Right Wingers and ABC

And still the right-wing sympathizers think that there’s such a monster as the so-called liberal media:

“Path to 9/11″ Maker Has Evangelical Ties
By Justin Rood - September 8, 2006, 2:39 PM

The director of ABC’s controversial “Path to 9/11″ docudrama has ties to an evangelical Christian group whose goals include “transform[ing] Hollywood from the inside out.”

Update: This story just gets murkier and murkier… just who is behind this fake "docudrama"? Max Blumenthal, over at HuffingtonPost.com, has some answers:

“The Path to 9/11″ is produced and promoted by a well-honed propaganda operation consisting of a network of little-known right-wingers working from within Hollywood to counter its supposedly liberal bias. This is the network within the ABC network. Its godfather is far right activist David Horowitz, who has worked for more than a decade to establish a right-wing presence in Hollywood and to discredit mainstream film and TV production. On this project, he is working with a secretive evangelical religious right group founded by The Path to 9/11’s director David Cunningham that proclaims its goal to “transform Hollywood” in line with its messianic vision.

Before The Path to 9/11 entered the production stage, Disney/ABC contracted David Cunningham as the film’s director. Cunningham is no ordinary Hollywood journeyman. He is in fact the son of Loren Cunningham, founder of the right-wing evangelical group Youth With A Mission (YWAM). The young Cunningham helped found an auxiliary of his father’s group called The Film Institute (TFI), which, according to its mission statement, is “dedicated to a Godly transformation and revolution TO and THROUGH the Film and Televisionindustry.” As part of TFI’s long-term strategy, Cunningham helped place interns from Youth With A Mission’s in film industry jobs “so that they can begin to impact and transform Hollywood from the inside out,” according to a YWAM report.

These Images Should Be Everywhere

I’ve not followed the brouhaha over ABC’s fictional recreation of the events that, according to Disney, led to 9/11. You can read some of the controversy here:

Former secretary of state Madeleine K. Albright called one scene involving her “false and defamatory.” Former national security adviser Samuel R. “Sandy” Berger said the film “flagrantly misrepresents my personal actions.” And former White House aide Bruce R. Lindsey, who now heads the William J. Clinton Foundation, said: “It is unconscionable to mislead the American public about one of the most horrendous tragedies our country has ever known.”

In fact, the screenwriter of what’s being called the 9/11 fakeumentary is reported to having invented an event which is presented in the Disney drama as if it had actually occurred — Crooks and Liars brings us the tape.  

But that’s not what I originally wanted to write about.  Instead, I’m more interested in some of the images I’ve seen in response to Disney’s propaganda in support of the Republican party.  Here are two examples:

These are just two examples of the sort of images that are being generated by the grassroots in an effort to fight back against Disney’s GOP campaign.  I think it would be great if the Disney brand took a hit — a bad hit — after being so closely associated with such an unpopular president.

As I mentioned elsewhere, if you have a blog, please post these images everywhere.