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I was a hippie protestor extra in front of the state capital. Look for the big blonde curly haired girl. I’m sure I had the biggest hair there!

>>>The film does not, however, cover the thousands of injured and dead American soldiers in the years to follow that ruling, but you all know that’s what comes next.

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SO WHY DONT THEY HAVE THE ONE RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS MOVIE IN IT.

FOR THE PEOPLE WHO DON’T KNOW IT IS ROGER STONE
WHEN THE DOCUDRAMA COMES OUT THE PROPER BLAME SHOULD COME OUT AND EVERY ONE IN AMERICA SHOULD KNOW WHO TO HATE ……….. I DID SEE THAT THEY DO HAVE A REPUBLICAN CONSULTANT IN THE FILM. THAT HAS TO BE PLAYING THE PART OF ROGER STONE BUT IN THIS FILM HE HAS NO NAME.

BUT I GUESS THE REPUBLICAN WERE ABLE TO SILENCE HBO SO THEY CAN USE THE SAME GUY WHEN JEB TRYS TO RUN IN 2012

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You’ve nailed it. The critics [?] who have supposedly praised the film conveniently ignore that it’s more “truthiness” than truth.

Danny Strong, a first-time screenwriter, apparently felt the story of what actually happened in 2000 wasn’t sufficiently compelling to attract Hollywood interest. So he created a story line out of whole cloth: George Bush won the 2000 recount battle because the Democrats–principally Warren Christopher and Bill Daley–were too weak, too genteel, to withstand the Jim Baker-led steamroller. Not even the heroic, efforts of Ron Klain, the only Democratic operative in Florida with the fortitude to take on Big Jim, could save the ship. (Klain, by the way, was taking orders directly from Al Gore.)

Strong knew he had some delicate gaps to fill in the story line, including how to establish the ineffectuality of the Democratic side of the fight. He decided to handle the problem by creating a scene or two in which Warren Christopher, a key spokesman for Gore, would utter words of compromise, naivete and illogic. In just a few screen minutes, Strong could establish a major, overarching theme of the film and, if he were lucky, could manage it without ever talking to Christopher.

Presumably someone at HBO told Strong he couldn’t just stiffarm Christopher. So he just waits to make the contact until the day the scenes involving the Christopher character are shot. When he does talk to the former Secretary, he refuses Christopher’s request for a copy of the script, even though he accorded that courtesy and scene veto rights to Jim Baker, Klain and others depicted in the film.

Warren Mr. Christopher learned that the film was in production when his tailor told him he was making a suit for the actor who was playing him in the film. In other words, Strong felt it was important to get the wardrobe right for the Christopher character, but didn’t regard the facts as rising to the same level of importance.

What Strong did not want Christopher to know was that the script contained scenes in which his character declares that the recount dispute can be compromised and that no lawsuits will be filed on behalf of Gore. Strong knew that once Christopher read or was told of such scenes, he would denounce them as “pure fiction.” Strong also knew that if he pursued with any neutral party in the legal community the question of whether the words he proposed to put in Christopher’s mouth were consistent with what they knew of the man, he would have learned that he was about to distort beyond recognition the character of a man universally regarded as a quintessential litigator: smart, clever, and tough. Ethical? Yes. Weak-kneed? Never.

The truly weak-kneed are those who chalk off to “dramatic license” the gross distortions of the sort Strong has pushed on the public, while simultaneously proclaiming reverence for the faithful preservation of history. Like it or not, today’s viewing public increasingly treats as fact what is fed to them as “docu-drama,” unaware that in most cases they are consuming an ounce of “docu” to every gallon of “drama.” And like it or not, what they treat as fact becomes fact for others, in this generation and those following. While producers of this species of film say their goal is simply to entertain, it is plain they also appreciate that viewers of this genre are more “entertained” if they believe they are watching what actually occurred. HBO sure as hell doesn’t trumpet this film as “the story of the 2000 presidential election” to alert viewers that they aren’t going to be seeing a faithful rendition of what went on in Tallahassee.

this, the low point in American electoral history followed by the worst president the world has ever seen had better gut the Republicans. After nearly a million Iraqis dead, 4000 American soldiers, the destruction and abandonment of an American city and 6 trillion in illegal borrowing these people should be executed, but lets start by humiliating them.