Aside from the fact that when I try to organize my thoughts about ABC's White House propaganda being given to schools as educational materials I just want to stand in the middle of the room screaming, there's a little voice inside of me that says ABC is reveling in all this free publicity. You already know how I feel, and others are covering the subject quite nicely, thank you very much.

However, in the interest of providing a public service to those who aren't blog junkies like me, here, via Steve Gilliard, are some contacts where you can weigh in:

ABC Television Network
Phone: 212-456-7777
77 West 66th Street, New York, NY 10023-6298

Robert Iger, President
Executive Offices: 818-560-1000

Kevin Brockman, VP for Publicity
Phone: 818-460-6655

ABC Audience Relations
Phone: 818-460-7477
[Must navigate phone tree, to leave a 30-second message
in their ‘specials’ voicemail box. Be sure to reference
‘the path to 9/11’ in your voicemail.]

ABC Media Relations (people assigned to this movie):
Patrick Preblick: 212-456-7819
Email: patrick.k.preblick@abc.com

Jonathan Hogan: 818-460-7016
Email: jonathan.hogan@abc.com

Erin Felentzer: 818-460-6642
Email: erin.felentzer@abc.com

Network News desk: 212-456-2700

Fax: 212-456-4866, 212-456-2795

Email: netaudr@abc.com

Link to webpage for contacting local ABC affiliates [a great tool!]
http://abc.go.com/...


mPRm Public Relations
Phone: 323-933-3399

Tom Chen
Email: tchen@mprm.com

Theresa Black
Email: tblack@mprm.com

Jennifer McIntosh
Email: jmcintosh@mprm.com


BBC Television [They are slated to show the "movie" as well on Sunday 9/10, on BBC 2]
Phone: 08700 100 222
BBC Complaints, PO Box 1922, Glasgow G2 3WT

BBC "Path to 9/11" page:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/...

BBC Complaints webform:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/...

Editor's Blog [commenting here is the same as making a complaint]
http://www.bbc.co.uk/...


Scholastic
Phone: 212-343-6741, 212-343-6100
557 Broadway, New York, NY 10012

Richard Robinson, CEO
Email: rrobinson@scholastic.com

Jeffrey Mathews, Vice President, Investor Relations, or Tonia Bellamy
Phone: 212-343-6741
Email: investor_relations@scholastic.com

Corporate Communications: 212-343-4563
newws@scholastic.com

Customer Service:
Phone: 212-343-6741, 800-724-6527 (toll-free)
M-F, 7:00 am to 9:00 pm and Sat., 8:00 am to 5:00 pm, CST
[Scholastic is promoting with teacher guides and letters to 100,000 high school teachers. Tell Scholastic that they are breaching the trust they have carefully built with a generation of teachers and parents. They lean heavily left and are not the enemy, so please be respectful.]


Clinton Foundation
Phone: 212-348-8882
Fax: 212-348-9245
Website contact form
http://tinyurl.com/... [sorry, but this is a long one]
http://www.clintonfoundation.org/


Democratic National Committee
Phone: 202-863-8000
430 S. Capitol St. SE, Washington, DC 20003
Website contact form:
http://www.democrats.org/...


Your Local School Board
[Parents of highschoolers: Consider contacting your school board to let them know you are not pleased to see propaganda pushed to your children--a "captive" audience. I can't list that info obviously, but the action is well worth the time.]


Unions - AFL-CIO and Change to Win
[Union members--use the webform or email to contact the right site and tell them to use the threat of those big pension plan investments on the fund managers listed below to help pressure ABC]

AFL-CIO, 815 16th St., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20006
Contact webform:
http://www.aflcio.org/...

