John Podhoretz, conservative columnist and Fox News contributor:
The portrait of Albright is an unacceptable revision of recent history
and an unfair mark on a public servant who, no matter her shortcomings,
doesn't deserve to be remembered by millions of Americans as the
inadvertent (and truculent) savior of Osama bin Laden. Samuel Berger,
Clinton's national security adviser, also seems to have just cause
for complaint. [NYPost, 9/8/06]
James Taranto, OpinionJournal.com editor:
The Clintonites may have a point here. A few years ago, when the shoe
was on the other foot, we were happy to see CBS scotch "The
Reagans." [OpinionJournal, 9/7/06]
Dean Barnett, conservative commentator posting on Hugh Hewitt's blog:
One can (if one so chooses) give the filmmakers artistic license to
[fabricate a scene]. But if that is what they have done, conservative
analysts who back this movie as a historical document will mortgage
their credibility doing so. [Hugh Hewitt blog, 9/6/06]
Chris Wallace, Fox News Sunday anchor:
When you put somebody on the screen and say that's Madeleine Albright
and she said this in a specific conversation and she never did say it,
I think it's slanderous, I think it's defamatory and I think that
ABC and Disney should be held to account. [Fox, 9/8/06]
Captain's Quarters blog:
If the Democrats do not like what ABC wants to broadcast, they have
every right to protest it - and in this case, they had a point.
[Captain Quarter's blog, 9/7/06]
Bill Bennett, conservative author, radio host, and TV commentator:
Look, "The Path to 9/11? is strewn with a lot of problems and I
think there were problems in the Clinton administration. But that's
no reason to falsify the record, falsify conversations by either the
president or his leading people and you know it just shouldn't
happen. [CNN, 9/8/06]
Seth Liebsohn, Claremont Institute fellow and produce of Bill
Bennett's radio show:
I oppose this miniseries as well if it is fiction dressed up as fact,
creates caricatures of real persons and events that are inaccurate, and
inserts quotes that were not uttered, especially to make a point that
was not intended. [Glenn Greewald's blog, 9/7/06]
Richard Miniter, conservative author of "Losing bin Laden: How Bill
Clinton's Failures Unleashed Global Terror":
If people wanted to be critical of the Clinton years there's things
they could have said, but the idea that someone had bin Laden in his
sights in 1998 or any other time and Sandy Berger refused to pull the
trigger, there's zero factual basis for that. [CNN, 9/7/06]
Brent Bozell, founder and president of the conservative Media Research
Center:
I think that if you have a scene, or two scenes, or three scenes,
important scenes, that do not have any bearing on reality and you can
edit them, I think they should edit them. [MSNBC, 9/6/06]
Bill O'Reilly, Fox News pundit:
Ok, we're talking about the run up to 9-11 and this movie that
they're re-cutting now - and they should because it puts words in the
mouth of real people, actors playing real people that they didn't say
and its wrong. [O'Reilly radio show, 9/8/06]
DNC Executive Director Tom McMahon:
"ABC is trying to use the airwaves -- airwaves owned by you and me, and
loaned to broadcasters as a public trust -- to slander Democrats and sell a
slanderous, irresponsible fraud to the American people, and they're
shamefully doing it just weeks away from Election Day,"
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