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Politics in Our Movies: From 'Mr. Smith' to 'Casino Jack'
By James Grady - Politics DailyAll across America this lame-duck congressional season, we're driving past malls or walking down Main Streets where theater marquees offer two major motion pictures "about" politics: "Casino Jack" starring Kevin Spacey and "Fair Game" starring Sean Penn and Naomi Watts. But the truth is, every movie is "about" politics. Every work of art creates a vision of reality and rules for that realm. Even when a movie is not a fact-driven documentary, what's on film are "people" making choices of conscience and circumstance. On some level, choice always involves politics -- and that includes the ...
Right vs. Left: It Ain't a Fair Fight
By David Corn - Politics DailyThe other night I was on "Hardball" with conservative bad-boy Pat Buchanan. Michael Smerconish, the guest host, asked about a column I had written noting that George W. Bush, in his new book, had disingenuously airbrushed Karl Rove out of his (superficial) accounting of the Plamegate affair. The reason was obvious: Bush wanted to avoid dealing with the dishonesty his White House had relied upon during one of the darker moments of his presidency. Buchanan guffawed, calling the CIA leak case a "silly episode" and a "trivial" matter. Now imagine this scenario: David Axelrod, President Obama's ...
Outed CIA Agent and Husband Reflect on Experience That Almost Ended Their Marriage
By Eleanor Clift - Politics DailyLooking at it from the outside, it appears that outed CIA operative Valerie Plame and her ambassador husband Joe Wilson cut some pretty good deals for themselves as a result of the turmoil that exposed the falsehoods in the Bush administration's Iraq war policy. Book deals followed and now a movie, "Fair Game," starring Sean Penn and Naomi Watts as the couple, which brought them back to Washington last week for a series of screenings. Their life seems enviable now that their story of CIA intrigue and Washington back-stabbing is behind them and they've launched a new life in Santa Fe with their ...
Alleged Ring Shows Cold War Still Hot in Spy World
By Andrea Stone - AOL NewsWASHINGTON (June 29) -- The news of a suspected suburban spy ring couldn't have come at a worse time. Just days before, President Barack Obama stood beside Russian President Dmitry Medvedev at the White House and declared they had "succeeded in resetting" the relationship between the two former Cold War rivals. Perhaps something got lost in the translation. Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, a former KGB agent, condemned the arrests and said he hoped "that all the positive gains that have been achieved in our relationship will not be damaged by the recent event." Just because relations ...
Karl Rove Book Exposes Lies of the Bush White House
By David Corn - Politics DailyI doubt this was Karl Rove's intention, but with his new book, he demonstrates how the Bush White House got away with lying. Here's the back story. In September 2003, a furor erupted when the news emerged that the Justice Department had begun an investigation of the leak that outed undercover CIA case officer Valerie Plame Wilson. Several months earlier -- while her husband, former ambassador Joseph Wilson, was slamming the Bush administration for having misled the nation into the Iraq war with a phony WMD argument -- two administration sources had told conservative columnist Robert Novak ...
Bob Novak and Me
By David Corn - Politics DailyI learned of the death of Bob Novak from an e-mail sent to me by an NPR reporter looking for a comment. And I felt awkward, for my last public exchange with the conservative columnist and TV pundit who relished his "Prince of Darkness" nickname had been an ugly one. There is, of course, the don't-speak-ill-of-the-dead rule. But what could I say about a fellow who had blasted me on national television as an ideological hack? There wasn't always bad blood between us. Years earlier, as a substitute host on CNN's "Crossfire," I had come to enjoy wrestling with Novak. When I began that gig, ...
Is Karl Rove a Liar?
By David Corn - Politics DailyIs Karl Rove a liar who should be drummed out of polite society -- or, at least, the politerati? The issue is not his conservative ideology or the still-resonating misdeeds and mistakes of the Bush presidency he made possible. The question is whether new evidence proves that Rove is a serial fibber who cannot be taken at his word. This week, the House Judiciary Committee released interviews with Rove and Harriet Miers, the former Bush White House counsel, and 5,400 pages of e-mails related to the Bush administration's controversial firing of several U.S. attorneys. Rove and other Bush ...
Bush and Cheney's Relationship Was Strained at End of Term
By Emily Miller - Politics DailyAfter eight years working together as possibly the closest president and vice president in U.S. history, George W. Bush and Dick Cheney left the White House in January barely on speaking terms over Bush's decision not to pardon Lewis "Scooter" Libby. According to a fascinating article in Time magazine piecing together the final days of the administration, the vice president pushed so hard against an unwilling Bush to pardon former Cheney staffer Libby that their relationship was strained to the breaking point. ...
Ann Coulter Turns Down Chance to Curse Sean Penn Out in a Movie
By Tommy Christopher - Politics DailyThe New York Post's Page Six reports that conservative author and lightning-rod Ann Coulter has turned down every conservatives wildest dream:The leggy conservative has turned down an offer from director Doug Liman to appear in "Fair Game," his left-leaning film about the Valerie Plame affair starring Naomi Watts as the CIA agent whose cover was blown by columnist Robert Novak. Sean Penn, who plays Plame's underemployed husband Joseph Wilson, was pushing to have Coulter in a scene where she'd be screaming invectives at him.Man, that sounds like fun, kind of a reverse-Blue Velvet.What a shame ...
Sean Penn to Star as Valerie Plame's Husband
By Tommy Christopher - Politics DailyFresh off of his Best Actor Oscar win for Milk, and attendant politically tinged acceptance speech, Sean Penn has been slated to play Joe Wilson, husband of outed CIA agent Valerie Plame. The Daily Beast has an exclusive on the story:Sean Penn just signed on to play Joe Wilson in Fair Game, the movie version of outed CIA agent Valerie Plame's memoir. In a Daily Beast exclusive, Jeffrey Ressner got a hold of the script and shares his juiciest notes.Before we get to the juiciest notes, which are NSFW, I have to say a few things. First of all, I would normally say that Penn playing the husband of ...
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