Change to Win, 1900 L Street, NW Suite 900, Washington, DC 20036
Phone: (202) 721-0660
Fax: (202) 721-0661
Email: info@changetowin.org


Apple
Main phone: 408-996-1010
1 Infinite Loop, Cupertino, CA 95014
http://apple.com

Steve Jobs, CEO
Email: steve@apple.com, stevej@apple.com, sjobs@apple.com

Public Relations:
Katie Cotton, Vice President of Worldwide Corporate Communications
Email: katiec@apple.com

Steve Dowling, Corporate PR: 408-974-1896
Email: dowling@apple.com

Media Helpline: 408-974-2042

Apple investor relations: investor_relations@apple.com


iTunes
http://www.apple.com/...
Simon Pope, Public Relations: 408-974-0457
Email: simonp@apple.com


Pixar
Main phone 510-752-3000
Fax: 510 752-3151

Steve Jobs
Email: steve@pixar.com

Public Relations
Email: publicity@pixar.com

Pixar Animation Studios Press Contacts:
Steven Argula 510-752-3947
Email: SArgula@Pixar.com

Angie Bliss 510-752-4123
Email: bliss@pixar.com

Investor Relations:
Phone: 510-752-3720
Fax: 510-752-3442
Email: ir@pixar.com


The Walt Disney Company
Phone: 818-560-1000
Fax: 818-560-1930
500 S. Buena Vista St. Burbank, CA 91521-0931
http://disney.go.com/

Robert A. Iger, President and CEO

Zenia Mucha, Senior Vice President, Corporate Communications
Asst. Anne Wolanski & Elisa Chacon
Phone: 818-560-5300 CA, 212-456-7255 NY
Fax: 818-846-7319 CA, 212-456-1424 NY


Disney Board of Directors
George Mitchell, Chairman (contact info at DLA Piper)
Phone: 212-335-4600
Fax: 212-335-4605
1251 Avenue of the Americas, 29th Floor, New York, NY 10020-1104
Email: george.mitchell@dlapiper.com

John E. Bryson
John S. Chen
Judith L. Estrin
Fred H. Langhammer
Robert Iger (President, CEO)
Steve Jobs (see Pixar and Apple)
Fred Langhammer
Aylwin Lewis Monica C. Lozano
Robert W. Matschullat
Leo J. O’Donovan, S.J.
John E. Pepper, Jr
Orin C. Smith


TOP DISNEY INSTITUTIONAL SHAREHOLDERS

FMR Corp. (Fidelity Management & Research Corp)
Phone: 800-343-3548, 617-563-7000
Fax: 617-476-6150
82 Devonshire St., Boston, MA 02109
http://www.fidelity.com
Edward C. Johnson III, Chairman and CEO

State Street Corporation
Phone: 617-786-3000
225 Franklin St., Boston, MA
http://www.statestreet.com/
Ronald E. Logue,Chairman and CEO
Investor Relations - S. Kelley MacDonald, Senior Vice President
Email: ir@statestreet.com

Barclays Global Investors UK Holdings Ltd
Phone: (+44) (0)20 7116 1000
1 Churchill Place, London E14 5HP
http://www.barclays.com
John S. Varley, Group Chief Executive and Executive Director
Investor Relations Email: irsec@barclays.com
Press contact info: (+44) (0)20 7116 4755

Wellington Management Company, LLP
Phone: 617-951-5000
Fax: 617-951-5250
75 State St., Boston, MA 02109
http://www.wellington.com
Perry Traquina, CEO

Legg Mason Inc
Phone: 410-539-0000, 877-534-4627
Fax: (410) 454-4923
100 Light St., Baltimore, MD 21202
http://www.leggmason.com
Raymond A. Mason, Chairman & CEO
Corporate Communications: 410-454-2616
Email: webinquiries@leggmason.com
Web form for PR: http://www.leggmason.com/...

