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NBC may give George Washington the dramatic treatment
Washington Post ^ | Nov 15, 2012 | Lisa de Moraes

Posted on 11/17/2012 1:35:38 PM PST by Pharmboy

NBC is developing a drama series about George Washington, based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning biography “Washington: A Life.” In that book, author Ron Chernow wrote that the country’s first president “ranks as the most famously elusive figure in American history, a remote, enigmatic personage more revered than truly loved.”...

The network has ordered a script from David Seidler...

“There’s George Washington the national icon, starting from the dollar bill with his supposed mouthful of wooden teeth, and then there’s the George Washington who had an adulterous affair with his best friend’s wife. The George Washington obsessed with social status, finely tailored clothes, his image,” Seidler said.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: History; Military/Veterans; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: genwashington; godsgravesglyphs; propaganda; revisionism
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He never had an affair with Sally Fairfax...he had a crush on her when he was teenager, and always repsected and loved her. We have absolutely NO evidence that he was inappropriate with her.

It was only a matter of time before you pieces of sh*t at NBC attacked one of the greatest men of all time.

1 posted on 11/17/2012 1:35:48 PM PST by Pharmboy
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To: indcons; Chani; thefactor; blam; aculeus; ELS; Doctor Raoul; mainepatsfan; timpad; ...
General Washington revisionism ping to the list...

The RevWar/Colonial History/General Washington ping list...

2 posted on 11/17/2012 1:45:14 PM PST by Pharmboy (Democrats lie because they must.)
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Doesn't matter.

Its the seriousness of the charge!

3 posted on 11/17/2012 1:45:54 PM PST by jaz.357 ( *Luke 6:43-45* Twas Ever Thus!)
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“had an adulterous affair with his best friend’s wife.”

What a bunch of BS.

Why isn’t the wonderful (albeit still trying to push the Fairfax angle a bit) 1984 Barry Bostwick bio available even just to play on TV?

They don’t need another. They broke the mold putting Bostwick in there.


4 posted on 11/17/2012 1:50:39 PM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Technological progress cannot be legislated.)
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It has been done before, and very well, too.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086720/


5 posted on 11/17/2012 1:53:29 PM PST by Captain Jack Aubrey (There's not a moment to lose.)
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I’m sure they’ll have him abusing Billy Lee as well.


6 posted on 11/17/2012 1:53:29 PM PST by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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with his supposed mouthful of wooden teeth,

This is a myth.

Washington never had wooden teeth. The dentures he wore were made, generally, from ivory and/or gold.
7 posted on 11/17/2012 1:59:55 PM PST by Signalman
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Yes...I saw that, and it was quite good. I thought “The Crossing” was even better (although it was just about Trenton).


8 posted on 11/17/2012 2:00:38 PM PST by Pharmboy (Democrats lie because they must.)
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It’s the best. “Washington” always means “Bostwick” to me now as surely as “Superman” means “Reeve”.

Nobody else did as great a job or looked so much like he might have looked.


9 posted on 11/17/2012 2:03:37 PM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Technological progress cannot be legislated.)
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 GGG managers are SunkenCiv, StayAt HomeMother & Ernest_at_the_Beach
Thanks Pharmboy.

Just adding to the catalog, not sending a general distribution.

To all -- please ping me to other topics which are appropriate for the GGG list.


10 posted on 11/17/2012 2:10:39 PM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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Fiction. Just a cheap TV ripoff of “Abraham Lincoln the Vampire Hunter”.


11 posted on 11/17/2012 2:11:53 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (We need Comprehensive Election Reform, NOW!)
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12 posted on 11/17/2012 2:12:37 PM PST by jessduntno ("Socialism only works...in Heaven where they don't need it and hell where they have it." - RR)
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The first time I went to Mount Vernon and stood by George Washington's grave I burst into tears. I have no idea why.

You can bet that these yokels are just going to string together a number of rumors-slash-liberal ideas and call it history.

I really hate it when they use someone like George Washington as a prop.

13 posted on 11/17/2012 2:17:21 PM PST by Slyfox
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I can’t wait for the NBC version to finally tell the truth about Washington. The history books cover up the fact that he was actually a black homosexual Marxist.

I really hope I don’t need the /s/ here.


14 posted on 11/17/2012 2:30:33 PM PST by FerociousRabbit
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IMHO, “The Crossing” was outstanding. Just found the DVD of it a couple of weeks ago at Sam’s Club.


15 posted on 11/17/2012 2:31:08 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (We need Comprehensive Election Reform, NOW!)
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What a beautiful painting!!!! Where did you find it?

Went to the DuPont home Wintertur in Delaware last month and it was full of the most beautiful American antiques including a set of George Washington’s china and many paintings of our founders. What a great country we were once upon a time.

Virtually no one at NBC is worthy of licking the bottom of George Washington’s boots. I’m getting rid of Comcast to get rid of NBC.


16 posted on 11/17/2012 2:32:53 PM PST by Aria ( 2008 & 2012 weren't elections - both were a coup d'etat.)
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Right click on the picture; it will give you the option to copy the url. Not likely to see this scene on NBC.


17 posted on 11/17/2012 2:41:07 PM PST by jessduntno ("Socialism only works...in Heaven where they don't need it and hell where they have it." - RR)
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This is pure bull. NBC just couldn’t possibly bring themselves to base a series on the best respected academic work on Washington: James Thomas Flexner’s “Washington, the Indispensable Man.”

Flexner shows him as a man that was respected and loved by all, despite human shortcomings that he readily admitted himself.

NBC would rather have a straw man that they could contrast against their man, Ubama.

Oldplayer


18 posted on 11/17/2012 2:41:34 PM PST by oldplayer
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http://www.pinstripepress.net/PPBlog/washingtonpraying.jpg


19 posted on 11/17/2012 2:41:43 PM PST by jessduntno ("Socialism only works...in Heaven where they don't need it and hell where they have it." - RR)
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What a beautiful painting!!!! Where did you find it?

Went to the DuPont home Wintertur in Delaware last month and it was full of the most beautiful American antiques including a set of George Washington’s china and many paintings of our founders. What a great country we were once upon a time.

Virtually no one at NBC is worthy of licking the bottom of George Washington’s boots. I’m getting rid of Comcast to get rid of NBC.


20 posted on 11/17/2012 2:42:28 PM PST by Aria ( 2008 & 2012 weren't elections - both were a coup d'etat.)
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