The ABC (Always Blague Conservative) Crockudrama, "The Path to 911"

So now comes the latest in a long line of conservative hit pieces. This time playing upon the pain and anguish of the events of September 11, 2001. While it is not surprising that those without ethics or honor would try to use the grief and shock of that infamous day for partisan political advantage, it is quite astounding that they would try and pass off as fact situations and circumstances so obviously constructed of distortions of fact and outright lies.

If one is determined to create a 'docudrama' of an historical event, especially one of such mind bending, heart searing import as that which transpired on September 11, 2001, it would be wise to tell the tale truthfully. Failing that requirement, if the telling of the tale was meant to be a propaganda piece, as this crockudrama obviously is, it would seem that the major requirement of the telling would be to wait until those who were witness to the events had passed on to their final reward.

The perpetrators of this sick fantasy have much in common with all those who have traded in lies and slander in service to a political idea, party or leader. They need an uninformed citizenry and a willingness to invent circumstances, situations and dialogues for those whom they wish to defame under the guise of dramatic license. Dramatic license is a colloquial term used to denote the distortion or complete ignorance of fact.

While the creators of 'The Path to 911' clearly distorted the facts of the years leading to that terrible day it cannot be said to have been done out of ignorance for the perpetrators of this outrage are the ulra-conservative relatives of other shameless prevaricators on the right. There is no lie too outrageous, no slur too low when it comes to trying to deflect blame for the events of that tragic day away from the current occupier of the People's House.

Facts be damned, in the manner of childish whiners the world over, they scream, 'It's not our fault!' In this they remind me of the scene from The Blues Brothers in which John Belushi as Jake Blues, when confronted by Carrie Fisher, playing his jilted lover, goes into a litany of lies, each more outrageous than the last, explaining why he did not show up for their wedding.

That one scene captures the essence of the extreme conservative effort to recast the tragedy of September 11, 2001 for purely partisan ends. Perhaps there is fear on the right that maybe, just maybe, the people have had enough of the lies and deceptions of Bush and his minions. That they have had enough of the lies and deceptions of the republican majority in congress, a majority that seems hell bent on destroying the civil liberties and time honored constitutional guarantees that have made America a beacon of freedom and opportunity.

Perhaps they are fearful that the people will come out and vote for change in such numbers that no amount of tweaking of voting lists by corrupt Secretaries of State or underhanded adjustments of vote counting programs by Diebold, Sequoia or ES&S will prevent the tidal wave of voter outrage that just may occur on November 7. Perhaps they decided that one more outrageous attempt at propaganda, worthy of a Joseph Goebbels, is all that stands between them, and their enablers, of a true judgement day at the hands of the people. Perhaps they are so desparate that they concluded that a lie of such magnitude about the signal event of the new century is all that will keep them from reaping the justice they so richly deserve for their incompetence, their arrogance and most of all, their lies.

The time for truth is long past. The time for retribution draws near. Above all things, remember that truth and retribution is what the ultra-conservative fears most. For the warcrimes of allowing torture and gulags, to the waging of war, and squandering our national treasure and the lives of our children, built on boldfaced lies, to bringing America down to the moral standards of a third world dictatorship, to the avalanche of lies told to the people, for all this and more, the day of reckoning draws nigh.