When Oliver Stone can create a 911 movie without controversy,but ABC can't

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The Noble Eightfold Path Away from The Path to 9/11 (1 comments )

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2. THEY'RE PROBABLY RUNNING IT WITHOUT COMMERCIALS TO SPARE ADVERTISERS THE PROBABILITY OF BEING BOYCOTTED. Which is not to say there's no one left to boycott, of course. Start with ABC itself, add Disneys Land and World, and then make your own list. Be creative!

3. WHEN YOU GIVE A COPY TO LIMBAUGH BUT NOT TO BILL CLINTON OR MADELEINE ALBRIGHT, YOUR INTENTIONS ARE CLEAR. Not to mention, when the writer you hire is Cyrus Nowrasteh who, while describing Michael Moore as "an out-of-control socialist weasel," is not above describing himself, ultra-weaselly, as "more of a libertarian than a strict conservative." That's what they all say. It's today's version of "I was a conduit" during Watergate. Now that their Dear Leader is revealed as a man physically incapable of telling the truth (and emotionally incapable of caring), the Glorious Cause a farrago of lies, and the GOP little more than an organized crime scam for conning the Christian rubes in the holy cause of petro-imperialism and war profiteering, you scan the landscape in vain to find any "conservatives." They're all "libertarians" now, which is weasel-speak for, "Don't blame me. Cheney said Rumsfeld knew what he was doing."

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6. WHEN OLIVER STONE CAN CREATE A 9-11 MOVIE WITHOUT CONTROVERSY, BUT ABC CAN'T, SOMEONE AT DISNEY HAS TO BE FIRED--REPEATEDLY. But then, maybe it's not "can't," but rather "doesn't want to." Why else hire a director whose principle credit is his religious affiliation? Thus Digby, from the excellent site Hullaballoo: "David Cunningham, the young director, is the son of a famous leader of a controversial evangelical youth ministry called Youth With A Mission. It has been heavily criticized over the years for its authoritarian teachings and cult-like attributes. Cunningham's alma mater is the YWAM 'college' called the University of Nations, which teaches filmmaking as a way to spread the gospel." Good news and bad news about the gospel: "gospel" means "good news," which is the good news. It has nothing to do with "the truth," which is the bad news.

7. ATTN. SCHOLASTIC: SHAME ON YOU. LYING TO THE CHILDREN! Okay, the study guide this company is issuing to school systems for this feast of televisual baloney is for grades 9-12, which means the intended student audience consists of teenagers, who themselves can be shameless liars. But still: they may be drug-using, sex-having, hip-hop loving, computer-hacking young hoodlums, but they're children, damn it.

8. DISNEY HAS PRODUCED A SERIES DEFENDING BUSH AND BLAMING CLINTON: THE TERRORISTS HAVE WON. Nuff said.

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1. That's just what we should call

the movie: The Terrorists Have Won Ministries
And ABC the Terrorist aiding network.