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For the state's democratic leaders, there was only one place to be Tuesday night. Sitting in a dark ballroom at the Statehouse Convention Center, booing Ken Starr.
The Harry Thomason documentary, "The Hunting of the President," opened to cheers, and if the right republican was on the screen-boos at it's world premiere. More than 1,000 people, nearly all of them Bill Clinton supporters, packed the room to get a sneak peak at the film that takes aim at Clinton detractors.
The 90-minute documentary re-creates interviews done for the New York Times best-selling book by the same name written by Joe Conason and Gene Lyons. The film argues a group of republicans and the media both created and sensationalized Clinton's scandals from Whitewater to Monica Lewinsky.
Many of the first folks to see it, said the film made them remember why they didn't like the people who investigated Clinton.
"The single minded wish to destroy somebody," Matilda Buchanan of Little Rock says, "I think they should have better things to do with their time than to try and destroy someone who's trying to be President of the United States."
Her husband Steve says he was struck by what he calls a conspiracy to get Clinton out of office. "Usually I discount conspiracy theories, but they do happen," he says. "Sounds like it [was a conspiracy], yes."
Among the first to see the movie were several state democratic lawmakers and leaders, including Wesley Clark.
The film will premiere in New York Wednesday night, and will open in theaters Friday.
