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7:25 PM ET, September 8, 2006

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New York Post:
'PATH' MISSED REAL  —  9/11 STORY  —  FIRST things first: ABC's miniseries "The Path to 9/11," which will air Sept. 10 and 11, is a stiff.  For those well-versed in the infuriating details of the missteps and missed opportunities in pursing al Qaeda between the first bombing of the World Trade Center …
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Roger Ebert / Chicago Sun Times:
Accuracy aside, ABC's '9/11' deserves to bomb  —  BY DOUG ELFMAN TELEVISION CRITIC  —  I once sat in a car forever waiting for my mom to come out of a grocery store.  I thought that was the definition of "interminable."  I had no idea "The Path to 9/11" was in my future.
NY Daily News:
ABC's film flap  —  Trims 9/11 series as Dems howl  —  ABC is frantically recutting its $40 million miniseries about 9/11 amid a blistering backlash over fictional scenes that lay the blame on the Clinton administration.  —  Also feeling the heat was Scholastic, which yanked a classroom guide tie-in to the program.
William Triplett / Variety:
Pols pound 'Path'
Michael / Discourse.net:
WPLG Plans to Show 'The Path to 9/11'
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Thomas Joscelyn / Weekly Standard:
Rules of Evidence  —  A new Senate report on Iraq and al Qaeda ignores everything which gets in the way of its conclusions.  —  ONCE AGAIN headlines from media outlets around the country declare "No Saddam, al-Qaeda link."  This time the news cycle is being fed by the release of two reports …
David Stout / New York Times:
Senate Panel Releases Report on Iraq Intelligence
ShrinkWrapped:
Projection and Externalization in Politics  —  Every morning I listen to NPR, alternating with the Imus in the Morning radio program.  I also scan and occasionally read the New York Times on-line edition.  In this way, I take the pulse of the Northeast liberal prevailing wisdom.
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Tracy Russo / Democratic National Committee:
RE: A Despicable, Irresponsible Fraud  —  Following up on our most successful petition campaign ever, DNC Executive Director sent the following e-mail to over 150,000 people who added their name to tell ABC to keep their "docudrama" off the air.  (A slightly different version was sent to those who have yet to take action!)
Discussion: Riehl World View
Jen Nix / Open Letter to ABC:
Leading Historians Call For Cancellation of "Fraudulent" ABC 9/11 Docudrama  —  Dear Robert Iger:  —  We write as professional historians, who are deeply concerned by the continuing reports about ABC's scheduled broadcast of "The Path to 9/11."  These reports document that this drama …
Robert Salladay / Los Angeles Times:
Gov.'s Candid Moments Caught on Audiotape  —  Schwarzenegger's banter with aides offers glimpse of bull session behind closed doors.  —  SACRAMENTO — In the sanctuary of his Capitol office with an audio recorder rolling, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger describes Republican legislators as the …
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Los Angeles Times:
Governor Apologizes for Remarks About Latina Lawmaker  —  Schwarzenegger's banter with aides offers glimpse of bull session behind closed doors.  —  Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger today apologized for saying the lone Latina Republican lawmaker in California had a "very hot," …
Discussion: LA Observed
Tad Walch / Desert News:
BYU places '9/11 truth' professor on paid leave  —  PROVO — Brigham Young University placed physics professor Steven Jones on paid leave Thursday while it reviews his involvement in the so-called "9/11 truth movement" that accuses unnamed government agencies of orchestrating the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center.
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Michael / Le Blog Bérubé:
ABF Friday: Blame America First edition!  —  While everyone else in the liberal blogosphere is focused on the world-historical shenanigans of ABC-Disney-Rove's fictionalized docudrama, The Path to 9/11: Clinton Did It (original title: A Million Little Pieces of the Democrats' Plan to Undermine America) …
David Bernstein / The Volokh Conspiracy:
"BECAUSE WE'RE THE GOOD GUYS, AND THEY'RE THE BAD GUYS": The New York Times tries to make a story out of nonstory: free-market groups that quite naturally defend the largest, most successful business in the U.S., Wal-Mart, from government regulation, get a tiny fraction of their funding …
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USA Today:
Technology empowers amateur journalism — for better or worse  —  Between broadband Internet access, inexpensive camcorders, simple audio and video editing tools — not to mention YouTube — the power of "citizen journalists" has increased tremendously in the past couple of years.
Discussion: Confederate Yankee and Romenesko
Rasmussen Reports:
Tennessee Senate: Ford Within 1  —  Corker (R) 45% Ford (D) 44%  —  The latest Rasmussen Reports election survey shows U.S. Rep. Harold Ford, Jr. closing in on Bob Corker in what has become one of the country's marquee Senate races.  Ford now trails Corker by a single point, 44% to 45% (see crosstabs).
Greg Mankiw / Greg Mankiw's Blog:
A Kept Promise  —  In 2000, candidate George W. Bush said: … Today, in Paul Krugman's NY Times column, I learn: … Because this is the group with the highest average tax rate, I guess we should conclude that President Bush kept his promise.  —  Of course, that wasn't Paul's point.
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Down the Homestretch, the House Wanders Off Course  —  Let us stipulate, as the lawyers like to say, that horses should not be slaughtered for human consumption.  —  Let us further stipulate that there is nothing inherently offensive about minting coins to commemorate the bicentennial of Abraham Lincoln's birth.
wnbc.com:
Federal Probe Launched Into Menendez's Finances  —  A federal investigation has been launched into the financial dealings of New Jersey Sen. Robert Menendez and a nonprofit agency he has helped over the years, sources said.  —  The U.S. attorney's office has subpoenaed the agency's records pertaining …
 
 
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Associated Press:
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John Amato / Crooks and Liars:
Chris Wallace slams ABC on 9/11 project: "I think it's slanderous …
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Reuters:
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Ezra Klein / TAPPED:
300 MILLION AMERICANS CAN BE WRONG.  I do like the continual sharpening …
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Charles Krauthammer / Washington Post:
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