The ABC thing gets WORSE...W wants to do a pre-game address Monday.

[Atman]

At 9:00. You know, like a lead-in to his big ABC infomercial. If ABC grants him airtime during their scandalous docuganda "Path To 9/11," this bullshit has officially gone out of control, and the corporate sponsors of BushCo, yes, including Steve Jobs, kids, if that is what it takes! must be held accountable for their complicity in undermining the democratic process.

But we shouldn't stop at boycotts. Why not a Congressional investigation into the relationship between BushCo and the production of this docuganda? We already know that BushCo has been caught repeatedly lying about its fake news plants. And now, a major network, with shareholders one would assume, is giving away five hours of air time for a program which isn't even a serious documentary or historical piece? What the bloody hell is going on here? If this doesn't stink to high heaven, especially now that Dick Cheney and Karl Rove will be grinding the organ while Chimpy puts on a pre-game show for part two of his history-altering valentine from ABC, then we've just completely jumped the shark as a country. Bush is putting on his variety show now, a sure sign his writers have run out of ideas.

[Neshanic]

1. "yes, including Steve Jobs, kids"...oh the humanity! Not that!

[peacetalksforall]

2. Docuganda. Perfect! n/t kr

[blm]

3. The manipulation is so apparent. The media was used throughout the

2004 election, too. Remember the terror alerts that would come along just as Kerry would generate alot of positive stories?

Eric Boehlert tracked how Homeland Security was used throughout the 2004 campaign, and I expect it is starting up again for 2006.

From The Nation:

Politics, the Media and 9/11

Eric Boehlert Thu Sep 7, 2:30 PM ET

The Nation -- It was Sunday, August 1, 2004, and Senator John Kerry's presidential prospects appeared healthy. Just days earlier Kerry had accepted his party's nomination at the Democratic National Convention in Boston, and now Kerry was making the rounds on the morning talk shows, aggressively issuing his call for change.


At noon Kerry, sitting dead-even in the polls with the incumbent, wartime President, began his fourth and final Sunday morning television interview, appearing on CNN Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer. The show opened with a report from Iraq about that day's multiple bomb attacks against Christian churches: "Absolute mayhem on the streets of Baghdad," announced the CNN reporter. The dispatch reinforced Kerry's campaign pitch that President George W. Bush had misled America into a disastrous war.

By 12:30 pm, however, everything had changed, including Kerry's chances for victory in November. "It was like we were charging down court to score and suddenly a foul was called," recalls Kerry's spokesman, David Wade.

Because less than ten minutes after thanking Kerry for appearing on his show, Blitzer pivoted and announced, "We're getting some breaking news information. CNN has now learned that the Secretary of Homeland Security, Tom Ridge, is about to announce that the nation will go to a higher level of security..."

Two points that afternoon became glaringly obvious: The "war on terror," Bush's strong suit politically, had returned to the forefront, thanks to the warnings the President himself had signed into action; and the media, particularly cable television outlets, were going to hype the "chilling" terror scare with endless, excited saturation coverage, and do it at Kerry's expense.

Snip...

Now, two years later, a key question is whether history is about to repeat itself when it comes to the "war on terror." Surveying the political landscape, veteran prognosticator Charlie Cook recently noted, "Unless something very dramatic happens" in the coming weeks, Democrats will reclaim control of the House of Representatives this November as part of an electoral "rout." It's that caveat about something "dramatic" that has Democrats worrying--not because they necessarily fear a terrorist attack on American soil but because they fear another signature terror scare from the Bush Administration.

