Tell Disney and ABC to Stop Playing Partisan Politics with 9/11
Target:The Walt Disney Co. Sponsored by:Media Matters
The Disney-owned TV network, ABC, just aired a "docudrama" that rewrote history, blaming the Clinton Administration for the events of Sept. 11, 2001.
Nearly everyone, including 9/11 Commission members, prominent conservative pundits, members of Congress, and executives at ABC, has already acknowledged that ABC's documentary-style film The Path to 9/11 is a fabricated, inaccurate, and misleading portrayal of the events leading up to 9/11. Even those involved in its production readily admit some scenes are fabricated!
But Disney and ABC deceptively marketed The Path to 9/11 as a documentary-style film based on the 9/11 Commission report. To make matters worse, Disney is demonstrating a double standard by endorsing this false attack on President Clinton. Previously they refused to distribute Michael Moore's film Fahrenheit 9/11 (produced by a Disney subsidiary, Miramax Films), which was highly critical of President Bush.
Tell Disney to stop playing partisan politics, as they did with airing The Path to 9/11!
We signed the “Tell Disney and ABC to Stop Playing Partisan Politics with 9/11” petition!
# 25,174:
8:49 am PDT, Sep 12,Melanie Lawrence, New York
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8:48 am PDT, Sep 12,Bob Dooley, Iowa
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8:48 am PDT, Sep 12,Stacey Zak, Illinois
Unfortunately, many people believe false reports they see on television and read in newspapers and magazines. Why do you feel the need to spread lies about what really happened?! Your network license should be pulled so that no more misinformation can hit the airways. Your false, fabricated stories should never be allowed any airtime.
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8:47 am PDT, Sep 12,Jessica Walsh, New York
If you're going to present something as a true story, present the true story.
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8:46 am PDT, Sep 12,Charkee Sease, South Carolina
It is not fair, to try and blame an act of God on President Clinton, obviously there was and still is nothing that can be done, when it comes to trying to stop or prevent, what was already predestined to happen before time. Shame on you.
# 25,169:
8:45 am PDT, Sep 12,Heather Alexander, Tennessee
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8:44 am PDT, Sep 12,Name not displayed, New York
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8:42 am PDT, Sep 12,David A Dreyfoos, Oregon
America has been lied to enough! The truth may be hard to take but the truth is all we have!!!!!!
# 25,166:
8:42 am PDT, Sep 12,Naomi Simmons, Rhode Island
KEEP OUT OF POLITICS
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8:39 am PDT, Sep 12,Name not displayed, Virginia
This is not a matter for the entertainment industry to try to make a TV show at the expense of the Truth. This isn't about TV this is about World events Disney has no right to try to reinvent History for their own purpose.
# 25,164:
8:38 am PDT, Sep 12,Bob Fischella, Arizona
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8:36 am PDT, Sep 12,Sarahelektra Holland, Kentucky
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8:36 am PDT, Sep 12,Pam Stacy, Arkansas
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8:36 am PDT, Sep 12,Denise Vernier, Pennsylvania
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8:35 am PDT, Sep 12,Name not displayed, Massachusetts
# 25,159:
8:32 am PDT, Sep 12,Kim Jenio, Michigan
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8:31 am PDT, Sep 12,Tiffany Dennett, Texas
There is absolutely no proof that the Clinton Administration was to blame. I am sick and tired of everyone blaming Clinton or blaming Bush. Osama Bin Laden's to blame. All you're trying to do is blame a political party. Keep out of politics.
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8:31 am PDT, Sep 12,Name not displayed, Canada
# 25,156:
8:29 am PDT, Sep 12,Name not displayed, New Jersey
this is untrue and unfair.
# 25,155:
8:29 am PDT, Sep 12,Name not displayed, Tennessee
Get the facts true, or dont do
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8:27 am PDT, Sep 12,Concepcion Gonzalez, Florida
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8:27 am PDT, Sep 12,Gowri Hari, New Mexico
# 25,152:
8:26 am PDT, Sep 12,Erin Cummings, New Hampshire
I know the winners of war always write history and I know that many governments have rewritten history to suit them. The fact that our history is being incorrectly documented just 5 years after the fact and then taught this way is outrageous.
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8:26 am PDT, Sep 12,Tammy D'Oyley, Washington
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8:25 am PDT, Sep 12,Bonnie Ricca, California
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8:25 am PDT, Sep 12,Shannon Mayfield-Chapin, Ohio
My cousin was there when it happened--not two blocks away from the site. Air the facts, not your version of science fiction!
# 25,148:
8:22 am PDT, Sep 12,Renee Calvet, Florida
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8:22 am PDT, Sep 12,Berenice Cepeda, Mexico
May the truth lead your actions.
# 25,146:
8:22 am PDT, Sep 12,Phone Callgirl (Cheryl), Illinois
# 25,145:
8:21 am PDT, Sep 12,Zhixin Yuan, Singapore
# 25,144:
8:21 am PDT, Sep 12,Bill Gibson, Connecticut
Following the Bush agenda of lies will not fool the american people
# 25,143:
8:20 am PDT, Sep 12,PETER GARRITANO, Vermont
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8:19 am PDT, Sep 12,William Johnson, Maryland
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8:17 am PDT, Sep 12,Jennifer Whiteside, Missouri
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8:17 am PDT, Sep 12,Carla Herwitz, Massachusetts
You Republican corporate owners of the government already know what you are doing. I don't need to tell you. What will you do when all your customers are dead from nuclear war on Iran or global warming?
