This summer is turning out to be the season of the political documentary. The Hunting of the President [site] had its Seattle premiere tonight at the Cinerama. Your correspondent was there (in the cheap seats) but was too shy to take slower.net style photos of the attendees and settled for a blurry crowd shot. [photolog]
Believers in the “vast right wing conspiracy” might be more receptive to the film than others, but it is an instructive story about the forces that played a huge role in the neverending scandal of the nineteen nineties. Susan McDougal’s sections were especially compelling. Though it was an especially sympathetic audience (a Democratic fundraiser) there was a lot of audience participation — plenty of hissing, which I hadn’t encountered before this year’s string of documentaries.
It opens to the public on Friday at the Varsity.

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