Re: True Majority's petition vs "ABC's Upcoming 9/11 Propaganda Film"
Not a few of us on the Left, it appears, have decided to pursue the same kind of prior censorship based on rumor and innuendo that is routinely engaged in by the Right. Perhaps I'd be more offended by ABC's alleged dishonesty and partisanship in its fictional account (if fictional it is: I have no idea, having seen it no more than anyone else accusing it of bias) of the run-up to 9-11, if it was a surprise -- ABC? making up stuff to discredit Clinton and the Democrats? imagine that -- but I do expect more of progressives. So don't count this as a vote in favor of trying to shut down ABC's propaganda machine; it's a free country, still, despite the best efforts of the ABCs, Murdochs, and their sorry political cohort to make it otherwise (plus, it's worth keeping in mind, to brighten the darkest hours of our paranoia, that the Right thinks the networks, including ABC, are in league with Al Franken, Hugo Chavez, and Satan). If the series is as biased as it is said to be, it's ABC's credibility that will suffer. The American people are willing to put up with a lot of crap from the media barons, but using an iconic national tragedy for partisan advantage, the network may come to find, is probably not included in the pass. In any event, it is never the Left that benefits from a narrowing of the field of debate.
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