The idea and the big push for ABC/Disney's account of the genesis of 9/11 did not originate with the government, but in the brain of the well-known and well connected professional right-winger David Horowitz.
Horowitz is the founder and head honcho of the think tank, Center for the Study of Popular Culture, an anti-Hollywood agitprop organization. The group hosts Wednesday meetings featuring big-time conservative speakers like Gingrich, and is bankrolled by conservative million- and billionaires.
Apparently Horowitz served as the go-between for ABC/Disney hooking up with David Cunningham, the film's director. Cunningham is the founder of a shadowy religious-right group dedicated to transforming Hollywood's entertainment industry so that it pursues "more Godly purposes."
At Horowitz's urging (funding source not known), Cunningham's group, The Film Institute, last June announced that it was commencing work on an "untitled history project." The result is the propaganda piece that ABC/Disney has now agreed to air at its own expense.
Author Max Blumenthal has all the details of this secret and deceptive but perfectly legal right-wing media manipulation plan at Truthout.org.
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