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Noted the Times: "It would have been an unusually bold move for a big, expensive studio production like 'Black Hawk Down' to blame President Bill Clinton and American public opinion for setting the stage for the kind of terrorism behind Sept. 11."

Notice they don't discount the fact that Clinton is to blame. Including the public is interesting. I wonder, if Bush screwed up, would the NYT blame "the American people"? (Thats obviously a rhetorical question.)

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If the screw-up was Reagan's, would they hesitate to say so? Wait, they DIDN'T, in a LOT of movies going back to the '80s. Hell, the H'wood crowd even rewrites stories to make them anti-conservative; witness "The Sum of All Fears", whose villains (Arab terrorists in the Clancy novel) were changed to Right-Wing Militiamen(tm) in the movie.