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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.
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.
Silly me. I thought they were supposed to push the chad through themselves. Too much work for a dhimmicrat, I guess.
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.
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
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.
This movie sounds like lies and trash. If Laura Dern is playing Katherine Harris, then I know its not worth my time.
I got a kick out of that, as well. I especially liked watching flaming liberals portraying Republicans as they "thought" Republicans were like, rather than how Republicans really are.
They really did a hatchet job on Katherine Harris. She must be seething right now. Obviously, she was so incompetent that Florida elected her (and re-elected her) to the House of Reps in 2002.
Like in the Panhandle after the networks called it for Gore while the polls were still open there? Like the overseas military whose absentee ballots Gore and Lieberman went to court (again!) to invalidate? Like the majority of Florida voters who voted for Bush whose votes Gore and Lieberman went to court, and the biased Florida Supreme Court, to render moot?
Every time an illegal alien, a felon or a dead person "votes", it cancels out the vote of a law-abiding, living and breathing citizen. This is the kind of "disenfranchisement" at which Democrats have always excelled.
"Count every vote" is a sham. If we counted only the legal votes, liberals would never win.