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Ian Bishop / New York Post:
BUBBA GOES BALLISTIC ON ABC ABOUT ITS DAMNING 9/11 — MOVIE — INSISTS NET PULL DRAMA — A furious Bill Clinton is warning ABC that its mini-series "The Path to 9/11" grossly misrepresents his pursuit of Osama bin Laden - and he is demanding the network "pull the drama" if changes aren't made.
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Scott Collins / Los Angeles Times:
ABC alters 9/11 show under pressure — ABC's upcoming five-hour docudrama "The Path to 9/11" is quickly becoming a political cause célèbre. — The network has in recent days made changes to the film, set to air Sunday and Monday, after leading political figures …
Glenn Greenwald / Unclaimed Territory:
Bush supporters condemn fictionalized political mini-series — in 2003 — (updated below - updated again) — When CBS announced in November, 2003 that it would broadcast a mini-series it produced about Ronald and Nancy Reagan called "The Reagans," Matt Drudge obtained excerpts from the script and published them.
The Ostroy Report:
Ostroy Report Exclusive: Iger Alledgedly Agrees to Edit Docu-drama After Receiving Personal Call From Bill Clinton — The Ostroy Report has learned from a reliable source connected to ABC that an unnamed ABC executive said that former President Bill Clinton called Disney President …
Jesse McKinley / New York Times:Three From Clinton Administration Urge Disney to Cancel or Revise 9/11 Mini-Series
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Breaking: Al Jazeera airs video of Bin Laden meeting 9/11 hijackers — I don't know details yet. That's what it says on Fox. Obviously we'll work on getting the video. — But to all the Truthers out there, let me be the first to say: quagmire. — Update: CNN was showing a martyrdom video …
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Associated Press:
Al-Jazeera airs pre-9/11 bin Laden tape — CAIRO, Egypt - Al-Jazeera broadcast Thursday what it called a previously unshown video in which al-Qaida chief Osama bin Laden is seen meeting with some of the Sept. 11 hijackers. The station did not say how it obtained the video, which was produced by As-Sahab, al-Qaida's media branch.
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BBC:
Bin Laden '9/11 video' broadcast — Arabic TV channel Al-Jazeera has broadcast what it says is unseen footage of Osama Bin Laden meeting some of the 9/11 hijackers. — The channel said it showed al-Qaeda leaders "preparing for the attacks and practising their execution".
Rusty / The Jawa Report:
Video: Bin Laden Meeting With 9/11 Hijackers (Updated — Al Jazeera has just run video showing Osama bin Laden meeting with some of the 9/11 hijackers. The video was produced by al Qaeda's media arm as Sahab. Earlier today as Sahab had announced on an Islamist message board that it would release a …
Agence France Presse:
Al-Jazeera broadcasts Al-Qaeda video preparing 9/11 attacks — The Arab television channel Al-Jazeera broadcast a video which it said showed Osama bin Laden and suicide candidates of Al-Qaeda preparing the September 11, 2001 attacks against the United States.
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BBC:
I will quit within a year - Blair — Tony Blair has confirmed he will be stepping down as prime minister within the next 12 months. — Mr Blair said the Labour conference in two weeks' time would be his last - but he did not name a precise departure date, saying it should be left to him.
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Associated Press:
U.S. Senate panel postpones vote on Bolton nomination as U.N. ambassador — WASHINGTON A U.S. Senate panel postponed a vote scheduled for Thursday on the nomination of John Bolton as U.N. ambassador. — Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Richard Lugar, a Republican …
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Richard Simon / Los Angeles Times:
Senate Republicans Say `No' to a Vote on Rumsfeld — Democrats, hoping to focus voters' attention on discontent with the Iraq war, float a resolution urging Bush to oust the Defense chief. — WASHINGTON — The Senate's Republican majority on Wednesday blocked a no-confidence vote …
Dean Baker / Beat the Press:
David Brooks Swings and Misses in Inequality Debate — NYT columnist David Brooks weighed in on the origins of inequality in his column (sorry—it's NYT select and therefore not linkable). While he wants to assure readers that inequality is not a serious issue, and not caused by policy, he gets almost everything in his article wrong.
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David S. Broder / Washington Post:
One Leak and a Flood of Silliness — Conspiracy theories flourish in politics, and most of them have no more basis than spring training hopes for the Chicago Cubs. — Whenever things turn dicey for Republicans, they complain about the "liberal media" sabotaging them.
Newt Gingrich / Opinion Journal:
Bush and Lincoln — Echoes of the past in today's strategic mistakes. … WASHINGTON—Five years have passed since the horrific attack on our American homeland, and, still, there is one serious, undeniable fact we have yet to confront: We are, today, not where we wanted to be and nowhere near where we need to be.
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Carpetbagger / The Carpetbagger Report:
Remember Abu Zubaydah? — Probably the most important moment in the president's speech yesterday dealt with his defense of torture. It was, perhaps, Bush at his most twisted. … The president was particularly fond of the Zubaydah anecdote. Bush went on to explain that when Zubaydah stopped talking …
Washington Post:
President Shifts Argument, Catches Critics Off Guard — With a series of forceful speeches on terrorism and a dramatic announcement that he has sent top-tier terrorism suspects to the Guantanamo Bay prison, President Bush this week has demonstrated anew the power of even a weakened commander …
Jeff Goldstein / protein wisdom:
BREAKING: THE LAST "TRUE" CONSERVATIVE (WELL, IF YOU DON'T COUNT GLENN GREENWALD, THAT IS) DUSTS OFF THE "GOB SMACKING," ENCOURAGES VOTERS TO PULL THE LEVER FOR DEMOCRATS — Turns out Andy Sullivan wasn't all too thrilled with the President's speech yesterday—which, in true recent-vintage Sullivan fashion …
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