DUmmie FUnnies 05-26-08 (KOmmies Obsess Over "Recount")

DUmmie FUnnies ^ | May 26, 2008 | KOmmies and PJ-Comix

[Loud Mime]

Joe Lieberman is SUCH an asshole.

These people identify good and evil by party pandering, not virtue.

[Right_Wing_Madman]

How truly sad! She sounds exactly like Joe Lieberman, who argued for invalid Bush votes to be counted!

Like those servicemember absentee ballots!

[Right_Wing_Madman]

FOR ANYONE WHO HASN'T SEEN THE MOVIE YET, CLOSE THIS DIARY NOW!

SPOILER ALERT! Gore goes on to lose the election, grows a beard, becomes a recluse for over a year, puts on 60 pounds, and then devises a scheme to make his fortune peddling CO2 credits...

[Right_Wing_Madman]

Another one WAS stolen - in 2004

[Right_Wing_Madman]

Al Gore should have made it clear from the beginning that he thought he was the winner and nothing in the world was ever going to change that, maybe just maybe the perception of things wouldn't have been what they were.

Instead...

[Right_Wing_Madman]

you have completely fulfilled the wildest fantasies of those nasty Republican operatives who STOLE this election in 2000.

[Right_Wing_Madman]

It is painful watching this an konwing that this idiot stole the election.

Make that two elections!

[Charles Henrickson]

[Actually Al Gore did declare himself the winner via Richard Daley right from the beginning.]

Actually that was William "Bill" Daley, son of Hizzoner da Mare Richard J. "Dick" Daley and brother of current Chicago Mayor Richard M. "Richie" Daley.

[scfirewall]

I quite enjoyed it, was it slanted? absolutely, did they omit some critical information? oh you bet. An epilogue at the end would of been nice, if it was factual.

I got to say Tom Wilkinson was fantastic as James Baker. He should win an Emmy for that performance. The scene towards the end with Ben Ginsberg asking why he switched parties years ago from Democrat to Republican was terrific television.

[beezdotcom]

Ah, yes...this movie made me want to dust off MY old song parody...

COUNT ME IN
(original tune by Gary Lewis and the Playboys, parody dedicated to Al Gore)

If you need to count a sore loser | count me in
Since I didn’t win the election | count again
When you start to count the votes that had to be thrown out
Just be sure they count for me or | count them out

When you count the votes cast for me | count them twice
Since I’m not first on the ballot | take my advice
Just be sure that those old ladies wouldn’t punch Hole Two
Count Buchanan’s | votes for me too.

If the sum of all the recounts | leaves me down
All the legal battles will still | keep me around
Just be sure that I will never quietly concede
I’ll keep asking for a recount | until I lead.

If I still don’t win the election | I’m not through
Maybe I’ll just bribe some Electors | count them too
When my friends in Congress start to make them count anew
Count the country | a loser too.


copyright SAB 2000

[beckysueb]

And thousands of people’s votes were thrown out because clogged machines prevented their chad from getting punched through.

Silly me. I thought they were supposed to push the chad through themselves. Too much work for a dhimmicrat, I guess.

[L.N. Smithee]

The film is invention, not fact, as the screenwriter had essentially admitted.. Those who have posted here who seem to be treating what they saw as what actually happened are falling into the screenwriter's and HBO's trap. The thought that in 5-10-20 years out kids might be required to view this schlag as evidence of what occurred in 2000 is worse than discouragin.

Amen, whoever you are. I watched Recount last night only because it didn't cost me any money. It's a minor league Fahrenheit 9/11 or Bowling for Columbine, and it escapes equivalence because it didn't try to pass itself off as a documentary.

I might have enjoyed it if I wasn't a news (and FR) junkie and too ignorant to know it was 75% crap. Spacey was good, but he's as close to the real Ron Klain (who is taller, younger, has more hair, and is a good deal porkier than Spacey) as the scenery-chewing Laura Dern was to the real Katherine Harris.

