Is Mickey Mouse really a big, fat right-wing rat?

[marmar]

This is an excerpt from Eric Boehlert's column at MediaMatters:


Consider the fact ABC and its parent corporation Disney:

- Recently aired the historically inaccurate miniseries Path to 9/11, which was created by a cadre of conservative filmmakers determined to blame the Clinton administration for not preventing the 9-11 attacks.
- Employs Mark Halperin as ABC News' political director -- the same Halperin who last fall in a series of interviews with right-wing media outlets, endorsed conservative conspiracy theories that mainstream journalists are "overwhelmingly liberal," "hate the military," are "blind" to their bias, and should use the closing weeks of the campaign season to "prove" their worth to conservatives.
- Let the network's online daily newsletter, The Note, run by Halperin, evolve into a sycophantic outlet of Bush/GOP spin.
- Refused to distribute Michael Moore's award-winning documentary Fahrenheit 9/11 because the company didn't want to be associated with a product so "political," despite the fact some ABC-owned talk radio stations and ABC-syndicated radio hosts traffic, on an hourly basis, in wildly partisan and often off-the-chart hate rhetoric.
- Give chronic, professional fabricator John Stossel a national, prime-time platform, where his opinions are always aired unopposed.
- Hired Rush Limbaugh as a football analyst only to have to remove the right-wing talker from the air after Limbaugh immediately inserted unwanted racial overtones into a broadcast.
- Used bogus reporting to help relentlessly hype the phony Whitewater scandal during the Clinton administration.

The complete column is at: http://mediamatters.org/columns/200701160012

[Captain Hilts]

1. Walt Disney was. nt

[xxqqqzme]

9. You betcha - Unca Walt was a rong winger

Why do you think he put Disneyland in Orange County?

[roamer65]

2. Malloy just chewed ABC a new asshole on these points!

:evilgrin:

[marmar]

3. Yup. That's what prompted me to go looking for this...

Mike is on full outrage mode tonight.

[roamer65]

7. Yeah, he is and I'm loving it.

Get 'em, Mike!

[mark414]

4. it's in disney's interests to have republicans in office

think about how many employees they have...think about which side labor unions support, for obvious reasons...

[number6]

5. means ABC is really Mickey Mouse

nf

[Selatius]

6. Walt Disney was vehemently anti-worker.

He didn't like uppity workers, and he most certainly did not like unionists as well as socialists. It's not surprising the corporate culture he fostered in his business remains engrained to this day.

Granted, the anti-semitic tones are gone, but the corporate culture at Disney was and still is very conservative even if some of Disney's departments may be liberal.

[illinoisprogressive]

8. I was always a huge Bugs Bunny fan

[Captain Hilts]

10. Bugs was anti-authority and when he saw a maroon, he called them a 'maroon'. nt