold war and the aspirations of our great leaders from glorious years past and Nikita Khrushchev’s dreams and predictions will have been lost.

If we loose now, the great Liberal Socialist Democratic Party, we have nurtured, will decline into the ash heaps of history never too be heard from again.

You must!…. I repeat, you must contact our comrades in arms at their offices in Washington.

Now I’ve done all the work all you have to do is contact our comrades below by e-mail or call:

Clinton, Hillary Rodham- (D – NY) Class I
476 RUSSELL SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
(202) 224-4451
Web Form: clinton.senate.gov/contact

Reid, Harry- (D – NV) Class III
528 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
(202) 224-3542
Web Form: reid.senate.gov/contact/email_form.cfm

Kerry, John F.- (D – MA) Class II
304 RUSSELL SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
(202) 224-2742
Web Form: kerry.senate.gov/v3/contact/email.html

Landrieu, Mary L.- (D – LA) Class II
724 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
(202) 224-5824
Web Form: landrieu.senate.gov/contact/index.cfm

Levin, Carl- (D – MI) Class II
269 RUSSELL SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
(202) 224-6221
Web Form: levin.senate.gov/contact/index.cfm

Rockefeller, John D., IV- (D – WV) Class II
531 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
(202) 224-6472
Web Form: rockefeller.senate.gov/services/email.cfm

Schumer, Charles E.- (D – NY) Class III
313 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
(202) 224-6542
Web Form: schumer.senate.gov/SchumerWebsite/contact/webform.cfm

Kennedy, Edward M.- (D – MA) Class I
317 RUSSELL SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
(202) 224-4543
Web Form: kennedy.senate.gov/senator/contact.cfm

Feinstein, Dianne- (D – CA) Class I
331 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
(202) 224-3841
Web Form: feinstein.senate.gov/email.html

Leahy, Patrick J.- (D – VT) Class III
433 RUSSELL SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
(202) 224-4242
E-mail: senator_leahy@leahy.senate.gov

Stabenow, Debbie- (D – MI) Class I
133 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
(202) 224-4822
Web Form: stabenow.senate.gov/email.htm

Durbin, Richard- (D – IL) Class II
332 DIRKSEN SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
(202) 224-2152
Web Form: durbin.senate.gov/contact.cfm

Lincoln, Blanche L.- (D – AR) Class III
355 DIRKSEN SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
(202) 224-4843
Web Form: lincoln.senate.gov/webform.html

Feingold, Russell D.- (D – WI) Class III
506 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
(202) 224-5323
E-mail: russell_feingold@feingold.senate.gov

Harkin, Tom- (D – IA) Class II
731 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
(202) 224-3254
Web Form: harkin.senate.gov/contact/contact.cfm

Bayh, Evan- (D – IN) Class III
463 RUSSELL SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
(202) 224-5623
Web Form: bayh.senate.gov/WebMail1.htm

Biden, Joseph R., Jr.- (D – DE) Class II
201 RUSSELL SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
(202) 224-5042
E-mail: senator@biden.senate.gov

Boxer, Barbara- (D – CA) Class III
112 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
(202) 224-3553
Web Form: boxer.senate.gov/contact

Menendez, Robert- (D – NJ) Class I
502 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
(202) 224-4744
Web Form: menendez.senate.gov/contact/contact.cfm

Nelson, Bill- (D – FL) Class I
716 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
(202) 224-5274
Web Form: billnelson.senate.gov/contact/email.cfm

Obama, Barack- (D – IL) Class III
713 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
(202) 224-2854
Web Form: obama.senate.gov/contact/

Byrd, Robert C.- (D – WV) Class I
311 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
(202) 224-3954
Web Form: byrd.senate.gov/byrd_email.html

Cantwell, Maria- (D – WA) Class I
717 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
(202) 224-3441
Web Form: cantwell.senate.gov/contact/index.html

Conrad, Kent- (D – ND) Class I
530 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
(202) 224-2043
Web Form: conrad.senate.gov/webform.html

Dayton, Mark- (D – MN) Class I
123 RUSSELL SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
(202) 224-3244
Web Form: dayton.senate.gov/contact/email.cfm

Dodd, Christopher J.- (D – CT) Class III
448 RUSSELL SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
(202) 224-2823
Web Form: dodd.senate.gov/index.php?q=node/3130

