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Not All Right Wing Conspiracies Are Imaginary |
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#Max Blumenthal: Discover the Secret Right-Wing Network Behind ABC's
Posted by: "Zepp" The_Zepp
Sat Sep 9, 2006 6:54 am (PST)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/max-blumenthal/discover-the-secret-right_b_29015.html
September 9, 2006 The Huffington Post
Max Blumenthal
09.08.2006
Discover the Secret Right-Wing Network Behind ABC's 9/11 Deception (27
comments)
Less than 72 hours before ABC's "The Path to 9/11" is scheduled to air,
the network is suddenly under siege. On Tuesday, ABC was forced to
concede that "The Path to 9/11" is "a dramatization, not a documentary."
The film deceptively invents scenes to depict former President Bill
Clinton's handling of the Al Qaeda threat.
Now, ABC claims to be is editing those false sequences to satisfy
critics so the show can go on -- even if it still remains a gross
distortion of history. And as it does so, ABC advances the illusion that
the deceptive nature of "The Path to 9/11" is an honest mistake
committed by a hardworking but admittedly fumbling team of
well-intentioned Hollywood professionals who wanted nothing less than to
entertain America. But this is another Big Lie.
In fact, "The Path to 9/11" is produced and promoted by a well-honed
propaganda operation consisting of a network of little-known
right-wingers working from within Hollywood to counter its supposedly
liberal bias. This is the network within the ABC network. Its godfather
is far right activist David Horowitz, who has worked for more than a
decade to establish a right-wing presence in Hollywood and to discredit
mainstream film and TV production. On this project, he is working with a
secretive evangelical religious right group founded by The Path to
9/11's director David Cunningham that proclaims its goal to "transform
Hollywood" in line with its messianic vision.
Before The Path to 9/11 entered the production stage, Disney/ABC
contracted David Cunningham as the film's director. Cunningham is no
ordinary Hollywood journeyman. He is in fact the son of Loren
Cunningham, founder of the right-wing evangelical group Youth With A
Mission (YWAM). The young Cunningham helped found an auxiliary of his
father's group called The Film Institute (TFI), which, according to its
mission statement, is "dedicated to a Godly transformation and
revolution TO and THROUGH the Film and Televisionindustry." As part of
TFI's long-term strategy, Cunningham helped place interns from Youth
With A Mission's in film industry jobs "so that they can begin to impact
and transform Hollywood from the inside out," according to a YWAM report.
Last June, Cunningham's TFI announced it was producing its first film,
mysteriously titled "Untitled History Project." "TFI's first project is
a doozy," a newsletter to YWAM members read. "Simply being referred to
as: The Untitled History Project, it is already being called the
television event of the decade and not one second has been put to film
yet. Talk about great expectations!" (A web edition of the newsletter
was mysteriously deleted yesterday but has been cached on Google at the
link above).
The following month, on July 28, the New York Post reported that ABC was
filming a mini-series "under a shroud of secrecy" about the 9/11
attacks. "At the moment, ABC officials are calling the miniseries
'Untitled Commission Report' and producers refer to it as the 'Untitled
History Project,'" the Post noted.
Early on, Cunningham had recruited a young Iranian-American screenwriter
named Cyrus Nowrasteh to write the script of his secretive "Untitled"
film. Not only is Nowrasteh an outspoken conservative, he is also a
fervent member of the emerging network of right-wing people burrowing
into the film industry with ulterior sectarian political and religious
agendas, like Cunningham.
Nowrasteh's conservatism was on display when he appeared as a featured
speaker at the Liberty Film Festival (LFF), an annual event founded in
2004 to premier and promote conservative-themed films supposedly too
"politically incorrect" to gain acceptance at mainstream film festivals.
This June, while The Path to 9/11 was being filmed, LFF founders
Govindini Murty and Jason Apuzzo -- both friends of Nowrasteh --
announced they were "partnering" with right-wing activist David
Horowitz. Indeed, the 2006 LFF is listed as "A Program of the David
Horowitz Freedom Center."