Vanguard Group, Inc.
Phone: 610-648-6000, 877-662-7447
Fax: 610-669-6605
100 Vanguard Blvd., Malvern, PA 19355
John J. Brennan, Chairman and CEO

Southeastern Asset Management, Inc
AKA Longleaf Partners Funds
Phone: 800-445-9469
6410 Poplar Ave., Suite 900, Memphis, TN 38119
http://www.longleafpartners.com/...
O. Mason Hawkins, Chairman/CEO

Morgan Stanley
Phone: 212-761-4000
Fax: 212-762-0575
1585 Broadway, New York, NY 10036
http://www.morganstanley.com
John J. Mack, Chairman and CEO
Media Inquiries: mediainquiries@morganstanley.com
General Info: genlfeedback@morganstanley.com
Institutional Services: instfeed@ms.com

State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co.
Phone: 309-766-2311
Fax: 309-766-3621
1 State Farm Plaza, Bloomington, IL 61710-0001
http://www.statefarm.com
Edward B. Rust Jr., Chairman and CEO
Media: home.pa-newsroom.168d00@statefarm.com

Capital Research and Management Company
Phone: 213-486-9200
Fax: 213-486-9217
333 South Hope St., Los Angeles, CA 90071
http://www.capgroup.com/
Larry P. Clemmensen, President
Media Relations: mediarelations@capgroup.com
Chuck Freadhoff, 213-486-9988
Kelly Malarky, 212-641-1721


TOP MUTUAL FUND HOLDERS


Longleaf Partners Fund
[see Southeastern Asset Management above]

Vanguard 500 Index Fund
[see Vanguard Group above]

College Retirement Equities Fund-stock Account
Administered by TIAA-CREF Investment Management, LLC
Phone: 212-490-9000
Fax: 212-916-4840
730 Third Ave., New York, NY 10017
http://www.tiaa-cref.org/
Herbert M. Allison, Chairman, President, and CEO
[NOTE: This company prides itself on being socially responsible]

American Balanced Fund
http://www.americanfunds.com/
[see Capital Research and Management above]

Fidelity Magellan Fund Inc.
[see FMR Corp. above]

Van Kampen Comstock Fund
Administered by Van Kampen Funds
Phone: 713-993-0500, 800-421-5666, 800-847-2424
221 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10020
Michael Kiley, Managing Director, President and CEO
http://www.vankampen.com/

Hartford Capital Appreciation Hls Fund, Inc.
Phone: 877-836-5854
Fax: 860-843-5775
200 Hopmeadow Street, C1W, Simsbury, CT 06089
Email: investmentonly@hartfordlife.com
http://ilf.hartfordlife.com/...

Vanguard Institutional Index Fund-institutional Index Fd
[see Vanguard Group above]

Fidelity Capital Appreciation Fund
[see FMR Corp. above]

Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund
[see Vanguard Group above]


MAJOR DIRECT HOLDERS


Michael D. Eisner
Robert Iger
Thomas O. Staggs
Peter E. Murphy
George Mitchel

And out there in Blogtopia (™ Skippy) and elsewhere:

• John reprints a letter from the Executive Director of the DNC slamming Disney/ABC for this slanderous miniseries
  
• Howie Kurtz, of all people, outlines much of the so-called "facts" that the makers of this miniseries pulled out of their asses, and again, John weighs in.
  
• E&P on more made-up shit.
  
• Wingnut Hugh Hewitt reprints an e-mail in which a Disney executive admits that the purpose of the miniseries is to focus on "Clinton Administration failures."
  
• Digby decides it's time to go all out and pull out the book on Disney's founder, Walt Disney's participation in the McCarthyite witchhunt of the 1950's.
  
• Pam notes that the seven minutes of Bush sitting like a cigar store Indian reading My Pet Goat have been wiped from the record in this miniseries as well.
  
• John Amato at Crooks and Liars has video of Richard Ben-Veniste on Countdown last night, notes how Tom Kean Sr. (are you listening, NJ voters?) approved the falsehoods in the script.
  

That ought to get you started.

For the last four years, we've been told that it's inappropriate to question the president at a time of war, even though this president STARTED that war. For the last four years, we've been expected to take this Administration's lies at face value. For the last SIX years, we've watched this Administration blame everyone else for its own failings -- liberals, Democrats, the media, and of course, the right's favorite whipping boy, Bill Clinton.

