I am not afraid of terrorists.

I am afraid, to varying degrees, of the following things: spiders, personal conflict, rejection, driving, looking like a fashion idiot, old age, the possibility that the universe in fact has no meaning or purpose, mysterious diseases, poverty, theft, fire, flood, pollution, the Bush administration, developers, the future, leaving the burner on high AGAIN when I thought I'd turned it off and maybe doing this before I leave the house one day and burning it down.

But I am not afraid of terrorists.

I do not get cable, so I could not watch ABC's new 9/11 drama thing even if I wanted to. And I probably wouldn't want to, even if it weren't an outrageously inaccurate dramatization of, basically, right wing 9/11 talking points. (It was all Clinton's fault! Really!) However, I'm pretty sure that Media Matters is right when they say that it is.

In particular, I am sick to death of the right-wing double standard. Disney -- parent company of ABC and Miramax -- chose not to release Fahrenheit 9/11 because they "didn't want to be seen taking sides." Riiiiight. They just don't want to be seen taking the "wrong" side, that is, the side other than the one George W. Bush approves of.

Does anybody else remember that Reagan miniseries that CBS canceled a few years ago because a few right wingers squawked about it... I think because it wasn't reverential enough, or something.

Anyway, ABC has gotten a lot more squawking about this "docudrama" and they're not canceling anything.

In a related article, this column puts into perspective something that I had noticed -- that the mainstream media seems weirdly obsessed with reminding us, the American people of how much we are supposed to love Bush. Particularly, it looks at Bush's approval ratings for the last year and compares them to the low points of other presidents of the modern era.

The article identifies the phenomenon -- every uptick, no matter how small, is heralded as some kind of comeback, while the clear trend indicated by consistently low ratings ever since Katrina is never mentioned -- but it doesn't speculate about why the media (other than Fox News, where it's obvious) is so invested in the success of the Bush administration.

I'm starting to suspect that, if you cross them, the Republicans will kill your family.

And apparently the movie isn't very good anyway.

And now American Airlines is thinking about pulling advertising from the network.

American Airlines released the following statement: "The Disney/ABC television program, 'The Path to 9/11,' which began airing last night, is inaccurate and irresponsible in its portrayal of the airport check-in events that occurred on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001.

"A factual description of those events can be found in the official government edition of the 9/11 Commission Report and supporting documents.

I guess maybe there is a danger in flagrantly misrepresenting events that happened five years ago, that everyone still remembers. Huh.