Will Pitt is right. We need to pound ABC for their 9/11 movie..

[MessiahRp]

They got "The Reagans" taken off the air and while there were certainly fallacies and exaggerations in that, none of them do quite the ridiculous amount of propaganda work and damage that this fantasy spin of 9/11 does right before the Mid-term elections.

Can someone post the email addresses/phone numbers for ABC?

We can push just as hard as they can. This is just one step towards stopping the spin machine the Republicans are revving up before November.

It is our duty to stop this thing dead in it's tracks. Let's organize and get this thing off the air.

The last thing we need out there is a complete lie to brainwash the undecided voters.

Will Pitt's article: http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/083006J.shtml

Edit to add ABC's Contact Page Link: http://abc.go.com/site/contactus.html

Rp

[AX10]

1. K AND R!

If needed, I am ready to boycott the network. I will watch nothing on ABC if they do not pull this Pro-GOP propaganda.

Shame on them for using 9/11 for political gain!

[liberaldemocrat7]

14. Will you also call and email Republican contributors and

demand they get the GOP to enact a TEN dollar an hour minimum wage?

I have seen conservative groups get a reagan movie off the air and now progressives want this Clinton bashing movie off the air.

What about the 6 million people who earn $5.15 an hour? Why no outrage about this and why not take it out on contributors to the Republican party like you will do to ABC and their advertisers for a stupid mini series made by a conservative?


Go here http://www.dmocrats.org and send email to the companies that give money to the GOP and send them mail demanding a ten dollar an hour minimum wage and more or you will not buy from them.

How about it?

[liberaldemocrat7]

30. My letter to ABC.

Hello

Unless you cancel the mini series "The Path to 9-11" which appears a propaganda piece for the Republiklan party just in time for the 2006 election, I will boycott the ABC Netowrk, your advertisers for at least a year.

If you don't believe me, I have not watched CNN,MSNBC for 9 months because these cable stations unfairly favor Republicans. MSNBC has fired liberals like Phil Donahue because he opposed the Iraq war.

So can the movie or I can your network.


[e-mail]

[susanna]

58. My response as well. No ABC for me.

They lost me as a viewer if they show such a one-sided story, if it is as reported.

[datadiva]

2. You can go to abc's website

Scroll to the bottom of the page and hit the Contact us button. I used it today myself. It's www.abc.com

[MessiahRp]

3. Just sent them an email...

Filled the 500 character box quickly I might add. :)

Rp

[annabanana]

37. thanks for the link

the gist of my email:

They obsessed so much over the Clinton's marital difficulties that they "never noticed" how much he did to try and curtail the activities of Al Qaida. NOW they try to pin 9/11 to him. They are the appeasers of fascists. Their behavior over the past several years has been treasonous.

[datadiva]

40. Your very welcome n/t

[Truthiness Inspector]

51. Thanks

Will send off an email.

[Ninga]

4. If we have advance knowledge of this travesty, and we doing nothing to

thwart ABC, and prevent it from being aired......then we are as much a part of the problem as they are.

[JRob]

5. ABC is also ESPN (I believe) and if all will remember Monday Night

Football (formally on ABC, now on ESPN) hired RUSH LIMPDICK as a commentator who eventually stuck both feet in his mouth and was fired.

Expect nothing less from BIG CORPORATE MEDIA! They love the GOP.

K&R

PS I will not watch the Nick Cage movie either and frankly I ashamed that he did the film. The entire subject (although truly tragic) has been tainted by the politics it enabled.

[rpannier]

29. Don't forget Al Michaels comment as well on MNF

Madden: The referee just flip-flopped.
Michaels: Well, we're in the right state for it.

The home team was the Patriots. An obvious slam on Kerry.

[Wednesdays]

59. ABC is owned by Disney...

Whose empire includes ABC, ESPN, ABC Family Channel, SOAPnet, Lifetime Entertainment Services, A&E Television Network, E! Network, Buena Vista Television, Walt Disney Internet Group, Hyperion Books, The Baby Einstein Company, Touchstone Pictures, Caravan Pictures, Hollywood Pictures, Dimension Films, Miramax Films, Walt Disney Records, Buena Vista Records, Hollywood Records, Lyric Street Records, the Disney Cruise Line, Anaheim Sports Inc. (the Mighty Ducks NHL franchise), Buena Vista Theatrical Productions and of course all the Mickey Mouse-related stuff: the themeparks, the Disney Store, the Disney Channel, Toon Disney, etc., etc.

