Lisa loves Mickey, Minnie, and Donald, but she is pissed at Disney!

Lisa Koperski lives in Seattle now, but she grew up in Southern California just miles from Disneyland. She tells me she has always enjoyed going to Disney theme parks and what Disney ostensibly represents – family values, humor and levity, a world of imagination and hope, and childish exuberance. She spent many a summers’ night watching Disneyland fireworks from her parents’ house when she was growing up and went to Disneyland more times than she can count as a child. That love for all-things-Disney has continued into her adulthood.

But recent events have changed these feelings. She says now that she has chosen to boycott Disney as a result of ABC News’ "horrid" moderation of the debate and the persistent and flagrant attempt by ABC and, by extension, its parent company, Disney, to inject itself into the 2008 presidential race. Like millions of Americans, Lisa says she was disgusted by the “yellow journalism” by George Stephanopoulos and Charlie Gibson that was supposed to be a debate. Few real issues were discussed and instead the “debate” focused on “gotcha” moments that were clearly aimed primarily at only one of the presidential candidates, Barack Obama.

Now, rather than correct their pretty obvious political bias, Lisa feels ABC News has continued its promotion of Hillary Clinton’s candidacy by granting her free air-time on its station for a ”Townhall” that again George Stephanopoulos is involved in. This “Townhall” is scheduled to air on ABC, tomorrow, Sunday, May 4th. Lisa believes this is a "blatant disregard for journalistic integrity and Disney’s and ABC News’ complicit attempt to manipulate the outcome of the political race." Understandably,this has soured Lisa’s and, no doubt, millions of Americans view toward Disney and its subsidiaries (most notably, ABC News).

Lisa, like others, is saying “Hit them where it hurts - in the pocketbook”. Lisa tells me

Just like a child needs to learn to apologize and needs correction at times, Disney needs to apologize and correct its stance of biased journalism in order to regain the trust of millions of Disney-lovers like me. The question now is, how many other Americans are disgusted enough with the abuse by ABC News and Disney to distort the “free press” that they are willing to boycott Disney and ABC, and how will that affect Disney’s profits in future quarters?

If you are interested in getting involved in this boycott of ABC News and Disney, please go to "Demand for Apology from ABC News for their coverage of Democratic Debate on 4.16.2008." to add your name to the petition. Together, we can demonstrate our disdain for “yellow journalism” and show to Disney and ABC that we, the American people, are not going to put up with flagrantly biased political discourse anymore!

It's a long time until November. Enough time to send Disney-ABC a message about their need to be accountable to the public's interest in fair and professional coverage of our electoral process. Thanks Lisa, for your audacity and leadership. Yes We Can.