They also need to worry about the role the media will play if that occurs. Because if one of the enduring legacies of 9/11 has been this Administration's politicization of terror threats inside the United States, the media's lapdog hyping of the threats--its tendency to act as a megaphone instead of a filter, even in the wake of the Administration's clear record of distortion--is another. Too often anxious for access and too nervous about allegations of liberal bias (and, to be fair, somewhat constrained by the fact that the Administration often controls key information and decides how to disseminate it), news organizations remain much more willing to cheerlead terror warnings than seriously question them or put them in proper political context.
>>>>>>

[Cooley Hurd]

4. I've read that Path To 9/11, part 2 deals with Bush, pre-9/11...

...and isn't necessarily flattering (although it pales in comparison to the hatchet job done on the Clinton Admin). Perhaps the timing of Bush's address has something to do with pre-empting Part 2 (effectively burying the unflattering Bush part)?:shrug:

[napi21]

5. There's going to be lots of people watching Mon Nite Football

instead of ABC or any silly thing Shrub might have to say! I know Iwould watch the Food Network before wasting my time and aggrivating my nerves with either their stupid made up movie oR Shrub!

[BrotherBuzz]

20. A lot of sheep will be tuned into ABC looking for the damn game...

I'm just saying. :shrug:

[madokie]

6. couldn't agree with a post more

[Hugin]

7. We jumped the shark awhile back...

Nice rant tho, I agree completely.

[Mountainman]

8. It seems this whole thing was planned well in advance of the elections

This looks to me like part of the White House plan aimed at the November elections. In reality it is the swift boating of the whole Democrat party.

[peacetalksforall]

9. delete - dupe

[Fridays Child]

10. Where did you hear this?

Is there a link or a thread on it? If something that blatant takes place, ABC should lose its license.

[Atman]

11. It was just announced on CNN...W has a "major address" he wants to give.

And he asked for Monday at 9:00 pm to do it.

[Raffi Ella]

12. wow,Fascism

They aren't even trying to hide it...

[peacetalksforall]

14. Why hide it - they are the PNACO-FASCISTS.

[hvn_nbr_2]

17. PNACzis? n/t

[Raffi Ella]

25. yeah,well

the tide is turning.Guess they feel the need to pull out all the stops before real investigations start...

[cboy4]

13. I think the bullshit has officially been out of control since the idiot

seized the White House in January 2001 (or a few months before), but I know exactly what you're saying!!



edit - to add b.s. meter

[Spearman87]

15. Actually, this might be an easy way out for ABC

Bush's speech may Pre-empt the miniseries, including the part that shows Clinton Administration letting Bin Laden go. Unless they decide to move it to Tuesday (?)

[BlueEyedSon]

16. The US jumped the shark in Dec 2000, fyi. nt

[SDDEM06]

18. Mussolini.... Hitler... Pinochet.... Hussein.... Castro... Bush....

Dictators all. And some of them were even elected to office in the beginning...

[savemefromdumbya]

19. Someone needs to arrest George Bush

[paparush]

26. Someone needs to ....

_ _ _ _ _ _ George Bush and then _ _ _ _ _ _, _ _ _ _ _ _, and _ _ _ _ __ George Bush while Dick Cheney _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ and Condi Rice both _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ a _ _ _ _ _ _!!!

Fill in yer own blanks...!!

[savemefromdumbya]

28. who would dare

[nashville_brook]

21. if there's one thing Americans HATE, it's Shark-jumping!

lie us into war. coverup false flap ops. but DO NOT allow your image to JUMP THE SHARK!

you can comeback from affairs.
you can comeback from lousy campaigns.
but you'll never comeback from the sharkjump.

[Festivito]

22. Do the Dems get a rebuttle? I'd love to see a bunch talking in turn.

Clinton, Berger, ...
. we did not get to preview this movie despite requesting a copy, and copies were given to others, only on one partisan side. ...
.. oh I could go on and on...

[dogday]

23. And it just keeps on getting better folks...

There is alot of time and money invested into this project to be sure....

[xchrom]

24. when you're trying to create a permanent republick party majority

what won't you do?

remember THAT is the goal.

[Fridays Child]

27. Republick...I like that.

:thumbsup:

[xchrom]

29. me too -- but i stole it from somebody else.

i forget who --

THANKS whoever you are....