![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
filkertomThe point behind this is so blatant and so disgusting that I want to smack somebody upside the head.
In a nutshell: ABC is going to air a "docudrama" about the events leading up to September 11, 2001. This made-for misrepresents the 9/11 Commission Report, makes the Bush Administration look way more competent than they actually proved to be, and -- most tellingly, most importantly, most damningly -- falsely blames Bill Clinton for letting Osama bin Laden get away.
So, y'see, Chimpy is really a big fuckin' hero. It's all Clinton.
I almost want to bypass the unspeakable hypocrisy, the blatant attempt at creating political cover out of whole cloth, the reeking desperation of their trying to rewrite reality so their incompetent moron of a front man looks like something other than an incompetent moron, and just laugh at the pathological hatred of a man six years out of office.
If you have friends or family members who hear about this, tell them: It's a pack of lies. It's wrong, top to bottom, trying to throw the blame on Bill Clinton for things that happened on Bush's watch, things that Clinton tried to warn them about, things they wouldn't listen to because he was Bill Clinton.
I swear to Cthulhu, if these shitheads spent a tenth of the time they spend propagandizing in actual governing instead, things would be much better.
Update: Rep. Louise Slaughter weighs in.
In a nutshell: ABC is going to air a "docudrama" about the events leading up to September 11, 2001. This made-for misrepresents the 9/11 Commission Report, makes the Bush Administration look way more competent than they actually proved to be, and -- most tellingly, most importantly, most damningly -- falsely blames Bill Clinton for letting Osama bin Laden get away.
So, y'see, Chimpy is really a big fuckin' hero. It's all Clinton.
I almost want to bypass the unspeakable hypocrisy, the blatant attempt at creating political cover out of whole cloth, the reeking desperation of their trying to rewrite reality so their incompetent moron of a front man looks like something other than an incompetent moron, and just laugh at the pathological hatred of a man six years out of office.
If you have friends or family members who hear about this, tell them: It's a pack of lies. It's wrong, top to bottom, trying to throw the blame on Bill Clinton for things that happened on Bush's watch, things that Clinton tried to warn them about, things they wouldn't listen to because he was Bill Clinton.
I swear to Cthulhu, if these shitheads spent a tenth of the time they spend propagandizing in actual governing instead, things would be much better.
Update: Rep. Louise Slaughter weighs in.
![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
(no subject)
Date: 2006-09-05 05:52 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-09-05 06:09 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-09-05 06:39 pm (UTC)If you look down at what is currently the bottom of the comments (comment #134), you'll see the letter that I wrote to WTAE, the ABC affiliate in Pittsburgh. I encourage everyone to write a similar letter to your local ABC affiliates.
(no subject)
Date: 2006-09-05 07:13 pm (UTC)I'm guessing the reason I can't get at the site is because lots of other people are doing likewise. Hopefully to scream in disgust.
It's only more of the same, though. It's been going on since you won the war for us. Reality is silly putty and it's not true till you see it on teevee. Or to put it another way, they're just collapsing those old quantum waveforms...
(no subject)
Date: 2006-09-05 07:20 pm (UTC)Good thing I planned to give it a miss, anyway.
(no subject)
Date: 2006-09-05 07:21 pm (UTC)Always Blame Clinton
(no subject)
Date: 2006-09-05 07:36 pm (UTC)You win.
Hate to derail your thread, Tom, but...
Date: 2006-09-05 07:56 pm (UTC)http://www.wwe.com/content/media/video/tvshows/raw/200609/3262126/090406crymetyme?section=%2Fshows%2Fraw%2Farticles%2F09042006%2F3261698
(no subject)
Date: 2006-09-05 08:01 pm (UTC)Re: Hate to derail your thread, Tom, but...
Date: 2006-09-05 08:03 pm (UTC)Re: Hate to derail your thread, Tom, but...
Date: 2006-09-05 09:24 pm (UTC)You just have to see it with your own eyes.
Re: Hate to derail your thread, Tom, but...
Date: 2006-09-05 09:39 pm (UTC)...
... Okay, that was beyond stupid. Insulting, racist, and ultimately pointless.
Never tell me anything WWE-related again, please. I just don't care.
Re: Hate to derail your thread, Tom, but...
Date: 2006-09-05 09:44 pm (UTC)Contact them?
Date: 2006-09-06 01:51 am (UTC)This link goes to ABC's contact page, where you can opt to send feedback to them regarding anything. there is a sib-category for ABC Movies and ABC Specials. You only get a limited space to type in, but there is a word count.
My comment? I am not above boycotting.
(no subject)
Date: 2006-09-06 10:19 am (UTC)Frankly, I'm not at all surprised. I expected something--I mean, after all, for the first time in about a year, gas prices are easing (gee, what convenient timing) and now there's this slanderous hatchet job.
This leaves me with just one station in town that hasn't taken sides. WCMH-4 (NBC) decided not to sell time to moveon.org for an ad critical of Deb Pryce. WSYX-6 ABC (paired with WTTE-28 Faux which is where I expected slop like this to go) will, so far as I know, air the lies. That leaves WBNS-10... which is owned by the Distort... er, Dispatch.
We're effin' hosed down here.
Got a response from Pittsburgh's ABC Station
Date: 2006-09-06 05:45 pm (UTC)