The people behind 'The Path to 9/11' revealed

I've been looking forward to seeing what bloggers came up with after doing some investigative work on the people behind the widely-criticized film The Path to 9/11. Set to air in the coming week, it's no longer being referred to as a documentary by ABC, a classroom tie-in has been pulled for reworking, and several scenes are being edited prior to airtime. Even right-wing columnist John Podhoretz has felt obliged to criticize the film's dishonesty, if not the "it's Clinton's fault" message.

But the flaws of the movie aren't just due to sloppiness, laziness or creative license. It's the pet project of right-wing activists and fundamentalists whose mission is to spread the Gospel of Bush through movies and television. The laziness was apparently on the part of studio executives willing to green-light a project that was bound to be nothing more than a propaganda piece from the start.

In fact, "The Path to 9/11" is produced and promoted by a well-honed propaganda operation consisting of a network of little-known right-wingers working from within Hollywood to counter its supposedly liberal bias. This is the network within the ABC network. Its godfather is far right activist David Horowitz, who has worked for more than a decade to establish a right-wing presence in Hollywood and to discredit mainstream film and TV production. On this project, he is working with a secretive evangelical religious right group founded by The Path to 9/11's director David Cunningham that proclaims its goal to "transform Hollywood" in line with its messianic vision.

Before The Path to 9/11 entered the production stage, Disney/ABC contracted David Cunningham as the film's director. Cunningham is no ordinary Hollywood journeyman. He is in fact the son of Loren Cunningham, founder of the right-wing evangelical group Youth With a Mission (YWAM). The young Cunningham helped found an auxiliary of his father's group called The Film Institute (TFI), which, according to its mission statement, is "dedicated to a Godly transformation and revolution TO and THROUGH the Film and Televisionindustry." As part of TFI's long-term strategy, Cunningham helped place interns from Youth With A Mission's in film industry jobs "so that they can begin to impact and transform Hollywood from the inside out," according to a YWAM report.