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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCall 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/<snip>
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 presidents campaign, tweaked the film, Seal Team Six: The Raid on Osama bin Laden, to broaden Obamas 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
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muntrv
(14,505 posts)1. How's that "2016" film workin' out fer ya?
malaise
(268,930 posts)3. Dind ding we have a winner
Remember the meme - it's only OK if you're a ReTHUG
Kingofalldems
(38,451 posts)2. Of course they forgot about the film accusing the President
of God knows what.
Art_from_Ark
(27,247 posts)5. And then there was that truly forgettable film that portrayed GW bu$h
as some sort of hero on 9/11.
http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0601-08.htm
cosmichristian
(6 posts)4. Obama's "extra footage"
they're just jealous because Obama has extra footage
JohnnyRingo
(18,624 posts)7. LOL
There's the bottom line, I believe
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)6. That was supposed to come out after the election, I read. They changed it?
Or maybe I read that wrong. Sweet.
lumpy
(13,704 posts)8. To the GOP, TS
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