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To: Hildy
There is a more detailed story going into some of the negatives of this upcoming movie at The Star (South Africa): Will Stone's Bush sink?.

Some paragraphs from this story:

Reactions to the script were mixed. Specific scenes are largely based in fact but they noted the screenplay contains inaccurate and over-the-top caricatures of Bush and his inner circle.

"It leaves you with the impression that the White House is run as a fraternity house with no reverence for hierarchy, the office itself or for the implications of policy," said Robert Draper, author of Dead Certain: The Presidency of George Bush.

"Everybody calling everybody else nicknames and chatting about whether to go to war as if they were chatting about how to bet on a football game misses the mark of how many White Houses, including this one, are run."

Jacob Weisberg, author of The Bush Tragedy, was sceptical about Stone's claim that he wants to make "a fair, true portrait" of Bush. "His saying he is going to be fair to Bush is like Donald Trump saying he's going to be modest."


13 posted on 05/11/2008 12:32:06 AM PDT by ThePythonicCow (By their false faith in Man as God, the left would destroy us. They call this faith change.)
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To: ThePythonicCow

Have you read that script? It’s just plain awful.


18 posted on 05/11/2008 12:40:12 AM PDT by Hildy
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