MoveOn.org: "Urgent, Exploiting 9/11" PETITION CALL

[Hissyspit]

Via Email:

Dear MoveOn member,

In a little over 48 hours, ABC will air a five-hour "docudrama" on the 9/11 attacks. The movie was written and produced by a right-wing activist who fabricated key scenes to blame Democrats and defend Republicans.1 It's so partisan that even Rush Limbaugh was surprised ABC decided to air it.2 And an FBI agent who was brought in to consult on the docudrama quit because, he said, "they were making things up."3

Public outrage is mounting across the country, and Variety reports that ABC is now "mulling the idea of yanking the mini altogether."4 But we only have a little time to act. We'll start delivering this petition to ABC headquarters tomorrow at noon and continue as more signatures come in. So we're looking for 200,000 signatures TODAY.

Can you sign? Click here:
http://pol.moveon.org/abcdoc?id=8709-5228739-aRh6lksn7NgvW0jKpnxmSQ&t=4

Then please pass on this message to folks you know who can help.

The Path to 9/11 appears to be part of a coordinated push—including speeches by President Bush and millions of dollars in advertising—to exploit the five-year anniversary of 9/11 for political gain. That's not acceptable from anyone—especially not a news organization like ABC.

It's not just that ABC's movie is slanted. Big parts of it are simply untrue. The producer himself even admitted to simply improvising a key scene which depicts the Clinton administration letting bin Laden go when they had him in their sights—a complete fabrication.5 Last night, the movie's star, Harvey Keitel, said "It turned out not all the facts were correct."6

It's really pretty simple: ABC shouldn't have any role in the political exploitation of 9/11. But this docudrama is designed to do just that—spreading a false message to millions of viewers across the country.

Sign the petition to tell ABC not to air partisan propaganda on 9/11. Click here:

http://pol.moveon.org/abcdoc?id=8709-5228739-aRh6lksn7NgvW0jKpnxmSQ&t=5

Thank you for all you do.

–Nita, Eli, Carrie, Joan, Jennifer and the MoveOn.org Political Action Team
Friday, September 8th, 2006


P.S. For the most current information on the scandal involving this film, and for more information on the movie itself, please visit our friends at ThinkProgress:

http://www.thinkprogress.org

Sources:
1. "Writer of ABC's 9/11 'Docudrama' Is Avowed Conservative Activist," ThinkProgress, September 1, 2006
http://www.moveon.org/r?r=2047&id=8709-5228739-aRh6lksn7NgvW0jKpnxmSQ&t=6

2. "Clintonoids Prepare To Attack 9/11 Movie," The Rush Limbaugh Show, August 30, 2006
http://www.moveon.org/r?r=2049&id=8709-5228739-aRh6lksn7NgvW0jKpnxmSQ&t=7

3. "FBI Agent Who Consulted On Path to 9/11 Quit," ThinkProgress, September 7, 2006
http://thinkprogress.org/2006/09/07/fbi-agent-quit/

4. "Under fire, ABC mulls yanking mini," Variety, September 7, 2006
http://www.variety.com/VR1117949675.html

5. Greg Mitchell, Editor & Publisher, MSNBC appearance, September 7, 2006
http://www.moveon.org/r?r=2077&id=8709-5228739-aRh6lksn7NgvW0jKpnxmSQ&t=8

6. "Harvey Keitel speaks out on Path to 9/11: 'It turned out not all the facts were correct'", Showbiz Tonight, September 7, 2006
http://www.moveon.org/r?r=2078&id=8709-5228739-aRh6lksn7NgvW0jKpnxmSQ&t=9

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[ixion]

1. signed, kicked and recommended

for the Truth. :patriot:

[kurth]

2. LAST CALL, PEOPLE!!!

It's Friday.

[MessiahRp]

3. They sure reacted late on this...

We've been on this for nearly a week...

Rp

[Hissyspit]

4. Yes, that was my reaction, too. But every little bit helps.

[helderheid]

10. DU is getting famous because of this. Wouldn't surprise me if someone

from MoveOn, TrueMajority, etc., will sign up. We'll know if they speed things up. :)

[Ian David]

5. Done! And I contributed to MoveOn.org while I was there. n/t

[VOX]

6. Done, and donated. n/t

[Hissyspit]

7. kick

[helderheid]

8. Error: You've already recommended that thread.

[Cobalt Violet]

9. Done. n/t

[dpbrown]

11. My note

This blame-Clinton bullshit damages your right to hold a free broadcast license. The Republicans controlled the Congress during the Clinton administration and blocked all attempts by Clinton to get terrorism legislation passed. 9/11 happened on Bush's watch after he was warned about al qaeda, after he turned terrorism preparedness over to his campaign director who got control of FEMA, and after Cheney had determined that this administration was going to invade Iraq no matter what. The lies you are passing off as truth about an episode so painful in our country's history demean you and your company and fly in the face of your civic responsibility to report truthfully or give up your access to our nation's airwaves.

[Cookie wookie]

12. Done.

[GreenTea]

13. Kick!

[Hissyspit]

14. another kick for signatures n/t

[GreenTea]

15. Kick to donate five dollars.

http://pol.moveon.org/abcdoc/?id=8709-5228739-aRh6lksn7NgvW0jKpnxmSQ&t=5

[Mabus]

16. Done and text of my usual message

My usual message where I've been able to add on a petition. It is also pretty much what I've told them in my e-mails.

Shame on you for using the tragedy of 9/11 to promote fabrications to the American public. It is bad enough that your "news" personalities failed to inform the American public that Saddam Hussein had nothing to do with the attack. It is bad enough that your "news" personalities failed to educate the public that going to war with Iraq was a fool's errand.

But now you want to out and out lie to the American public for ratings and to appease your friends in the GOP? How pathetic.

I hope there will be a plethora of lawsuits arising out of this. Perhaps it might make at least one of your departments to consider telling the truth to the American public. Preferably it will be your so-called "news" department.

[nicknameless]

17. Wondered where they were. Thanks Hissyspit

K&R

[LaPera]

18. Kick...