# 25,139:
8:17 am PDT, Sep 12,Tania Nieves, New York
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8:15 am PDT, Sep 12,Susan J. Roper, Arizona
# 25,137:
8:15 am PDT, Sep 12,Gabriel Egan, Vermont
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8:13 am PDT, Sep 12,Cynthia E. Adams, California
So many American people want desperately to believe that our Administration is completely capable of protecting its citizens since 9/11. To portray this documentary as fact is again a diservice to all Americans including yourselves.
# 25,135:
8:11 am PDT, Sep 12,Kelly Brown, Pennsylvania
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8:11 am PDT, Sep 12,Elizabeth Tatum, Alabama
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8:11 am PDT, Sep 12,Michael Raif, New York
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8:11 am PDT, Sep 12,Steve Sinclair, Wisconsin
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8:10 am PDT, Sep 12,Erin Valentine, North Carolina
I am disappointed by Disney/ABC's willingness to play politics rather than report the truth to the American public; I am heartened by the public outcry demanding accuracy from our airwaves.
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8:09 am PDT, Sep 12,Sacha Martin, Canada
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8:08 am PDT, Sep 12,Wanda Webb Schrader, North Carolina
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8:05 am PDT, Sep 12,Kati Adams, Michigan
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8:04 am PDT, Sep 12,Melanie Graf, California
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8:03 am PDT, Sep 12,Jennifer Thompson, Minnesota
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8:02 am PDT, Sep 12,Andrew Collings, Pennsylvania
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8:01 am PDT, Sep 12,Lydia Smith, Florida
What could possibly be added to all of the thoughtful, outraged commentary that my fellow Americans have offered?... none, but that I am heartened by the universal law that all tyrannies crumble in the end...
# 25,123:
8:00 am PDT, Sep 12,Jennifer Osborn, Canada
Propaganda is exactly that.
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8:00 am PDT, Sep 12,Tiffany Tabickman, New Jersey
You jerks! Stop lying to people, and witholding the truth, it's wrong, and you're the ones who will look bad in the end, not the people you tell lies about.
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7:59 am PDT, Sep 12,Rui Magalhaes, Portugal
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7:59 am PDT, Sep 12,Corinna Caplan, Wisconsin
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7:58 am PDT, Sep 12,Simona Peyrer, Australia
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7:58 am PDT, Sep 12,Name not displayed, Minnesota
i have not seen your movie, but if you want to really make a movie about what happened on sept 11th, you first need to watch loose change 911. go to www.loosechange911.com and watch it for free. dont spread more disinformation, do something for this country before we have no more control. dont be mental polluters, the us media already does a fine job of that
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7:56 am PDT, Sep 12,Carolyn R. White, North Carolina
I must have spent over $100,000. over the past years in Disney products including time shares. My last trip was in Feb. 2006. I would have bet my life and those of my children and grandchildren that Disney would never be caught dead airing such blatent political propaganda as you aired last night (9/10). I understand that you made changes but I have to tell you that those changes will do little if anything to counteract the death of trust and respect for Disney and ABC.
As the first second aired on this outright slanderous junk, you lowered yourselves to the same level of sleaze as the "swift boat" crooks. I know that you were either pressured to run this junk or you sold your integrity for this paltry 40 millon dollars. I can say to you with absolute confidence that your Corp. will lose customers far in excess of 40 million dollars. What you and some of our politions do not seem to "get" is that the American majority are sick and tired of the lies, deceit, and embarassment the Bush administration has brought to this country, both locally and globally. The Nov. elections cannot come soon enough! What a Dismal Business Decision Disney made in throwing its lot in with these arrogant greed mongers.
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7:53 am PDT, Sep 12,Kathleen C. Buckley, Maryland
With all the disinformation out there, you do a disservice by rewriting history.
# 25,115:
7:53 am PDT, Sep 12,Kat Kohler, Wisconsin
Shame on you for lying!
# 25,114:
7:53 am PDT, Sep 12,Debra Peebles, South Dakota
Disney bosses are out of touch with the public; not just American public, but the world. We are interested in appropriateness and accuracy on this very volatile issue, an exploitive "made-for-tv" movies by the makers of "Disneyland" isn't the appropriate forum.
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7:53 am PDT, Sep 12,Sherbet To, United Kingdom
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7:51 am PDT, Sep 12,Tobi Hoffman, Massachusetts
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7:50 am PDT, Sep 12,Deborah Weinischke, Tennessee
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7:49 am PDT, Sep 12,Kent Lorbeck, Sweden
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7:47 am PDT, Sep 12,Robert Albright, New Mexico
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7:46 am PDT, Sep 12,Ann Alexander, New Mexico
# 25,107:
7:46 am PDT, Sep 12,Jeffrey Sanders, Washington
I'm hugely disappointed in Disney/ABC for its biased rewriting of modern history. Tell a friend.
# 25,106:
7:45 am PDT, Sep 12,Hannah Curtin, New Hampshire
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7:44 am PDT, Sep 12,Mary Galgan, New York
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7:43 am PDT, Sep 12,Angela Weaver, Ohio
# 25,103:
7:41 am PDT, Sep 12,Michael J Varela, Kentucky
Do not be like a Nazi propaganda arm of the Bush Cheney evil empire.
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7:39 am PDT, Sep 12,Eniko Barabas, Chile
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7:39 am PDT, Sep 12,Greg Perantoni, New York
1. The American people deserve to make up their minds on issues based on facts not self-serving fiction
2. You know the power of movies, and you are abusing that power
