Hollywood Rewrites Washington History and Even the Washington Post is Not Amused

This movie must be pretty far out there for the Washington Post to write this on their editorial page:

WE'RE NOT in the habit of writing movie reviews. But the recently released film "Fair Game" - which covers a poisonous Washington controversy during the war in Iraq - deserves some editorial page comment, if only because of what its promoters are saying about it. The protagonists portrayed in the movie, former diplomat Joseph C. Wilson IV and former spy Valerie Plame, claim that it tells the true story of their battle with the Bush administration over Iraqi weapons of mass destruction and Ms. Plame's exposure as a CIA agent. "It's accurate," Ms. Plame told The Post. Said Mr. Wilson: "For people who have short memories or don't read, this is the only way they will remember that period."

We certainly hope that is not the case. In fact, "Fair Game," based on books by Mr. Wilson and his wife, is full of distortions - not to mention outright inventions.

The editorial then goes on to list some of the major errors in the movie and how they're easily proved wrong. Joe Wilson and Valerie Plame can only hope that people don't bother to find out what really happened because they're anything but heroes or victims of the Bush Administration.

This reminds me of Oliver Stone's movie "JFK" (and a lot of his others). "JFK" was full of all kinds of fiction but Stone not only presented it as fact, but created student guides so the movie could be used in schools to teach "history". It was pure nonsense.

Although Wilson and Plame believes the world revolves around them, I have a feeling the box office will be very disappointing.