[shortstop]

Finally, some good news in the St. Pete Times.

[SERKIT]

Fiction.

[AppyPappy]

It kept reminding people of the horrible Bush years when we had jobs.

[Red Badger]

[Daveinyork]

Maybe a movie that told the truth would sell better.

[Da Coyote]

The movie was about as true as an Obamaloon speech.

And Valerie Plame was - and is - a bimbo.

And her husband is even dumber than the loon, if that’s possible.

[Dr. Ursus]

A couple of D.C. grifters!

[TexasCajun]

... The information was allegedly leaked to Novak by White House officials

That's some really great reporting.

Richard Armitage Admits Plame Leak "Extraordinarily Foolish"

[PGR88]

and the combined total barely covered the movie's $22 million production budget.

For a propoganda film to break-even, that's actually pretty good. Probably better than its producers even expected.

[paulycy]

Cue the HA-HA guy.

[eak3]

I dont reallly know this story, I wasnt really paying that much attention to world events like I do now. My point being the people who see this will consider it as truth and not know what really went on.

[SC_Pete]

Hollywood manufactures LEFTIST PROPAGANDA and then wants us to pay for it. No thanks.

[Yo-Yo]

The information was allegedly leaked to Novak by White House officials to discredit her husband, Joseph Wilson

Which was disproven.

[DManA]

This we know is a complete lie:

allegedly leaked to Novak by White House officials to discredit her husband,

But you would believe from this story this is the historically viable theory of what happened. Maybe nobody went to the move because they knew is was just another Big Media lie fest.

[Amagi]

Obviously fantasy yarns have saturated the movie viewing public’s options.

[SouthernBoyupNorth]

Sean Penn.... reason number 1 not to see the movie

[VRWCmember]

It was about CIA operative desk-jockey Valerie Plame (played by Watts) whose cover was blown in Bob Novak's widely read Washington Post political column personal life and employment with the CIA were publicized in a big narcissistic interview she sold to Vanity Fair magazine.

[driftless2]

It’s impossible for me to take seriously any movie review that was a political flick made by lib/leftists and reviewed by lib/leftists. In fact, it’s difficult for me to take any non-political movie seriously because the liberal critics cannot leave their biases behind. In the case of Plame and Wilson, you know the critics were awarding it four stars before the first script was written. And, naturally, any movie with Sean Penn in it automatically will not come close to telling the truth.

[NRA1995]

Joe who? Valerie who?

[driftless2]

The thing is people overestimate the public outrage over the Plame-Wilson fiasco. I’ll bet that give a name recognition test, even at the time, most adult Americans would not know Plame or Wilson. It was a tempest in a teapot. Nobody cared. Or few cared beyond some outraged, dishonest liberals who were trying to frame the Bush admin.

[MarkL]

In that movie, the heroic Joe Wilson is played by the equally heroic Sean Penn.

I hear Penn is now doing Scarlett Johansen. Any likely bets as to when he’ll start beating her too?

Mark