MoveOn, True Majority and Working Assets seek your help for their campaigns to stop PT911.
Our friends at MoveOn and Working Assets have been leading the charge on an important campaign to stop ABC from airing a movie about 9/11 which is out-and-out propaganda written to defend Republicans and implicate Democrats. It was even written by a Republican operative. This sort of distortion of our history for partisan politics is shameless and offensive.
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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. It's so partisan that even Rush Limbaugh was surprised ABC decided to air it. And an FBI agent who was brought in to consult on the docudrama quit because, he said, "they were making things up."
Public outrage is mounting across the country, and Variety reports that ABC is now "mulling the idea of yanking the mini altogether."
Sources: 1. "Writer of ABC's 9/11 'Docudrama' Is Avowed Conservative Activist," ThinkProgress, September 1, 2006
2. "Clintonoids Prepare To Attack 9/11 Movie," The Rush Limbaugh Show, August 30, 2006
3. "FBI Agent Who Consulted On Path to 9/11 Quit," ThinkProgress, September 7, 2006
4. "Under fire, ABC mulls yanking mini," Variety, September 7, 2006
5. Greg Mitchell, Editor & Publisher, MSNBC appearance, September 7, 2006
6. "Harvey Keitel speaks out on Path to 9/11: 'It turned out not all the facts were correct'" Showbiz Tonight, September 7, 2006
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. Last night, the movie's star, Harvey Keitel, said "It turned out not all the facts were correct."