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6:10 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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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.
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.
Zzaki / Political Punch:
"The path to The Path to 9/11," part 2  —  Well, we did the spot on World News with Charles Gibson last night (VIDEO HERE) and a separate spot on Good Morning America this a.m....  The crux of the debate is that there are events in the film that didn't actually happen, that reflect poorly …
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.
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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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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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
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John Amato / Crooks and Liars:
Chris Wallace slams ABC on 9/11 project: "I think it's slanderous …
Discussion: Daily Kos and Firedoglake
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) …
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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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).
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.
Charles Krauthammer / Washington Post:
Iraq: A Civil War We Can Still Win  —  As the Democrats turn themselves into the antiwar party, as popular support for the war continues to sink, as some who initially signed on to the war now heap scorn on the entire Iraqi project, the question of immediate withdrawal must be confronted.
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.
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.
Carpetbagger / The Carpetbagger Report:
'We don't work for the president'  —  It's after Labor Day, the fifth anniversary of 9/11 is around the corner, and the Bush White House is in the midst of its third "major public relations offensive" on Iraq and the president's vision of a war on terror.  Given the speeches, legislative proposals …
 
 
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