HBO's 'Recount' Movie: Favors Democrats, Harris as Cruella De Vil

newsbusters.org ^ | May 18, 2008 | Brent Baker

[fieldmarshaldj]

The real enemy ought to be the then-all-rodent FLORIDA Supreme Court that did their damndest to circumvent all established laws to award Gore the state. No doubt there will be little to no mention of those embarrassments. For all my problems with Katherine Harris, she unquestionably DID HER JOB.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Dern’s great-grandfather was an FDR Cabinet Secretary, Utahn George Dern.

[fhayek]

The democrats (and their willing accomplices in the media) were the true crooks in the election of 2000. They:

1. Called the closest election in history way too early for Gore, even before all of the state's polls had closed.
2. Whined about the butterfly ballot even though it was Democrats who had designed, approved, used and counted them.
3. Disenfranchised military overseas ballots, even though the servicemen overseas had totally acted in good faith.
4. Somehow, mysteriously discovered large blocks of Gore votes in at least two precincts in the ensuing recounts.
5. Started hand recounts in heavily Democrat districts, with the idea that they would quit when then had enough to win.
6. Arbitrarily changed the standards of what was a vote when they found that they weren't picking up enough.
7. Attempting to conduct the recounts in secret, while all through the recount process, chads were littering the floor.
8. They tried to disqualify legitimate absentee ballots for one county (Volusia?) on a technicality. Again the voters were acting in good faith.

The Democrats demonized Katherine Harris. Why? The vote took place, Bush won. The mandated recount took place. Bush won. Katherine Harris did what she was legally obligated to do by certifying the election. If she hadn't, the Democrats would have went to court to invalidate the election on that basis.

The Florida Supreme court twice overstepped their bounds. The U.S. Supreme court made the only logical decision that they could make. Mr Gore DID have a right to a full state recount. But only if there had been hearings in advance to determine what the standards of counting would be. There was a date certain specified by the Florida legislature when the state's electoral votes had to finalized. If I recall, that date was 45 minutes after the decision came down.

I'm sure that HBO will cover all this.

[Clintonfatigued]

The media bias is evident once again. It’s absurd to blame Katherine Harris for simply obeying written law. Did it occur to HBO to point out how Gore & Co. cherry-picked for votes in only four counties? What BS!

[fr_freak]

For some reason, I never get tired of that picture of her on the horse.

[Yorlik803]

Well, HBO got dumped after John Adams in my house. When I saw the ads for Recount, that sounded the alarm that it was time to dump it.
As for TV Guide, I stopped buying that when Degenres was on the cover every week and then they up the price of the darn thing. Why spend the cash when the local paper has a YV section in it anyways?

[Vision]

I hope the left marinates in this for the rest of their lives.

[LRoggy]

To the idiots who researched the movie:

The actual Supreme Court ruling to shut down the recount was 7-2, not 5-4. The myth of the 5-4 is that 2 of the 7 thought there might be time to recount the entire state.

The actual vote WAS 7-2!!

[Enchante]

What the Demagogues tried to pull off in South Florida in 2000 was appalling, and they might have gotten away with it. Some tough, law-abiding Republicans stood up and stopped the Albore vote fraud proceedings, and ultimately were upheld by the SCOTUS because what the Gorebots tried to do was blatantly selective, one-sided, in violation of Florida election law and the US Constitution.

[fhayek]

For some reason, I never get tired of that picture of her on the horse.

Well, I can think of TWO reasons. ;^)

[Free ThinkerNY]

Thanks for the comprehensive list. Good work.

[marajade]

Does anyone really care?

[tlb]

Internet Movie Database discussion board about “Recount”.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1000771/board/threads/

[Cheburashka]

I guess anyone with ANY kind of journalism degree lacks the ability to be unbiased. Too bad brains aren’t necessary to be successful in Hollywood or journalism - we might actually see some balance.

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Difficult enough to get through the average journalism school if you have right-wing sympathies. But then you work at a newspaper/magazine/whatever with left-wing editors reviewing and changing your writing to make it PC, and then making decisions about your pay raises and job future. Don't expect them not to winnow out those without the proper biases.

[Impy]

I’ll only watch this is an alien bursts out of Warren Christopher’s chest.

[savedbygrace]

Those weren’t Brent’s words, but Danny Strong’s (the writer of the movie).

[Fresh Wind]

Why doesn’t anyone ever talk about how the Green Party candidate drew so many votes away from the “green savior”, Algore, to throw the election to Bush?

[Fresh Wind]

9. A local Democrat operative was caught with a voting machine in the trunk of his car.

You can be sure HBO won’t miss this one, either.

[DB]

Thank you for the correction.

To Brent Baker, I apologize.

To Danny Strong, you are the moron.

[BenLurkin]

"I didn't understand why Al Gore had only requested recounts in four counties."

Oh brother.

Could anyone really be that stupid?