Since the inauguration of Bill Clinton in 1992, Horowitz has labored to
create a network of politically active conservatives in Hollywood. His
Hollywood nest centers around his Wednesday Morning Club, a weekly
meet-and-greet session for Left Coast conservatives that has been graced
with speeches by the likes of Newt Gingrich, Victor Davis Hanson and
Christopher Hitchens. The group's headquarters are at the offices of
Horowitz's Center for the Study of Popular Culture, a "think tank"
bankrolled for years with millions by right-wing sugardaddies like
eccentric far right billionaire Richard Mellon Scaife. (Scaife financed
the Arkansas Project, a $2.3 million dirty tricks operation that
included paying sources for
negative stories about Bill Clinton that turned out to be false.)
With the LFF now under Horowitz's control, his political machine began
drumming up support for Cunningham and Nowrasteh's "Untitled" project,
which finally was revealed in late summer as "The Path to 9/11."
Horowitz's PR blitz began with an August 16 interview with Nowrasteh on
his FrontPageMag webzine. In the interview, Nowrasteh foreshadowed the
film's assault on Clinton's record on fighting terror. "The 9/11 report
details the Clinton's administration's response -- or lack of response
-- to Al Qaeda and how this emboldened Bin Laden to keep attacking
American interests," Nowrasteh told FrontPageMag's Jamie Glazov. "There
simply was no response. Nothing."
A week later, ABC hosted LFF co-founder Murty and several other
conservative operatives at an advance screening of The Path to 9/11.
(While ABC provided 900 DVDs of the film to conservatives, Clinton
administration officials and objective reviewers from mainstream outlets
were denied them.) Murty returned with a glowing review for FrontPageMag
that emphasized the film's partisan nature. "'The Path to 9/11' is one
of the best, most intelligent, most pro-American miniseries I've ever
seen on TV, and conservatives should support
it and promote it as vigorously as possible," Murty wrote. As a result
of the special access granted by ABC, Murty's article was the first
published review of The Path to 9/11, preceding those by the New York
Times and LA Times by more than a week.
Murty followed her review with a blast email to conservative websites
such as Liberty Post and Free Republic on September 1 urging their
readers to throw their weight behind ABC's mini-series. "Please do
everything you can to spread the word about this excellent miniseries,"
Murty wrote, "so that 'The Path to 9/11' gets the highest ratings
possible when it airs on September 10 & 11! If this show gets huge
ratings, then ABC will be more likely to produce pro-American movies and
TV shows in the future!"
Murty's efforts were supported by Appuzo, who handles LFF's
heavily-trafficked blog, Libertas. Appuzo was instrumental in marketing
The Path to 9/11 to conservatives, writing in a blog post on September
2, "Make no mistake about what this film does, among other things: it
places the question of the Clinton Administration's culpability for the
9/11 attacks front and center... Bravo to Cyrus Nowrasteh and David
Cunningham for creating this gritty, stylish and gripping piece of
entertainment."
When a group of leading Senate Democrats sent a letter to ABC CEO Robert
Iger urging him to cancel The Path to 9/11 because of its glaring
factual errors and distortions, Apuzzo launched a retaliatory campaign
to paint the Democrats as foes of free speech. "Here at LIBERTAS we urge
the public to make noise over this, and to demand that Democrats back
down," he wrote on September 7th. "What is at stake is nothing short of
the 1st Amendment."
At FrontPageMag, Horowitz singled out Nowrasteh as the victim. "The
attacks by former president Bill Clinton, former Clinton Administration
officials and Democratic US senators on Cyrus Nowrasteh's ABC
mini-series "The Path to 9/11" are easily the gravest and most brazen
and damaging governmental attacks on the civil liberties of ordinary
Americans since 9/11," Horowitz declared.
