Filmmakers Take on DC: Obama, Clintons Heros, Palin the Fool
-By Warner Todd Huston
Hollywood filmmakers are ruminating about taking on the 2008 political season. Towering personalities, scintillating stories, and epic clashes abound. The stories of the 2008 political campaign are pretty stimulating. We had the aging Democratic establishment in the form of the Clintons taking on the fresh young face in Obama, not to mention the first black candidate of note. We also had a close fought Democratic primary that went to a nail biting finish. On the GOP side we had the amazing emergence of the hockey mom from Alaska. Heartwarming family woman, popular governor, tender mother of a special needs child. A self-made woman from humble beginnings. Seems like some stories that could make for some compelling movies, eh?
So, how is Hollywood looking to treat these incredible stories? Would you be surprised that the Clintons and Obama stories are set for high drama, earnestly told… and Palin’s is for comedy and satire? Would it shock you that only Sarah Palin is to be ripped, attacked, made fun of and satirized? I didn’t think you would.
The New York Post had a Page Six report with a few short quotes from various Hollyweird screenwriters on the subject of which 2008 political campaign story would make a good movie. Naturally, all these people could see out of Governor Sarah Palin’s incredible story was something to ridicule.
“I’m always down for politics as humor,” “Milk” scripter Dustin Lance Black told Variety, adding, “I’m also interested in great characters.”
Tom McCarthy, who wrote “The Visitor,” is more interested in the tale of hockey-playing hunk Levi Johnston, who knocked up Palin’s daughter Bristol.
“This young man gets his girlfriend pregnant and ends up on the Republican platform at the National Convention,” McCarthy said. “This 17-year-old kid from Alaska, standing on the stage – there’s a dark comedy in there somewhere. He was like a deer in the headlights.”
As an aside, I have to laugh about the first quote above from Black, the screenwriter of “Milk.” This guy may be “interested in great characters” but he is in no way interested in the truth. His screenplay for “Milk” is one of the biggest pack of lies ever filmed. Little of what he wrote there happened in real life, at least where it concerns Harvey Milk’s real personality and the regard with which people held him during his tumultuous lifetime.
In any case, it isn’t surprising that Palin is the one that these “entertainers” want to slam Palin. And the other political stories of the season. Naturally Hillary and Bill’s “great relationship” came in for one screenwriter’s focus and the Obama grassroots effort seemed amazing to another. Only Palin came in for ridicule.
What we have here is further proof of Hollywood’s hatred of the average American and its disconnect from the majority of the country. Many millions of people in this country found Sarah Palin to be a breath of fresh air and look forward to seeing her further her political career. Yet what does her name evoke in Hollyweird? Nothing but snide comments and attacks.
They are far outside of the mainstream in Hollywood. Far outside of it.
(Photo credit: thealaskastandard.com)
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Posted by Warner Todd Huston on February 10, 2009 8:17 am
» Filed Under Democrats, Hillary Clinton, Hollywood, Journalistic Malpractice, Liberal Media/Bias, News, Sarah Palin, liberalism
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So Mr. Huston is worried the truth is not being told about Sarah Palin? I’m afraid he is participating, then, in the furtherance of the lies about her. As a 40-year resident of Alaska, I feel safe in saying I might have a bit more inside information than he on the topic.
For one thing, Ms. Palin talks a great deal about her concern for the Native and subsistence community when she tries to defend aerial wolf and bear hunting. However, she is a longtime member of the Alaska Outdoors Council, a group of urban trophy hunters, which has steadfastly and successfully fought against any sort of rural preference in hunting regulations.
She also speaks of the “science” behind this practice while at the same time supporting legislation to remove science as a criterion for instigating aerial hunting.
Ms. Palin strongly believes humans and dinosaurs co-existed just 6,000 years ago and was blessed last year in her local Pentecostal church by an African witch doctor who has named a number of women in his village as witches in order to drive them out of the community.
As far as her maternal instincts, it is worth noting she was the first one to mention her daughter Bristol’s unwed pregnancy when the ludicrous suggestion was made that Trig, her latest of 5 children, might actually be her daughter’s. A simple “no” would have probably sufficed but she sacrificed her daughter on the alter of public opinion to preserve her own squeaky clean political image.
Her intellect, too, is questionable, this wholesome, down-home hockey mom (who, by the way, lives in a $522k home and lists assets of over $1 million). She was in and out of 4 colleges before finally getting a b.a. in journalism, not the most difficult of degrees to obtain. To add to this impression are her famous gaffes such as being able “to see Russia from my porch”, a neat trick since the Chugach Mountains and several hundred miles stand between her and Russia. That the McCain campaign tried their best to keep her interviews to a minimum speaks volumes of their estimation of her innate intelligence. That she was able to appeal only to those in search of a novelty or hatemongering demagoguery speaks volumes of her target audience.
Granted, she is the darling of the NRA as she poses with her rifle….in a state where women who hunt moose are about as rare as snowflakes. And granted, she can turn out those cute little homilies of “you betcha!” and “by golly” with a rapidity akin to a machinegun. But when you stop and actually listen to what she says when there is no rehearsal, no script in front of her it is the worst mishmash of incoherence and deadends one can conceive. She is in many ways more a lipstick Dan Quayle or George Bush.
This, then, is the Sarah Palin Mr. Huston does not want you to know. The Sarah who when she was elected mayor of Wasilla came into office with zero debt for the city and, by the time she left it, it was $20 million in debt. The Sarah Palin who mugs and smirks for the camera because that is all of which she is capable, in truth. He may be mesmerized by her 1960’s hair-do and folksey ways but when it comes to the issue of who do you want on the world stage fighting for you his choice of cute-and-homey pales beside dignified and intelligent, two things Ms. Palin definitely is not.