DID ABC BACK DOWN?

[WilliamPitt]

From the New York Post:

The chorus of outrage - ranging from Clinton cabinet members to liberal bloggers to 9/11 families to ordinary moms canceling trips to Disneyland - put ABC and parent company Disney under tremendous pressure just days before the movie's premiere.

First to go was a made-up scene showing Clinton national security adviser Sandy Berger hanging up on CIA operatives who were moments away from killing Osama Bin Laden in Afghanistan. "You will not see that in that way in the final edition," Kean said.

The Clinton White House did scotch several opportunities to kill Al Qaeda's founder because intelligence was sketchy. But unlike in the film, the CIA was never steps away from Bin Laden, nor did Berger hang up on agents in the field, Kean admitted.

...and my favorite paragraph...

Driven by the Internet's main liberal Web sites, the outrage over ABC's dramatization was reminiscent of the 2003 conservative furor that forced CBS to pull an unflattering Ronald Reagan biopic. Phones rang off the hook and e-mail boxes were clogged all day at Scholastic Inc., ABC and Disney. "We're getting slammed," said one frazzled ABC staffer.

http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/450619p-379111c.html

:toast:

[Philosoraptor]

1. the internet is a powerful beast

and so is civil disobedience and raising hell.

[madokie]

24. and that is why they want to squelch it

[warrens]

27. No kidding

With no gatekeeper, they have no way to tell us "this is not an important story so shut your faces." There will be attempts everywhere to nibble away at the freedom of the net. The one hope is that there is so much money to be made from it that no one provider will ever get dominance enough to impose restrictions. And hopefully we'll have dems in charge for the next couple of decades, and there will be hell to pay if they fuck with the net. The Repukes will just scream national security and get their sheep to back them, but dems don't work that way.

[nolabels]

64. And heres to it getting even more democratically empowered

:toast:

[BootinUp]

2. Please sign the DNC petition folks! (link)

http://www.democrats.org/page/petition/pathto911/

According to an article in the NYT the petition has over 100,000 sigs so far and will be delivered to ABC today.


Keep up the pressure! :)

[Broken_Hero]

7. Done...nt

[radfringe]

13. done n/t

[0007]

72. done

[lonestarnot]

18. done.

[City Lights]

19. Done. eom

[annabanana]

22. done. . . . . . n/t

[myrna minx]

32. Done. n/t

[deucemagnet]

35. Done. Please sign MoveOn's petition as well.

http://pol.moveon.org/abcdoc?id=8709-7557032-LTsNGQaM..rWxdNbnsheDg&t=4

[VOX]

39. Done and Done! n/t

[bliss_eternal]

65. If you haven't already...

would you mind starting a independent thread with Moveon's petition. I know it will get a lot of signatures! Thanks for the link! :hi:

[Generic Other]

36. done

Amazing response!

[Qanisqineq]

41. done (nt)

[Blue_In_AK]

44. Done

[Change has come]

46. done n/t

K&R :patriot:

[Initech]

47. Done

[Blue Belle]

48. Done!

thanks for the link!

[file83]

50. and.........Done. n/t

[qanda]

51. Done

[gilpo]

55. Done

[trashcanistanista]

56. Done , Plus

e-mailed my local NBC affiliate programming dept. to give this story some airtime tonight. That would be KCRA in Sacramento! We shall see. Anybody trying to push this as a news story to the competition?:P

[trashcanistanista]

57. NOON NEWS KCRA - TEASER

"ABC docudrama is not going to make President Clinton happy, coming up" damn that was fast!

[celtdem]

59. Done nt

[LibertyorDeath]

61. Done

[il_lilac]

62. did that

and then some

[Arugula Latte]

68. done n/t

[raysr]

70. CBS out to stand up

to the plate and tell ABC if the Run "The Path.." they'll run "Reagan" in the same time slot!

[SoCalDemGrrl]

73. Done & forwarded to friends!!

[liberaldemocrat7]

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A progressive agenda for America.

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[WilliamPitt]

4. Important note

There were no contributors involved here, because ABC had *no advertisers* for this. None. This was pressure directly upon the network.

[liberaldemocrat7]

6. Well Wendy's and Red Lobster do advertise on ABC primtetime often

The other night I saw several Wendy's and Red Lobster advertisements during the Belushi show.

