Well, we are certainly giving ABC a shitload of FREE publicity...

[Beelzebud]

Even bad publicity is good publicity.

I really wish Clinton hadn't sent that letter.

All it's going to do is give ABC free publicity, and more ppl will watch it.

This is basic stuff here folks...

[Taxloss]

1. As with all these DU manias, one starts to wonder how many

threads is too many threads. And I think we passed the "too many" mark on four different subjects this week: ABC/911, Katie C, Steve Irwin and (sorry, Beezlebud) Mike Malloy.

But then I started one of the ABC/911 threads, so I'm in no position to complain.

[greguganus]

7. LOL for a minute I thought you were calling Malloy the devil.

I was going to ask wtf? :evilfrown:

[Taxloss]

10. Heh, no!

But I can see how it might be read that way. Oops.

[BanzaiBonnie]

2. And Kerry was right

to not come down hard and fast on the Swift Boat slime. That worked out well, didn't it.

I understand your point, but I believe in the long run that sometimes you have to step up and tell the truth. Otherwise this shit is going to go into our schools and be taught as history.

[Roxy66]

4. I agree....we have got to stop this shit it it's tracks!!! n/t

[bullimiami]

3. no. bad publicty is only good when youre unknown and

any publicity enhances visibility.

abc is universal. they have a reputatation to worry about.
this will hurt abc because it panders to an angry minority and the vast majority know this lying propaganda is agenda and politic driven.

[MADem]

9. ABC is DISNEY--Pirates of the Carribean may be their fucking swan song

if they don't get themselves 'correct' and cut the shit.

[madmusic]

5. This is an opportunity...

To reveal to those who don't know there really is a "vast right wing conspiracy" and the Right has a monopoly on the media. Viewers won't be so easily duped now, and this could be the big break we've been waiting for.

[Hugin]

6. We are not supplying 'free publicity'... We are 'defusing propaganda'.

A necessary task these days.

[MADem]

8. I'm GLAD Clinton sent that letter, and I hope he SUES

AmericaBlog has a GREAT riff on this issue, to include the LEGAL aspect--Clinton has a case for defamation. You don't air something without giving the party you are smearing a chance to refute and correct, especially when they have ASKED for that opportunity and been DENIED it.

http://americablog.blogspot.com/
All of his coverage on this issue has been superb; these are a few of his headlines and highlights:

http://americablog.blogspot.com/2006/09/bill-clinton-weighs-in-and-hes-not.html
Bill Clinton weighs in -- and he's NOT happy

Disney/ABC admits 9/11 tale is fiction
http://americablog.blogspot.com/2006/09/disneyabc-admits-911-tale-is-fiction.html

NYT: Disney/ABC filmmaker admits they just made stuff up
http://americablog.blogspot.com/2006/09/nyt-disneyabc-filmmaker-admits-they.html

Major Washington Post story on Disney/ABC scandal, exposes two additional major errors in 9/11 depiction
http://americablog.blogspot.com/2006/09/major-washington-post-story-on.html

Disney/ABC insider tells conservative blogger that 9/11 film was intended to "blame Clinton"
http://americablog.blogspot.com/2006/09/disneyabc-insider-tells-conservative.html

Disney/ABC flat-out REFUSED to provide Pres. Clinton, Madeleine Albright and Sandy Berger copies of its 9/11 "docudrama", tho GOP bloggers got copies
http://americablog.blogspot.com/2006/09/disneyabc-flat-out-refused-to-provide.html

[gratuitous]

11. Oh yes, let's not say anything . . .

Because it will give free publicity to a major network intent on doing a hatchet job on recent history and selling it as "fact." Ssssshhhh, quiet everybody! Maybe it will go away and unlike so many prior examples, it won't be used as a club to beat us over the head with. No, not this time. I think the GOP will finally not stoop to dirty tricks and tactics, and they'll play scrupulously fair.

You'd have to believe in Tinker Bell awfully hard for that not to happen, methinks.

[Beelzebud]

12. Here is something you don't see often: I Was WRONG.

:D

The more I've thought about this, the more I realize I was wrong.

There you have it.

DU member admits he was wrong! Breaking News. :D

[SmokingJacket]

13. It couldn't possibly get more publicity than it already has.

I'm relieved Clinton sent that letter. If he hadn't, if he just let them roll all over the truth (his truth, too) the world would decide that ABC got all right.

[Beelzebud]

14. Agreed. after more thought, I admit I was WRONG.

[SmokingJacket]

15. Whoa!

Hey, I was wrong once, too. I said Steve Irwin wrestled alligators. :hide: