The miniseries was a massive undertaking, with close to 250 speaking
parts, more than 300 sets and a budget of $40 million. The production
values and acting skills cannot be faulted, and of course the topic is
compelling. But something strange starts happening around hour three of
the miniseries, when the film none-too-subtly suggests that then-President
Clinton was too busy dropping his trousers and later struggling not to
lose his shirt in impeachment hearings to pay much attention to what was
going on in the world, terrorism-wise. The film shows real news footage of
Clinton's denials of "sexual relations ... with that woman, Monica
Lewinsky" in 1998 while O'Neill and other CIA and FBI agents were
desperately scrambling to find Bin Laden and thwart more attacks.

And then the partisan politics begin to emerge in the script - big time.

According to "The Path," the Clinton administration was too concerned with
such trifles as respecting international laws and treaties, protecting
civil liberties, following diplomatic protocol, displaying cultural
sensitivity and pursuing larger goals (like Mideast peace) to bring down
the bad guys.

But the main problem with "The Path" is that the interspersing of real
news footage with dramatized scenes, a technique employed throughout,
makes a hopeless muddle of the line between fact and "dramatization."

Although it claims to be based in part on the 9/11 Commission Report,
writer-producer Nowrasteh, a self-described conservative, said in an
interview with frontpagemag.com that the report goes back only as far as
1998, and that he did his own research for the years 1993 to 1998.

Yet even if there are not outright lies in the film, as some are
claiming - Albright, for one, has called a scene depicting her actions as
"false and defamatory" - there are many omissions. Notably, one of the
most famous images of Sept. 11, President Bush's frozen response while
visiting a Florida classroom when he was told of the attacks, is not
depicted.

Bush's fumbling and bumbling is not depicted.
Bush's arrogance is not depicted.
Bush's opportunistic photo op at ground zero is not dipicted.

Hell, if you believe any of this republican drool, you'd think Clinton was
still President and Bush was still Governor of Mexico Del Norte.

The worst part is these lamebrain, shitheaded conservatives want to send
out 100,000 copies of this crap to schools.

*Let's do a made up docu-drama called, "George Bush, The Hippy-Dippy
Years" for PBS;
George naked and smoking dope in his dorm with 3 ghetto hookers. George
getting his 3 DUIs. George torturing squirrels in Kennypunkport.
Laura killing her boyfriend in the bathtub with a pickax.
Condi Rice chasing rich white boys in high school.
Cheney dressing up as a female cheerleader at his draft board to get out
of Vietnam.
Rumsfeld sleeping with Saddam.
How about Bush Senior taking money from a Jap Spy to crash his plane into
the USS Yorktown and then bail out?
Rush Limbaugh getting arrested for bringing a boat full of Viagra into
Miami.
Sean Insannity passed out drunk behind St. Patrick's Cathedral with an
alterboy.
Ann Coulter masterbating with O'Reilly's dildoe.
Let's go for it.