The Lies of Game Change

Andrew Breitbart's Big Hollywood site has a great expose on the lies in Game Change.

Here are #6 and #7:

Lie #6: At the beginning of the film, McCain's staff is depicted as searching for a Vice Presidential candidate. The movie clearly tried to suggest that McCain's team picked Palin because she was a woman. To back up this assertion, around the 10 minute mark in the film, McCain is seen saying, "so find me a woman." The real Schmidt admits this never happened. The Chicago Tribune reports Schmidt said he never heard McCain speak those words. "It was a minor point of dramatization to make a point," Schmidt said. Actually, the entire movie was a major point of dramatization to make a point--a point only an Obama SuperPAC would love.

Lie #7: The movie suggests Palin wanted to flee Alaska. At the 89 minute mark, Palin whispers into Schmidt's ear:

"I so don't want to go back to Alaska."

Never mind Moore's horrendous acting; the statement is ridiculous. If Palin "so" wanted to get out of Alaska, why does she still live there? And how exactly do you explain "Sarah Palin's Alaska"?

The Director and Screenwriter of Game Change like to claim during interviews that the movie is a piece of journalism.  I can assure you that a real journalist would be fired for the mistakes that riddle this movie.  It is not journalism it is a political fantasy.

To see all Ten Lies click here.

The Embarrassment of Game Change

The move Game Change on HBO made me feel for Sarah Palin who was not only thrown onto the national stage without being prepared, but she was thrown into the den of vipers that was the John McCain Presidential campaign.

I know that this was orchestrated to be a hit piece on Sarah Palin, but I believe the senior campaign strategist Steve Schmidt and senior advisor Nicolle Wallace looked worse.  The two were obviously the leaks that made the book Game Change and the movie possible.  So many of the conversations were just between Sarah Palin and one of those two, so who is the source?  We know Sarah Palin didn't talk to either Mark Halperin or John Heilemann, the authors of Game Change.   That leaves only two possibilities.

The authors claim they have several sources for every alleged fact, but there are too many instances when it can only be one source.  And too many times it is either Schmidt or Wallace.  Which leads one to believe that there was an agenda.

I don't think there was malice.  Sarah Palin was collateral damage in the vipers trying to save their own skin, to cover their own failures.  Schmidt and Wallace both did great disservice to John McCain, Sarah Palin, the Republican party, the process and to this country.  They should be ashamed.

They both have a cozy relationship with the press and made bad decision after bad decision because of that relationship.  And then when things went badly, they used that relationship to blame others, especially Sarah Palin.  And now both of them are regulars on MSNBC.  They are both pathetic sell-outs.

Schmidt had an opportunity in 2008 and blew it.  To use his own words, "Sarah Palin is a star."   McCain was ahead coming out of the Palin's speech at the Republican convention and Schmidt blew it.  He was working more for the media than the campaign and fed Palin to the monster.

Nicolle Wallace, whose job it was to prepare Palin, said she wouldn't work with Palin after the Katie Couric interview.  I am certain the feeling was mutual.   What a noble campaign soldier Nicolle Wallace is to quit an assignment in the middle of a campaign.  I am certain she didn't give the money back.

And then after being re-assigned, Nicole Wallace admits that she didn't vote, stabbing John McCain in the back once again.

Game Change makes you feel for Sarah Palin that she was forced to work for these traitors.  I can't imagine they will ever work for another campaign.  After showing their true colors, they both joined forces with the team they were doing covert-ops for all along - the media.   They both sold out John McCain and Sarah Palin for the good of themselves.

The movie tried to make Schmidt and Wallace the stars, but understand that the movie is THEIR version of events and they both have an agenda of self-preservation.

I am so sorrowful today that Sarah Palin had to suffer the vipers bite once again.

Sarah Fights Back With Her Own Trailer

Brilliant!  You have to give it up for the media people at SarahPac.

If you haven't heard, Sarah Palin, her political action commitee and a media team took a direct shot at the the upcoming television film based on her time as the 2008 vice presidential nominee, releasing a mock trailer portraying her candidacy the way it was and not the way it looks in film's released preview.

"Game Change," set to air on HBO March 10, stars Julianne Moore as Sarah Palin. A trailer released in January seems to cast Palin as the villain of the 2008 contest, a portrayal advisers to Palin shot down in a conference call with reporters last week.

This week Palin's political action committee SarahPAC released a video  mocking the film, editing together actual video clips from newscasts and interviews to show the reality of Palin's candidacy. Left out is the behind-the-scenes whispering and gossip the "Game Change" trailer features heavily.

The mock trailer begins with a play on the film's title. The text "Game Change" transforms to "Fact Change," and a clip of Moore answering the phone with "This is Sarah" intros the words: "No, this is Sarah." 

Here it is:

President's Day

Celebrating George Washington’s birthday is an American tradition to honor our first president. Though Presidents’ Day is now the more commonly-used term, and has expanded to include all presidents, the legal term for this federal holiday remains Washington’s Birthday.

We honor President Washington, not because he was flawless; he was not. He was, however, the epitome of self-sacrifice—both as a soldier and a statesman. It was that sacrifice that helped make America what it was destined to become. We honor him because of what he accomplished and the manner in which he approached service to this nation: with a servant’s heart.

