It doesn't have to bomb, in the long run.(see post #3) These people have been doing this for a long time and know how to profit handsomely from their work. Don't be too surprised when this dreck someday appears as course material in the syllabus of a social studies class at a high school near you.
They do not really win unless they protect their dough, and collect some of ours as well. Any propaganda points are gravy, in my unworthy opinion. Ceement ponds and fancy eatin' tables cost money.
I meant flop in the technical sense - i.e., can be written off against studio overhead. Of course, as a production chief once explained to me, all movies make money. Just some make more than others, some make less. Creative accounting assures that most show up as a loss, so phony profit participants of various kinds get stiffed. All I meant was that the original point of this exercise for the liberal development execs who got the ball rolling was to pay off the Plames. I know this for a fact, actually. It happens all the time.
Dollars to doughnuts it will still be nominated for Best Picture.