[Davis Democrats] Davis School Board Meeting tonight--Scholastic Publ. Co. &ABC/Disney commit FRAUD on 9-11

[John Chendo]

ACTION: Contact the School Board members before the meeting tonight,
Thursday, Sept.7, of the Davis School Board.
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From: michael syvanen <syvanen at ucdavis.edu>
Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2006 11:40:35 -0700
To: John Chendo <jac07 at dcn.org>
Subject: Re: [Davis Democrats] FW: A Despicable, Irresponsible
Fraud--ABC/Disney commits FRAUD on 9-11

John

There is one thing that we can do here.   This program is being distributed
by Scholastic, a text book publisher.  We should put pressure on the school
board to threaten to boycott their product if they do not withdraw their
support.

Mike Syvanen

At 08:29 PM 9/6/2006, you wrote:

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>From: "Tom McMahon, Democratic Party" <democraticparty at democrats.org>
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>Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2006 19:06:13 -0500
>To: john chendo <jac07 at dcn.org>
>Subject: A Despicable, Irresponsible Fraud
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>   Dear john,  <http://www.democrats.org/pathto911> Does a major national
>broadcast network want to stain itself by presenting an irresponsible,
>slanderous, fraudulent, "docu-drama" to the American public? Not if you and
>I have the last word -- but either way, we're about to find out. The ABC
>television network -- a cog in the Walt Disney empire -- unleashed a
>promotional blitz in the last week for a new "docudrama" called "The Path to
>9/11". ABC has thrown its corporate might behind the two-night production,
>and bills it as a public service: a TV event, to quote the ABC tagline,
>"based on the 9/11 Commission Report". That's false. "The Path to 9/11" is
>actually a bald-faced attempt to slander Democrats and revise history right
>before Americans vote in a major election. The miniseries, which was put
>together by right-wing conservative writers, relies on the old GOP playbook
>of using terrorism to scare Americans. "The Path to 9/11" mocks the truth
>and dishonors the memory of 9/11 victims to serve a cheap, callous political
>agenda. It irresponsibly misrepresents the facts and completely distorts the
>truth. ABC/Disney executives need to hear from the public and understand
>that their abuse of the public trust comes with a cost. Tell Walt Disney CEO
>Robert Iger to keep this right-wing propaganda off the air -- we'll deliver
>your message: http://www.democrats.org/pathto911
><http://www.democrats.org/pathto911> This story is breaking quickly. The
>bias of the "docudrama" only became known when ABC began circulating
>previews recently. Less than two weeks ago, 9/11 Commission member Richard
>Ben-Veniste confronted a lead writer of "The Path to 9/11" after watching
>the first half of the miniseries at a screening, but most of what we know
>amounts to bits and pieces because ABC chose to screen the miniseries to
>conservative bloggers and right-wing media outlets exclusively. Almost none
>of the Democrats portrayed in the film have even been asked for their
>thoughts. But we still know enough, thanks to news accounts and crack
>research, to fact check "The Path to 9/11" as a biased, irresponsible mess.
>Here's what you need to know:
>* Richard Clarke -- the counterterrorism czar for the Clinton
>administration, now himself a consultant to ABC News -- describes a key
>scene in "The Path to 9/11" as "180 degrees from what happened." In the
>scene, a CIA field agent places a phone call to get the go ahead to kill
>Osama Bin Laden, then in his sights, only to have a senior Clinton
>administration official refuse and hang up the phone. Sandy Berger,
>President Clinton's National Security Advisor, called the same scene "a
>total fabrication. It did not happen." And Roger Cressey, a top Bush and
>Clinton counterterrorism official, said it was "something straight out of
>Disney and fantasyland. It's factually wrong. And that's shameful."
>* Another scene revives the old right-wing myth that press reporting made it
>impossible to track Osama bin Laden, accusing the Washington Post of blowing
>the secret that American intelligence tracked his satellite phone calls. In
>reality, responsibility for that blunder -- contrary to "The Path to 9/11"
>-- rests with none other than the arch-conservative Washington Times.
>* The former National Security Council head of counterterrorism says that
>President Clinton "approved every request made of him by the CIA and the
>U.S. military involving using force against bin Laden and al-Qaeda," and the
>9/11 report says the CIA had full authority from President Clinton to strike
>Bin Laden. Yet chief "Path to 9/11" scriptwriter Cyrus Nowrasteh, a friend
>of Rush Limbaugh, says the miniseries shows how President Clinton had
>"frequent opportunities in the '90s to stop Bin Laden in his tracks -- but
>lacked the will to do so."
>* ABC asked only the Republican co-chair of the 9/11 Commission, Tom Kean,
>Sr., to advise the makers of "The Path to 9/11". The producers optioned two
>books, one written by a Bush administration political appointee, as the
>basis of the screenplay -- yet bill the miniseries as "based on the 9/11
>Commission Report."
>This is a picture of bias -- a conservative attempt to rewrite the history
>of September 11 to blame Democrats, just in time for the election. Tell Walt
>Disney president Robert Iger that you hold his company responsible -- and
>that this community demands that ABC tell the truth:
>http://www.democrats.org/pathto911  <http://www.democrats.org/pathto911> ABC
>is trying to use of the airwaves -- airwaves owned by you and me, and loaned
>to broadcasters as a public trust -- to slander Democrats and sell a
>slanderous, irresponsible fraud to the American people, and they're
>shamefully doing it just weeks away from Election Day. The Walt Disney
>Corporation could have given Americans an honest look at September 11.
>Instead, the company abandoned its duty to the truth -- and embraced the
>fiction known as "The Path to 9/11." But ABC isn't the only company pushing
>this gross revision of history. ABC has enlisted the reputable education and
>children's entertainment company Scholastic, Inc. to send 100,000 letters to
>high school teachers, urging them to show students "The Path to 9/11".
>Scholastic has also created a discussion guide for teachers to use to
>encourage students and their families to watch this irresponsible fraud and
>then discuss it in school. The discussion guide does not in any way point
>out the concerns and criticisms that have been raised about the validity and
>accuracy of the film. We've got to stop this now. ABC/Disney must face an
>accountability moment. You can ratchet up the pressure on ABC by sending
>your own letter to Walt Disney CEO Robert Iger -- tell him to keep this
>propaganda off their air. http://www.democrats.org/pathto911
><http://www.democrats.org/pathto911> We'll keep you up to date as this story
>evolves. Thank you,
>Tom Tom McMahon
>Executive Director
>  Democratic National Committee
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