Wendy's and Red Lobster give money to the GOP. You can look it up on opensecrets.org

ABC just wants to hide the advertisers.

[sentelle]

49. ABC has advertisers

Even for this, they have advertisers. For this, they just don't have 'appropriate' advertisers.

becides, I don't care what show their commercial is on, if they advertise on ABC, or its affiliates, whether on TV or radio, its dead to me.

it doesn't really matter if they pul it or not. its dead.

[NoSheep]

52. I love this! Excellent post!!!

:kick:

[livvy]

5. Done and kick. n/t

[EFerrari]

8. Today, we keep the pressure on Iger and Kean.

Maybe calling our local affiliates, too.

:evilgrin:

[aquart]

9. Post or Daily News?

[WilliamPitt]

30. My bad

Daily News.

[Senator]

10. Kean is Key: The whole thing is an "in kind" contribution his Kid

That's the next attack we should make.

Kean is allowing them to slander Clinton to neutralize his effort to help in the NJ Senate race.

One more place to send complaints:

Jersey's Main Newspaper

[nicknameless]

11. The whole damn lie-fest needs to be pulled.

Hours of fabrications about the Dems and egregious omissions about bushco are not going to be fixed with *rewrites*.

[ClintonTyree]

12. I don't believe they'll pull it.........

they have too much invested and The Reich-Wing propaganda wurlitzer would go completely off the hook should they back down from showing this "factual" account of the events of 9/11. Disney/ABC may be beginning to fear the left's wrath but they certainly fear the Reich-Wing's wrath more. Besides, Disney/ABC has a lot to lose should the balance of power be upset in Washington. Those fat Corporate tax breaks could be in jeopardy should a power shift occur in November. Their best interests are served by airing this propaganda assault on Democrats.

I sincerely hope I'm wrong. I hope they come to their senses and back away from this historical travesty they've concocted. But I doubt it. They're well aware of which side of their bread is buttered and WHO butters it for them.

[Pacifist Patriot]

14. I have the same instinct you do.

[graywarrior]

15. Since when does corporate driven America give a shit about

what the people want? Money talks.

[Deja Q]

16. Shouldn't ABC had noticed that when a producer alters events for dramatic

gain, many people will demand honesty - one way or the other???

"A Beautiful Mind", done by Opie or whatever his name is, santized John Nash's life for that overrated purported "bio-pic" -- particularly in the form of the homosexuality, anti-semitic behavior, abandoning the woman he impregnated, et cetera, et cetera?

If ABC reclassified this 9/11 flick as a fiction, they can do what they want. But they instead are daring to call this 'piece' as authentic, which means they are being grossly inaccurate; when they scribble up entirely fictitious scenes, that's far worse. For those alone they deserve all the frazzling they are getting.

It's documented the congress of the time kept slamming Clinton. Now I never cared for Clinton much (he happily helped with the offshoring (NAFTA, et al) and frivolous lawsuit (DMCA, et al) problems), but when the repubs who controlled it all complained about excessive spending as the reason for cutting those anti-terror programs, ABC's own bit of revisioning really becomes annoying.

[StrictlyRockers]

17. Done! Keep up the pressure!

[Cobalt Violet]

20. The deserve more than a slamming!

They need to be investigated.

[mmonk]

23. While I generally believe in a free press and would say no,

I agree because now, there are political pressures whereby the press is now a propaganda wing of the government and you can best believe its all about money, groups and this administration.

[seabeyond]

21. scotch several opportunities to kill AlQ founder intelligence sketchy

is this part of the friggin quote.

is this stupid. if intelligence was sketchy the opportunity really wasnt an opportunity. this is pure bullshit.. then it precedes to reinforce that by saying bl was never steps away

[progressoid]

25. Glad I clicked on 'reccomend for greatest page' so many times

Well, that, and the emails to ABC/Disney.

[npincus]

26. NO- they are sttill promoting it on ABC's web site (video)

[samsingh]

28. to abc - we will not forget the lie you tried to put out - ever

[Imagevision]

29. Families to ordinary moms canceling trips to Disneyland ($2500. less)

from this family...