[Time for change]

6. Here's what I wrote

I'm afraid that I lost control of myself:

You guys are Fascist scum.

Putting on a movie special blaming Clinton for 9-11, when that stupid idiot Bush had been in office for 9 months and hadn't lifted a finger to do anything to prevent it. You ought to be ashamed of yourselves, and I hope you all rot in hell.

[Pacifist Patriot]

7. Well I was hoping for a template, but....

I'm not sure I can bring myself to send something like that. I've got to give you credit for doing it though. :toast:

[JRob]

9. ...sometimes you just gotta go with the gut. Love it, here's mine

TO ABC

"The Path to 9/11" Are you kidding me!? The mere fact that ABC is wading into this murky water (regardless of the objective) is enough to turn me off, or rather for me to turn ABC off indefinitely. The subject of 9/11 has been used politically to the point that I am physically sickened by any individual or entity that seeks to take advantage of what it may or may not invoke.

Shame on you ABC!

[Time for change]

19. That's much better than mine

[JRob]

22. Be sure to hit the FCC as well

How to Contact the FCC

To Contact the Commissioners via E-mail

Chairman Kevin J. Martin: [e-mail]
Commissioner Michael J. Copps: [e-mail]
Commissioner Jonathan S. Adelstein: [e-mail]
Commissioner Deborah Taylor Tate: [e-mail]
Commissioner Robert McDowell: [e-mail]

More contact info here:
http://www.fcc.gov/contacts.html

[Time for change]

25. Thanks -- I was somewhat more controlled this time:

ABC’s plan to air a documentary blaming Clinton for the 9-11 attacks, a few weeks before an election, is disgraceful and should be condemned and banned – especially considering the fact that such a story represents the exact opposite of what really happened. You know as well as we all do that the Bush administration, to put it mildly, was grossly negligent in its handling of that catastrophe.

This represents the hallmark of a Fascist dictatorship – the use of corporate power, in bed with government, to spread its propaganda and thwart the will of the people. If you allow this to transpire you will forever be vilified by all true patriots in this country. The shame and cowardice of such an action will live with you forever.

[domlaw]

36. Nah I was calmer

Dear ABC:

Why do you hate America.

[gademocrat7]

8. Just emailed ABC.

[lindac07]

10. ABC

Just emailed and it sure felt good to do something. I'm so tired of this shit, I could scream.

[Generic Other]

11. I emailed them

Chastised them for creating yet another make-believe story that paints Bush in a positive light. They are so transparent.

[Canuckistanian]

12. Show was based on "events detailed in The 9/11 Commission"

From the ABC website:
http://abc.go.com/movies/thepathto911/about.html

ABC will present "The Path to 9/11," a dramatization of the events detailed in The 9/11 Commission Report and other sources, in an epic miniseries event that will air with limited commercial interruption.

That just about says everything we need to know, right?

[bullwinkle428]

33. The 9/11 Commission at least put SOME BLAME on * & company!!!

:banghead:

[ncrainbowgrrl]

54. Now pray tell, what will the commercials be for? Guesses?

BP- think Green?
An Army of One?
National Guard?

[chat_noir]

13. Reagan miniseries controversy grows

LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- The angry buzz over "The Reagans" has grown louder and more pointed.

"Advertisers will bail on CBS' anti-Reagan movie," commentator Pat Buchanan predicted on "The McLaughlin Group" Sunday. Two days later, a conservative media watchdog group announced a boycott call-to-arms.

...
"The Reagans," a two-part miniseries about former President Reagan and his wife, Nancy, airing November 16 and 18, is being condemned by Reagan friends and supporters as a hatchet job.

Media attention for the former president has been mostly positive in recent years, thanks largely to a wave of sympathetic books including 2002's "A Different Drummer" from former White House aide Michael Deaver and "Reagan: A Life in Letters," which appeared on The New York Times' best-seller list this fall.

The miniseries has been the hubbub du jour on a number of shows including CNN's "Crossfire," Fox News Channel's "The O'Reilly Factor" and MSNBC's "Hardball with Chris Matthews."

http://www.cnn.com/2003/SHOWBIZ/TV/10/30/apontv.reagandrama.ap/index.html

[Blue_Tires]

23. yeah, i forgot about that

turnabout will certainly be fair play

[MessiahRp]

55. At the time MoveOn organized a counter protest

We need them right about now. They have a much farther reach when it comes to getting activists involved.

If anyone knows how to get them on this, I suggest doing it ASAP.