]]> By: scut fargus http://thinkprogress.org/2006/09/01/nowrasteh-conservative-activist/comment-page-8/#comment-797687 scut fargus Sun, 10 Sep 2006 09:53:31 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/09/01/nowrasteh-conservative-activist/#comment-797687 I was raised in a liberal household, and one of the fundamental principles of liberalism at that time was the willingness to listen to other viewpoints. I guess that is tenet which neither side seems to endorse any more. Most of these 400 people have already made up their minds; and half of them <em>know</em>not to watch this series. It is sad to see what has happened to liberal thinking over these past 40+ years. I was a young man when JFK was our president, and I still think he was a good president and a great orator. And, in those days, being a liberal meant that you would consider alternative opinions. I don't know that there are any liberals today like Kennedy; and being open-minded seems to be almost non-existent today. I was raised in a liberal household, and one of the fundamental principles of liberalism at that time was the willingness to listen to other viewpoints. I guess that is tenet which neither side seems to endorse any more. Most of these 400 people have already made up their minds; and half of them knownot to watch this series.

It is sad to see what has happened to liberal thinking over these past 40+ years. I was a young man when JFK was our president, and I still think he was a good president and a great orator. And, in those days, being a liberal meant that you would consider alternative opinions. I don’t know that there are any liberals today like Kennedy; and being open-minded seems to be almost non-existent today.

]]> By: Thomas J Keans http://thinkprogress.org/2006/09/01/nowrasteh-conservative-activist/comment-page-8/#comment-795987 Thomas J Keans Sat, 09 Sep 2006 23:53:16 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/09/01/nowrasteh-conservative-activist/#comment-795987 The New World Order is at it again, or still would be a better way of putting it... When will the people of america wake up and see what is being done to our country... Our judicial system has been stolen from us as well as our government.... We have been made into corporate fictions and no-one is the wiser... We have 5 billion laws to replace the 10 commandants.... wher ever should we do about it... the new world order is in every aspect of our lives and we still do no know it... when will we wake up and smell the stench from the gangsters in control of our lives... The New World Order is at it again, or still would be a better way of putting it… When will the people of america wake up and see what is being done to our country… Our judicial system has been stolen from us as well as our government…. We have been made into corporate fictions and no-one is the wiser… We have 5 billion laws to replace the 10 commandants…. wher ever should we do about it… the new world order is in every aspect of our lives and we still do no know it… when will we wake up and smell the stench from the gangsters in control of our lives…

]]> By: L. Mortensen http://thinkprogress.org/2006/09/01/nowrasteh-conservative-activist/comment-page-8/#comment-795674 L. Mortensen Sat, 09 Sep 2006 21:16:57 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/09/01/nowrasteh-conservative-activist/#comment-795674 To anyone who compares this docu-drama to Moore's films, ask yourself this question. If Moore had stated untruths, where are all the lawsuits? For ABC to advertise this based on the 9/11 commission report but have added fiction to it is false advertising at its worst. Is the audience supposed to know which part has factual basis and which part is fiction? This is a bad idea and ABC should cancel. I would be happy to join a boycott of ABC and Disney. To anyone who compares this docu-drama to Moore’s films, ask yourself this question.
If Moore had stated untruths, where are all the lawsuits?
For ABC to advertise this based on the 9/11 commission report but have added fiction to it is false advertising at its worst. Is the audience supposed to know which part has factual basis and which part is fiction?
This is a bad idea and ABC should cancel. I would be happy to join a boycott of ABC and Disney.

]]> By: Robert L Buckner http://thinkprogress.org/2006/09/01/nowrasteh-conservative-activist/comment-page-8/#comment-795282 Robert L Buckner Sat, 09 Sep 2006 19:04:33 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/09/01/nowrasteh-conservative-activist/#comment-795282 It is amazing how the neocons are now, in desperate last chance style, comparing anyone who disagrees with anything this administration does as unamerican, unpatriotic, fascist, Hitler, unchristian, or whatever their favored ugly word is. It is amazing how the neocons are now, in desperate last chance style, comparing anyone who disagrees with anything this administration does as unamerican, unpatriotic, fascist, Hitler, unchristian, or whatever their favored ugly word is.

