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malaise

(268,930 posts)
Mon Oct 29, 2012, 10:43 PM Oct 2012

Call the Waaaaaaaambulance for the ReTHUGs-Hollywood is trying to swing the vote.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/10/24/bin-laden-raid-film-incenses-gop-as-news-emerges-of-extra-obama-footage/
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A film about the killing of Osama bin Laden which will air two nights before the US presidential election has been re-edited to feature more footage of Barack Obama, prompting accusations Hollywood is trying to swing the vote.

Harvey Weinstein, a studio head and prominent Democrat who has contributed to the president’s campaign, tweaked the film, Seal Team Six: The Raid on Osama bin Laden, to broaden Obama’s role.

The new version of the 90-minute feature, which will debut in primetime on 4 November on the National Geographic Channel, and be available the next day on Nextflix, uses additional news and documentary footage to show Obama in the build-up and aftermath of the May 2011 raid which killed the al-Qaida leader in Pakistan.

Weinstein and the director, John Stockwell, told the New York Times the changes, instigated by Weinstein, were motivated not by politics but to imbue more realism.

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Call the Waaaaaaaambulance for the ReTHUGs-Hollywood is trying to swing the vote. (Original Post) malaise Oct 2012 OP
How's that "2016" film workin' out fer ya? muntrv Oct 2012 #1
Dind ding we have a winner malaise Oct 2012 #3
Of course they forgot about the film accusing the President Kingofalldems Oct 2012 #2
And then there was that truly forgettable film that portrayed GW bu$h Art_from_Ark Oct 2012 #5
Obama's "extra footage" cosmichristian Oct 2012 #4
LOL JohnnyRingo Oct 2012 #7
That was supposed to come out after the election, I read. They changed it? Honeycombe8 Oct 2012 #6
To the GOP, TS lumpy Oct 2012 #8

Honeycombe8

(37,648 posts)
6. That was supposed to come out after the election, I read. They changed it?
Mon Oct 29, 2012, 10:56 PM
Oct 2012

Or maybe I read that wrong. Sweet.

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