A BUZZFLASH INTERVIEW

Betrayal of the national security of my country is an act of treason.

-- Joseph Wilson

On August 3, 2005, we honored Joe Wilson and Valerie Plame with a BuzzFlash "Wings of Justice Award."  We noted then:

The ABC 9/11 Fiction and Control of the Political Agenda

Steven Jonas, MD, MPH

Sept. 11, 2006

In an editorial on September 9, 2006, BuzzFlash noted that: "Lost in the uproar over ABC subcontracting 9/11 over to right wing extremists is the smoking gun conclusion of a Republican/Democratic Senate report that says Saddam had no connection to al-Qaeda -- and that, indeed, he went to great lengths to keep them out of Iraq. That means Bush and Cheney are responsible for opening up Iraq to al-Qaeda -- and that they lied and lied again." On the same day, BuzzFlash also observed: "Who Does the Writer/Producer of the Infamous ABC ‘Path to 9/11' Fiction Mini-Series Give His Major Interview to? Radical Wing nut David Horowitz's Publication, That's Who. In it, the Writer/Director Heaps Praise on Bush, Scorns Clinton, Praises the Patriot Act, scurrilously attacks the film ‘Syriana,' and so on."

A BUZZFLASH NEWS ALERT

Last Friday BuzzFlash reported that ABC outsourced millions of dollars from American workers by filming much of The Path to 9/11 abroad for cheaper. Offshoring is nothing new to The Walt Disney Company or its subsidiaries: Disney has a grim history of sweatshops and worker abuse throughout the world.

BUZZFLASH MAILBAG

Subject: We Are Not Safer

WHAT ARE THE DEMOCRATIC LEADERS WAITING FOR?

Less than two months after President Clinton took the oath of office, The World Trade Center was attacked by a car bomb. Six people were killed. President Clinton took full responsibility and did not blame the previous administration headed by the senior Bush. All the terrorists involved were caught and are currently serving life sentences.

A BUZZFLASH NEWS ALERT

If you saw any of ABC's doc-faux-drama The Path to 9/11 last night, you should be more than convinced that the whole thing was indeed a Rovian propaganda piece to blame Clinton and benefit Bush. While some might find it hard to believe that the Disney-owned company is playing politics, it certainly would not be the first time.

Read about the video in this BuzzFlash Editorial: Minutes of Silence That Should Live in Infamy: As Americans Leapt to Their Deaths from the Twin Towers, George W. Bush Sat Cluelessly in a Florida Classroom, Endangering the Lives of the Children Around Him, Until His Handlers Could Figure Out What to Do With Him

First Part Of "Path To 9/11" Miniseries Get Crushed By Football Game

by Tony Peyser

The film's evangelical producers
Failed to do the proper planning;
They should've given a leading role
To either Eli or Peyton Manning.

A BUZZFLASH GUEST CONTRIBUTION
by George Lakoff & Evan Frisch

Language matters, because it can determine how we think and act.

For a few hours after the towers fell on 9/11, administration spokesmen referred to the event as a “crime.” Indeed, Colin Powell argued within the administration that it be treated as a crime. This would have involved international crime-fighting techniques: checking banks accounts, wire-tapping, recruiting spies and informants, engaging in diplomacy, cooperating with intelligence agencies in other governments, and if necessary, engaging in limited “police actions” with military force. Indeed, such methods have been the most successful so far in dealing with terrorism.

Monday is the fifth anniversary of IX-XI and President Bush has apparently decided to prepare us for our national day of mourning by delivering a week long series of seminars on fear mongering. Okay, okay, maybe "fear mongering" is a bit much. Perhaps a better phrase would be "PR campaign of cheap political calculation," or "systematic exploitative pandering" or "a typical sleazy example from the Karl Rove electioneering handbook." Or as we have to come know it during the last six years: "business as usual."

VERSE-CASE SCENARIO

Five Years Later, Here's The GOP's New Game Plan

by Tony Peyser

Deny anything
About "The Pet Goat"
Ignore every
Internet quote.