]]> By: Jeff Knox http://thinkprogress.org/2006/09/01/nowrasteh-conservative-activist/comment-page-8/#comment-794808 Jeff Knox Sat, 09 Sep 2006 16:33:13 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/09/01/nowrasteh-conservative-activist/#comment-794808 IMO they will "find" a way to air it on time and on schedule with little alteration if any. Because it is intended to bracket and underscore the President's speech it must be broadcast, so they will find a way to do it and respond after the fact, if at all. Much the same way we often see prominent conservative speakers make racist remarks in a significant public forum and then "applogize". The co-ordination of this program between ABC, Disney and the White House, and the scale of the production and broadcast are only hints of what is yet to happen. How many remember the immediate effect Orsen Welle's radio broadcast of War of the Worlds had on the listeners, and the legacy it still has? It Seems rather obvious that we are being set up for another"event" (which will in due course be blamed on Clinton and/or FDR). What is not understood yet by most observers is that the people who run the president and who installed him plan never leave the White house or Congress. "Losing" by any means is not an option they plan for or will allow to occur regardless of legitimate public disagreement with their policies and activities. IMO they will “find” a way to air it on time and on schedule with little alteration if any. Because it is intended to bracket and underscore the President’s speech it must be broadcast, so they will find a way to do it and respond after the fact, if at all. Much the same way we often see prominent conservative speakers make racist remarks in a significant public forum and then “applogize”.

The co-ordination of this program between ABC, Disney and the White House, and the scale of the production and broadcast are only hints of what is yet to happen. How many remember the immediate effect Orsen Welle’s radio broadcast of War of the Worlds had on the listeners, and the legacy it still has?

It Seems rather obvious that we are being set up for another”event”
(which will in due course be blamed on Clinton and/or FDR).

What is not understood yet by most observers is that the people who run the president and who installed him plan never leave the White house or Congress. “Losing” by any means is not an option they plan for or will allow to occur regardless of legitimate public disagreement with their policies and activities.

]]> By: THIS IS ALL A SIGN OF THE TIMES....... http://thinkprogress.org/2006/09/01/nowrasteh-conservative-activist/comment-page-8/#comment-794693 THIS IS ALL A SIGN OF THE TIMES....... Sat, 09 Sep 2006 15:31:58 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/09/01/nowrasteh-conservative-activist/#comment-794693 LIKE I SAID THIS IS A SIGN OF THE TIMES. NOTHING CAN SURPRISE ME ANYMORE. LIKE I SAID THIS IS A SIGN OF THE TIMES. NOTHING CAN SURPRISE ME ANYMORE.

]]> By: Marc Polster http://thinkprogress.org/2006/09/01/nowrasteh-conservative-activist/comment-page-8/#comment-794515 Marc Polster Sat, 09 Sep 2006 14:01:52 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/09/01/nowrasteh-conservative-activist/#comment-794515 Shocking abuse of public airwaves. Shame on you Walt Disney. I will sell my kids' Disney shares, block ABC/Disney channels, and avoid Disney properties. Where is the visible public outrage? Where are the American statesmen? Pull their licence. Disney/ABC has abused the public trust. Our children are being slaughtered overseas not to defend liberty and the rule of law, but to crush it. Shame on us Americans for allowing this to happen. Shocking abuse of public airwaves. Shame on you Walt Disney. I will sell my kids’ Disney shares, block ABC/Disney channels, and avoid Disney properties. Where is the visible public outrage? Where are the American statesmen? Pull their licence. Disney/ABC has abused the public trust. Our children are being slaughtered overseas not to defend liberty and the rule of law, but to crush it. Shame on us Americans for allowing this to happen.

]]> By: Stephen Detwiler http://thinkprogress.org/2006/09/01/nowrasteh-conservative-activist/comment-page-8/#comment-794495 Stephen Detwiler Sat, 09 Sep 2006 13:57:44 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/09/01/nowrasteh-conservative-activist/#comment-794495 Shame on you Mickey! Your not supposed to have an agenda. Shame on you Mickey! Your not supposed to have an agenda.

]]> By: winterstorm http://thinkprogress.org/2006/09/01/nowrasteh-conservative-activist/comment-page-8/#comment-794038 winterstorm Sat, 09 Sep 2006 10:52:18 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/09/01/nowrasteh-conservative-activist/#comment-794038 I just have to point this out thanks to all of the neo-cons and other "conservatives." Fahrenheit 9/11 was never a forced issue, in fact, if you wanted to go see it you had to shell out some money and some time to do so. Not exactly the same thing when you're talking about a proposed mini-series to be aired on national television. Let's think about this. Cost of admission? Nope. Time to watch it? Probably be in a prime or post prime slot, say 8 or 9pm. And if you don't have the time to watch it, you can always program your vcr/dvr to keep it fresh for when you can watch it. You complain about something that if you paid to see it and didn't agree with it, guess what? You could've walked out of the theater all on your own. So don't give us this nonsense about liberals "forcing" anything on you. Freedom of speach also includes freedom to not listen. And to think, all you had to do to accomplish that was to walk away while you still had time. I know I haven't seen that particular docu-whatever yet, and most likely won't any time soon. It just disgusts me that so many people believe that not having faith in a person you didn't vote for is unpatriotic.... "Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious," Oscar Wilde. I just have to point this out thanks to all of the neo-cons and other “conservatives.” Fahrenheit 9/11 was never a forced issue, in fact, if you wanted to go see it you had to shell out some money and some time to do so. Not exactly the same thing when you’re talking about a proposed mini-series to be aired on national television. Let’s think about this. Cost of admission? Nope. Time to watch it? Probably be in a prime or post prime slot, say 8 or 9pm. And if you don’t have the time to watch it, you can always program your vcr/dvr to keep it fresh for when you can watch it. You complain about something that if you paid to see it and didn’t agree with it, guess what? You could’ve walked out of the theater all on your own. So don’t give us this nonsense about liberals “forcing” anything on you. Freedom of speach also includes freedom to not listen. And to think, all you had to do to accomplish that was to walk away while you still had time. I know I haven’t seen that particular docu-whatever yet, and most likely won’t any time soon. It just disgusts me that so many people believe that not having faith in a person you didn’t vote for is unpatriotic…. “Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious,” Oscar Wilde.

]]> By: yeranalyst http://thinkprogress.org/2006/09/01/nowrasteh-conservative-activist/comment-page-8/#comment-793037 yeranalyst Sat, 09 Sep 2006 05:10:02 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/09/01/nowrasteh-conservative-activist/#comment-793037 Hey Trax, Could you please tell me how you know that Clinton and Berger pulled the plug on capturing Osama Bin Laden? That's what I thought. You are one of the many mindless, tedious, banal, knee jerk, dumbed down, I'm going to be angry and self righteous even though I don't have a clue as to what I'm talking about war crime enabling right wing shills talking out their ass. Judging by how loud and shrill you speak and how often you run that thing it can't be pretty to look at. probably a qualifier for ogrish.com. Hey Trax, Could you please tell me how you know that Clinton and Berger pulled the plug on capturing Osama Bin Laden? That’s what I thought. You are one of the many mindless, tedious, banal, knee jerk, dumbed down, I’m going to be angry and self righteous even though I don’t have a clue as to what I’m talking about war crime enabling right wing shills talking out their ass. Judging by how loud and shrill you speak and how often you run that thing it can’t be pretty to look at. probably a qualifier for ogrish.com.

]]> By: pats http://thinkprogress.org/2006/09/01/nowrasteh-conservative-activist/comment-page-8/#comment-792348 pats Sat, 09 Sep 2006 00:54:05 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/09/01/nowrasteh-conservative-activist/#comment-792348 I, too, was very disappointed in Katie Couric's interview with Bush the other night. She let him get away with sidestepping any semi-tough questions she asked, and she never followed up. What a waste of airtime. I, too, was very disappointed in Katie Couric’s interview with Bush the other night. She let him get away with sidestepping any semi-tough questions she asked, and she never followed up. What a waste of airtime.

]]> By: TS http://thinkprogress.org/2006/09/01/nowrasteh-conservative-activist/comment-page-8/#comment-792292 TS Sat, 09 Sep 2006 00:37:28 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/09/01/nowrasteh-conservative-activist/#comment-792292 <a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5952850" rel="nofollow">Speaking of political hacks and the liberal media conspiracy....</a> Speaking of political hacks and the liberal media conspiracy….

]]> By: TS http://thinkprogress.org/2006/09/01/nowrasteh-conservative-activist/comment-page-8/#comment-792267 TS Sat, 09 Sep 2006 00:32:52 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/09/01/nowrasteh-conservative-activist/#comment-792267 speaking of paid hacks and liberal media conspiracies and otherwise.... <a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5952850" rel="nofollow"></a> speaking of paid hacks and liberal media conspiracies and otherwise….

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