9/11 (™ Republican Party, copyright 2001)

ABC- part of that ol' liberal media- is airing a 9/11 docudrama called "The Path to 9/11", which early reports indicate is a right-wing whitewash of what happened. Further nailing that point home is the fact ABC has been granting preview screenings and press junkets for noted right-wing voices and bloggers (Rush Limbaugh loved it, for the record), while actively excluding liberal bloggers and even the Democratic co-chairman of the 9/11 Commission. If interested in this (personally, I avoid all the 9/11 dramatizations- real thing was dramatic enough- but did enjoy Court TV's nonpartisan "On Native Soil: A Documentary on the 9/11 Commission Report") here are some links with more details on this-

-Firedoglake: Fact or Fiction?
-Firedoglake If Only I Had An ABC-Approved Press Pass
-ThinkProgress: Richard Clarke Blasts Key Scene In ABC’s 9/11 Docudrama
-ThinkProgress: Writer of ABC’s 9/11 ‘Docudrama’ Is Avowed Conservative Activist
-Digby: Path To Rewriting History

Just a taste of the GOP-fueled 9/11 media orgy we can expect in the next week.

I'm personally sick of the President and his Republican allies acting like they own the 9/11 tragedy. The way that they speak to Democrats- and really, all Americans in general- about those attacks is as if we don't understand what terrorism is (case in point, this AP headline today: 'Bush reminds Americans U.S. is at war'), but in reality they're just upset that we aren't as afraid as they want us to be. As Neil Young said in an interview in April, "No one, George Bush or anyone else, owns the 9/11 mentality. It belongs to the United States of America. It belongs to everyone who was sitting there with their family, watching those buildings get hit by those jets. It belongs to George Bush and his family, it belongs to John Kerry and his family, it belongs to me and my family, my American family. I have a post 9/11 mentality. It’s just not the same as George Bush's."

(And maybe since we're focusing on 9/11, maybe we can actually remember those now in extremely poor health because they rushed to the Trade Center to respond, after being told the air was clean. Our current leaders talk alot about heroes, but in reality they treat them like chumps.)

[Related- 9/11 hits TV (Salon.com)]