The Dusty Dog

Tell ABC to Tell the Truth About 9/11

This is straight from the Think Progress website:

On September 10 and 11, ABC Television is planning to run an inaccurate film depicting the events leading up to the 9/11 attacks. The film was written by an avowed conservative and it largely places the blame for failing to prevent the attacks on the Clinton administration while whitewashing the failures of the Bush administration.

Our review of the film shows it to be full of such inaccuracies. Its distorted version of history is inconsistent with the 9/11 Commission Report, upon which it claims to be based. The events leading up to September 11, 2001 are too important and too tragic to play politics with the facts.

I urge everyone to go to Think Progress' website and use their form to send your message to ABC.

I find it so appauling that the repukes continue to resort to their tactic of exploiting the tragedy of 9/11 for their own self-serving political interests. The dubya cockroaches are really playing this up full tilt with dubya himself campaigning on the benefits of his terror war. And, if you haven't yet read it, you must go to AMERICAblog and read their article about this slanderous piece of crap being foisted upon the American people:

ABC is trying to use of the airwaves -- airwaves owned by you and me, and loaned to broadcasters as a public trust -- to slander Democrats and sell a slanderous, irresponsible fraud to the American people, and they're shamefully doing it just weeks away from Election Day.

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The ABC television network -- a cog in the Walt Disney empire -- unleashed a promotional blitz in the last week for a new "docudrama" called "The Path to 9/11". ABC has thrown its corporate might behind the two-night production, and bills it as a public service: a TV event, to quote the ABC tagline, "based on the 9/11 Commission Report".

That's false. "The Path to 9/11" is actually a bald-faced attempt to slander Democrats and revise history right before Americans vote in a major election.

The miniseries, which was put together by right-wing conservative writers, relies on the old GOP playbook of using terrorism to scare Americans. "The Path to 9/11" mocks the truth and dishonors the memory of 9/11 victims to serve a cheap, callous political agenda. It irresponsibly misrepresents the facts and completely distorts the truth.

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The war in Iraq isn't a war against terror. It's a shameful distraction, costing thousands upon thousands of American and Iraqi lives. In the latest CNN poll, most people aren't even equating the war on terror with the war in Iraq anymore.

Asked whether the Iraq war is part of the U.S.-led war on terror, 53 percent said they believe it is a separate action, while 45 percent said they believe it is connected, as the Bush administration has repeatedly insisted.

Personally, I don't think I'll be able to watch this pile of crap. It's kind of like feeling like I should watch dubya when he's making his various speeches, i.e. The State of the Disunion, but I just cannot stomach it. I just can't. I get too nauseous.

posted by Dusty Dog at 9/07/2006