Micky has LOST it

I want to emphasize again that at this point, it's likely not ABC that's the prime mover behind propping up the Mouse-U-Mentary rewriting of history to better fit far-right talking points. It's Disney itself. Disney is the one that continues to greenlight this absurd and spiteful project written by a conservative as neoconservative 9/11 "fan fiction", in spite of no apparent upside for them other than the chance to wet Mickey's ears with a little election-season partisan gift to an unpopular and failing GOP presidency.
Disney may see all this as merely a case in which they're willing to make all the enemies they need to make, in order to prove -- what, exactly? -- by giving free national air time to faked versions of history tailored to tug at the national trauma of 9/11. But I do not think, despite the fury that surrounds them, that that's really the most dangerous aspect of this.
This is a case in which Disney/ABC is willing to propagandize the attacks on 9/11 as a corporate gimmick. That's not just an insult to the people who they "fictionalized" -- by distorting the actual history, it is an attack on America's history, and a scar on America's future. This is not just an insult to a handful of slandered people, or to even to the memories of those who died so that Disney could produce a cheap and tawdry miniseries "fictionalizing" the events that led to their deaths.
As the Families of 9/11 said: "any depiction of 9/11 that is not accurate and factual propagates myths, myths that may cause us future harm." This is a mild way to put it, to say the least. This has been a decade of gross media sensationalism and irresponsibility, and Disney seems intent on flying the Mickey banner as the most prominent outpost and symbol of that sensationalism. It has damaged our politics, it has damaged our discourse, and it has damaged our country.
It's not just "Clintonistas", as ABC's Senior Washington Correspondent John Cochran called them yesterday. Bill Bennett and a host of conservatives, prominent historians, and the signatures of over one hundred twenty thousand Americans on one anti-Disney effort alone are also calling on Disney/ABC to put this thing out of its misery. So why aren't they?
It is a bad, bad corporate move to associate Disney, Mickey Mouse and ABC with partisan posturing, and especially posturing that uses the smoke and deaths of 9/11 as political backdrop to try to prop up alternate "fictionalized" versions of history. It's the kind of thing that gets remembered for a long, long time.
This isn't going to go away. This is going to mark public perceptions of the company for a very long time, and place Disney directly in the crosshairs of all those who believe that the ongoing propagandizing of 9/11 as a crass and blood-soaked GOP rallying flag is, in the end, an unforgivable act.