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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.
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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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" …
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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 …
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.
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.
Mark Mazzetti / New York Times:
Questions Raised About Bush's Primary Claims in Defense of Secret Detention System — In defending the Central Intelligence Agency's secret network of prisons on Wednesday, President Bush said the detention system had used lawful interrogation techniques, was fully described to select members …
Damon Darlin / New York Times:
Hewlett-Packard Spied on Writers in Leaks — The California attorney general's investigation into the purloining of private phone records by agents of Hewlett-Packard has revealed that the monitoring effort began earlier than previously indicated and included journalists as targets.
Ezra Klein / TAPPED:
300 MILLION AMERICANS CAN BE WRONG. I do like the continual sharpening of differences between the libertarian health care wonks and, well, me. Today, Cato's Michael Cannon files the shank a bit more and stabs down to the heart of it: I think panels of experts should watch over health care decisions …
Mcjoan / Daily Kos:
Keep the Pressure on ABC/Disney — Kossack Richard Cranium breaks the news that someone at ABC is talking to Variety and telling them that the network is considering pulling "The Path to 9/11." … Excellent news, and indication that all of the pressure the coordinated effort of the left is working.
New York Post:
ISLAM-HATERS: AN ENEMY WITHIN — ISLAMIST fanatics attacked us and yearn to destroy us. The Muslim civilization of the Middle East has failed comprehensively and will continue to generate violence. The only way to deal with faith-poisoned terrorists is to kill them.
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 …
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.
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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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.
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