June 29, 2004
The Hunting of the President
With all this talk about Fahrenheit 9/11 there is another important film that has gotten pushed to the wayside. Narrated by Morgan Freeman, The Hunting of the President is a documentary on Clinton's battle against a right wing attack lead by Kenneth Starr.
Digging deep into the the smear campaign that culminated towards the end of Clintons presidency, Tina Brown (for the Washington Post) calls the film, "more damning than 'Fahrenheit 9/11.'"
The official website describes the documentary as "less of an advocacy film and more of an alarming treatise on the political power of the
media and personal interests". The film contains "previously unreleased materials, interviews, and shocking revelations from both sides of the beltway, this probing work focuses on the smear campaign against Clinton from his gubernatorial days in Arkansas leading up to and including his impeachment trial. Kenneth Starr fans, beware."
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Tired of the political films? Take a break and go see Spiderman 2, it opens today!
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It's good to see so many docs getting attention over the last year or two. I happened to see Farenheit 9/11, Control Room, and The Hunting of the President all within 24 hours this past weekend. Personally, I thought the actual filmmaking of THOTP was perhaps the least impressive of the three, but it was still very informative. I never really understood the way all the different things lumped into "Whitewater" were linked together until I saw this. I can't believe how ridiculously the press treated different things and how much Ken Starr was allowed to get away with.