Rp

[ms liberty]

15. My ltte - it was hard to keep it down to 500 characters!

Re: "The Path to 9/11": When Clinton was combatting terrorism, your network cried "wag the dog" and "diversion!" When Bush was ignoring information that said "Bin Laden determined to strike in US" you busied yourselves with fluff: "look, he's cutting wood!" When Bush was lying us into an unnecessary war, you promoted your flag waving graphics and imbedded reporters.
Now you're going to try to rewrite history using rightwing writers to blame Clinton for 9/11. This kind of bias is not journalism.

[Sick_of_Rethuggery]

45. Very nice! n/t

[datadiva]

16. Maybe a boycott

of their sponsors would help getting it off. How do we find out who they are. Emails to them would shake up the execs. Hit em in the pocket book where they hurt the worst.

[The Backlash Cometh]

17. We should all write to ABC:

"What were you doing back when Clinton was trying to get bin Laden?"

[blue cat]

18. Done

Please everyone take a few minutes to send a message.

[Subdivisions]

20. Done. I used all 500 characters!

And it went a little suh-um like this:

How is that I, a middle-aged, pot-bellied, beer-drinkin', washed-up construction worker sitting in my underwear can gather up enough facts about 9/11 to know that President Clinton did all he could to stop Bin Laden when a gigantic news organization like yours instead creates a TV show that, at it's very essense, blames him for the attack.

You are guilty of purveying partisan propoganda, falsely misleading the American public. I am ashamed that you attach the word "American" to your moniker.

[Maestro]

27. Succinct and scathing.

Love it!

[MaggieSwanson]

64. Brilliant.

I think I love you.

Oh, and I just sent my email as well.

:patriot:

[Bitwit1234]

21. ABC

To show ABC we mean business what we should do is pick one of their sponsors. Bombard that sponsor. boycott that sponsor. If Slim Fast could pull Whoopi Goldberg because she made comments about bush had a PRIVATE party, then we can boycott this lying piece of film. Somebody get one of the websites to start if off. I don't watch ABC anyway they don't have anything worth watching and this only makes it more so...but lets boycott that sponsor people and tell them why.

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

44. Great idea and worthy of an OP. Just one sponsor. Excellent!

MKJ

[jasmeel]

24. Sent a message! Hope it will help. We may need to start a call

in campaign.

[Cha]

26. KNR!

:kick:

[JerseygirlCT]

28. K&R

[mitchum]

31. ABC and the GOP are fat flies feeding at the same shit pile

this move is not surprising

[PresidentWar]

32. Done, and done.

kick

[Catchawave]

34. Here's mine:

Re: "Path to 9/11", I'm told, is sticking it to President Clinton? As I recall, the towers were still standing when he left office, however, it was President Bush who ignored the warnings of a PDB while he was on vacation? Now that would be the movie you want to broadcast.

Also, how dare you use a GOP propaganda tool and exploit the tragedy for a few bucks and call it patriotism. For shame ABC, for shame.

[vanboggie]

35. Done

Here's mine:

How disgusting that ABC is running a fictional version of what happened on 9/11 for the neo-cons. Nothing like getting a conservative writer to blame it on Clinton when in all likelihood our this WH was complicit in carrying out the 9/11 travesty. I don't watch ABC anymore anyway-you lost this viewer long ago. But to use this fascist method of trying to brainwash Americans by airing lies before the mid-term elections is positively sickening. I will write your advertisers after this thing airs.

[MessiahRp]

38. Is there anyway to get Moveon on this?

When the RW boycotted The Reagans they asked us to contact CBS in support of the movie... we could sure use their reach to get action on this one.

Rp

[bonito]

39. Done, K&R and thanks!

[Cobalt Violet]

41. Here is mine.

"My Pet Scapegoat" aka. Clinton

Apparently you're in bed with the GOP. "The Path to 9/11"??? Why do you continue to exploit this tragedy this way. Are you going to mention in that trash tv show that Bush got information prior to the attack that Bin Laden was planing to hyjack airliners? And that he did nothing? Will " My Pet Goat" be brought up in this disgusting piece of trash you will be showing? Or will it all be about"My Pet Scapegoat" aka. Clinton? YOU are fascist. I will not watch ABC.

[johnaries]

42. ADVERTISING FRAUD!!!!! Threaten lawsuits!!! They claim ...

it's based on the 9/11 Commission report, but the Commission report only goes back to 1998. This movie is based on a book written by a right-winger and goes back to 1993 and slants all of the events to blame Clinton unfairly. The film is based on a biased book and not on the 9/11 Commission Report as it claims.

I would love to see a fair documentary on the events leading up to 9/11. This ain't it.

[Just-plain-Kathy]

52. johnaries...I hope you don't mind

I think everyone should just copy paste your post...It's perfect!!


Subject: ADVERTISING FRAUD...9/11 movie...bias


Your network claims the new 9-11 film is based on the 9/11 Commission report, but the Commission report only goes back to 1998. This movie is based on a book written by a right-winger and goes back to 1993 and slants all of the events to blame Clinton unfairly. The film is based on a biased book and not on the 9/11 Commission Report as it claims.

I would love to see a fair documentary on the events leading up to 9/11. This ain't it.

[Crabby Appleton]

56. You should refresh your memory of the report

Read Chapters 2 & 3 of the 9/11 Commission Report which are devoted to events before 1998.

see:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x2033724#2033989

[Sick_of_Rethuggery]

43. Here is my note to them...

I have long known that the MSM (more properly called Corporate Propaganda
Machine for GOP) was craven; but the "docu"-drama on 9/11 is completely
brazen & irresponsible. If Clinton is responsible for what happened 8
months after he left office, then why is Bush I ("41") not responsible
for the first WTC bombing, which happened 20 days after he left? Or
did you have a convenient "docu"-drama on it in 1996 & I somehow missed it?
Also, what did Bush do on this in the 8 months after he took office?

[MzNov]

46. good for you nt

[mmonk]

62. Great response to this.

[go west young man]

47. Done!

[lisainmilo]

48. DONE

and with comment! K&R :)

[yorkiemommie1]

49. emailed them

n/t

[young_at_heart]

50. Shall we add ABC to Fox's list of "approved" media?

They need to know there are plenty of people who don't like these neo-con lies!

[Raffi Ella]

53. Unbelievable

Honest to God,I can't even begin to comprehend how the Democratic Party could let this happen at a time like this.

Ok,I'm doing all I can.I'm sending emails to the links given here and I am about to forward those addresses to friends and family so they can do the same.

This is it you guys.Strength in numbers,Make your voices heard. :kick:

[wiley]

57. It sure sounds like Cheney and Bush knew about it forehand!

ABC has rapidly devolved into a Repuke sucking crap hole. There is just no polite way to state that fact.

[mikelewis]

60. I wonder whose paying for this...

You know, these corporate guys don't like taking a crap without getting paid; so why would 4-5 networks devote so much time to a topic they've shown so little interest in. I wonder what sort of deal was struck to get them to do this. Are they vying for access to the "War in Iran"? Did they get a huge check from the GOP? Could the recent 36% poll rating about people questioning 9/11 have anything to do with these events? You can't honestly believe they're doing this because they care. So what does it take to buy or coerce that many hours of TV time?

[wiggs]

66. Hint: Rush's good friend Cyrus made the film nt

[alpharaptor]

61. This is why we need fairness doctrine

As offensive as this film sounds like it is, censorship is even more offensive. Rather than trying to get the film taken off the air, have them show Fahrenheit 911 and Loose Change. The lies and fabrications will not stand up to the truth.

[mmonk]

63. We need it but have it no more. Shutting down lies is our

only option as they try to influence the voters before a most important election. People think the media is truth.

[newyawker99]

72. Hi alpharaptor!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[ooglymoogly]

65. done...about the reagan thing...the diff is that they

have the complete support of the media and we don't...and for the short term the corporate owned media is able to manipulate and rewrite history for the gop. so the anti gop will be drummed off the media and the anti democrat will be praised. all we have is the internet and they are moving mountains to take control of that.

[wiggs]

67. Enlist Richard Ben Veniste

Reportedly, he saw an advance screening and vigorously objected to the content. And he was on the commission and knows...

A 20-second commercial produced by Moveon with Commissioner Ben Veniste warning Americans of more propaganda disguised as real?

This is also an opportunity for all dems to talk about all the fake news (some illegal) and reports we've seen from the WH and how this is just another one. Again, this doesn't have to be a disaster if the opposition party takes advantage of the opportunity to frame the issue correctly.

[Jade Fox]

68. Consumer boycott of the show's sponsors.....

seems like a good idea. I don't know if it's already been suggested here on DU, but if it can be found out who will be advertising during the show, letters/emails threatening to boycott their products could be sent.

Consumer boycotts have worked well in the past. They get the advertisers where they live: lost sales.

