ABC provides right-wing bloggers with advanced copies of Path to 9/11

[sabra]

http://thinkprogress.org/2006/09/05/abc-provides-right-wing-bloggers-with-advanced-copies/

ABC provides right-wing bloggers with advanced copies of Path to 9/11. Now, they appear to be excluding progressive bloggers from conference call promoting the film. Firedoglake has details.

[EFerrari]

1. The propaganda gets more naked every day. Wow. n/t

[glitch]

14. This is a good thing. The more blatant the less effective, IMO.

I actually want ABC to run this garbage, I want people to see them for what they are. I also support CBS replacing Rather with Couric for the same reason.

They are exposing themselves, I say we let them. The sooner they are exposed the sooner we get angry enough to make changes to get back OUR airwaves.

[EFerrari]

16. Normally I'd agree with you, glitch. The trouble is, in this venue

people sit down and suspend their disbelief unlike when they listen to pollitician's speeches.

Hope you're right. :(

/ack

[glitch]

22. Me too. I could be wrong. But how likely are the people who supported

Clinton during his impeachment (wasn't it 70%) and who don't support Bush now (which is at least 60%) to buy this new version of the official conspiracy theory?
It may get ABC additional viewers (more likely fewer or a wash, otherwise they wouldn't be running it without commercials and offering it as a free download on itunes, pause for :rofl:) but will it get any new believers? I kind of doubt it. People are already pissed and pissed people are more alert than complacent people.

I think it will backfire. I guess we'll find out soon enough!

[Cha]

42. THose are my thoughts, too..we

seem to be in the minority but as I wrote earlier today.."time will tell if my thoughts are hogwash or not."

It's not like it's 2003 and the corporate news is "marching us to war". We've had 3 years of bushshite and words are being written about why "the conspiracy theories aren't going away".

The corporatewhores are desperate as they should be..The Revolution will not be televised!

[glitch]

44. Ah zidzi, not the first time we've agreed...

:toast: cheers and here's hoping we're right!

[Cha]

50. glitch!

:toast: To our wild and crazy thoughts!

[Name removed]

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[Nickster]

2. But remember, it's fair and balanced just like Faux News!

[Supersedeas]

3. must be an election around the corner or something

[bullimiami]

5. DISNEY / ABC / CAP (donated 640 thousand to GW's 2000 campaign)

fair AND balanced.

[bullimiami]

6. DISNEY / ABC / CAP (donated 640 thousand to GW's 2000 campaign)

fair AND balanced.

[Julius Civitatus]

38. BOYCOTT ABC/ DISNEY IF THEY DON'T PULL THIS DOCUMENTARY

They shouldn't be allowed to get away with lies and distortions like these.
Over and over again, ABC/Disney has shilled for the Bush administration with gusto (Reagan biopic, censoring Fahrenheit 9/11) and now this.

Time to boycott the Mickey Mouse network

[gratuitous]

4. Well sure

All you "critics" and "nay-sayers" are just going to have to boost ABC's ratings and watch this wretched piece of excrement when it's broadcast, otherwise how can you credibly criticize something you haven't seen? How can you state with absolute assurance that the Spice Girls movie was horrible if you never saw it? Same logic applies to ABC's valentine to the Bush administration.

[rfranklin]

9. Hey the Republics didn't have to watch that Reagan movie....

They just kept screaming louder and louder.

[glitch]

10. And how do you know the war on Iraq is going badly unless you go to Iraq?

Same logic. A lot of this meme is getting posted around here lately, often by newbies. And now they won't have commercial breaks and are offering it for free download on itunes.
:rofl:
Somebody's trying awful hard to salvage what looks like a PR disaster. (I use the term PR in it's euphemistic sense.)

[Communism_not_USA]

19. Isn't this thing a 2 part airing?

I really haven't followed it but I heard part one is on the 10th and part 2 is on the 11th.

I would not have watched it if people were not upset. Now I wonder about what will be said.

Doesn't protesting it create more "media buzz" and free advertising?

Is the revisionist part really "newly discovered information?"

Some, if they hear on talk radio that the LIBERALS hate it won't they watch more than would otherwise?

I think it is too late to get it pulled but we could make the ratings go up by talking so much about it.

[newyawker99]

49. Hi Communism_not_USA!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[Jackpine Radical]

41. PR=Pimping Republicans?

That the euphemism you were referring to?

[glitch]

43. That's good, but it was public relations as a euphemism for propaganda nt

[Raster]

37. No, there are competent parties I trust that will watch that swill without

me having to. I already know enough about the piece of propaganda to declare it shall not cross my cathode ray tube. The Spice Girls... surely you jest?

[nadinbrzezinski]

7. Goebels must be smiling in his grave

truly.... and ABC is now the NEW Fox news....

Department of truth, here we go

[wyldwolf]

8. Listen, people... I know from experience

The night of, and the morning after, people will be hitting the internet looking for information on the events as depicted in this movie.

Our biggest opportunity will be to have nearly identical blog posts waiting, then submit them to be found internet wide the morning after the movie. Google and Technorati will pick up on these posts quickly. We can make these entries dominate the first several pages of the search engines.

[AX10]

12. Help us on how to do this then.

:hi:

[wyldwolf]

17. get every Democratic friendly blog on board as possible...

... you e-mail the ones you know, they'll e-mail the ones they know, etc. Make SURE these blogs are on the Technorati network and have also been submitted to Google's blog search.

For one day, change the title of your blog to the title of the movie.

Agree on a clear, detailed, and sourced body of information -- I've seen several examples on DU lately disputing what is in the movie. Media Matters has one. One was posted today on DU by Richard Clarke.

Everyone post it. Right after the movie is over or the next morning at the latest.

Voila!