[Imagevision]

31. ABC is making the "Ted Koppel" mistake...

[napi21]

33. I heard on AAR news break that ABC was buisilyediting the 9/11 film,

and that they would either edit it to remove all the fiction or not air it at all.

If AAR gave a source to this story, I missed it, sorry.

[Rosemary2205]

34. "We are getting slammed"

that's putting it mildly! LOL

[EVDebs]

69. Busy editting, huh ? Gives new meaning to 'Tearing them a new one' !

[LSK]

37. "Kean's son is a GOP Senate candidate in New Jersey."

Notice how that little bit is at the end.

[symbolman]

38. Yep.

They blinked.

[lovuian]

40. It just shows Disney is part of the whole New Order

and they were supporting Bush!!!

[Efilroft Sul]

42. Will, if Bush is speaking Monday night at 9 p.m. on the networks, then...

...I think there's a good chance the miniseries will be pulled. The White House knows it, ABC knows it, but nobody's made the official announcement yet.

That's my assumption. I've been wrong once or twice before.

[Imagevision]

45. Bush abandoned daytime speeches to coincide with ABC flick

[electprogdems]

43. I just want to know

who's gonna resign.

ABC/Disney tried to present lies as facts - so who is it.?

[DearAbby]

53. To me, ABC has already taken off the mask

Disney has as well. Is Disney's reputation worth 40 million dollars, they placed into the production of this trash they call a docu-drama? It is to me.

They have taken off their mask and revealed themselves for what they are. Imagine they wanted to use this trash, to feed it to our children, pollute their minds.

What is behind that mask is hideous.

Are they desparate, or are they confedent? Why now, right before the elections? I am afraid to find an answer to that question.

Good work Will.

Never give up, WE THE PEOPLE.

[Hamlette]

54. did the Internet do for Dems what phone trees did for the GOP?

It always seemed to me that the right was better at getting their troops out for whatever cause. I've watched the crazy Eagle Forum get scores of people up to the legislature on a moment's notice for some percieved wrong.

I was torn about the Dems being the organized/lemming like. Might work for a more liberal legislature to apply that kind of pressure but it has its down sides (everyone knows the people who respond to the phone tree call are robots).

But I sort of like that we are doing it on the Internet. It is not so passive, someone doesn't just call you on the phone and give you marching orders. When I read a post "call here right now!" I have all the resources at my disposal to find out what the issue is and decide whether I should act.

Is the left catching up with the right's tactics? That's gotta help. We might not keep Path off the air like they kept Reagan off, but we might make the propagandists think twice and it seems adjustments are being made to the most flagrant misinformation.

[NMDemDist2]

58. FWIW, the 700 Club is on "ABC Family" and that should tell you all

you need to know about them

:shrug:

[jab105]

60. I'm a bit late to this...but done and done...

Had a long week at work, but I'm outraged!

[dweller]

63. done

dude.

dp

[nickgutierrez]

66. Look at that first line:

"ranging from Clinton cabinet members to liberal bloggers to 9/11 families to ordinary moms canceling trips to Disneyland"

And remember who runs the New York Post. Let's play "What They're Really Saying", for a second.

"Clinton cabinet members" = Clinton bad, remember? Blowjob?

"liberal bloggers" = left-wing wacko conspiricy theorist Bush/America haters.

"ordinary moms canceling trips to Disneyland" = clueless women (and yes, to the average caveman, that does matter), making decisions for political reasons - influenced by the first two things listed above as reported by the liberal media - that affect their kids' ability to live a part of their childhood.



So we have appeals to blind hatred, false patriotism, and condescendng mysogyny masked as concern. You gotta hand it to 'em - it's bullshit, but it's well-scripted bullshit.

[Arugula Latte]

67. Hey, Rightwing Corporations--You're On Notice!

Your miserable existences will never be the same 'cuz we've got the Internet(s) ... hee hee!

[wiley]

71. Yeah, it's just the way we see the truth at Campaign HQ

"Asked if he had apologized to Clinton for inaccuracies in the movie, Kean quipped, "No, he was out campaigning against my son yesterday, so I didn't reach out to him at all!""

[BootinUp]

74. That is blatant admission of political bias!!!!!!

Can the average dodo American not see it?