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John Amato / Crooks and Liars:
Harvey Keitel speaks out on Path to 9/11: "It turned out not all the facts were correct" — Harvey Keitel speaks out on "Showbiz Tonight about the controversy ABC's "Path to 9/11" has caused and in which he stars. — Video-WMP Video-QT (rough transcript-not full)
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William Triplett / Variety:
Pols pound 'Path' — Under fire, ABC mulls yanking mini — "The Path to 9/11" is looking a lot like "The Reagans, Part II." — Bill Clinton loyalists are demanding wholesale changes to the upcoming miniseries — and while ABC is making some snips, the alterations, insiders say, may not please the Dems.
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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 …
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.
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Redstate:
3,000 People Still Die — LIBERALS CAN'T CHANGE EVERY SCENE IN "THE PATH TO 9/11" — As reported earlier today, the Democratic Leadership of the United States Senate sent a threatening letter to the Walt Disney Company. For what effect - and to what end - we will have to wait and see.
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Associated Press:
Senate Panel Releases Report on Iraq Intelligence — WASHINGTON (AP) — There's no evidence Saddam Hussein had a relationship with Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and his Al-Qaida associates, according to a Senate report on prewar intelligence on Iraq. Democrats said the report undercuts President Bush's justification for going to war.
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New York Times:
Conservatives Help Wal-Mart, and Vice Versa — As Wal-Mart Stores struggles to rebut criticism from unions and Democratic leaders, the company has discovered a reliable ally: prominent conservative research groups like the American Enterprise Institute, the Heritage Foundation and the Manhattan Institute.
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David Bernstein / The Volokh Conspiracy:
"BECAUSE WE'RE THE GOOD GUYS, AND THEY'RE THE BAD GUYS" …
"BECAUSE WE'RE THE GOOD GUYS, AND THEY'RE THE BAD GUYS" …
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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 …
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) …
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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.
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.
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.
Steve Clemons / The Washington Note:
JOHN BOLTON CONFIRMATION IS DEAD — Several well-placed sources close to the Bolton nomination process have reported to me that the Bolton confirmation process is now dead. — The Senate Foreign Relations Committee is "highly unlikely" to reconsider Bolton's confirmation again as things now stand.
Daily Mail:
Muslim fury after bikini model claimed to be Pakistan's entry — A prize winning bikini contest model who claimed she was the Pakistani representative has sparked outrage in the predominantly muslim country. — Stunning Mariyah Moten, 22, won the 'Best in Media' title …
Matthew Sheffield / NewsBusters.org:
Matthews: Plame Story Too Complicated to Cover Now — Since the revelation that Richard Armitage, a former high-ranking official in the State Department, was the source of the much-ballyhooed Valerie Plame "leak," many in the media have refused to touch the story with a ten-foot pole.