One of the lasting canards from the Bush era was that someone in the White House revealed the secret identity of a CIA agent. It never happened but that didn't stop Hollywood from following in the example of Oliver Stone's
JFK and rewriting history anyway. Moviegoers weren't impressed (from
Newsbusters):
You might think that given the abysmal box office record of left-wing movies about the Iraq war that "Fair Game," a highly distorted version of the tired controversy surrounding former CIA non-agent Valerie Plame Wilson, would never have been made.
Of course, since Hollywood is dominated by leftists, economic sanity did not prevail. Economic reality did prevail, though, as "Fair Game" ended up being a total bomb. It grossed just $9.5 million domestically. Add in the international ticket sales and the fiction flick just barely managed to recoup its production budget of $22 million.
Even the
Washington Post couldn't hold their nose and support this movie:
Hollywood has a habit of making movies about historical events without regard for the truth; "Fair Game" is just one more example. But the film's reception illustrates a more troubling trend of political debates in Washington in which established facts are willfully ignored. Mr. Wilson claimed that he had proved that Mr. Bush deliberately twisted the truth about Iraq, and he was eagerly embraced by those who insist the former president lied the country into a war. Though it was long ago established that Mr. Wilson himself was not telling the truth - not about his mission to Niger and not about his wife - the myth endures. We'll join the former president in hoping that future historians get it right.
Let's hope this puts the sorry Plame-Wilson episode in the ground once and for all.
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Give it up, Rick; the Left will NEVER give this up. It's the "big lie" idea--repeat it long enough and that's what sticks.
We do have to keep on calling them liars when they say this, though.
And, looks like the American public is smarter than all those lefties give us credit for. Bet it just BURNS their backsides.
Rick, howze come I seem to be your main commenter?
You're just good at it, Sam. Actually, HolyCoast has never gotten a huge amount of comments. I'd like to think it's because my commentary is so concise that by the time I'm done there's not that much else to say...but that's probably not it. I just have shy readers (present company excluded).
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