Imagine the howls from the left--not to mention the laughter on the other end of the phone line--if Karl Rove called up the president of ABC and asked him to censor a television show critical of the Bush administration. But that's exactly what Bill Clinton and the Democratic party feels they're entitled to when it comes an upcoming miniseries critical of his administration's handling of terrorism during the 1990s.

(And considering whom the chairman of ABC's parent company is, it should be very interesting to watch how much of their way they get.)

The Anchoress writes:

One of the things we all used to say about President Clinton was that he never learned that the cover-up was always worse than the scandal. Had he come out straight on Monica Lewinsky and said, “yes, I did it, it’s between me and my wife and it’s none of your business,” the whole story would have disappeared quickly. Same with about ten other scandals surrounding him or his administration.

When it comes to this film, The Path to 9/11, it seems to me Clinton and his pals would be wiser to simply let the thing play, than to do the freak. People will watch the movie, shrug and say, “well, that’s pretty much what we always thought,” and they’d forget about it the next day. By panicking and demanding revisions to the film, and by sending out his usual minions to talk the thing down, Clinton is just making the whole thing a much bigger story. He is creating red headlines on Drudge and turning this film into a national incident! A stupid move. For such a smart man he’s never understood Gertrude’s economy of language in Hamlet when she said, “the lady doth protest too much, methinks.”

He also never seems to understand that it’s not all about him, all the time.

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