Disney: The Lyingest Place on Earth

So at this point, Bush counterterrorism officials are coming out of the woodwork calling ABC's 9/11 mockumentary an exercise in prevarication:

CRESSY: Joe, it’s amazing, based on what I’ve seen so far is how much they’ve gotten wrong. They got the small stuff wrong such as Khalid Sheikh Mohammed instructing Ahmed Rassam to carry out the millenium attacks. Then they got the big stuff wrong, this fantasy about how we had a CIA officer and the Northern Alliance leader Ahmed Massoud looking at Bin Laden and they breathlessly call the White House to say we need to take him out and the White House said no. I mean it’s sheer fantasy. So, if they want to critique the Clinton administration and the Bush administration, based on fact, I think that’s fine. But what ABC has done here is something straight out of Disney and fantasyland. It’s factually wrong. And that’s shameful.

SCARBOROUGH: But at the same time, doesn’t history show that Bill Clinton had several opportunities to go after bin Laden, but the President and his cabinet were afraid to do so because they may offend some people in the Arab world?

CRESSY: Actually, Joe, that had nothing to do with it. If you read the 9/11 Commission report, it makes it very clear. In most of those cases, George Tenet, the Director of the CIA, said because there was single source intelligence it was his recommendation to the President not to take the shot. There was never a case where we had a clear shot at Bin Laden and the decision to take it wasn’t made.

And the lies are so fast and furious in the film, including blaming the Washington Post for something the conservative Washington Times did, you have to wonder how this got made in the first place. I mean the partisanship surrounding 9/11 cannot be good publicity for a major conglomerate.

Until you understand that ABC is showing this fiction without commercials, making it available for free on iTunes, and is basically giving away $30 million in production costs to do it.

In other words, this is a campaign contribution.