Lies, Damn Lies and a New Disney World Order

Here's a chance to let the Mickey Mouse network know how you feel about their plans to broadcast a Republican-written, inaccurate and inflammatory account of the events leading up to the 9/11 attacks. In this version, it's all Bill Clinton's fault that we were attacked, and George Bush is blameless (and a hero, to boot). Unless your only source of information for the past five years has been Rush Limbaugh and Little Green Footballs, you know that's not what happened. Sign the petition and pass the word. You can also call ABC directly at 212-456-7777.

***UPDATE*** Naturally, the inimitable Glenn Greenwald has a piece up this morning delineating exactly how the ABC program gets it wrong in so many ways. Here are just two relevant paragraphs:

The revisionism at the heart of the praise which Bush supporters are lavishing on this mini-series is manifest. The notion that Republicans wanted a stronger and more aggressive approach to terrorism than the Clinton administration took is pure fantasy. During Clinton's second term, Republicans were focused on Monica Lewinsky, not Osama bin Laden. When Clinton was President, and during the Bush presidency prior to the 9/11 attacks, Bush supporters couldn't have cared any less about Islamic terrorism. Even Clinton's attacks on Al Qaeda were immediately used as a tool to focus more attention on Ken Starr's investigation.

All "docudramas" dramatize and even fictionalize part of what they depict, but it is hard to imagine a more inappropriate venue for fictionalizing events than a film which purports to document the events leading up to the 9/11 attacks and assign blame for those attacks. It becomes particularly egregious when it is claimed -- falsely -- that the film is based upon the bipartisan 9/11 Commission Report, rather than a highly partisan and factually false rendition of events.