[wyldwolf]

21. it appears Technorati indexes DU journals... now it gets interesting

If we can get the site admins to create a special limited time forum for everyone to post the body of information in, then we can all add the info to our journals.

[AX10]

23. How do I find out if these blogs are on the Technorati network ?

[wyldwolf]

24. go to technorati.com

search for the blog's URL in the "searc" box. Select "in blog directory" from the pulldown menu.

[EFerrari]

13. Good idea. n/t

[WePurrsevere]

15. Agreed.. very good idea. n/t

[wyldwolf]

20. self delete

[proud patriot]

26. Excellent Idea

We should be hitting google links getting them to the
top ready to counter act the movie .

[wyldwolf]

27. getting fleshed out here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=106x28830

[proud patriot]

34. thanks

:-)

[WilliamPitt]

28. *koff*

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/083006J.shtml

[wyldwolf]

30. yes

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=106&topic_id=28830&mesg_id=28830

[peacetalksforall]

39. Will, how fast could you prepare a true-false list after viewing the

drama? Since you know the Clinton facts best you would be the ideal person to put it in an up-down, true-false context for people to send, relay, link to. copy off? I prefer left-right, side-by-side, fiction-fact presentations, but that might be difficult for different document programs.

[WilliamPitt]

48. That would require me to watch this sack of crap

and Miss the Monday Night Football double-header.

Nope. Frankly, I'd rather watch dog poop harden on a sidewalk than this miniseries. I put my work in writing that essay. My reward is football. :)

[Cha]

51. Thank you, Will Pitt!

:toast:

[mitchum]

36. Fantastic idea, wyldwolf

[Rex]

11. The M$M works for the Right Wing in this country.

That is why America could fall, the inability to use communication for critical thinking. Instead, we get this RW propaganda piece about 9/11. A day that the M$M won't touch if it deals with reality!

Fuck alphabet soup and their piss poor TV channel. Just more reasons why I will NEVER watch ABC.

[Initech]

18. Ha! I was right - this movie is definately a swift-boating tool!

[Bob K]

25. The Dub Club...

.........has warned us of the rising tide of Fascists. This "doctored-umentary" is in keeping with that. After all, they've conveniently left out that the looming Fascists baddies are staging their attacks out of our own capitol!

:banghead:

[kenfrequed]

29. The Reply

This little bit of pablum must be tied to the same people that have been lying. Call it conservative distortion and point out that it is the kind of honesty we have come to expect from supporters of this administration.

This is the real swiftboating exercise this year. Expect it to come up on O'Reilly and whatever other pundints decide to speak to it. Stossel will probably find some excuse to attack fact checkers.

Lets turn this around and rub their faces in it. Since it's a lie we shouldn't be afraid to call it a lie and be done with it. The story has to be that it is a lie. We must express our disgust with this piece of crap. Intellectually debating it is like going to debate a pig in his sty, you might win the debate but no one cares becuase you end up stinking for the effort.

[aquart]

31. Isn't this an "in kind contribution" to the Republican Party?

[librechik]

40. exactly my question--

free of advertising in an election year? Good lord, could they be any more blatant?

[The Backlash Cometh]

32. Who is the right-wing wanker on ABC who is approving this propaganda?

[3121guitarist]

33. Not surprised

Remember the propaganda model, remember how they operate. Never be at all surprised by a thing they say or what they do.

[intheflow]

35. Happy to be the 5th recommendation.

I'd ask :wtf: is wrong with these people, but I already know the answer. They have no shame.

[stepnw1f]

45. BUSTED! CORPORATE ABC Shilling for Fascists in Power! BUSTED! (nt)

[City Lights]

46. It's time to block ABC using my remote just like I do with FUX.

Fuc them both.

[rman]

52. liberal media bias?

i guess so..

[pola]

53. Read this! call/write ABC, Demand they cancel the show

ABC: Tell the Truth About 9/11

Contributed by Working Assets
On September 10th and 11th, ABC -- which is owned by Disney -- is planning to air a "docu-drama" called "Path to 9/11," which is being billed as "an objective telling of the events of 9/11." In fact, the film was written by an unabashed conservative who twists the facts to blame President Clinton.

In fact, the list of counterterrorism initiatives undertaken by the Clinton administration is lengthy and comprehensive. Regrettably, the record shows that most of these efforts were watered down or abandoned by the Bush administration when they came into office. History will also record that President Bush was the one who received -- and while on vacation, chose to ignore -- a Presidential Daily Briefing on August 6, 2001 entitled "Bin Laden Determined to Strike in US."

ABC's new six-hour film was apparently screened in advance only to conservative bloggers and journalists -- and received extensive praise from none other than Rush Limbaugh. ABC is advertising the film as being "based on the 9/11 Commission report" -- yet also admits that it's a "docu-drama," in which writers and producers are free to invent and distort facts. Former counterterrorism czar Richard Clarke has already completely refuted one of the key scenes of the movie.

It's simply stunning to think that as this fall's election approaches, a major television network would devote six hours of prime-time programming to air such a slanted and inaccurate program. There is simply no way that a conservative writer, with an anti-Clinton axe to grind, should be allowed to use public airwaves to broadcast a gross distortion of the truth -- especially on the anniversary of the worst day in our history.

Call to action:
Send a message to ABC asking them to cancel the show. www.abc.com

Deadline:
9/10/2006

[pola]

54. > Tell ABC to cancel the show. Here's the Link :

> Tell ABC to Cancel Their Inaccurate and Slanted Sept. 11th Program
>
http://act.actforchange.com/cgi-bin7/DM/y/epid0IcSaC0Ubj0BMZC0Ea

[truebrit71]

55. Done. K&R. Folks this is DEAD easy to do..and ABC needs to hear...

...from us....

[Raffi Ella]

56. .

UNbelievable the outright partisan poltics going on here.