That 2012 campaign movie

Tman sends us a link to an article on Yahoo News in which the Obama Administration defends itself from the charge that it’s in cahoots with Hollywood to make a movie about the bin Laden raid that will be released in the weeks before next year’s presidential elections.

Says Kathryn Bigelow, the director (also the director of that shitwad “The Hurt Locker”) says;

“Our upcoming film project about the decade long pursuit of Bin Laden has been in the works for many years and integrates the collective efforts of three administrations, including those of Presidents Clinton, Bush, and Obama,” in addition to the Department of Defense and the CIA, they say. “This was an American triumph, both heroic and non-partisan,” they said of the mission, “and there is no basis to suggest that our film will represent this enormous victory otherwise.”

Yeah, I’m sure. I think back to The Hurt Locker and I don’t see anything non-partisan coming out of this. Republican Congressman Peter King doesn’t think it’s funny that the White House is declassifying details of the operation to Hollywood before they’re telling us, the people who financed the mission. Says King in a letter to the DoD and CIA OIGs;

…this alleged collaboration belies a desire of transparency in favor of a cinematographic view of history.

The White House says it’s ridiculous.

“We do not discuss classified information. And I would hope that as we face a continued threat from terrorism, the House Committee on Homeland Security would have more important topics to discuss than a movie,” [White House spokesdick, Jay] Carney added.

The same White House spokesdick who defended the campaign photos taken at Dover AFB earlier this week despite the wishes of the bereaved families.

COB6 and I had a commander in Desert Storm who made tons of big-ass mistakes during our portion of the war and afterwards, he assembled the whole company and dictated what he thought that we should remember about the war. Most of it was fractured history, in fact the whole history of the battalion in Desert Storm was pretty much manufactured from a Sergeant Major who took out an Iraqi tank with a 9mm pistol and a platoon sergeant who was struck in the eye by the fin of an RPG round which flew over his head. All of which eventually appeared in the Tom Clancy book.

i recounted that to say this; the Obama Administration isn’t telling us about the mission, but they’re giving Hollywood unprecedented access because that’s what the White House wants us to remember about the mission – the Hollywood version – as we go to the polls.

If you haven’t read the Mudville Gazette post on this yet, you really need to.

Category: Barack Obama/Joe Biden