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Sarasota principal defends Bush from "Fahrenheit 9/11" portrayal By Associated Press June 24, 2004 SARASOTA — Michael Moore's film "Fahrenheit 9/11" criticizes President Bush for listening to Sarasota second-graders read a story for nearly seven minutes after learning the nation was under attack on Sept. 11, 2001. But Gwendolyn Tose'-Rigell, the principal at Emma E. Booker Elementary School, says Bush handled himself properly. "I don't think anyone could have handled it better," Tose'-Rigell told the Sarasota Herald-Tribune in a story published Wednesday. "What would it have served if he had jumped out of his chair and ran out of the...

Let's assume, for the sake of this fun exercise, that GWB actually did sit, stunned and unable to act from 9:05 AM to 9:12 AM on 9/11/01 ...