I've looked for this but couldn't find it - I'll delete if this is a repeat.
If you need more proof of why this whole brouhaha is important, Alessadra Stanley, the Times TV Critic, has seen Path to 9/11 and weighs in on it. As anyone who follows Stanley can guess, her review is a piece of shit. Now I haven't seen the movie (because I'm not a conservative media whore) so I can't review it. Stanley has seen it (interesting...) and angry letters should be written.
For those of you who are not familiar with her fine work, it is so shockingly inaccurate that Gawker.com has a semi-regualr feature called the Alessandra Stanley Watch, wherein they note her many inaccuracies and mistakes.
Some quotes after the jump.
All mini-series Photoshop the facts. "The Path to 9/11" is not a documentary, or even a docu-drama; it is a fictionalized account of what took place. It relies on the report of the Sept. 11 commission, the King James version of all Sept. 11 accounts, as well as other material and memoirs. Some scenes come straight from the writers' imaginations. Yet any depiction of those times would have to focus on those who were in charge, and by their own accounts mistakes were made. (Emphasis mine)
But those are not the mistakes in this movie. I feel like that's sort of an important point.
The first bombing of the World Trade Center happened on Bill Clinton's watch. So did the 1998 embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania and the 2000 attack on the U.S.S. Cole in Yemen...
...In 2001 President Bush and his newly appointed aides had ample warning, including a briefing paper titled "Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S.," and they failed to take it seriously enough, but their missteps are not equal. It's like focusing blame for a school shooting at the beginning of the school year on the student's new home room teacher; the adults who watched the boy torment classmates and poison small animals knew better.
I don't even have the energy to tear this apart, but you get the idea.
In the interest of fairness, she does say one negative thing about W:
The inserted news clips of Mr. Bush are not exactly inspiring. He is shown sweaty and dismissive in jogging shorts, dodging questions about tax cuts.
So there you have it. According to the same woman who can't watch Arrested Development without getting confused (even though it's her job to watch TV) Clinton let 9/11 happen and Bush sweats.