Widower of Disney Exec Slain on 9/11 Speaks*Updated Again*

Sat Sep 09, 2006 at 02:19:35 PM PDT
What more do these people need to stop this charade?

Greg Sargent at TPM Cafe

John Beug, the widowed husband of Carolyn Beug, a former vice president at Walt Disney Records who was on the plane that slammed into 1 World Trade Center, has written a letter to ABC chief Bob Iger pleading with him not to run the film. A source provided us with a copy of the letter.

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Reached by phone, Mr. Beug confirmed the letter was his and verified its accuracy. "I think it's unfortunate that people are sensationalizing the story for whatever reason they're doing it," Mr. Beug said. "It shouldn't be politicized." Soon after her death, Carolyn Beug was described by U.S.A. Today as a "former Walt Disney Records executive" who "won acclaim for her work on the Pocahontas film soundtrack."

September 9, 2006

Dear Mr. Iger,

I have seen the advertisements for and read the press coverage of ABC's film, "The Path to 9/11," that your network plans to air this Sunday and Monday to coincide with the fifth anniversary of the 2001 terrorist attacks. I am writing to express my concern and deep reservations about this film and to ask you, out of respect for the victims of 9/11 and their families, not to air it.

My wife worked for the Walt Disney Corporation and was a victim of the terrorist attacks as a passenger on American Airlines Flight 11. I have great respect for you and your company and I know that you must have worked hard to make a good film. Admittedly, I have not seen it. However, accounts from those who have suggest that it contains inaccurate and invented scenes. It seems to me that fictionalizing this tragedy does not honor the memory of those who were lost on September 11th.

Given the gravity of this event for our nation and the personal loss I suffered, I believe it is critically important that we do everything possible to prevent another 9/11. That begins with making sure that we are united in our understanding of what we could have done better in the years, months and weeks leading up to the attacks of 2001. I am deeply concerned that Americans will watch this film and not fully understand -- or be led to misunderstand -- the true history of this tragedy.

I feel the 9/11 Commission Report was a correct and very responsible accounting of the terrorist attacks of 2001. Since "The Path to 9/11" deviates from this report in key instances, I strongly and respectfully urge you not to air this film.

Sincerely,

John Beug

I know that most of us have been walking around with that hard knot in our stomaches,

aching over the bullshit that is about to be presented to the American (and foreign) audiences as
"THE OFFICIAL STORY".

Imagine then this mans' pain,
and the pain of all the other families of victims of 9/11,
no matter what their political or ideological persuasion.

Disney & ABC have made this historic disaster into nothing more than one of their whitewashed "Fantasyland" dioramas, and just as true to life.

CALL FORMER DEMOCRATIC SEN GEORGE MITCHELL

Senator George J. Mitchell

T: (212) 335-4600

T: (212) 335-4500

F: (212) 335-4605

**************URGENT UPDATE*************

John at Americablog has a list of things he need help with to co-ordinate the response along with other name bloggers.

GO HERE

Please help us plan Stage II: The attack on Disney/ABC starting on Tuesday Sept 12

***************************UPDATE AGAIN*************

Too fucking funny from the Washington Post

ABC's Twisted 'Path to 9/11'

By Tom Shales

Washington Post Staff Writer

Saturday, September 9, 2006; Page C01

Factually shaky, politically inflammatory and photographically a mess, "The Path to 9/11" -- ABC's two-part, five-hour miniseries tracing events leading up to the 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon -- has something not just to offend everyone but also to depress them.

The docudrama -- allegedly produced as a warning to the United States that the attacks, or something like them, could happen again -- falls clumsily into traps that await all those who make fictional films claiming to be factual. Except this time, the event being dramatized is one of the most tragic and monstrous in the nation's history, not something to be trifled with.

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Clinton himself is libeled through abusive editing. A first-class U.S. operative played by Donnie Wahlberg argues the case for getting bin Laden while the al-Qaeda leader is openly in view in some sort of compound in Afghanistan. CIA officials haggle over minor details, such as the budget for the operation. The film's director, David L. Cunningham, then cuts abruptly to a TV image of Clinton making his infamous "I did not have sexual relations with that woman" remark with regard to Monica Lewinsky. The impression given is that Clinton was spending time on his sex life while terrorists were gaining ground and planning a nightmare.

It would have made as much sense, and perhaps more, to cut instead to stock footage of a smirking Kenneth Starr, the reckless Republican prosecutor largely responsible for distracting not just the president but the entire nation with the scandal.

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