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Tim has been slacking off in this department recently, so I’ll add my bit. If you have 30 seconds, it would be good to sign this petition to tell ABC not to air a nasty bit of 9/11 propaganda. From MoveOn, in a little over 48 hours, ABC will air a five-hour “docudrama” on the 9/11 attacks. The movie was written and produced by a right-wing activist who fabricated key scenes to blame Democrats and defend Republicans. It’s so partisan that even Rush Limbaugh was surprised ABC decided to air it. And an FBI agent who was brought in to consult on the docudrama quit because, he said, “they were making things up.”

Apparently ABC is considering the idea of pulling the show, but it’d be nice to make sure they do.

It’s not just that ABC’s movie is slanted. Big parts of it are simply untrue. The producer himself even admitted to simply improvising a key scene which depicts the Clinton administration letting bin Laden go when they had him in their sights—a complete fabrication, and the movie’s star, Harvey Keitel, said “It turned out not all the facts were correct.”

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