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11:00 PM ET, September 9, 2006

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John / AMERICAblog:
Defamatory Sandy Berger scene in 9/11 show is THE culmination of the entire first half, it is IMPOSSIBLE to edit it out  —  Okay, I just watched the Sandy Berger scene.  It is beyond defamatory.  The reports you've read do not do it justice.  —  We are 1 hour 54 minutes into the film …
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Los Angeles Times:
ABC Stands By Its 9/11 Story — Almost  —  After minor edits in response to Democratic critics, the miniseries will air as scheduled.  It's already set off a bitter election-year dispute.  —  Walt Disney Co.'s ABC is forging ahead with plans to air a miniseries starting Sunday despite controversy …
Tim Rutten / Los Angeles Times:
ABC follows a path to shame  —  SURVEYING the smoking ruin that is ABC's reputation after the "The Path to 9/11" debacle, it's hard to know whether you're looking at the consequence of unadulterated folly or of a calculated strategy that turned out to be too clever by half.
Discussion: The News Blog and Think Progress
Patterico / Patterico's Pontifications:
Greenwald Propagates the Myth that "Path to 9/11″ Publicists …
Discussion: Unclaimed Territory
BuzzFlash / Fight Ignorance:   Key Scenes of ABC's "The Path to 9/11" Shot in Canada, Including WTC Attack
Tom Shales / Washington Post:   ABC's Twisted 'Path to 9/11'
Christy Hardin Smith / Firedoglake:
Craptastic GOP-U-Drama Still Greenlighted By ABC/Disney
Discussion: Orcinus, TalkLeft and JustOneMinute
John / AMERICAblog:
American Airlines to blame for 9/11, Disney/ABC movie falsely claims  —  I'm just wondering when American Airlines is going to realize that it's about to be defamed in the entire English-speaking world.  —  As I first noted yesterday, I have the entire "Path to 9/11" video.
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Jennifer Nix / Firedoglake:
What We Do Now  —  Despite the vociferous and righteous public outcry against ABC's "Path to 9/11" docudrama, it still appears that Disney honcho Robert Iger is choosing to air a politicized and inaccurate account of our great American tragedy.  This travesty of a film …
Discussion: The Sideshow
Hunter / Daily Kos:
Disney/ABC Highlighting Faked Scenes In Ads For 9/11 Terror Porn
Discussion: Discourse.net and Althouse
Jennifer Medina / New York Times:
Lieberman Points Out a Turnabout by Lamont  —  Ned Lamont, who this week chastised Senator Joseph I. Lieberman for his public rebuke of President Clinton during the Monica Lewinsky scandal, wrote to Mr. Lieberman at the time praising the eloquence of his speech on the Senate floor.
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Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:
Ned Lamont Discovers Our Superficial Press Corps
Discussion: Bizzyblog
Michael van der Galien / The Moderate Voice:
From Ned With Love
Discussion: Blue Crab Boulevard
Adam Nagourney / New York Times:
To Hold Senate, G.O.P. Bolsters Its Most Liberal  —  With a barrage of television advertisements and the mobilization of its get-out-the-vote machine, the national Republican Party has lined up to beat back a conservative primary challenge to the most liberal Republican in the Senate, Lincoln Chafee of Rhode Island.
Washington Post:
Nancy Reagan Asks Webb to Pull Ad With Her Husband  —  Former first lady Nancy Reagan on Friday asked Virginia Democratic Senate candidate James Webb to not use a television commercial that shows former president Ronald Reagan praising Webb, his former Navy secretary.
Hotline On Call:
The Saturday Brunch  —  Dean and Rahm To Make Up? ...  Hagel/Snowe provide Senate Dems with bipartisan cover in rebuking Bush on Iraq intel ... Allen gets a Reagan assist in attempting to stop Webb's Reagan assist ... it's GOTV weekend in RI ... Tom Tancredo, the new conservative kingmaker?
Desi / Mia Culpa:
Propaganda  —  Two retired F.B.I. agents said today that they had rejected advisory roles on the disputed ABC mini-series, "The Path to 9/11," because of concerns about the program's accuracy.  —  One of the agents, Thomas E. Nicoletti, was hired by the producers of the mini-series in July 2005 …
Discussion: Firedoglake, Lean Left and Daily Kos
Jonathan Rauch / The Atlantic Online:
Unwinding Bush  —  How long will it take to fix his mistakes?  —  H istory judges good presidents by what they do, bad ones by how long they take to undo.  Although history hasn't yet caught up with President George W. Bush, midterm elections are about to—and those are often a referendum on presidential performance.
Discussion: Obsidian Wings and The RCP Blog
Knight Ridder:
U.S. count of Baghdad deaths excludes car bombs, mortar attacks  —  BAGHDAD, Iraq - U.S. officials, seeking a way to measure the results of a program aimed at decreasing violence in Baghdad, aren't counting scores of dead killed in car bombings and mortar attacks as victims of the country's sectarian violence.
Paul A. Gigot / Opinion Journal:
'Most People Want Us to Win'  —  A president in the fray, more Truman than LBJ.  —  ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE — Speaker Nancy Pelosi?  —  "That's not going to happen," snaps the president of the United States, leaning across his desk in his airborne office.  He had been saying that he hoped …
Discussion: Say Anything and Blogs for Bush
Michael Alison Chandler / Washington Post:
Antiabortion Centers Offer Sonograms to Further Cause  —  On June 6, Cheryl Smith took her last $600 and drove her teenage daughter from Baltimore to Severna Park to get an abortion.  When they got there, a receptionist told them the clinic had changed hands.
Discussion: The Corner
Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
Phase II Report: Saddam Retained Banned Missiles, Biological Stocks  —  Thanks to the genius of CQ reader Harrison Colter, I now have searchable PDFs of the Phase II reports.  The new copies have already paid dividends.  In the overall report on pre-war intel accuracy …
Discussion: A Blog For All
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CNN:
Public expects gridlock if Democrats pick up seats  —  WASHINGTON (CNN) — Americans foresee "more gridlock" in government if Democrats take over the House and/or the Senate after elections this fall, a CNN poll shows.  —  And while the poll shows a majority of Americans would favor probes …
Little Green Footballs:
LGF Exclusive: Inside Khatami's CAIR Dinner  —  LGF operative grayp attended the speech by Ayatollah Mohammad Khatami at the Marriott Crystal Gateway in Arlington, Virginia; here's her citizen journalist's report on the CAIR-sponsored event:  —  Last night CAIR hosted a reception and dinner for former Iranian President Khatami.
 
 
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