Now, as discussion grows over the false character of The Path to 9/11,
the right-wing network that brought it to fruition is ratcheting up its
PR efforts. Murty will appear tonight on CNN's Glenn Beck show and The
Situation Room, according to Libertas in order to respond to "the major
disinformation campaign now being run by Democrats to block the truth
about what actually happened during the Clinton years."
While this network claims its success and postures as the true victims,
the ABC network suffers a PR catastrophe. It's almost as though it was
complacent about an attack on its reputation by a band of political
terrorists.
"Now, by the way, any time you hear the United States government talking
about wiretap, it requires -- a wiretap requires a court order. Nothing has
changed, by the way. When we're talking about chasing down terrorists, we're
talking about getting a court order before we do so"
-George W. Bush, April 20, 2004
Not dead, in jail, or a slave? Thank a liberal!
Pay your taxes so the rich don't have to.
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#Max Blumenthal: Discover the Secret Right-Wing Network Behind ABC's
Posted by: "Zepp" The_Zepp
Sat Sep 9, 2006 6:54 am (PST)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/max-blumenthal/discover-the-secret-right_b_29015.html
September 9, 2006 The Huffington Post
Max Blumenthal
09.08.2006
Discover the Secret Right-Wing Network Behind ABC's 9/11 Deception (27
comments)
Less than 72 hours before ABC's "The Path to 9/11" is scheduled to air,
the network is suddenly under siege. On Tuesday, ABC was forced to
concede that "The Path to 9/11" is "a dramatization, not a documentary."
The film deceptively invents scenes to depict former President Bill
Clinton's handling of the Al Qaeda threat.
Now, ABC claims to be is editing those false sequences to satisfy
critics so the show can go on -- even if it still remains a gross
distortion of history. And as it does so, ABC advances the illusion that
the deceptive nature of "The Path to 9/11" is an honest mistake
committed by a hardworking but admittedly fumbling team of
well-intentioned Hollywood professionals who wanted nothing less than to
entertain America. But this is another Big Lie.
In fact, "The Path to 9/11" is produced and promoted by a well-honed
propaganda operation consisting of a network of little-known
right-wingers working from within Hollywood to counter its supposedly
liberal bias. This is the network within the ABC network. Its godfather
is far right activist David Horowitz, who has worked for more than a
decade to establish a right-wing presence in Hollywood and to discredit
mainstream film and TV production. On this project, he is working with a
secretive evangelical religious right group founded by The Path to
9/11's director David Cunningham that proclaims its goal to "transform
Hollywood" in line with its messianic vision.
Before The Path to 9/11 entered the production stage, Disney/ABC
contracted David Cunningham as the film's director. Cunningham is no
ordinary Hollywood journeyman. He is in fact the son of Loren
Cunningham, founder of the right-wing evangelical group Youth With A
Mission (YWAM). The young Cunningham helped found an auxiliary of his
father's group called The Film Institute (TFI), which, according to its
mission statement, is "dedicated to a Godly transformation and
revolution TO and THROUGH the Film and Televisionindustry." As part of
TFI's long-term strategy, Cunningham helped place interns from Youth
With A Mission's in film industry jobs "so that they can begin to impact
and transform Hollywood from the inside out," according to a YWAM report.
Last June, Cunningham's TFI announced it was producing its first film,
mysteriously titled "Untitled History Project." "TFI's first project is
a doozy," a newsletter to YWAM members read. "Simply being referred to
as: The Untitled History Project, it is already being called the
television event of the decade and not one second has been put to film
yet. Talk about great expectations!" (A web edition of the newsletter
was mysteriously deleted yesterday but has been cached on Google at the
link above).
The following month, on July 28, the New York Post reported that ABC was
filming a mini-series "under a shroud of secrecy" about the 9/11
attacks. "At the moment, ABC officials are calling the miniseries
'Untitled Commission Report' and producers refer to it as the 'Untitled
History Project,'" the Post noted.
Early on, Cunningham had recruited a young Iranian-American screenwriter
named Cyrus Nowrasteh to write the script of his secretive "Untitled"
film. Not only is Nowrasteh an outspoken conservative, he is also a
fervent member of the emerging network of right-wing people burrowing
into the film industry with ulterior sectarian political and religious
agendas, like Cunningham.
Nowrasteh's conservatism was on display when he appeared as a featured
speaker at the Liberty Film Festival (LFF), an annual event founded in
2004 to premier and promote conservative-themed films supposedly too
"politically incorrect" to gain acceptance at mainstream film festivals.
This June, while The Path to 9/11 was being filmed, LFF founders
Govindini Murty and Jason Apuzzo -- both friends of Nowrasteh --
announced they were "partnering" with right-wing activist David
Horowitz. Indeed, the 2006 LFF is listed as "A Program of the David
Horowitz Freedom Center."
Since the inauguration of Bill Clinton in 1992, Horowitz has labored to
create a network of politically active conservatives in Hollywood. His
Hollywood nest centers around his Wednesday Morning Club, a weekly
meet-and-greet session for Left Coast conservatives that has been graced
with speeches by the likes of Newt Gingrich, Victor Davis Hanson and
Christopher Hitchens. The group's headquarters are at the offices of
Horowitz's Center for the Study of Popular Culture, a "think tank"
bankrolled for years with millions by right-wing sugardaddies like
eccentric far right billionaire Richard Mellon Scaife. (Scaife financed
the Arkansas Project, a $2.3 million dirty tricks operation that
included paying sources for
negative stories about Bill Clinton that turned out to be false.)
With the LFF now under Horowitz's control, his political machine began
drumming up support for Cunningham and Nowrasteh's "Untitled" project,
which finally was revealed in late summer as "The Path to 9/11."
Horowitz's PR blitz began with an August 16 interview with Nowrasteh on
his FrontPageMag webzine. In the interview, Nowrasteh foreshadowed the
film's assault on Clinton's record on fighting terror. "The 9/11 report
details the Clinton's administration's response -- or lack of response
-- to Al Qaeda and how this emboldened Bin Laden to keep attacking
American interests," Nowrasteh told FrontPageMag's Jamie Glazov. "There
simply was no response. Nothing."
A week later, ABC hosted LFF co-founder Murty and several other
conservative operatives at an advance screening of The Path to 9/11.
(While ABC provided 900 DVDs of the film to conservatives, Clinton
administration officials and objective reviewers from mainstream outlets
were denied them.) Murty returned with a glowing review for FrontPageMag
that emphasized the film's partisan nature. "'The Path to 9/11' is one
of the best, most intelligent, most pro-American miniseries I've ever
seen on TV, and conservatives should support
it and promote it as vigorously as possible," Murty wrote. As a result
of the special access granted by ABC, Murty's article was the first
published review of The Path to 9/11, preceding those by the New York
Times and LA Times by more than a week.
Murty followed her review with a blast email to conservative websites
such as Liberty Post and Free Republic on September 1 urging their
readers to throw their weight behind ABC's mini-series. "Please do
everything you can to spread the word about this excellent miniseries,"
Murty wrote, "so that 'The Path to 9/11' gets the highest ratings
possible when it airs on September 10 & 11! If this show gets huge
ratings, then ABC will be more likely to produce pro-American movies and
TV shows in the future!"
Murty's efforts were supported by Appuzo, who handles LFF's
heavily-trafficked blog, Libertas. Appuzo was instrumental in marketing
The Path to 9/11 to conservatives, writing in a blog post on September
2, "Make no mistake about what this film does, among other things: it
places the question of the Clinton Administration's culpability for the
9/11 attacks front and center... Bravo to Cyrus Nowrasteh and David
Cunningham for creating this gritty, stylish and gripping piece of
entertainment."
When a group of leading Senate Democrats sent a letter to ABC CEO Robert
Iger urging him to cancel The Path to 9/11 because of its glaring
factual errors and distortions, Apuzzo launched a retaliatory campaign
to paint the Democrats as foes of free speech. "Here at LIBERTAS we urge
the public to make noise over this, and to demand that Democrats back
down," he wrote on September 7th. "What is at stake is nothing short of
the 1st Amendment."
