White House won't show ' Great Debaters'

[donsu]

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,322146,00.html


White House Says 'No' to Denzel Washington's 'Great Debaters'


The highly praised film, starring Oscar-winners Washington and Forest Whitaker, was just nominated for eight NAACP Image Awards.

But a memo from the White House’s Paris Dennard, which this column has seen, says that “there will not be a screening here at the White House. I could not get time on President Bush or Mrs. Bush's calendars.”

The memo says that three White House staffers saw the movie, which is a fictionalized account of tiny all-black Wiley College’s debate team in Texas beating that of Harvard University in a 1935 competition.

Ironically, Laura Bush gave a speech in March 2005 at an Atlanta high school praising urban debate programs at an event called “Helping America's Youth.”
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[roody]

1. k

[applegrove]

2. You would think a flic like that would be first of any WH to watch list.

Shamefull.

[SeattleGirl]

3. Of course they won't show it. The Commander Guy doesn't DO debates

because he doesn't want to hear any dissenting voices. It's his way or the highway, y'all.

Can't have anything showing anything to the contrary, now can we? :sarcasm: