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ABC Planning Massive Free Distribution of 9/11 Docudrama»

Path to 9/11 graphicABC is planning a massive free distribution of its planned docudrama The Path to 9/11, including sending letters to 100,000 high school teachers encouraging them to have their students watch the series. Variety magazine reports:

[ABC is] allowing consumers to download the complete miniseries — for free — via Apple’s iTunes Music Store. Mini also will be streamed for free via ABC.com, and XM Radio has pacted with the network to make an audiocast of the film available to its subscribers. […]

To spread the word about “Path to 9/11,” ABC is sending 100,000 high school educators a letter from 9/11 Commission co-chair Tom Keane informing them of the various platforms on which the mini is available. ABC and Scholastic have pacted to produce an online study guide.

ABC has also made deals to have the docudrama aired internationally, including in Britain on BBC and in India.

Most American high school students weren’t even teenagers when the 9/11 attacks occured. Now ABC is trying to present those students — and scores of people around the world — with its slanted and inaccurate version of history, which blames President Clinton for 9/11 while whitewashing the failures of the Bush administration. The events leading up to September 11, 2001 are too important to play politics with the facts.

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  1. Lemming Herder Says:

    Maybe we can finally see the true power of the blogosphere if everybody will join in.

    http://dontbealemming.com/ 2006/ 09/ 05/ abc-dispensing-republican-propaganda.aspx

    Posted by the Lemming Herder at Don’t Be A Lemming!


  2. Iraqi Says:

    PROOF THAT THIS IS A REPUBLICAN ADVERTISMENT HIT PIECE AND ALSO THAT ABC CAN’T GET SPONSORS TO SIGN ON TO SUCH UN-AMERICAN EVIL!

    After originally announcing its intention to air “The Path to 9/11″ with limited commercial interruption, the network now will air both parts of the $30 million Harvey Keitel starrer without any advertising.

    http://www.variety.com/ index.asp?layout=story&articleid=VR1117949477&categoryid=14&cs=1&s=h&p=0

    Variety magazine


  3. Jay Randal Says:

    This ABC thing about 9/11 grows creepier daily > Bush Regime and GOP are really pushing this propaganda to shove 9/11 blame onto Clinton, so why is Bill silent about the lies?


  4. Southwest Bob Says:

    Got to give rove credit, he does manage to keep one step ahead of the dems when it comes to taking control of issues and forcing them to spend time, energy and money to refute lies. This is Swift Boating at another level, and dems better have an effective response plan ready to go.


  5. Stram Says:

    If I didn’t know better I would think you were spoofing ABC. Who’s running ABC these days, Joseph Goebbels?


  6. Ben Says:

    Who is the proper person to contact at ABC?


  7. oldtree Says:

    it does appear ABC has become a bad joke now.
    anyone that would put crap out like this is desparate to recover their funds from a bad investment

    pure money and pure crap. like soup and sandwich?


  8. Jay Randal Says:

    Best thing is for nobody but Bush lovers to watch the ABC propaganda piece on 9/11 > 60% of Americans must refuse to watch it > let the 40% nuts get their fix on stupidity > lol.


  9. Occam's Neighbor Says:

    Awesome! Now I can watch the show on my iPod while you libs seethe! Thanks for sharing!


  10. calguy Says:

    Please see Kos for this post and this one about the Scholastic documents.


  11. trblmkr Says:

    I am getting really PISSED! This crosses so many lines. Where are Berger and/or Clinton?


  12. Publius Says:

    Although I am no fan of Bush - and we all know about the CYA “bin Laden Determined to Strike in the US” briefing weeks before 9/11 - Clinton did drop the ball on bin Laden. The Saudi - with many connections to the Bush crime family - declared holy war on the US in the mid-to-late 90s, and Clinton could have taken it more seriously, to say the least. This is not to say that Bush isn’t just as responsible - or arguably more so - or that the ABC docudrama is at all fair, but to say that Clinton did not mess up on bin Laden is delusional. People lose credibility when they refuse to factor in all relevant facts, not just ones that fit in with preconcieved ideas. Hold Clinton responsible for his part and Bush for his part. They both messed this thing up.


  13. Jay Randal Says:

    Post 12 > ever since Bill Clinton has hung out with Bush Senior, he seems to have lost his mind, or been paid off > if Bill got paid to take a fall for Bush Junior, then I hope the 30 pieces of silver was worth Bill’s soul?!


  14. Cyn2 Says:

    I believe you spelled Tom Kean’s name incorrectly.


  15. Iraqi Says:

    Here is the only place I’ve found so you can tell ABC where to go.

    http://thinkprogress.org/tellabc

    .


  16. johnjacobjingleheimerschmitt Says:

    High school teachers? That’s just wrong..

    When I was in high school we weren’t even allowed to go into any depth what so ever on the history of the Vietnam War because there’s too many who served that are still alive from it and it’s still a topic of contentious debate.

    But hey, let’s go ahead and brainwash kids with this psuedo-documentary!


  17. Aquarius Says:

    Everyone is bashing the director, however no one has mentioned who financed this film. Unless this was all donated time etc, there has to be backers to pay the bills.

    WHO FINANCED THIS FILM? WHO IS PAYING THE BILL


  18. Jay Randal Says:

    Post 17 > brainwashing is what Bush wants for America > only way he can become Orwell’s Big Brother from 1984 book > be very afraid for US!


  19. hekebolos Says:

    #

    Awesome! Now I can watch the show on my iPod while you libs seethe! Thanks for sharing!

    Comment by Occam’s Neighbor — September 5, 2006 @ 1:11 pm

    Shouldn’t you actually be more interested in the truth??? Or are you actually excited that partisan propaganda is being passed over the airwaves as supposed truth?


  20. OxyCon Says:

    I used the contact form supplied by ThinkProgress to inform ABC that I have called my cable television provider and have had the signals to ESPN, ESPN2, ABC Family, ABC and Disney removed from my cable package. And I also told them that my family is through vacationing at all Disney owned resorts.
    I urge everone else to do the same.


  21. Jay Randal Says:

    Post 18 > obviously the Bush Regime backers and GOP affiliated creeps payed for the docudrama > ABC is just a paid whore to air the damn thing!


  22. PLC (PatrioticLiberalChristian) Says:

    So, what happens if a teacher does use the film and also balances it with Michael Moore’s film or some other opposing documentary? Look for reprisals unless teachers follow the script.


  23. Ben Says:

    #16 Thanks. I want to write and tell them thanks for showing it. I will remind them at the end of the day the people will decide whether there is bias or not. I watched Moore’s BS film. I never preached that it should not be shown even though it turned out to be filled with lies. The Left fears this film because they fear the truth and the truth is their biggest obstacle in a return to power.


  24. AnAmerican Says:

    So, the USA has devolved into a land inhabited by people willing to accept lies and propaganda.

    as if that wasn’t apparent when it elected a Chimp.


  25. Briseadh na Faire Says:

    Actually, it would make a great basis for a unit on fiction as history. Preceed this film with reading 1984. Follow the film with Fahrenheit 9/11. Then have the students do the research on the factual basis behind each film. Afterwards, they can write a comprehensive report on the relative accuracy of each film, and compare Disney’s work to that of Winston Smith.


  26. dumbstruck Says:

    Soon there will be only one tv channel……the fascist government’s channel.


  27. DRxJ Says:

    I watched Moore’s BS film. I never preached that it should not be shown even though it turned out to be filled with lies.
    Comment by Ben — September 5, 2006 @ 1:30 pm

    Ben, thank you for your kind, understanding post. But, do pray tell, what lies were in F9/11? Please provide links.
    Again, thank you


  28. Go Back To Sleep America Says:

    Hey why not. Next why not teach future generations that there’s no such thing as evolution and the Rapture is coming? Oh wait…


  29. RUCerious Says:

    When, in the history of commercial television, has a company ever done a giveaway of this scope? Anybody?


  30. just a thought Says:

    Here come the “Clinton conspiracy theorists”.


  31. PLC (PatrioticLiberalChristian) Says:

    28 BF
    THAT would be a great lesson - could a teacher in today’s political climate get away with it? I have my doubts and my fears.


  32. kharma Says:

    DOWNLOAD OFTEN AND HARD. LET THE MF’s PAY FOR THE BANDWIDTH.


  33. RUCerious Says:

    #28 - Great idea. And after showing it, they can use it in chem lab to see how it might be affected by a sulphuric acid bath.



  34. Jay Randal Says:

    RUCerious > this is NO giveaway by ABC > this just proves they are being PAID by Bush/GOP to play the docudrama propaganda crap on 9/11 attack that lays the blame on Bill Clinton!


  35. Keith H. Says:

    This is waayyy over the edge.
    If abc is gonna openly be part of this, they need to feel the wrath of the people.
    I would suggest starting with the top dog.


  36. RUCerious Says:

    Jay - Yup! I was just asking if anyone had seen a distribution (free) of any other material? Ever? I can’t seem to remember any precedent for this type of activity, regardless of who paid for it…


  37. RUCerious Says:

    BTW - before anyone takes me to task on my sulphur bath blurb, I know, I know, it’s an electronic download, I just couldn’t resist the imagery of film bubbling in an acid bath…


  38. enough Says:

    Scholastic used to be the “good housekeeping seal of approval” for classroom materials. Tell Scholastic that their promotion of propogranda will premanently impact your trust of their materials.

    Jeffrey Mathews, Vice President, Investor Relations or Tonia Bellamy at 212-343-6741 or via email at investor_relations@scholastic.com


  39. msknowitall Says:

    i dont understand why they are going thru so much trouble when the polls are fixed anyways. :|


  40. HipLibMama Says:

    This is where parenting comes in - my seven year old knows all about Bush and his lies, and would never fall for it. In fact, he tells his little friends (to the horror of my yuppie neighbors, I am sure) that Bush lied us into the war. My four year old refers to W as a “doorknob”. :-)

    #28 - that’s a great idea, and if I were a teacher, I would go for it - damn the consequences.


  41. The DLC are Frauds Says:

    This asshole Cyrus Nowrasteh, the writer/producer, is long in opinions.


  42. Massachusetts Liberal Says:

    It’s official - the media are owned by the state (CIA).


  43. jane_al Says:

    Here’s the content of my letter, for what it’s worth:

    Dear Mr. Iger:

    It has come to my attention that ABC plans to air a two-part mini-series called “The Path to 9/11″ on September 10 and September 11.

    I understand that key scenes have already been debunked by Mr. Richard Clarke who should probably have a better understanding and recollection of what led up to 9/11 than any movie director, screenwriter, producer or film editor. That information alone is enough to tell me that this portrayal of incidents leading up to 9/11 is not only inaccurate, but a concerted effort to deflect blame from the Bush administration who, by the way and in case you have forgotten, was in “charge” of our nation’s security and protection on September 11, 2001.

    I expect only a canned response to this e-mail as any media outlet that would condone airing such outrageous lies about one of this nation’s greatest tragedies (which remember — we ALL witnessed!) would probably not deem it necessary to respond in an original manner.

    Please note that I’m a VERY good consumer and have participated in many marketing surveys for both products and services. Airing this “documentary” (and I use the term loosely) would significantly effect my impression of any advertisers or sponsors of ABC/Disney programming.

    Just to let you know, I haven’t shopped in Target stores since last October due to their continued support in allowing their pharmacists (in the guise of “religious beliefs”) to deny women certain medications prescribed by their physicians.

    And I loved to shop at Target. And I also used to love to watch “Dancing with the Stars”.

    But I’m very disciplined and there are too many other merchants that are just as happy to see my money. I guarantee you, I can excercise the same discipline when it comes to ABC/Disney sponsors and advertisers.”


  44. Trinary Suka Says:

    This is not curriculum and ABC should not be tryong to show it in schools. If the PARENTS want their children to watch it they can do so at home.

    I repeat I as a parent do not permit a school to show my daughter meda propaganda in an environment of learning.
    And if they show this in schools, then they should also be required to show michael moores film as well.

    NEITHER of these films should EVER been shown to Kids in school ever, that is the parents decision and if they want they can order or rent a copy to watch at home!!!

    Docudramas, of any type, do not belong in school!
    Facts and truth are the keystones to education, not have baked documentaries created by a activists of any group!!


  45. just a thought Says:

    Really, that is a legitamite question: “Who is paying for this?” Air time on a major station is not free or cheap. We don’t need assumptions on WHO is footing the bill — we NEED to know who it is… because with the way these people operate, it could very well be coming out of your TAX dollars in some major way.

    Like the idea of being the one paying for this (or any) propoganda?

    It would also make the issue MUCH clearer if the backers of the DISTRIBUTION and AIRING of this were known. Much clearer.


  46. Trinary Suka Says:

    Time to leave America and let the Hitler youth destroy themselves again..enjoy your trip into hell and death neo-nazis!



  47. not the troll Amy Says:

    #26, Gee, Ben, I don’t recall a major television channel using the public’s airwaves to broadcast F911 so that people could watch it for free, do you?


  48. Spudge_Boy Says:

    Post 12 > ever since Bill Clinton has hung out with Bush Senior, he seems to have lost his mind, or been paid off > if Bill got paid to take a fall for Bush Junior, then I hope the 30 pieces of silver was worth Bill’s soul?!

    Comment by Jay Randal — September 5, 2006 @ 1:16 pm

    Jay Randal,

    The Clintons are part of the Carlyle Group, just like the Bushes are. He didn’t change, he has always been about the war profiteering also. He is just as bad as they are. He is just smarter, so his evil side doesn’t show.


  49. Jay Randal Says:

    Post 49 > Bush wants school kids to be brainwashed, so they will turn their parents in for thought crimes against Brother Bush! America is 1984!


  50. Larry from C Says:

    Wasn’t ABC/Disney the company that refused to distribute Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 911 but were more than happy to take on Mel Gibson’s Passion of the Christ?


  51. Aquarius Says:

    #25

    Its obvious this is a corporate funded, NeoCon sponsored film. With the elections coming up, this is very timely. The NeoCon’s can continue to crank out propaganda films all day long whenever they fear a defeat in an election.

    I know this BUT the question is still WHO IS PAYING THE BILLS

    When Kerry was swifboated the people behind the scenes were exposed as Republican shills. I am sure the same applies here. The backers, all of them, need to be exposed.


  52. Jay Randal Says:

    Spudge_Boy > yes I realize that Clinton worked for the same sludge as Bush does, but he has to get paid extra to take the fall for 9/11 fiasco!


  53. GODWARRIOR Says:

    So when does network TV count as educational? A docu-drama, with the emphasis on “drama” is being counted as educational???? On this basis alone, I fear for the next generation. Corporations are now infiltrating our schools with orwellian propaganda at an alarming rate. Cable in the classrom is a farce. Another way to stuff the corprate agenda down our youth’s throats… But this…This takes all of this to a new low…

    The same network that produces, “Desperate House Ho’s” is now trying to rewrite the views our youth have about this tragic day in American history. Are they getting a balanced view? NO. Is F 9/11 being distributed also? NO. How about loose change 2nd edition? NO.

    So, what does Bush say about this? The “uniter” not a “divider” I am the “decider” in command? Was there also a documentary on the failures of Katrina? Oh, I’m sorry…we worried more about a pissy tropical storm on it’s anniversary…or was that what the networks were told to tell us to worry about…

    1984 is here.


  54. Trinary Suka Says:

    Hey could you imagine an army made up only of bush supporters? A bunch of lazy corporate fat cats and Chicken Hawks? Falwellians and Coullters? Think tanks and Perles? Media pundits? LMAO they would be destroyed in nothing flat.

    Well the fat cats better wise up cause the poor losers won’t be fighting this next war, it will be the fat cats. Wise up O’ bush supporters it’s the poor man that keeps you fat dumb and happy??


  55. Godfry Daniel Says:

    The letters ABC will never appear on my TV again. Nor will I purchase any products sponsoring this program.


  56. Trinary Suka Says:

    Neo-conism is a sickness!!
    Study of Bush’s psyche touches a nerve
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/ usa/ story/ 0,12271,1017546,00.html
    Julian Borger in Washington
    Wednesday August 13, 2003
    The Guardian

    A study funded by the US government has concluded that conservatism can be explained psychologically as a set of neuroses rooted in “fear and aggression, dogmatism and the intolerance of ambiguity”.

    As if that was not enough to get Republican blood boiling, the report’s four authors linked Hitler, Mussolini, Ronald Reagan and the rightwing talkshow host, Rush Limbaugh, arguing they all suffered from the same affliction.

    All of them “preached a return to an idealised past and condoned inequality”.
    ==
    sound familiar?


  57. Ben Says:

    #55 the dailykos should say the dailylies.

    That is cleary right at the top of twisting truth. Just the lying about the night of the 2000 elections is enough. I remember that night. Michael Moore’s F911 film lies about that evening. You are a complete fool if you dispute that.


  58. Ben Says:

    #53 I think that should have shown Moore’s F911. I do not fear listening even to lies. Apparently though the Left fears this being seen.


  59. Trinary Suka Says:

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/ usa/ story/ 0,12271,1017546,00.html

    Sounds like an organized hypocrisy [OCH]…oh wait it is!


  60. Trinary Suka Says:

    #53 I think that should have shown Moore’s F911. I do not fear listening even to lies. Apparently though the Left fears this being seen.

    Comment by Ben

    I could care less who watches it, only watch it at home or in the theater, like the people did to see to moores film.


  61. TI Says:

    Seems like all think progress is doing is giving the movie a lot of free publicity.


  62. Republicans Are The Fear And Smear Party Says:

    A fictionalized version of the buildup to 9/11 should be discussed in schools? As fiction, yes, right next door to “Creation Science.”


  63. just a thought Says:

    #66 Ben What part about this does not seem unusual to you? The film being seen is not a problem. Let it be seen, and with the same regard as is given any other piece of partisan propoganda (F911 included in that… ). But being seen for free? Hello - stations do not offer free airtime. SOMEONE is paying. Distributing it for free? Again, someone is paying. WHO is paying? That will explain quite a lot. And what does a docudrama have to do with education? And it is not just being offered, it is being offered to the teachers with a bit of nudging. This is NOT “educational material” any more than F911 is.


  64. dmocrats.org Says:

    Distribute this video around the net and to your friends off the net.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glaYJzeGK7I


  65. Jay Randal Says:

    Michael Eisner the CEO of Disney is a stinking wealthy GOP creepo, so no wonder he would have ABC play propaganda on 9/11 for the Bush Regime! I will never go to Disney World, EPCOT, or any other Disney theme park > boycott every Disney product and their movies as well! Walt Disney, if he was still alive, would slap the snot out of Eisner and fire him!


  66. Trinary Suka Says:

    Apparently though the Left fears this being seen. Comment by Ben”

    Ben I read the whole 560 pages or so of the 9/11 report, why does anyone need to see it spun by the media?

    Did you read that report ben?
    Did you know that Bush had 47 pages redacted from it?
    There was not mention of Able Danger in it.
    There was no mention of Sibel Edmonds
    There was no mentiion of the worker burned by an explosion
    There was no mention of the able danger program that knew of several of the terrorists?
    There was no mention of that day being a airplane into builiding exercise.

    Such is why the Bush admin excuse that it was a lack of imagination is an outright lie.


  67. dlet Says:

    This is really creepy. Why would ABC do all of this for free? Airing it with no sponsors seems really weird too. There must be someone ponying up for this. I would like to know who and how much. ABC the new catapault for the propaganda.


  68. Larry from C Says:

    #48 Jane-Al..I write to the networks all the time and NEVER get a response. So don’t hold your breath.

    But you echo an idea I share with anyone who’ll listen. VOTE WITH YOUR DOLLARS. Money is the only language they understand.

    When you vote with your dollars you get the opportunity to vote every day.


  69. Curtis Eller Says:

    Sueing or banning ABC or Disney will not work. What we need to do is a nationwide boycott of all those who sposor and let them know why we are boycotting those products.

    So just boycott all products advertised by ABC or Disney…….

    Curtis Eller


  70. Trinary Suka Says:

    I do not fear listening even to lies. -Ben

    Whatever that means…sounds pretty messed up, guess you got one of them tin-foil limbaugh truth detectors in your head?

    When I hear a lie I change the channel or ignore those who spew it. You should fear lies because lies is what is killing thousands of people in Iraq, many American. Because of lies.

    I bet those people wish they had never listened to a lie, because they apparently can’t tell the difference bewteen that and truth..


  71. Trinary Suka Says:

    “no sponsors”

    Yes think about that..No Sponsors. In America nearly everything is sponsored, Nascar etc etc etc…

    Now why is no GOP or Democrats sponsoring this?

    Why because it’s a centrist agenda!!!

    Damn Ben wtfu.


  72. Jay Randal Says:

    Curtis I am willing to boycott any product affiliated with this propaganda on ABC, but they claim no corporate sponsors are involved, so just GOP!


  73. JMiller Says:

    Just a reality check… if we’re going to say that Clinton screwed up with killing Bin Laden because of the interns, then what’s Bush’s excuse? Too busy milking donors and scaring people sh|+less with the terrorists he’s not catching? He’s had almost six years and two wars… You’ve got your choice of “Malice” or “Incompetence,” but either suggests that any alternative has a good chance of being better.


  74. trueblue Says:

    I have already given minblue the “OK” to toss into the trash anything from Scholastic re:9/11

    If the teacher cares to show it, she will be given a note excusing her from going to class.
    I wrote ABC and Scholastic.
    This is ridiculous!


  75. Trinary Suka Says:

    These media idiots, along with bushco, are the true enemy of both the Democrats and the Republicans.

    Cmon over to the light side Ben..


  76. DRxJ Says:

    Ben? Hello Ben? Still here, Ben?
    Aw common lil buddy. don’t go away mad! We’re just trying to engage you in a little honest debate. You know, where one side has facts and the other side has…..ummmmm, ummmmmm, errrrrrrr, Rush’s talking points???
    Facts? We don’t need no stinkin’ facts for a docudrama!


  77. ironchef Says:

    I don’t know why everyone has their panties in a bunch, we did get to show the world Fahrenheit 9/11 long before this shit came out. And they tried to follow it with a swiftboat piece that didn’t even get seen. I’m sure this crap ABC is putting out will fall flat..especially to international audiences who aren’t as brain dead as our red state viewers who watch things like “My name is Earl” and “Desperate Crackwhores.”


  78. Bill Selznick Says:

    9/11 Missing Scene:

    Bush: still sitting in an elementary school chair on the morning of 9/11 following the impact of an air plane into one of the WTC towers — an unprecedented event with obvious loss of life and unquestionably the biggest new story in some time. He decides to continue with a meaningless photo-op.

    Andrew Card (WH Chief of Staff): leans down to the president and informs him “America is under attack”

    Bush: minutes tick by, children participate in a elementary school reading exercise, and still the Command in Chief sits unperturbed after being informed, “America is under attack” and knowing of a catastrophic event in NYC that has cost an unknown number of lives.

    Narrator: As we watch the President of the United States do nothing on the morning of 9/11 many have wondered, what was he thinking? The only possible conclusions are that either he somehow had foreknowledge of the attack, understood the parameters of the attack and was hence not surprised by being informed of an attack on America; or, we are witnessing the most cowardly act ever record of a man who held his hand on the Bible and taken the oath of office. He is simply lost and does not know what to do and does not even have the intellectual curiosity to ask his Chief of Staff “What do you mean, America is under attack”


  79. Yikes Says:

    “Michael Eisner the CEO of Disney” - I think he is no longer the CEO of Disney.


  80. DallasNE Says:

    At least Michael Moore used actual events then depicted them to show Bush as being clueless. This effort mixes actual events with complete fabrications that is passes off as actual events. This is a line not crossed before and it makes me sick that ABC chooses to do so now. Further, you had to pay to see Michael Moore. ABC uses the public airwaves for partisan purposes. Surely this violates FCC rules, but this FCC will turn the other cheek. We can be sure of that.


  81. madashell Says:

    90. Eisner was canned last year.


  82. Bill Selznick Says:

    #89

    PS: I forgot to mention, this proves it’s Clinton’s fault.


  83. madashell Says:

    89. Another thing about that - what sitting US president EVER has gone to a school room to read stories? Name one. I was under the impression that was the FIRST LADY’S thing.


  84. F.U.A.B.C. Says:

    Can’t some techno savvy person here design a web page where people can pledge to never again watch ABC or buy product from those companies that sponsor ABC programs?

    Updated signatures files could be sent to ABC and Sponsors daily… it may not stop the airing of this program but may serve as a future deterrent.


  85. Trinary Suka Says:

    You’ve got your choice of “Malice” or “Incompetence,” but either suggests that any alternative has a good chance of being better.

    Comment by JMiller
    ==
    You have no credibility Judy Miller..


  86. dlet Says:

    #94
    Cause bushie’s reading level wouldn’t allow him to read to a higher age group. His audience that day was a perfect mental capability fit for him.


  87. Rosencrantz Says:

    What possible reason could ABC (who is owned by DIsney, who has a long history of doing anything to please the Bush administration for their own financial self-interests) possibly have for pushing this “docudrama” on teenagers who will all be of voting age in the next 1 - 4 years?

    Gee, what possible motivation could they have to push a heavily partisan, right-wing smear movie completely void of facts on a group of people who are mostly politically clueless and about to enter voting age?

    Hmmm…any ideas?


  88. Pickles R Us Says:

    ABC Media Relations:
    Patrick Preblick
    Email:
    patrick.k.preblick@abc.com
    Telephone:
    (212) 456-7819

    Jonathan Hogan
    Email:
    jonathan.hogan@abc.com
    Telephone:
    818 460-7016

    Erin Felentzer
    Email:
    erin.felentzer@abc.com
    Telephone:
    818 460-6642


  89. Mark Says:

    I find it interesting that six years into his presidency no one has thought to mention that Bush has been pursuing Bin Laden for longer than Clinton did and with far more resources. 6 years of pursuing the 6′5″ tall lefthanded bearded man in flowing white robes and nothing to show for it. Very interesting indeed.


  90. Trinary Suka Says:

    Got to give rove credit, he does manage to keep one step ahead of the dems when it comes to taking control of issues and forcing them to spend time, energy and money to refute lies

    Now why would you give credit to a liar?

    This is like a lying child and the parent telling them it’s okay to lie. Why would anyone allow a person of high political office, republican or democrat to Lie? Isn’t this what got libby in trouble?

    Not only is Rove a child, he is an unprofessional and mentally deficient child who hates 70%+ of America. Hardly a fitting image for our children and our Natrional Pride. In Fact Roves lies have damaged our National Pride and how we are seen in the Worlds eyes. No, nothing good comes from lies, ask Hitler.


  91. Jonser Says:

    well… needless to say it will be great rating..
    i’ll be tuning in….

    maybe you guys can hope Sandy Berger manages to stuff the master copy of the documentary in his pants why coincidently perusing (sp) ABC studios on 9/10…

    face it, to actually put a visual to what one doesn’t want to acknowledge, drives you guys nuts… terrorism wasn’t taken seriously till after 9/11… and how fully some eyes…

    I mean look at that masterpiece michael moore put out… you can only hope this one does as well ;)


  92. Trinary Suka Says:

    Lets get to the bottom of this Government sponsored propaganda spewed at us from the Times of Reagan and WHY.

    Rumsfeld’s Roadmap to Propaganda
    In light of recent media coverage of alleged propaganda activities by the military in Iraq, … including Reagan’s NSD-77 in 1983, Clinton’s PDD-68 in 1999, …
    http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB177/


  93. Shasta Says:

    Go after Apple! Thanks to the Pixar deal, Jobs is the largest single shareholder in Disney, and ABC will be providing this dreck on iTunes. So Apple is complicit in the lie.


  94. OxyCon Says:

    ABC’s parent company, Disney, attempted to kill Michael Moore’s movie “Fahrenheit 911″ because it was deemed to politically partisan.
    Why, now, has Disney become so willing to air the partisan works of a right wing extremist?
    There is a shameless duplicity at work here.


  95. Jonser Says:

    100…

    yeah that is very interesting… no one ever thought Clinton to pass up anything that crossed over or let alone under his desk… but he did with Bin Laden… with far less resources


  96. DRxJ Says:

    face it, to actually put a visual to what one doesn’t want to acknowledge, drives you guys nuts… terrorism wasn’t taken seriously till after 9/11… and how fully some eyes…
    Comment by Jonser — September 5, 2006 @ 3:10 pm

    Okay….I’ll bite. What in the hayle are you talkling about? How fully some eyes…? You’re being sarcastic, right?
    Terrorism wasn’t taken seriously till after 9/11?
    true, during Bushies watch, it wasn’t taken seriously until after 3000+ citizens died
    Heck, he even had a bulletin on his desk stating “OBL determined to strike US”, which of course was not taken seriously


  97. Trinary Suka Says:

    Our government, in all its wise wisdom, thought that America was becoming too ‘liberal’ after the Vietnam debacle that solved little and killed 60,000 soldiers. They saw the public, as too un-warlike.

    Reagan and other presidents basically gave the pundits the key to Hate TV. Such is why the explosion of such pedantic hacks and flaming hypocrites such as Coulter. In effect the government condones this spiteful war mongering behavior.

    This is why you can be a pundit and want to blow up people and not have to worry about the repercussions. As you know many a person has ended up in jail for so much as emailing a threat to a federal judge, or the President. And this is why Coulter gets away with her government sponsored bush approved hate speech.

    SO now you know…


  98. Trinary Suka Says:

    Why, now, has Disney become so willing to air the partisan works of a right wing extremist?
    There is a shameless duplicity at work here.

    Comment by OxyCon

    I reiterate;
    http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB177/
    Washington, D.C., January 26, 2006 - A secret Pentagon “roadmap” on war propaganda, personally approved by Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld in October 2003, calls for “boundaries” between information operations abroad and the news media at home, but provides for no such limits and claims that as long as the American public is not “targeted,” any leakage of PSYOP to the American public does not matter.

    Obtained under the Freedom of Information Act by the National Security Archive at George Washington University and posted on the Web today, the 74-page “Information Operations Roadmap” admits that “information intended for foreign audiences, including public diplomacy and PSYOP, increasingly is consumed by our domestic audience and vice-versa,” but argues that “the distinction between foreign and domestic audiences becomes more a question of USG [U.S. government] intent rather than information dissemination practices.”
    ==
    WTFU and turn off the TV!!


  99. Questions for ABC « Full-Figured Body Politic Says:

    […] ABC is also pushing this mockumentary hard to high school students. […]


  100. GODWARRIOR Says:

    This issue could also be relayed to ABC’s competitors, cable and network. I’m sure they would love to sink thier teeth in a little controversy over a rival since there is nothing else going on right now.

    And the sponsors would never pull as long as ABC keeps colding them saying everythying will be okay…This will blow over on Sept 12.

    ABC would never give this any attention as long as they can contain the fire by shutting the blog down, etc.


  101. suggie Says:

    ABC is the new right wing propaganda machine in the schools??? You’ve got to be kidding me.


  102. suggie Says:

    Isn’t this “rewriting history” 101??


  103. Trinary Suka Says:

    .” The U.S. government is legally prohibited from conflating these operations by targeting PSYOP activities–intended for foreign audiences–at the American public. 22 U.S.C. § 1461 (Smith-Mundt Act), which created the United States Information Agency (USIA) in 1948, directs that information about the United States and its policies intended for foreign audiences “shall not be disseminated within the United States, its territories, or possessions.”
    ==

    ABC is in violation of the Smith-Mundt act.


  104. suggie Says:

    Boycotting ABC is the best medicine.


  105. PLC (PatrioticLiberalChristian) Says:

    I just remembered that the Pentagon put out a bid request recently to create favorable press about the War in Iraq. Do they have an IOU to pay for this film?


  106. Trinary Suka Says:

    This issue could also be relayed to ABC’s competitors.

    Hardlly, it’s aimed at the American public to reinforce the lies..


  107. Zooey Says:

    Sorry all, no time to read through these comments right now, so if this already been said, please forgive me:

    Since when has ABC been the propaganda wing of the Bush Administration?

    What the hell are they thinking? Really, am I missing something?


  108. Trinary Suka Says:

    [CIA Director] Casey was one of the founders of Cap Cities. Cap Cities bought ABC for $3.5 billion, which was called a “bargain rate” by the trade media. …


  109. RUCerious Says:

    #99 - here’s the email I just sent to all three of the links (Thanks!)
    If your firm does not publish the source of funding of the non-sponsored airing and distribution of this film, I will V-chip ABC right out of my existence.


  110. Zooey Says:

    RUCerious,

    I’m glad you mentioned #99, I’ll be sending pissed-off-o-grams after work. Thanks.


  111. BushKill Says:

    ABC will forget to mention the press conference on 9/11 at the school GW was at. The children as bushes background and that ONE question ask by one of the students “what did you think when you saw the plane hit the building”….Bushes Response: Uh when I walked into the classroom they had a tv on and then I saw that first plane hit…and I just thought it was Pilot-Error” WTF????? Nobody saw that first plane hit until the Naudet brothers gave there tape to the press hours later. LIES LIES LIES

    INVESTIGATE 9/11


  112. OxyCon Says:

    Eisner has previously denied that there was anything sinister about Disney’s (ABC) decision to block distribution (of Fahrenheit 911). “We’re such a nonpartisan company,” he said. “[People] do not look for us to take sides.”


  113. trueblue Says:

    don’t forget to sign up on the “Tell ABC” site that Judd provided on his morning post!


  114. Jonser Says:

    107
    i wonn’t ever say bush got it all together before 9/11… nor excuse our government’s ability to play politics with our lives…

    but to organize your impeded administration and post election angst from some sore loser, along with Clinton policies and leftover bureaucrats can be tough in 8 months for Bush. Nevermind Clark wasn’t taken seriously by Clinton either , and nevermind Clinton wouldn’t even meet up with his own FBI director…
    But hey if we are going to play conspiracy theory, what was in Sandy Berger’s pants anyway while the 9/11 commision was convening?
    Look everyone has plenty of blame to go around… but to deny Bin Laden was in Clinton’s cross hairs twice and did nothing because he was worried about how he would look says alot… and not to mention the many attacks that took place as a precusor…

    we can go over the memo a million times… but the same mentality was in place at the time… without specific dates and information… they weren’t going to “shut things down”
    Ironically, post 9/11 the ideas is dates and times be damned… premptive.. and left hates it.


  115. katy Says:

    probably an easy guess that showing this in h.s. will drum up support for the war, prompting a mass enlistment in the military…

    i am sick to my stomach…
    the criminals are in a huge hurry to “finish the job” of destroying our country…


  116. Trinary Suka Says:

    Wake up fellow Christians!!
    Close your ears and open your eyes.
    Thy words have been corrupted.

    “Lucifer is a Latin name. So how did it find its way into a Hebrew manuscript, written before there was a Roman language? To find the answer, I consulted a scholar at the library of the Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati. What Hebrew name, I asked, was Satan given in this chapter of Isaiah, which describes the angel who fell to become the ruler of hell?”

    “The answer was a surprise. In the original Hebrew text, the fourteenth chapter of Isaiah is not about a fallen angel, but about a fallen Babylonian king, who during his lifetime had persecuted the children of Israel. It contains no mention of Satan, either by name or reference. The Hebrew scholar could only speculate that some early Christian scribes, writing in the Latin tongue used by the Church, had decided for themselves that they wanted the story to be about a fallen angel, a creature not even mentioned in the original Hebrew text, and to whom they gave the name “Lucifer.”
    ==
    prompting a mass enlistment in the military…

    I doubt that it will create an exodus of republican to the recruitment office. Many of the Republiclans here in Texas are decidedly against this misguided bush course.
    The bush base has had 6 years to sign up for this war and they didn’t.

    I say we show this ‘docudrama’ in all the private ‘elitist’ schools, maybe the future chicken hawks will enlist, I doubt it.


  117. Trinary Suka Says:

    Look everyone has plenty of blame to go around… but to deny Bin Laden was in Clinton’s cross hairs twice and did nothing because he was worried about how he would look says alot…
    ==
    And what does this ’say’ Jonser?.
    “I don’t know or really care where Osama is” -GWB


  118. Jonser Says:

    126…

    katy…
    are you saying that children are indoctorined in highschools with all sorts of material from their teachers (gasp)… and because they have no ability to think for themselves and (gasp) that certain material should be up to the parents to decide (gasp)… and not the educators to decide?

    well lets get those flavored codoms off those cucumbers, no more public school sanctioned war and immigration protests too.


  119. Trinary Suka Says:

    well lets get those flavored codoms off those cucumbers, no more public school sanctioned war and immigration protests too.

    Comment by Jonser

    Jonser sounds alot like that pasty phallic worshipper Goldstein…

    What does a condom have to do with education?


  120. Trinary Suka Says:

    And how would you know about flavored condoms Jonser?


  121. Trinary Suka Says:

    they weren’t going to “shut things down”
    Ironically, post 9/11 the ideas is dates and times be damned… premptive
    ==
    Well of course they weren’t going to shut things down, you cant have a Reichstag fire that way..


  122. Jonser Says:

    128..

    i’m still trying to figure out why you guys care… you guys didn’t care when we got zarharii or saddam hussein in iraq, so why do you care about Bin Laden… you guys want Bush. And when Bin Laden is found… (as hard as it was for Clinton couldn’t find Eric Rudolph in the Carolina woods) … there won’t be any credit from you all.. for getting the many just alot of “yeah, but…” Because Islamic fascism is beyond Bin Laden… it is deeper than Bin Ladin… but that’s why you can only point to a quote by Buch without context overall plan… nevermind Bin Laden is resorted to propaganda tapes. But i do admire how the “american” al quaeda guy uses some of the same talking points as you all do… scary stuff… but then again the enemy of my enemy is my friend as the Pakistani proverb goes.


  123. Trinary Suka Says:

    Bush told reporter Jews are ‘all going to hell’
    al advisor Karl Rove reports allegations of anti-semitism by President George W. Bush, RAW STORY has learned.
    ==

    Why isn’t the media all over Bush for his anti-semitic remark like they were on Mel Gibson??

    This is very Odd…


  124. Joneser Says:

    132 Sucka
    yes…

    a very profound response… with a personal insult… but hey i am at “think progressive” the bastion of free speech and open dialgue about the issues of the day.


  125. Trinary Suka Says:

    ’m still trying to figure out why you guys care… you guys didn’t care when we got zarharii or saddam hussein in iraq, so why do you care about Bin Laden
    ==

    Your putting you limbaugh imagination on others..

    I want all of those SAUDIS brought to Justice. Saddam isn’t beiong tried in this Country, but I am sure he will get his just due.

    Bush doesn’t care about Osama..I want that SOB caught.
    And quit trying to paint ‘groups’ I am not a democrat.
    You sound like a wannabee pundit. A very weak one..


  126. Trinary Suka Says:

    a very profound response… with a personal insult… but hey i am at “think progressive” the bastion of free speech and open dialgue about the issues of the day.

    Comment by Joneser

    When you quit talking like a media pundit then maybe you will get some respect, as it is you are only repeating the GOP claptrap.


  127. Trinary Suka Says:

    You saying “ALL you guys don’t care”

    Is a hugely ignorant and indefensible statement.


  128. Trinary Suka Says:

    YOu Jonser, are assuming facts that are not in evidence.


  129. Trinary Suka Says:

    See Jonser I didn’t accuse you of sucking on cucumbers with flavored condoms, I asked how you knew of them..

    JHAHAHA


  130. Joneser Says:

    yes… and only on source running one conspiracy… good stuff… and only quoting part of the sentence?


  131. wisedup Says:

    Hitler youth? it’s here, poison young minds again.


  132. Randy Riddle Says:

    Just curious, but has anyone found out anything at all about the production company behind this miniseries, UHP Productions, Ltd? The miniseries itself is the only credit listed at the IMDB and I’m unable to turn up a website for it; the only mentions of it seem to be in connection with people writing about the miniseries or in reports from Canadian government sites as it was filing in Toronto as “Untitled History Project” last year.

    This whole thing seems like it was dreamed up by Rove and the National Republican Committee with the production company simply a front.


  133. Joneser Says:

    140 suka

    i never said you did but you can read all about it outside of Raw Story.

    http://wnd.com/ news/ article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=39588


  134. Joneser Says:

    when in doubt…

    blam Rove… (yawn)


  135. Spudge_Boy Says:

    terrorism wasn’t taken seriously till after 9/11…

    Bullsh!t. Maybe the freaking retarded republicans all of a sudden took terrorism seriously, but I don’t know anybody that didn’t take terrorism seriously before 9/11.

    The only thing that changed after 9/11 was Bush 9/11 PR campaign.


  136. Joneser Says:

    146

    RIGHT ON!


  137. Ronin Tetsuro Says:

    Took the trolls a while to get their talking points today. Congress coming back off their booze cruise and all. Must have tied up the fax machines all over the Hill.

    Get the word out about this to everyone you know. This ‘But Clinton…’ bull honkey has to go. Sure, Clinton may or may not have done all he could, but 9/11 happened in Bush’s first term. To present the facts as otherwise is not only socially damaging, but presents the wrong image to the world about how we view accountability and responsibility.

    Don’t let the trolls sidetrack you:

    This is NOT about what we liberals/progressives feel is the ‘correct’ truth. This is about an obviously slanted viewpoint of the events of a pivotal point in history being shown FREE to the public, when other films of the same nature were not given the same courtesy. This is not about Michael Moore’s film, this IS about students who are within a few months of being voting age getting shoveled deliberate propaganda under the guise of education.

    THis is NOT a partisan issue. This is against ideals and rules that EVERY American should stand for. Stop towing your goddamn party line and help us bring the people responsible for this brazen act to justice. If you love America as much as you claim you do, then get in here and help the people fight against the clear and present dangers to our livelyhood HERE AT HOME.

    Some of you people make me sick. The rest of you, keep fighting the good fight. I’m writing letters adn sending emails as we speak.


  138. Joneser Says:

    toast that….


  139. Cheeks Says:

    #146

    Spud boy

    Here is just a sample of some of the terrorists acts that happened pre 9/11 with no response from Bubba during his Administration. PR campaign my Ass. The difference is Bush confronts evil and Clinton passes.

    *February 1993: Muslim extremists (al-Gama’a al-Islamiyya, possibly with involvement of friendly rival al-Qaida) set off a bomb in the basement of the World Trade Center, killing six and wounding more than 1,000.

    *Spring 1993: Muslim extremists (al-Gama’a al-Islamiyya, the Sudanese Islamic Front and at least one member of Hamas) plot to blow up the Lincoln and Holland tunnels, the U.N. complex, and the FBI’s lower Manhattan headquarters.

    *November 1995: Muslim extremists (possibly Iranian “Party of God”) explode a car bomb at U.S. military headquarters in Saudi Arabia, killing five U.S. military servicemen.

    *June 1996: Muslim extremists (13 Saudis and a Lebanese member of Hezbollah, probably with involvement of al-Qaida) explode a truck bomb outside the Khobar Towers military complex, killing 19 American servicemen and injuring hundreds.

    *August 1998: Muslim extremists (al-Qaida) explode truck bombs at U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, killing 224 and injuring thousands.

    *October 2000: Muslim extremists (al-Qaida) blow up the U.S. Navy destroyer USS Cole, killing 17 U.S. sailors.


  140. Mark Says:

    You know Bush has had 6 years of chasing BinLaden with everything he has, but has not caught him, anyone notice that? Also When Bush got the PDB of August 6th he said it was not specific enough, so what did he do? Nothing of course. Now that’s decisive.

    Umm Jonesr here’s something to consider…Terrorism is only taken seriously as a politcal tool now. Actually combating the causes of terrorism is not occuring on any level with this administration. All they are interested in is the kill count. Everyone killed is a terrorist and every group of more than two killed has a senior Al Queda official in it. It’s a wonder Al Queda is still operating with how many senior officials we have killed and how many #2’s we have captured. But at least you admit, in direct contradiction to the adminsitrations claims, that they did not take terrorism seriously until 3,000 people died under their watch. Kind of reinforces the “Bush has a lot to explain crowd”


  141. Ronin Tetsuro Says:

    #150

    I don’t claim to be the end all know all about these matters, but only one of your incidents happened on American soil. The rest would have required that we truck all over lands ’sensitive’ to Western forces on a wild goose chase. And that would have required Billions of dollars and spuring on anti-American idealouges, for… what clear, tangible benefit?
    Most Administrations would try dismiss such proposed actions as sheer and wreckless lunacy.

    MOST would.


  142. Mark Says:

    #150 you forgot to mention that most of those perpetrators had been caught & convicted prior to CLinton leaving office. Not the Cole though because that investigation was still underway. I guess that might be why the right hates Clinton because ubder his administration they investigated and went after the actual perpetrators, while under the Bush adminsitration it seems as though the policy is to level any country suspected of possibly helping. That plays well with the base when the country leveled is non-white, non-christian.

    You also forgot the non-response to Beiruit and the non-capture/prosecution of those guys.

    But since you blame CLinton for the 1993 attack, 30 days after he took office, you must no certainly agree that bush is responsible for an attack that occured 8 months after he took office. Now go tell your friends. (honestly though you are not alone in thinking CLinton is responsible for both. Not a single right winger I have ever met has seen the falacy of that argument.)


  143. unbelievable Says:

    To spread the word about “Path to 9/11,” ABC is sending 100,000 high school educators a letter from 9/11 Commission co-chair Tom Keane informing them of the various platforms on which the mini is available. ABC and Scholastic have pacted to produce an online study guide.

    I’ll make sure my school District knows this is factually incorrect…

    I’ve already suggested to my students that they watch the NOVA presentation instead.


  144. Cheeks Says:

    What planet are you living on? Then again, you only hear what the drive-by-media feeds you. Read below a few of the things that are/have taken place. Then again it’s all talk, and no action, right?

    The United States Is Advancing Democracy Around The World. Millions turned out to vote in Iraq and Afghanistan after decades of tyranny, and Afghanistan inaugurated its new freely and fairly elected legislature. Last year, the world has witnessed democratic revolutions in Georgia, Lebanon, Ukraine, and Kyrgyzstan. When you have governments in place then eventually they can monitor their own people and arrest those suspected of being terrorists. The United States is pursuing a comprehensive strategy for victory in Iraq. To strengthen security, the Coalition and Iraqi security forces are clearing out areas controlled by the enemy, working with Iraqi forces to hold that territory, and following up with targeted reconstruction to help Iraqis rebuild their lives. America is helping Iraqis build inclusive democratic institutions that protect all Iraqis, engage those who can be persuaded to join the new Iraq and marginalize those who never will. What is the Democrat’s plan? They don’t have one, period. Moreover, the Coalition is working with Iraqis to help them build capable and effective Iraqi security forces so that Iraqis can secure their own country. Sounds like a plan to me. Once again, Iraq has made tremendous political progress. In just over two-and-a-half years, Iraqis have gone from living under a brutal tyrant to liberation, free elections, and a democratic constitution. Over 10 million Iraqis voted to elect the only constitutional democratic government in the Arab world. America Is fighting terrorism and safeguarding the homeland. The United States is disrupting conspiracies to attack Americans, destroying the terrorists’ ability to wage war, and stopping proliferation of weapons of mass destruction (WMD). To defend the homeland, the Administration is working to reform the intelligence services and the FBI, training more first responders, and disrupting terrorist cells in our midst with tools like the Patriot Act. You know the one the Democrat’s were so happy that they killed. The United States is hunting down the terrorists in the shadows before they can attack this country again. The President nominated the first Director of National Intelligence (DNI). President Bush signed into law the landmark Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act, which overhauls the intelligence community, mandating a range of reforms and centralizing in one office key authorities. President Bush is combating the spread of WMD. The Administration has established the Global Threat Reduction Initiative, led efforts at the United Nations to adopts UNSCR 1540, freeze assets of WMD proliferators, established the Domestic Nuclear Detection Office, worked with overseas partners to combat proliferation, and developed a comprehensive plan with Russia to secure all nuclear material in Russia two years ahead of schedule. So, it appears that things are getting done. But, what the hey! Go back to your talking points and BS. It doesn’t fly here! I am ROTFL!


  145. Joneser Says:

    maybe…
    150…
    thanks for laying that out… and since we are on conspiracy theory site… add this extra dimension shall we?

    witnesses and sketches pointing a person who appeared muslim and was never found? Or was he…. hmm….


  146. Joneser Says:

    yes Clinton did… catch them and prosecute them… in their own countries where they were eventually released… and after they already accomplished their mission.


  147. Cheeks Says:

    You people are so full of hate for Bush it’s amazing. You hate Bush more than the terrorists. You cheer the tyrants of the world, and spill your hate for the liberators. It’s fricking amazing! You bad mouth everything and don’t offer an alternatives. And you wonder why most American don’t trust Democrat’s with security. You only need to read some of the BS on this site to realize how out of touch with reality you people are.


  148. Ronin Tetsuro Says:

    159

    Most americans are people who are fed up with the republican’s plans and ideas on security.

    You have not quantified your wild claims with fact, and your earlier attempts at fact were blown out of the water after minimal checking.

    It’s always fun to see a neocon flail about after being bludgeoned over the head.

    And you’re goddamn right I hate Bush and this Administration more than i hate the ‘terrists’. What have the terrorists ever done to me? I KNOW what this Administration has done to me, so you tell me what the terrorists have done to me that I should hate them so.

    Come on, apologist. Bring me your lies.


  149. Marie Says:

    This is a sick and distorted propaganda effort intended to revise history according to their version fo truth.
    George Orwell could have taken notes from these guys!!


  150. Marie Says:

    Pickles are Us
    Thank you for the Email links — I have written to all three with my opinion of them, Disney and ABC.


  151. Mark Says:

    #161, it’s not that they hate liberals it’s that they hate anyone who is not them, which includes a huge number of people who are not liberals. They also seem to hate the United States as evidenced by their total disdain for the constitution, which is the United States. Their hatred for the US is also in evidence when they all freely admit that they want to further conservative causes and ideals (selfishness seems to be the biggie) rather than furthuring the cause of the US and working for the betterment of the US. Every last one of their leaders is a traitor to the US and the constitution they swore to uphold.


  152. Spudge_Boy Says:

    you guys didn’t care when we got zarharii

    Who the hell is Zarharii. Do you mean Zarqawi? If you care so much, how come you don’t know what the hell his name is? Hypocrit.


  153. Marie Says:

    I have taken advice here (#42) and written to Scholastic.


  154. Steve Says:

    Blind hate is an interesting thing indeed.
    All 3 major networks Ooze liberal views and ideas and rarely miss an opportunity to bash Bush. But now you have one of the liberal bastions dare to tell the truth and you turn on them as fast as you did poor ole Joe Lieberman.
    You are not liberals who really believe in the freedom of speech. You never fail to rant, rave and try to suppress any view that does not fit into your nice neat socialist world. You need to wake up from your drug induced commas and realize that your actions support the enemy and given the chance they would cut your throat just as fast as anyone who does not believe the way they do. I guess that is why you like them so much….. you are so alike.


  155. Spudge_Boy Says:

    All 3 major networks Ooze liberal views and ideas and rarely miss an opportunity to bash Bush.

    Funny how you retarded right wingers think that the networks are liberal, when they clearly are not. You would think that the people that are liberal would know liberalism when they hear it. But, you conservative are so freaking smart, you know everything. You probably know what I’m thinking right now.

    If you guessed “Steve is a dumbass” you were right!


  156. katy Says:

    …now you have one of the liberal bastions dare to tell the truth…
    Comment by Steve — September 5, 2006 @ 8:24 pm

    “tell the truth”??? TELL THE TRUTH????!!!

    EVERY DAMN ONE OF THE THREADS DEVOTED TO THIS SUBJECT HAS STATED EXAMPLES OF LIES AND DISTORTIONS OF THIS (new word) CROCK-U-DRAMA…

    GO AWAY.


  157. Go Back To Sleep America Says:

    Here let me translate Steve’s post

    “All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country.” - Hermann Goering, Nazi Reichmarshall

    Works good, doesn’t it Steve? Javol!


  158. Steve Says:

    “Funny how you retarded right wingers think that the networks are liberal, when they clearly are not.”

    Nice to see when confronted with the truth all that can come from “Your highly educated and brilliant mind” (I know you thought I was complimenting you, but that was called sarcasm”) is a bunch of name calling nonsense. Go do some more drugs and get back to me when you’ve reached that higher plane.


  159. Marie Says: