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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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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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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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Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:ABC to Alter Show on Pre-9/11 Run-Up
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Jim Abrams / Associated Press:
Senate: No prewar Saddam-al-Qaida ties — WASHINGTON - 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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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!)
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Riehl World View
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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 …
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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," …
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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) …
Amit Varma / India Uncut:
Blasts in Malegaon — I'm making this post sticky for now by changing the time of the post. It was originally posted at 6.43pm, September 8. — There have been bomb blasts in Malegaon. At least 30 people have died, as of now. These blasts, in contrast to recent terrorist attacks …
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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.
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).
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.
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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.
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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.
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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