If there is evidence of misogyny among Democrats, don't look to their treatment of Hillary; look at the way they went (and continue to go) after Katherine Harris. Mark my words: Laura Dern may get a Best Supporting Actress nomination for her over-the-top and cartoonish portrayal of Harris as an easily-manipulated evangelical bimbo that EVERYBODY laughed at behind her back. Of course, the performance bore no resemblance to Harris (nor anyone intelligent enough to stand upright and speak simultaneously), but remember that Hollywood loves Al Gore so much that they found a reason to give him an Emmy last year.

Most disappointing to me was that there was no closeup of any "Sore/Loserman" signs -- you had to pause to see them in one scene that deceptively implies the protesters were mostly on-call by the Bush campaign when in fact, they were Freepers and like-minded Republicans unaffiliated with the official campaign. In fact, "Ben Ginsburg" (played by Bob Balaban from Seinfeld) suggests at a board meeting headed by Tom Wilkinson's "James Baker" (who, the movie suggests, is a lot like Dukes of Hazzard's Boss Hogg) that "Karl" wants protesters "outside Gore's house." PJ, I don't have to tell you or other longtime Freepers that was Connie "Clinton's a Liar" Hair and others, and they had NO connection to Karl Rove.

If this was Sydney Pollack's last film, that's a shame. Kind of like Eyes Wide Shut being Stanley Kubrick's opus.

[PJ-Comix]

Another phony thing about Recount is that they showed people protesting the Butterfly ballots on Election Day itself. That focus on the butterfly ballots only came AFTER Gore challenged the election results.

[scfirewall]

I don't believe that is correct, I recall little old blue haired ladies protesting on the afternoon of election day demanding a “revote”.

[PJ-Comix]

ATTENTION! ATTENTION! ATTENTION!!!

I have to split out for a couple of hours but will be posting today's DUFU editon later this morning. I urge EVERYONE here to read this morning's DUFU since there is a chance it will end up in the news. This is HUGE (HUGH)!!!

[Arrowhead1952]

Voters disenfranchised by the thousands, non-partisan decisions in the hands of the most partisan of people, butterfly ballots, hanging chad, planted protestors disrupting vote count and assaulting a lawyer, election officials being tricked left and right by the disruption created by the Republicans.

[Film fiction rubs salt in KOmmie's wounds.]

If I recall, the areas that had the worst voting problems were run by RATS, not Republicans.

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I thought at the time that Al Gore should have called for a statewide recount because he would have had the political high road and James Baker wouldn't have been able to push him around using the US Supreme Court. Instead Gore called for a recount of the areas where he thought he'd win.

[As subsequent recounts showed, Gore still would have LOST a statewide recount.]

Instead Gore called for a recount of the areas where he thought he'd win.

Either that KOmmie had a brief moment of clarity or that could be a [LOUSY FREEPER TROLL] too.

FWIW, I can't believe they are still so upset by the 2000 elections. Then, to have a fictional account of what may have happened as a movie the same year of actual elections to stir them up even more, has to really tick them off. I was laughing at some of their comments.

[visitor]

If you haven’t heard the sound bites from Algore’s 1992 speech in which he outlines the terrorist threat of Saddam Hussein’s Iraq and blames President Bush 41 for not dealing with it, you can watch the nine-minute YouTube video http://youtube.com/watch?v=9JE48XHKG64 . The Drive-Bys should ask Algore about this speech every day, but they won’t.

BTW, retired in Tallahassee for the last 12 years allowed me to be on scene daily to personally witness this fiasco proving to me for the umpteenth time the dems have no shame and put politics ahead of our country’s best interest!!!...rto

[steve-b]

You went off the rails with the Florida primary thing. Rules are rules; there is no such thing as a valid Florida Democratic Primary vote.

[KC_Conspirator]

This movie sounds like lies and trash. If Laura Dern is playing Katherine Harris, then I know its not worth my time.

[KC_Conspirator]

I recall democrat laywers suing and throwing out MILITARY ballots from overseas in front of one of their handpicked judges.