Disney is Scared of Bush Revenge

The NYTimes reports that Disney is blocking Miramax's distribution deal for Michael Moore's new film. The movie is about Bush's ties with powerful Saudi families. According to the article: "A senior Disney executive elaborated that the company had the right to quash Miramax's distribution of films if it deemed their distribution to be against the interests of the company. The executive said Mr. Moore's film is deemed to be against Disney's interests not because of the company's business dealings with the government but because Disney caters to families of all political stripes and believes Mr. Moore's film, which does not have a release date, could alienate many."

Hooey that this is about families -- Miramax has made many films which would bother families, with violence, nudity, harsh language. In fact, Disney invested in Miramax specifically to get in on the "violence/nudity" action without harming their pro-family, spanking clean Disney brand. Disney is scared of Bush Revenge.

This is the Plame payoff. The Bush team has demonstrated a ruthless political will for revenge from those who criticise them. The result is that one of the most powerful media companies in the world is too scared to risk being seen as critical of Bush -- even in the legitimate form of a documentary film by one of the world's most well recognized documentarians on the left, distributed by the greatest "independent" stuidio ever.