I am on record as acknowledging President Washington as my favorite Founder precisely because of that heart. He did not seek power. He accepted it reluctantly. He answered the call, offered himself up in the name of service, and helped to usher in a new day. At a time when he could have remained in office perpetually, as some expected, he chose to return to life as a citizen rather than seek a third term. He fulfilled his destiny, and his legacy is secure.

It is refreshing to reflect on one who was so far removed in spirit from the inside baseball that too often defines politics now. America celebrates President Washington for his decision to serve for the right reasons. Today, we could certainly use a little more Washington in DC and a little less BS in Washington.

Happy Presidents’ Day.

- Sarah Palin

Sarah Blasts Game Chance

Sarah Palin is moving fast to discredit an unflattering HBO movie.

This is what was on the site of her political action committee SarahPac.:

Here they go again...

Posted on February 17, 2012

"I haven't seen HBO's latest effort at manipulating history. However, based upon the description and reports from people who have viewed the film Game Change, HBO has distorted, twisted and invented facts to create a false narrative and attract viewers. They call it a docu-drama, there is little "docu" in it. HBO must add a disclaimer that this movie is fiction." -Tim Crawford, Treasurer SarahPAC

Pay channel HBO has produced another docudrama based on the political arena. This time it is a subscription-only television movie sensationalizing 40 pages of a three-year-old book about the 2008 presidential election. The real 2008 Election was an incredible, moving experience that brought together the nation to celebrate our democracy. HBO has taken that experience and twisted it into tabloid drama for its own profit.

The docudrama Game Change has not been released, but the content and clips available and scenes as reported by the media make it clear that HBO studio heads decided they would generate more profit by inventing facts and scenes for the purpose of fictionalizing a history written by people with no personal knowledge of the situations they attempt to depict.

After viewing the Game Change trailers purporting to show actual events from the campaign, we sifted through over 2,000 behind-the-scenes photos of actual events, people and moments.

Below is an inside look at those moments which were captured from September to November 2008 and encompass over 95 rallies in 19 states, three major policy speeches, numerous town halls, four meetings with Blue Star Moms, two hockey games and as many unscheduled stops as we were able to fit in the schedule.

This is the Game Change you can believe in, because it actually happened.

Sarah then is released dozens of “behind-the-scenes” photos from the 2008 presidential campaign that show her smiling and laughing with the real-life characters — including John McCain and his hard-charging campaign manager, Steven Schmidt — portrayed in the upcoming movie “Game Change.”

A link to the photo gallery — 67 in all, under the headline “Game Change We Can Believe In” — appeared on SarahPAC.com. 

Sarah loving Tina Fey on "SNL"

The movie, set to air next month. stars Ed Harris as McCain, Julianne Moore as Palin and Woody Harrelson as Schmidt.

 

Last week on Fox News, Sarah Palin dismissed the movie as a “waste of time.”

But now it appears she is stepping up her campaign to paint as “fiction” the movie that portrays her as an unprepared diva.

The movie paints her as angry and embarrassed by Tina Fey’s famous send-up of her. But the photo above shows her laughing and enjoying herself backstage at “SNL” as she rehearsed for her October 2008 appearance on the comedy show.

In the movie, Harrelson’s character is shown as Palin’s biggest detractor. But in a photo captioned “All Smiles,” Palin and Schmidt are seen beaming after the debate with Joe Biden.

“The events depicted in ‘Game Change’ have been thoroughly sourced,” HBO said yesterday in a prepared statement.

“We hope that people will withhold any judgment until they have viewed the film.”

She is GOVERNOR Palin

I am sick and tired of Palin haters who are offended that Sarah Palin is called Governor Palin on this blog, of Fox News and elsewhere.

It is common address someone by their highest title as a sign of respect.  It is done all of the time, on every network and in every newspaper.  To NOT call her Governor Palin is disrespectful to Palin and to the office - but I guess that is the point of the Palin haters like Tina Fey and David Letterman.  Watch this -

The Star of CPAC

A few protesters mic-checked Sarah Palin's keynote speech at CPAC today but didn't last long. Nothing could touch Palin, who had the crowd on their feet for large portions of her speech.
The protesters in the back of the room yelled "Mic-check!" and were immediately greeted with a standing crowd -- and Palin herself -- chanting "USA, USA." Security quickly whisked them out of the room.

“We just won — see how easy that is," Palin said after they'd gone.

And at least in terms of reception, she did win today. Palin's speech got the biggest reaction of any at CPAC -- much more so than any of the presidential candidates. The audience gave her standing ovation after standing ovation and some even yelled "Run Sarah run!" -- more telling of the GOP field's inability to connect with voters than any poll.

Palin zeroed in on President Obama. The current state of the economy "is not a failure of the American people," she said. "It is the failure of leadership. We know how to change that, oh yes we do. Oh yes we can," she said, echoing Obama's campaign line.

"Hope and change – yeah, you gotta hope things change."

"He says he has a jobs plan to win the future. WTF, I know," Palin said, spelling out W-T-F.
Palin hasn't endorsed any candidates and didn't do so today, telling the crowd that "For the sake of our country we must stand united, whoever our nominee is."
Palin left the stage to an extended ovation, having managed to do what none of the candidates except Santorum could: get social conservatives truly fired up.