Just watched "Recount". It's one of those quasi-historical docu-dramas that probably do a lot more to shape opinion than most people are comfortable admitting. That's why the Clintons pulled out all the stops to censor "Path to 9/11". Just what did Sandy Berger have stuffed in his underwear anyway? But I digress.
Media bias is one of those subjects that continually beguile. I find it fascinating that so many left-wing bloggers seem to believe that the media is biased against them. Ha!
"Recount" is a pretty textbook example of a campaign finance violation that will never be prosecuted. The producers make a pretense of keeping it evenhanded, but all the sympathetic characters are Democrats. You get Kevin Spacey as Ron Klain, Denis Leary on Gore's team, Ed Begley as Dennis Boies, and a bunch of no-name character actors playing the bad guys, er, the Republicans.
Hell, just showing it now ought to count as a campaign contribution for the Dems.
Gawd, what an eight years it's been! Anyway, poor Katherine Harris comes in for some rough treatment. The movie certainly does a better job with the facts than, say, "Farenheit 9/11"; but that's a pretty low bar to get over.
The movie portrays Democrats as lovable, principled, humorous and compassionate. Republicans are craven, do-anything-to-win machines. Who did win, by the way. The overall message was basically, if only all the votes got counted, Gore would have won. The movie fails to mention that several major newspapers, including the NY Times, recounted the votes in all the ways the Gore camp hoped to have them counted before the US Supreme Court shut down their illegal vote-stealing scheme.
Gore lost under every scenario. You could look it up.
What I'm getting to is that this topic goes to sort of the crux of what this blog is about--what people believe, and how those beliefs are shaped. A lot of Dems have gone around for the last eight years believing that election was stolen from them. That becomes part of their being and shapes their entire world view, and it's not even true.
So, you get this legion of Bush haters all jammed up and on it goes. Although, I will never forget how many of my loyal Democrat friends came up to me in confidence after 9/11 and said "I'm glad Bush won."
Here's another place Bush won.
Media bias is one of those subjects that continually beguile. I find it fascinating that so many left-wing bloggers seem to believe that the media is biased against them. Ha!
"Recount" is a pretty textbook example of a campaign finance violation that will never be prosecuted. The producers make a pretense of keeping it evenhanded, but all the sympathetic characters are Democrats. You get Kevin Spacey as Ron Klain, Denis Leary on Gore's team, Ed Begley as Dennis Boies, and a bunch of no-name character actors playing the bad guys, er, the Republicans.
Hell, just showing it now ought to count as a campaign contribution for the Dems.
Gawd, what an eight years it's been! Anyway, poor Katherine Harris comes in for some rough treatment. The movie certainly does a better job with the facts than, say, "Farenheit 9/11"; but that's a pretty low bar to get over.
The movie portrays Democrats as lovable, principled, humorous and compassionate. Republicans are craven, do-anything-to-win machines. Who did win, by the way. The overall message was basically, if only all the votes got counted, Gore would have won. The movie fails to mention that several major newspapers, including the NY Times, recounted the votes in all the ways the Gore camp hoped to have them counted before the US Supreme Court shut down their illegal vote-stealing scheme.
Gore lost under every scenario. You could look it up.
What I'm getting to is that this topic goes to sort of the crux of what this blog is about--what people believe, and how those beliefs are shaped. A lot of Dems have gone around for the last eight years believing that election was stolen from them. That becomes part of their being and shapes their entire world view, and it's not even true.
So, you get this legion of Bush haters all jammed up and on it goes. Although, I will never forget how many of my loyal Democrat friends came up to me in confidence after 9/11 and said "I'm glad Bush won."
Here's another place Bush won.
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