If you can follow it.

Digby with a parody of some of the recent ABC promotions of their hatchet-piece on 911:

"After the docu- thriller- movie- mini- series- event is over - whenever that is - me and Michael Ledeen and David Horowitz and Peggy Noonan are gonna hop in Peg's Nassau County Seclusion-3D Urban Camo-Pattern Hummer with UTV Floor Mount Kalashnikov Assault Weapon Rack and heated Sheepskin Rumble Seat and thunder on down the parkway to the local All-American drive through fast food slop-shoot for some Happy History Meals and our free ABC-Disney United Front Supreme Council for the Defense of the Motherland moveable mujahidin freedom fighter action hero figure sets which come free with each patriotic ABC/Disney Happy History Meal purchase."

Sheewwww. Go read the whole thing, it's hilarious.

This entire ABC thing is so ridiculous as to be laughable. In listening to Tom Oliphant today on Al Franken's Air American show, he points out that the irony is that the movie is also quite hard on Bush, and that conservatives will be screaming too. ABC will ultimately end up pissing off everyone. The big distinction that Oliphant didn't emphasize is that the right-wingers have reviewed the movie already and accepted the Bush part ..... likely because it's indisputable? The portions that bash Clinton are apparently untrue and merit reaction.

I, for one, have no intention of watching this junk. I probably wouldn't have anyway. All the 911 schlock is, in my opinion, just plain old profiteering and typical American cultural excess. No one needs reminding of the events of 911 and any pseudo national honoring of the victims via the MSM indulge-a-fest is obscene to their memories. Ironically, the over-indulgence in all things 911 will ultimately have the opposite effect, further hardening viewers cynicism towards the media and politicians as Americans move on to the next major media fad drama, like another missing white girl or the next confessed JonBenet killer. But like a car accident, they'll keep watching. The media has grown to think of itself as the national stage for events that "pull us together as a people". Funny, we never needed that before to be a people. But since the JFK assasination, media executives have decided that's their role and by god we're all going to be subjected to it .... like it or not.

Oh. And by-the-way, advertisers love it.

Not me. I have plenty of movies and a DVD player.