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 room?"