snips from "Hunting of the President" reviews

[wyldwolf]

Newsday: (nuetral-positive review)

The most affecting figure in the film is Susan McDougal, ex-wife of onetime Clinton confidant James McDougal, whose manic- depression is blamed for the Whitewater scandal. Her refusal to tell Ken Starr what he wanted to hear led to two years in a maximum-security prison. There, she was forced to wear the red dress marking a killer of one's own children; the abuses she recounts are horrifying.

One can argue against a lot of what the movie purports to prove, but the Susan McDougal case is like something out of a Robert Stone novel about a banana republic - the kind of thing, like much of "Hunting of the President," most Americans think couldn't happen here.

http://www.newsday.com/entertainment/movies/ny-huntingofpresident-movie,0,5575809.story?coll=ny-entertainment-bigpix

Film Critic nuetral-positive

It would have been nice if the documentary The Hunting of the President had been made in the late 1990s, when the country was in the throes of Monicagate, Whitewatergate, Troopergate and an endless flood of Clinton jokes, but in some sense it’s best to have this film released now, so we can look back from a time of actual crisis (war, faltering economy), chastised, and see just how much time we as a country wasted. Adapted from the book of the same title by Gene Lyons and Salon.com columnist Joe Conason, the film means to lay out the how and the why of what Hilary Clinton famously called “the vast right-wing conspiracy” to bring down her husband by any means necessary. About the only thing not proven here is that it was vast. There was a conspiracy (can you call it that if nobody’s bothering to keep it a secret?) to bring Clinton down, but it emanated from a fairly small cabal of Republican millionaires and ideologues who had the money and the venom necessary to do whatever it took to try and depose the sitting president.

Although rough around the edges and partisan to a fault, The Hunting of the President is nevertheless a passionate and worthy assault on an ugly period in our history; an anti-democratic scandal that happened right under our noses when we as a country were too busy worrying about Internet stock options to think that it really mattered.

http://filmcritic.com/misc/emporium.nsf/0/a95b3b65050ca62288256ebf008211f9?OpenDocument

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http://www.thehuntingofthepresident.com/presidentscreenings.html

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1. i just can't wait for that movie, I read the book and loaned it to my

accountant who told me she could only read 2-3 pages at a time because it made her so angry. she worried about her blood pressure if she read more at any one sitting :smoke:

[peacetalksforall]

2. The reviewer who says the conspriacy was not vast is foolish.

So maybe people only hear about Richard Mellon Scaife and the tinny operatives who lived in and went to Arkansas, plus the American Spectator.

Consider that hundreds of people who represent right wing foundations appeared as guest experts on television to exoriate the President. These people were higher ups in the Federal Society - C. Boydon Greay, Edwin Meese and a whole lot of others from the Heritage Foundation - nearly every foundation listed at townhall.com = who groom experts, so-called journalists, civic employees, lawyers, judges at their foundations. Remeber David Bosse and his posse? You have the Rutherford Foundation who spent a ton of money on Paula, including a personal advisor and spokesperson. You have a whole hive of lawyer-elves who worked with Newsweek in trapping the President. You had half of the Senate and Congress conspiring. You had FBI employees that you pay helping the tinny operatives in Arkansas and advising Starr. These were only the visible people - they had the strategists wheeling-dealing behind the scenes. How many people worked on getting the talkin points. Those in the media went to strategy seminars on getting rid of the Clintons.

Think about it - how many women did they come up with - how many women did they try to come up with.

Whenever I hear 70 million dollars wasted - I don't believe it - it was at 70 million before they were even close to impeaching him. I say whoever is counting 70 million is limiting their findings to what can be measured - possibly by the government.

So how did you like your money being spent that way?

I will always believe it was vast - it was because of the never-ending parade of new names and foundations that I became interested and incensed.

You can see now why they were so desparate to get rid of him - they had to move to take over the Middle East for themselves or for the Saudis. Who knows.

The key word is definitely.... vast.

I would say that all the foundations that are listed under townhall.com were involved, plus the Federalist Society.

[Lefty48197]

3. It's more of a vast right wing INDUSTRY than a conspiracy

You've summed it up quite well. I wonder what percentage of our economy is actually part of the right wing media/propoganda machine?

[mellowinman]

7. Every word you say is true...

plus there's the networks of AM Radio jocks, Freepers, etc that will gladly line up to disseminate whatever talking points these VRWC guys want out there.

Hell, most of the ones who are reading my post RIGHT NOW and saying I'm a paranoid loony do it themselves!

"I think for myself," they say, before spewing exactly the point Rove has put in today's blastfax. The scary thing is, some of them actually BELIEVE they are thinking for themselves.

Never once do they say, "wonder why today I'm emphasizing Kerry/Edwards is 'out of touch with mainstream America,' but yesterday was saying "Hollywood values aren't Middle America's values..."

They're too busy "thinking for themselves."

Assholes.

[Catherine Vincent]

4. wtf?

no Houston theaters?

[slutticus]

6. Yeah...

..I would think at least Angelika would play it. Or Greenway.

[KoKo]

5. It's picked up more showings. But, only one in NC in Chapel Hill. Thought

the three theaters plus two in CH who are showing Farenheit would pick it up. I'll have to do some letter writing.