At FrontPageMag, Horowitz singled out Nowrasteh as the victim. "The
attacks by former president Bill Clinton, former Clinton Administration
officials and Democratic US senators on Cyrus Nowrasteh's ABC
mini-series "The Path to 9/11" are easily the gravest and most brazen
and damaging governmental attacks on the civil liberties of ordinary
Americans since 9/11," Horowitz declared.
Now, as discussion grows over the false character of The Path to 9/11,
the right-wing network that brought it to fruition is ratcheting up its
PR efforts. Murty will appear tonight on CNN's Glenn Beck show and The
Situation Room, according to Libertas in order to respond to "the major
disinformation campaign now being run by Democrats to block the truth
about what actually happened during the Clinton years."
While this network claims its success and postures as the true victims,
the ABC network suffers a PR catastrophe. It's almost as though it was
complacent about an attack on its reputation by a band of political
terrorists.
"Now, by the way, any time you hear the United States government talking
about wiretap, it requires -- a wiretap requires a court order. Nothing has
changed, by the way. When we're talking about chasing down terrorists, we're
talking about getting a court order before we do so"
-George W. Bush, April 20, 2004
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Pay your taxes so the rich don't have to.
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In article <z8adnVuICqW3Zp_YnZ2dnUVZ_rWdnZ2d@comcast.com>,
"Michelle Malkin" <hypatiab7@comcast.net> wrote:
8.
#Max Blumenthal: Discover the Secret Right-Wing Network Behind ABC's
Posted by: "Zepp" The_Zepp
Sat Sep 9, 2006 6:54 am (PST)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/max-blumenthal/discover-the-secret-right_b_29015
.html
September 9, 2006 The Huffington Post
Max Blumenthal
09.08.2006
Discover the Secret Right-Wing Network Behind ABC's 9/11 Deception (27
comments)
Less than 72 hours before ABC's "The Path to 9/11" is scheduled to air,
the network is suddenly under siege. On Tuesday, ABC was forced to
concede that "The Path to 9/11" is "a dramatization, not a documentary."
The film deceptively invents scenes to depict former President Bill
Clinton's handling of the Al Qaeda threat.
I posted something about this too. Disney and ABC need to apologize to
the American people for attempting to dump such a truckload of BS on us.
If they run it, they should give those who objected equal time to point
out all of the inaccuracies and falsehoods.
--
John Hachmann aa #1782
"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities"
-Voltaire
Contact - Throw a .net over the .com
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On Sun, 10 Sep 2006 00:31:53 -0700, johac <jhachmann@sbcglobal.com>
wrote in alt.atheism
In article <z8adnVuICqW3Zp_YnZ2dnUVZ_rWdnZ2d@comcast.com>,
"Michelle Malkin" <hypatiab7@comcast.net> wrote:
8.
#Max Blumenthal: Discover the Secret Right-Wing Network Behind ABC's
Posted by: "Zepp" The_Zepp
Sat Sep 9, 2006 6:54 am (PST)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/max-blumenthal/discover-the-secret-right_b_29015
.html
September 9, 2006 The Huffington Post
Max Blumenthal
09.08.2006
Discover the Secret Right-Wing Network Behind ABC's 9/11 Deception (27
comments)
Less than 72 hours before ABC's "The Path to 9/11" is scheduled to air,
the network is suddenly under siege. On Tuesday, ABC was forced to
concede that "The Path to 9/11" is "a dramatization, not a documentary."
The film deceptively invents scenes to depict former President Bill
Clinton's handling of the Al Qaeda threat.
I posted something about this too. Disney and ABC need to apologize to
the American people for attempting to dump such a truckload of BS on us.
If they run it, they should give those who objected equal time to point
out all of the inaccuracies and falsehoods.
One can't expect ethical behaviour from those folks.
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