If you look at the FACTS, you see in Bill Clinton a man trying mightily to address as ever-growing threat while Congressional Republicans and the Washington press hacks were obsessed with removing from office a man who wasn't part of their club, impeaching him for "lying" about sex -- a lie that wasn't one, because "sex" in the Paula Jones case had already been defined as "intercourse."

Here is what the president they claim was busy getting blown while Osama Bin Laden was gathering strength was actually doing:

CNN, July 30, 1996:

President Clinton urged Congress Tuesday to act swiftly in developing anti-terrorism legislation before its August recess.

"We need to keep this country together right now. We need to focus on this terrorism issue," Clinton said during a White House news conference.

But while the president pushed for quick legislation, Republican lawmakers hardened their stance against some of the proposed anti-terrorism measures.

Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott, R-Mississippi, doubted that the Senate would rush to action before they recess this weekend. The Senate needs to study all the options, he said, and trying to get it done in the next three days would be tough.

One key GOP senator was more critical, calling a proposed study of chemical markers in explosives "a phony issue."

Clinton said he knew there was Republican opposition to his proposal on explosive taggants, but it should not be allowed to block the provisions on which both parties agree.

"What I urge them to do is to be explicit about their disagreement, but don't let it overcome the areas of agreement," he said.

The president emphasized coming to terms on specific areas of disagreement would help move the legislation along. The president stressed it's important to get the legislation out before the weekend's recess, especially following the bombing of Centennial Olympic Park and the crash of TWA Flight 800.

"The most important thing right now is that they get the best, strongest bill they can out -- that they give us as much help as they can," he said.

Republican leaders earlier met with White House Chief of Staff Leon Panetta for about an hour in response to the president's call for "the very best ideas" for fighting terrorism.

Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, emerged from the meeting and said, "These are very controversial provisions that the White House wants. Some they're not going to get."

Hatch called Clinton's proposed study of taggants -- chemical markers in explosives that could help track terrorists -- "a phony issue."

Washington Post, October 3, 2001:

The government of Sudan, employing a back channel direct from its president to the Central Intelligence Agency, offered in the early spring of 1996 to arrest Osama bin Laden and place him in Saudi custody, according to officials and former officials in all three countries.

The Clinton administration struggled to find a way to accept the offer in secret contacts that stretched from a meeting at a Rosslyn hotel on March 3, 1996, to a fax that closed the door on the effort 10 weeks later. Unable to persuade the Saudis to accept bin Laden, and lacking a case to indict him in U.S. courts at the time, the Clinton administration finally gave up on the capture.

Does anyone actually believe that Congressional Republicans would have given Bill Clinton the cover he would have needed to bring Bin Laden to the U.S. at that time?

How about the millennium plot to blow up the L.A. airport?

Ahmed Ressam, 23, had illegally immigrated to Canada in 1994. Using a falsified passport and a bogus story about persecution in Algeria, Ressam entered Montreal and claimed political asylum. For the next few years he supported himself with petty crime. Recruited by an alumnus of Abu Zubaydah’s Khaldan camp, Ressam trained in Afghanistan in 1998, learning, among other things, how to place cyanide near the air intake of a building to achieve maximum lethality at minimum personal risk. Having joined other Algerians in planning a possible attack on a U.S. airport or consulate, Ressam left Afghanistan in early 1999 carrying precursor chemicals for explosives disguised in toiletry bottles, a notebook containing bomb assembly instructions, and $12,000. Back in Canada, he went about procuring weapons, chemicals, and false papers.

In early summer 1999, having learned that not all of his colleagues could get the travel documents to enter Canada, Ressam decided to carry out the plan alone. By the end of the summer he had chosen three Los Angeles–area airports as potential targets, ultimately fixing on Los Angeles International (LAX) as the largest and easiest to operate in surreptitiously. He bought or stole chemicals and equipment for his bomb, obtaining advice from three Algerian friends, all of whom were wanted by authorities in France for their roles in past terrorist attacks there. Ressam also acquired new confederates. He promised to help a New York–based partner, Abdelghani Meskini, get training in Afghanistan if Meskini would help him maneuver in the United States. In December 1999, Ressam began his final preparations. He called an Afghanistan-based facilitator to inquire into whether Bin Ladin wanted to take credit for the attack, but he did not get a reply. He spent a week in Vancouver preparing the explosive components with a close friend.

On December 14, 1999, Ressam drove his rental car onto the ferry from Victoria, Canada, to Port Angeles,Washington. Ressam planned to drive to Seattle and meet Meskini, with whom he would travel to Los Angeles and case LAX. They planned to detonate the bomb on or around January 1, 2000. At the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) preinspection station in Victoria, Ressam presented officials with his genuine but fraudulently obtained Canadian passport, from which he had torn the Afghanistan entry and exit stamps.The INS agent on duty ran the passport through a variety of databases but, since it was not in Ressam’s name, he did not pick up the pending Canadian arrest warrants. After a cursory examination of Ressam’s car, the INS agents allowed Ressam to board the ferry. Late in the afternoon of December 14, Ressam arrived in Port Angeles. He waited for all the other cars to depart the ferry, assuming (incorrectly) that the last car off would draw less scrutiny. Customs officers assigned to the port, noticing Ressam’s nervousness, referred him to secondary inspection. When asked for additional identification, Ressam handed the Customs agent a Price Costco membership card in the same false name as his passport. As that agent began an initial pat-down, Ressam panicked and tried to run away.

Inspectors examining Ressam’s rental car found the explosives concealed in the spare tire well, but at first they assumed the white powder and viscous liquid were drug-related—until an inspector pried apart and identified one of the four timing devices concealed within black boxes. Ressam was placed under arrest.

Fox News reports on Ressam's 2005 sentencing:

SEATTLE — The man convicted of plotting to blow up the Los Angeles airport on the eve of the millennium was sentenced Wednesday to 22 years in prison.

Ahmed Ressam's (search) sentence reflected his cooperation in telling international investigators about the workings of terror camps in Afghanistan (search).

But Ressam, 38, could have received a shorter sentence had he not stopped talking to investigators in early 2003. Prosecutors argued that his recalcitrance has jeopardized cases against two of his co-conspirators.

In sentencing Ressam, U.S. District Judge John C. Coughenour (search) said he hoped to balance U.S. resolve to punish potential terrorist acts with Ressam's cooperation. Coughenour also said he hoped to send a message that the U.S. court system works in terrorism cases.

"We did not need to use a secret military tribunal, detain the defendant indefinitely or deny the defendant the right to counsel. ... Our courts have not abandoned the commitment to the ideals that set this nation apart," he said.

The 1993 World Trade Center bombing occurred thirty-eight days after Bill Clinton took office. I didn't hear him blaming George Herbert Walker Bush, did you? You know where the bombers are now? In prison. For the rest of their lives. Without military tribunals, wiretaps of ordinary Americans, surveillance of library reading, or monitoring of Google searches.

Perhaps Disney's executives should take a look at Bill Clinton's Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996.

Remember the 1998 Sudan bombing? The one that wingnuts now deride as "bombing an aspirin factory" to distract from the Lewinsky scandal? They sang a different tune then:

President Clinton won warm support for ordering anti-terrorist bombing attacks in Afghanistan and Sudan yesterday from many of the same lawmakers who have criticized him harshly as a leader critically weakened by poor judgment and reckless behavior in the Monica S. Lewinsky scandal.

A few senators, however, noted that the timing of the attack raised the question of whether Clinton had ordered it to deflect attention from his personal affairs. Others suggested the scandal may be preventing the president from paying attention to critical international problems.

But most lawmakers from both parties were quick to rally behind Clinton in a deluge of public statements and appearances yesterday, a marked contrast to the relatively sparse and chilly reception that greeted his Monday statement on the Lewinsky matter.

"I think the president did exactly the right thing," House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) said of the bombing attacks. "By doing this we're sending the signal there are no sanctuaries for terrorists."

Gingrich said he was told "very precise details" of the attack before it occurred, and praised Clinton's aides for being "sensitive to making sure we were not blindsided in this." Other congressional leaders, several of whom were on vacation or difficult to locate, said the White House had made an effort to notify them before the attacks.

Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott (R-Miss.) called the attacks "appropriate and just," and House Majority Leader Richard K. Armey (R-Tex.) said "the American people stand united in the face of terrorism."

Senate Minority Leader Thomas A. Daschle (D-S.D.) praised Clinton for doing "the right thing at the right time to protect vital U.S. interests against terrorist attacks," and House Minority Leader Richard A. Gephardt (D-Mo.) said the United States "should respond forcefully when U.S. lives are at stake."

It was clear from several lawmakers' statements that support for Clinton was not just a knee-jerk reaction, but also a response made easier because of former GOP senator and current Defense Secretary William S. Cohen. "I have enough confidence in [Cohen] to believe that he would not be involved in anything orchestrated for domestic political purposes," Sen. Robert F. Bennett (R-Utah) said.

Gingrich dismissed any possibility that Clinton may have ordered the attacks to divert attention from the scandal. Instead, he said, there was an urgent need for a reprisal following the Aug. 7 bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.

"Anyone who watched the film of the bombings, anyone who saw the coffins come home knows better than to question this timing," Gingrich said. "It was done as early as possible to send a message to terrorists across the globe that killing Americans has a cost. It has no relationship with any other activity of any kind."

To underscore this view, Rich Galen, one of Gingrich's top advisers, sent an e-mail to conservative radio talk show hosts entitled "Wag the Dog," after a recent movie of the same name in which White House spin doctors concoct an international crisis to draw attention away from a president's sexual indiscretions.

"Speaker Newt Gingrich has made it clear to me" that the attacks were necessary and appropriate, Galen said. "This is a time to put our nation's interests ahead of our political concerns. I am asking you to help your listeners, your friends, and your associates to look at this situation with the sober eyes it deserves."

Gingrich made the same point himself during a conference call with House Republicans late yesterday, telling colleagues that while none of them has to mute criticism about the Lewinsky matter, "on this topic I think it's very useful and I think it sends a powerful signal to the world" that the GOP stand with Clinton.

But Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Pa.), one of Clinton's severest critics earlier in the week, said, "There's an obvious issue that will be raised internationally as to whether there is any diversionary motivation." Sen. John D. Ashcroft (R-Mo.), a possible presidential candidate in 2000, noted "there is a cloud over this presidency."

And Sen. Dan Coats (R-Ind.), who called on Clinton to resign after his speech Monday, said: "The president has been consumed with matters regarding his personal life. It raises questions about whether or not he had the time to devote to this issue, or give the kind of judgment that needed to be given to this issue to call for military action."

Told of these criticisms, Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr. (Del.), ranking Democrat on the Foreign Relations Committee, branded them "preposterous," and noted that Osama bin Laden, suspected of bankrolling the installations that were bombed, "is one bad mother."

"Even if that [a diversion] were an element, what in the hell does it do to us around the world for leading American officials to even suggest that?" Biden asked. "It is not very sound judgment to speak in terms of motivation other than national security at this moment."

Here's more on Clinton's anti-terrorism efforts. I found these in a 30-second Google search.

Meanwhile, Sam Seder reminded us last night of what a bang-up job George W. Bush has done in apprehending Bin Laden. Here it is, in Captain Codpiece's own words:



Given the Bush Administration's dismal record even AFTER the devastating 9/11 attacks, it's understandable that his toadies would want to rewrite history. However, it's beyond reprehensible for a major television network to attempt to influence an election by rewriting history, and it's doubly reprehensible for said network to distribute it to public schools as educational material.