A License to Lie
A BUZZFLASH EDITORIAL
As BuzzFlash readers know by now, the ABC Television Network, owned by entertainment behemoth Disney, has spent $40 million to run a commercial-free, fictionally-"enhanced" account of the events leading up to and surrounding 9/11.
The fiction, by all accounts, comes from fabricated scenes that place much of the blame, were they actually true, for 9/11 on the Clinton Administration. Some of these television "moments" were made up out of whole cloth. In short, like the Bush Administration itself, you won’t be able to tell the truth from the lies.
A project of an avowed right wing shill, the 9/11 "Disney in Wonderland" television drama appears to be a pre-election pay-off to the Bush Administration.
We have been running a slew of stories about this travesty on BuzzFlash this past week, so we won’t get into the details. But we bet our bottom dollar that you won’t see a scene of Bush kicking a CIA briefing officer out of the room after the man gave Bush a document entitled ""Bin Ladin Determined to Strike in US." This occurred on August 6, 2001.
According to a recent book by Ron Suskind, Bush’s reaction to being told that our nation was about to come under likely terrorist attack was to get peevish for having his vacation disrupted. He kicked the briefer out of the room by dismissing him with these words, "'All right, you’ve covered your ass."
Bush then did nothing – absolutely nothing – to attempt to forestall the attack or prevent hijackings by having heightened screening implemented at airports. He did nothing at all, except go back to relax on his month-long vacation in Crawford.
Do you think that will be in the film?
Or how about the scene of Bush cluelessly reading "My Pet Goat" in a classroom at the Booker Elementary School while America was under attack and people were leaping from the twin towers in New York. Will that be in this piece of Mickey Mouse GOP propaganda?
We somehow doubt it.
Anyone who reads BuzzFlash knows that we never stop raising the alarm about how Republican politics, entertainment, news and corporate profits have morphed, for the most part, into one synergistic pump. All the "news coverage" water, more or less, comes from the same well. Or, perhaps a more apt description, as the ABC-Bushevik vision of 9/11 aptly illustrates, the Republicans and the news and entertainment television companies are on the same script – in this case, literally.
Suffice it to say, ABC would not run a $40 million film that is a hit job on the Democrats – and leaves Bush barely grazed – a few weeks before a national election if it weren’t expecting something in return from the White House.
For-profit companies don’t blow $40 million without advertising revenue out of "goodwill." They want something in return – and you can be sure, if the Republicans maintain control of both houses of Congress, Disney will be well-rewarded by the Bush Administration -– well-rewarded indeed.
We long ago arrived at the point in the world of television that broadcast networks were given the public airwaves basically free of cost – and then abused that privilege by putting profits before service to the public. They are given a license to lie in order to ingratiate themselves with the GOP and reap a return on their political investment by getting legislative and regulatory financial "advantages."
The uproar over the ABC propaganda film – and it is heartening to see the Democrats fighting so aggressively against this shameful act of collusion on the part of ABC – is a symbolic apotheosis of sorts. It represents a recognition that the entire Bush administration is based on rule by a series of mutually complementary "scripts." All of these scripts, including the ABC 9/11 rewrite of history and Bush’s ongoing "War on Terrorism" mini-series, are part of a larger "narrative" stitched together by Karl Rove.
It’s a narrative that has little to do with reality. It’s storytelling at its best, like reading a nightmarish bedtime tale to a child and then reassuring him or her that all will be well because Daddy is guarding the house against goblins and evil doers with a big gun.
But, needless to say, in a democracy, a major broadcast network, owned by the company that is synonymous with the creation of "branded" fantasy for children, should not be in the business of providing campaign support to a political party through a $40 million television program (for which, we repeat, they will receive no advertising revenue).
Democracy in America is on the endangered species list as long as big media companies are given a license to lie and influence election outcomes, even though we, the public, own the airwaves.
A BUZZFLASH EDITORIAL
If you were writing a script about 9/11, what three key actual historical scenes would you include? Add your suggestions below.