[Raffi Ella]

69. Kick

for those that haven't seen this/haven't written ABC and the FCC.

[Cha]

70. Ad & Sales addys for guys who work

for Disney courtesy of a really nice former member of DU :)

ESPN.com
John Zaccario
Vice President of Integrated Sales
ESPN.com
19 East 34th Street
New York, NY 10016
[e-mail]
[e-mail]

ABC.com
Internet Sales
ABC.com
77 West 66th Street, 3rd Floor
New York, NY 10023
[e-mail]

DisneyChannel.com
Brad Davis
VP of Advertising Sales & Marketing
Disney Online
5161 Lankershim Blvd., 4th Floor
North Hollywood, CA 91601
[e-mail]


http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:hRIQND0DOCsJ:mediakit.go.com/contactus.html+%40abctv.com&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=1

Thank you, Jara! We can contact these gentlemen and let them know "we are not pleased with ABC"!

[Tactical Progressive]

71. This is what Democrats get

for not continually pushing the truth that Bush, Cheney, Rice and that whole inner circle of craven political evil are wholly responsible for 9/11. Whether you want to be nice about it and say it was just gross negligence and unprecedented dereliction of duty in completely ignoring a fully-expected national security incursion, or if you want to speak the undeniable truth that their plan was to let us get attacked by purposely ignoring warnings and recommendations from every corner of our own and the world's national security professionals; either way Democrats have failed, out of pure fear, to speak the truth about these Republican monsters for half a decade now.

Leave it to Democrats to be terrified to speak any of the truth while Republicans have zero compunction about lying to project their treachery onto others who were acting with honor in the country's best interests.

It's classic: Dems too scared to speak the truth versus Repubs unflinchingly willing to lie every which way they can.

This movie brings a second opportunity for Democrats to:
1) set the record straight and bury this bunch of thugs under their own 9/11 treachery in every political conversation on every network without holding back
2) bring their own, unrestrained assault on what really allowed 9/11 to happen in video and documentary form and promote it. There should be Frontline-style pieces that hammer the truth about BushCo's intentional negligence in sandbagging our national security, shown right up on ABC prime-time 'in response'.

Painfully, I have little doubt but that progressives, terrified over throwing the punches that should have been thrown all along, will carry right on through to not even throwing punches back while being blackjacked from behind with the lies of the right. I almost can't blame the right for their treachery when they know progressives will just curl up and take it. It's too inviting a target. I almost feel like joining in.

If Dems would only step up to the plate, I'd say hell-yes let the Repubs make their play with ABC's help. Then give ABC, and the rest of them, the truth to be aired before the mid-term elections. Give them a world of hurt to shove up their right-wing promoting asses.

They've opened the door. We should finally walk through.

[kerstin]

76. You're absolutely right.

I for one am damn sick and tired of living in the bizarro world. The time is nigh for Dems to stop their indentured servitude to the preposterous myth of 9/11. That includes DU, which sometimes I fear is on the precipice of becoming another leftgatekeeper with their ghettoization of the 9/11 issue.

[AtomicKitten]

73. Hell yes.

And I'm spreading the word across the internets with the above-captioned article.

[NJmaverick]

74. ABC canceled the true story of Ronald Reagen, then air this?!?!

This is just more right wing bull shit!

[WilliamPitt]

75. The Reagans thing was CBS

[Libby2]

77. Done!!

Scum suckers.

[OhioChick]

78. Done n/t

[HuffleClaw]

79. seems to me that protesting is what they WANT

they'll spin it as 'evil leftists are trying to hide the truth'.

[MessiahRp]

80. Who cares?

They did it with The Reagans... we can't allow propaganda to get through to the mainstream public without a challenge. Being afraid of perception is not as bad as fearing the consequences from a misinformed, brainwashed electorate.

Rp

[Raffi Ella]

81. AMEN!

Has being the better,bigger person EVER worked for us??NO.It got us in the mess we're in today.This is BULLSHIT right wing propaganda!
The media did not allow them to air the Reagan doc. but they are airing this?Fucking hell-it is WRONG and I am not gonna sit here and act like it's not.

If you haven't emailed the FCC and ABC please take a moemnt now and do so.Democrats,hell AMERICANS!All of us cannot allow this Administration to exploit 9/11 like this right before an election without atleast fighting it.

[Bushknew]

82. Here’s proof Bill Clinton did nothing to protect America.

http://www.cnn.com/US/9607/30/clinton.terrorism/

[chat_noir]

83. You forgot your sarcasm note