I know it's a satirical publication, but this is just too weird not to post.

Is it weird for you to work at CRACKED after spending six years in jail for possession of crack?

Believe me, the irony was not lost on me or my P.O. Despite the Pavlovian tic I get every time someone says the title of the magazine aloud, we all think steady work is a step in the right direction.

(guest blogged by Howie Klein)

I grew up in Brooklyn listening to the Shangri-Las and Four Seasons. I didn't know anything about country music. Except for "El Paso" by Marty Robbins. For me it embodied the romanticism of The West. I couldn't wait to get to Texas. So I hitch-hiked there from Brooklyn.

I have three 2-disc sets of Marty Robbins greatest all-time hits, THE ESSENTIAL MARTY ROBBINS. Send me an email (downwithtyranny@aol.com) and tell me your favorite country song and why. Best 3 answers get the Robbins collections

Richard Ben-Veniste, a member of the 9/11 commission rips ABC over their many false representation of the 9/11 commission report and the use of it to market their 9/11 mini-series as the definitive account of the 9/11 tragedy. That to me is disgraceful. Making it available to only right wing sites is also a big indicator of how slanted this ABC/ Disney production is.

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Tom Kean, Sr. is clearly shown in Countdown's segment as having complete access to the script and approving the falsehoods that show up in the TV show. Way to go Kean.

Digby has much more:

The reason this matters so much, and why Democrats are so apoplectic at the way ABC has handled this material, is that popular culture has a way of inculcating certain concepts into people's minds, especially young minds, far more effectively than talking head programs or earnest debates among political bloggers and columnists. This is the kind of thing that could taint the debate for generations if it takes hold. The right howled mercilessly at Oliver Stone's depictions of JFK and Nixon, claiming that he was rewriting history....read on

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So the right wing is predictably euphoric about Bush's latest political ploy. Here's an example from The Corner:

The President just pulled one of the best maneuvers of his entire presidency. By transferring most major Al Qaeda terrorists to Guantanamo, and simultaneously sending Congress a bill to rescue the Military Commissions from the Supreme Court's ruling Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, the President spectacularly ambushed the Democrats on terrain they fondly thought their own. Now Democrats who oppose (and who have vociferously opposed) the Military Commissions will in effect be opposing the prosecution of the terrorists who planned and launched the attacks of September 11 for war crimes.

And if that were not enough, the President also frontally attacked the Hamdan ruling's potentially chilling effect on CIA extraordinary interrogation techniques, by arguing that Common Article 3 of the Geneva Conventions is too vague, and asking Congress to define clearly the criminal law limiting the scope of permissible interrogation.

Taken as a whole, the President's maneuver today turned the political tables completely around. He stole the terms of debate from the Democrats, and rewrote them, all in a single speech. It will be delightful to watch in coming days and hours as bewildered Democrats try to understand what just hit them, and then sort through the rubble of their anti-Bush national security strategy to see what, if anything, remains.

(Boy, I sure hate it when the Democrats politicize the war on terror. It's so wrong.)

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Don't Airbrush 9/11. Check it out and get active...

UPDATE: skippy the bush kangaroo informs us that the ABC "Path to 9/11" blog is up again and accepting comments...for now.

And as many commenters have pointed out, often the best way to get through to networks is through their sponsors. Do some research and post here some names for other C&Lers to contact. Let's let them hear from us.

Scarborough took on the ABC 9/11 docu-drama last night and former Bush counterterrorism official, Roger Cressey had some choice things to say about it.

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Cressey: "Joe - what's amazing about this based on what I seen so far is how much they got wrong" 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

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I'm sure Jacoby would do whatever they said and I mean anything if they held a gun to his head. These cowards know no bounds,

Fox News reporter Steve Centanni and photographer Olaf Wiig announced their acceptance of Islam on a videotape released by their kidnappers -- ``because they had the guns," Centanni later said, ``and we didn't know what the hell was going on." Whether their acquiescence was an act of cowardice or of prudence, reasonable people can debate. Clearly it wasn't their only choice. If I were ever told, with a gun to my head, to recite the Shahada or die, I hope I would have the courage to take the bullet...

The Italian that died is an incredible story, but surely any sane person would realize it was a propaganda film and understand the duress these reporters felt. He's so brave with a keyboard in his hand. Let's get this straight. All reporters should have a James Bond type cyanide pill implanted in their teeth so they can kill themselves from now on. Has Jacoby got one? Here's his email jacoby@globe.com. He's so proud of the article, but be nice... Mark Steyn is no better.

K-lo says the Preznit wants to cut into the soaps. Is he crazy? You don't mess with the soaps. The networks didn't mess with the soaps...

Ed Henry and Bush certainly think so as does the FBI in Philly...

See for yourself...