Democrat Senators Show Their Courage re 9/11

Who in the press will stick up for ABC's right to air this miniseries without having its broadcast license threatened?...National Review,"Senate Dems Threaten Disney's Broadcast License," Stephen Spruiell Reporting, 9/8/2006, National Review Online

What's he talking about? Showing perhaps a preview of their plans for foreign policy, Democrat Senators Schumer, Durbin, Reid, and Dorgan sent a message to ABC with a thinly veiled threat.

"We write with serious concerns about the planned upcoming broadcast of The Path to 9/11 mini-series on September 10 and 11. Countless reports from experts on 9/11 who have viewed the program indicate numerous and serious inaccuracies that will undoubtedly serve to misinform the American people about the tragic events surrounding the terrible attacks of that day. Furthermore, the manner in which this program has been developed, funded, and advertised suggests a partisan bent unbecoming of a major company like Disney and a major and well respected news organization like ABC. We therefore urge you to cancel this broadcast to cease Disney’s plans to use it as a teaching tool in schools across America through Scholastic. Presenting such deeply flawed and factually inaccurate misinformation to the American public and to children would be a gross miscarriage of your corporate and civic responsibility to the law, to your shareholders, and to the nation....The Communications Act of 1934 provides your network with a free broadcast license predicated on the fundamental understanding of your principle obligation to act as a trustee of the public airwaves in serving the public interest....("Senators Threaten..., continued)

So, heroic Senators Reid, Durbin, Schumer, and Dorgan have a new foreign policy: censor anyone who disagrees with their version of the truth. We've had experience with people like this in the past, such as George the Third, not to mention Stalin, Hitler, Pol Pot, Fidel Castro, the usual lot. There's a marvelously classic use of the word "free" in the Democrat Senators's broadcast.

"We urge you, after full consideration of the facts, to uphold your responsibilities as a respected member of American society and as a beneficiary of the free use of the public airwaves to cancel this factually inaccurate and deeply misguided program..."(Senators Threaten..., continued)

To Lefties, of course "free" has only to do with money. Freedom is an alien concept to the Left, as it presupposes the autonomy of citizens.

There's no reason to discuss the cowardice of ABC in already caving in to the fatuous lies of Bill Clinton about this program; that's the norm in network television. But this kind of threat, if ABC folds, tells us all we need to know about the Democrat Party's notion of national security: better not to know an inconvenient truth.


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