Variety: Under fire, ABC mulls yanking mini - Call Your Local ABC Station!

[Dems Will Win]

Breathless anticipation...

The Path to 9/11" is looking a lot like "The Reagans, Part II."

Bill Clinton loyalists are demanding wholesale changes to the upcoming miniseries -- and while ABC is making some snips, the alterations, insiders say, may not please the Dems.

But a bombshell decision may happen anyway: Sources close to the project say the network, which has been in a media maelstrom over the pic, is mulling the idea of yanking the mini altogether.

As for specific criticisms -- and changes -- the original mini contained a scene in which then-National Security Adviser Sandy Berger declines to give the CIA authority to capture or kill Osama bin Laden, even when CIA operatives know where the al-Qaeda leader is.

"This account has been expressly contradicted by Richard Clarke, a high-ranking counterterrorism official in both the Clinton and Bush administrations," certain lawmakers wrote in a letter to Disney topper Bob Iger.

While ABC declined to comment on specific changes, it's believed that the Berger scene was among those being reworked.

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Four senior Democratic lawmakers also joined the chorus of former Clinton administration officials calling for removal of what they claim are "false assertions of blame" and "partisan spin" in the mini.


http://www.variety.com/VR1117949675.html

Call Your Local ABC station today and ask them to not run the movie. Threaten loss of license for politicizing the public airwaves. Then organize your friends and go down and PROTEST WITH SIGNS at the station! This tactic already got protestors on the NYC ABC local news!!

Anybody have a good sign?

How about: A-B-C-G-O-P-Y-U-C-K-Y!

Let's all sing along!

[Ian David]

1. Done! Asked them not to Catapult the Propoganda for Bush. n/t

[Ian David]

2. Is there any way we can get a list of advertisers on the program? n/t

[Orangepeel]

3. they were going to run it commercial free (n/t)

[Roy]

8. which even more makes this an in-kind political contribution N/T

[calimary]

4. Here's what I just sent to Disney:

Gentlepeople,

PLEASE do the right thing. Not the "right" thing (as in pandering to the so-called "right" wing of American politics. PLEASE don't slander or libel the Clinton administration! "The Path to 9/11" is filled with lies, distortions, misrepresentations, and deceptions. PLEASE don't put it on the air! I don't want to feel compelled to stop watching ABC, or joining the growing boycott of ABC sponsors. But if this despicable miscarriage of truth and justice is allowed to air, I'm going to have to do both those things.

PLEASE pull this awful program!!!

Thank you.

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BTW - good thread here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.ph...

BTW part two: ALL that contact info and more has been updated in the Five Star Activists' Resource Thread. Check Part Sixty, ESPECIALLY the Third Add.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.ph...

[calimary]

7. Links didn't work. Here's a correction:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=2817563&mesg_id=2817563

[Liberalynn]

5. I've called both

the Rochester and Syracuse affiliates here in NY as both air on Time Warner here!

I also wrote both.

They made no comment other than to say they would pass my comments along.

[Seabiscuit]

6. My letter to Iger at Disney

accompanying the DNC letter supplied by McMahon:

"As a Disney shareholder, I would view the airing of this irresponsible and fraudulent rewriting of American history as an egregious breach of Disney's fiduciary duties. A major libel suit against ABC and Disney from Clinton and other Clinton administration officials who are the target of outrageous defamatory falsehoods in this spurious documentary is not the only concern: there could be massive boycotts of Disney themeparks and products by an angry public, all of which would drive the price of Disney stock down, resulting in sell-offs and a huge shareholder derivative lawsuit against Disney. I can't believe there aren't enough lawyers with the good sense at ABC and Disney to convince their executives of the sheer folly of airing this disastrous politically motivated smear piece."