Referring to the controversial docudrama Path to 9/11, Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean is calling on ABC/Disney to reveal "who funded this $40 million dollar slanderous propaganda," in a DNC press release received by RAW STORY.Here's the full text of the DNC press release.
"It's deeply disappointing that ABC would put something on the air that has been proven to have factual inaccuracies about one of the most important events in our nation's history," said Dean in the press release. "ABC should not air this distortion of history."
Path to 9/11 writer/producer Cyrus Nowrasteh "has ties to an evangelical Christian group whose goals include 'transform[ing] Hollywood from the inside out,' according to research by readers of prominent blogs," Justin Rood reported for TPMmuckraker earlier today. "Path director David L. Cunningham is also involved in The Film Institute, an offshoot of the Hawaii-based global evangelical group, Youth With a Mission."
"The fact that the writer/producer of the piece is a well known conservative raises additional concerns and questions," said Dean. "The American people deserve to know who funded this $40 million dollar slanderous propaganda."
"Use of the public airwaves is a privilege conferred upon broadcasters in the public interest," Dean continued. "It comes with a responsibility to the American people and a responsibility to the truth."
Friday, September 08, 2006
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In a word - wingnuts.
I find Scholastic's participation in this farce to be the most disturbing. it's one thing to air a piece of shit "docudrama" that places with the accuracy of a historical event (remember that movie Pearl Harbor from some years back, also a Disney product I think, that seemed to exonerate the Japanese from the attack?), but it's another to distribute that bullshit history to kids in classrooms.
Scholastic is a piece of shit company. I do some work with them and they are one of the cheapest, stingiest, most profit-oriented companies I deal with as an educator. I wonder how it is that they are involved in this docudrama (other than the almighty dollar.)
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