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Scene One, 9-11-2001 - NTSB officials vainly searching for the parts to flight 93 in a field in Pennsylvania. The only visible deformity is a trench in the ground about 10-15 feet long. (You know they always reconstruct the plane in a giant hangar somewhere to determine what caused the crash!) They stand there scratching their heads and the small amount of debris, nothing recognizable as coming from a massive passenger airplane, eventually shrugging their shoulders and walking away. Cut to the county coroner saying, "I stopped being a coroner after 20 minutes. There are no bodies."
Scene Two - Flashback to Rudy Guiliana, Larry Silverstein and Marvin Bush in an exquisitely outfitted room in WTC7. They are looking at the schematics for the WTC buildings and making notes on a calendar. The year is 2000. Zoom in on a document on the table, bearing the official letterhead of the EPA, titled, "Order to Decommision the World Trade Center Towers by 2007." They finish their meeting, stand up and shake hands, and leave the room.
Scene Three, 9-11-2001 - Guards and office workers, covered in dust, emerge from the Lobby of WTC2 after the plane has struck, but well before its collapse. Pan the lobby with its broken glass and dislodged marble panels on the wall. Cut to the basement where a large explosion shakes the foundations of the building. Another explosion can be heard a few minutes later, higher up in the building... followed by yet another explosion. Shift camera to the building exterior, looking up the side of the building. Watch as the top part of the building explodes into dust and then follow the squibs of smoke puffing out every several floors, well in advance of the debris that is expelled upwards and sideways in a mushroom that descends. Show a clock with a second-hand, timing how long it takes the entire building to freefall down. (Elapsed time 12 seconds.)
Scenes One and Three are real, historical, proven. Scene Two is partly fiction, based on real people involved in the WTC security, and derived from information given in a deposition reported to have been filed in July 2006.
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No bombs are needed to explain how heavily heated bare steel had a catastrophic collapse that propagated itself like a row of dominos. Nor is the collapse of a building that had two other buildings fall on it.
Many other things are unlikely, and many others are criminal, but if I was a Bushie Neo-con operative I would be out undercover making up stories to entrap honest people who lacked understanding of the real situation, and by making fools of them, discredit all the legitimate concerns.
If you doubt it look at the Bush "AWOL to avoid drug test and general fecklessness" story. The documentation is extensive and not refuted by any credable evidence, but by feeding a reasonably accurate document of faked provenance the Hippocrats managed to remove both the accurate story and the last vestige of reality based Media. Your continued pushing of imaginary bombs in the Towers smacks of such a subtrefuge.
If you are winger provocetures you will continue, till, like the ones in the antiwar movement folk just ignore you. But if you wish for thew real truth to come out, please recomend looking deeper into the Put options, the special training day, the PNAC need for a "Pearl Harbor", or any of dozens of more fruitful lines of inquiry.
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Three scenes
1. Bush on the WTC wreckage - only if it's suddenly turned to black and white in the way that cues you to know you're watching an actual investigative report, with the accompanying voiceover. ("But could he have prevented it? Could we have seen this coming?")
2. Bush reading "My Pet Goat." I know Michael Moore had a field day with it, but you could do something different - like bring in facial expression/body language experts to interpret Bush in that moment.
3. An "America's Most Wanted" type dramatization of the events surrounding the delivery of the 8/6/03 "Osama wants to use planes to attack the US" Presidential Daily Brief.
BONUS: You might as well add the footage of Bush flipping off a camera. Kinda sums it all up, dontcha think?
Allen Voivod
Editor, DeadBrain.com and
Co-creator of "The Rumsfeld Diaries Political Action Pak"
www.RumsfeldDiaries.com
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Lift this scene out of Richard Clarke's "Against All Enemies"
Found on pages 140- 145, Clarke recounts Clinton Administration plans to "snatch" Osama bin Laden off the streets of Khartoum, Sudan, were he was living in the 1990s, and the Department of Defense and the CIA's reticence to carry out the request.
But in 1996 disacussion of Sudan, [National Security Advisor Sandy] Berger turned to George Tenent, asking if the CIA could snatch the man [bin Laden] in the Khartoum hotel room. Tenet responded that they had no capability to do that in that hostile environment, nor could they find a friendly intelligence service that could (or would) do it.
...To the complete frustration of Berger, [State Secretary Madeleine] Albright, and me, the CIA finally admitted it could do nothing to effect a snatch in Khartoum. DOD was only able to generate options, once again, that looked like going to war with Sudan.
...The White House wanted action. The senior military did not and made it almost impossible for the President to overcome their objections. When in 1993 the White House had leaned on the military to snatch Aideed in Somilia, they had bobbled the operation and blamed the White House in off-the-record conversations with reporters and Congressmen....Often though, we learned, senior military officers let the word spread down the ranks that the politicians in the White House were the ones reluctant to act. The fact is, President Clinton approved every snatch that he was asked to review. Every snatch CIA, Justice, or Defense proposed during my tenure as CSG chairman, from 1992 to 2001, was approved."
pp. 144-145, Against All Enemies,Inside America's War on Terror, Richard Clarke, Simon & Schuster, NY,NY 2004
Now Clarke is ABCNews' terrorism expert, yet here he paints of scene of of military reluctance and CIA fecklessness as opposed to the Mouse-Ka-Toon depiction of Clinton administration cowardice. Clarke was there. He is a primary source.
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a scene from a 9-11 documentary:
how about a scene showing some of the hijackers training at supposedly secure US military facilities?
Did Some Hijackers Get US Military Training?
A series of articles suggest that at least seven of the 9/11 hijackers trained in US military bases. [New York Times, 9/15/2001; Newsweek, 9/15/2001] Ahmed Alnami, Ahmed Alghamdi, and Saeed Alghamdi even listed the Naval Air Station in Pensacola, Florida, as their permanent address on their driver’s licenses. Hamza Alghamdi was also connected to the Pensacola base [Pensacola News Journal, 9/17/2001; Washington Post, 9/16/2001] A defense official confirms that Saeed Alghamdi is a former Saudi fighter pilot who attended the Defense Language Institute in Monterey, California. [Los Angeles Times, 9/15/2001; Gannett News Service, 9/17/2001] Abdulaziz Alomari attended Brooks Air Force Base Aerospace Medical School in San Antonio, Texas. [Gannett News Service, 9/17/2001] A defense official confirms Mohamed Atta is a former Saudi fighter pilot who graduated from the US International Officers School at Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama. [Los Angeles Times, 9/15/2001; Washington Post, 9/16/2001
http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/context.jsp?item=a091501militarytraining
"On the Saturday following the Tuesday attack, the Los Angeles Times broke the story in a long article on their front page.
"A defense official said two of the hijackers were former Saudi fighter pilots," reported the paper, "who had studied in exchange programs at the Defense Language School at Lackland Air Force Base in Texas and the Air War College at Maxwell Air Force Base in Alabama."
The story went wide the next day, Sunday, September 15th. Newsweek, the Washington Post and the Miami Herald all reported as many as seven of the terrorist hijackers in the September 11th attacks received training at secure U.S. military installations.
"Two of 19 suspects named by the FBI, Saeed Alghamdi and Ahmed Alghamdi, have the same names as men listed at a housing facility for foreign military trainees at Pensacola. Two others, Hamza Alghamdi and Ahmed Alnami, have names similar to individuals listed in public records as using the same address inside the base," the Washington Post reported.
"In addition, a man named Saeed Alghamdi graduated from the Defense Language Institute at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, while men with the same names as two other hijackers, Mohamed Atta and Abdulaziz Alomari, appear as graduates of the U.S. International Officers School at Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama, and the Aerospace Medical School at Brooks Air Force Base in San Antonio, respectively," the Post said."
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Look at the raw courage displayed by others
*The first responders, esp. the NYFD fire captains, leading the way up an obviously doomed stairwell. These were old men, close to retirement, who could have sent others.
*Every other member of a uniformed service, from air force fighter pilots to transit cops, risking their lives without hesitation.
*Bill Clinton, arriving in a still-smoking NYC all the way from Australia ahead the dilatory Bush.
*Credit where it's due: Mayor Giuiliani, covered with debris, at the scene; Dick Cheney, running the country for the AWOL commander-in-chief; Don Rumsfeld, returning to the destroyed Pentagon to help others.
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