WaPo Writer: Twisting Facts in Political Movies Okay in Order to Tell Larger 'Truths'

NewsBusters ^ | August 22, 2010 | P.J. Gladnick

[PJ-Comix]

Imagine a movie about Abraham Lincoln's assassination that neglects to include the character of John Wilkes Booth. Ridiculous, right? Well, that is pretty much what has happened in the movie Fair Game in which the person who leaked the name of Valerie Plame to Robert Novak, Richard Armitage, never appears in the film. So how to excuse such an absurd situation? Simple. Just write off complaints about this as political insider nitpicking. That is what Washington Post writer Ann Hornaday has done in her article that sets up laughable excuses in advance to what is sure to be a firestorm of criticism about the absence of the very leaker responsible for why we even know the name of Valerie Plame. The photo caption accompanying her story encapsulates her excuse:

In Washington, watching fact-based political movies has become a sport all its own, with viewers hyper-alert to mistakes, composite characters or real stories hijacked by political agendas. But what audiences often fail to take into account is that a too-literal allegiance to the facts can sometimes obscure a larger truth.

[PJ-Comix]

Read the entire article. Hornaday's final quote is straight out of Orwell.

[dalebert]

Lie good. truth bad..what garbage.

[dalebert]

sounds just like the press and politicians

[PigRigger]

The means justify the ends.....ya just gotta love socialists/facists/communists....they never let you down....

[markomalley]

al Taqiyya of the left

[SanFranDan]

Fake but accurate.

[Psycho_Bunny]

You don’t want to screw up lefty porn with the truth.

[donhunt]

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[what's up]

What's great about this movie is that it's going to accomplish the very thing it sets out NOT to do.

It's finally going to get out to the public (whoever's paying attention anyway) that Armitage WAS the leaker, a fact that the MSM studiously avoided reporting.