Hollywood is working on a movie based on the story of former New York Times reporter Judith Miller. It sounds as if the movie is portraying the Miller character as a hero who was willing to go to jail rather than reveal her sources. But will it also show the Miller character being used by the administration to get uncritical news stories published about Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction? Will it show her helping sell a war?
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I hope it fully portrays her role as a shill for the Bush administration. Perhaps the plot might then go to her ’seeing the light’ and repenting for her sins against America by finally showing at laest a glimmer of ethics.
How about a movie about some of the “phoney soldiers” who have faked stories for the New Republic and other leftist rags, making up things that never happened?
Who gives a care… not me!
They should portray her as a reporter who lost her integrity and credibility when she crossed the line between reporting the news, and making the news.
There’s another movie coming out soon, Tom Hanks is doing “Charlie Wilson’s War” out of the book by the same name. Highly recommended reading; it shows what lenghts the RW crazies, particularly RW crazies with money, more particularly the rich RW crazies from Texas will go to.
Scary stuff.
Pall,Soldiers have been inventing war stories since the beginning of war. One example is good ole “Tailgunner” Joe McCarthy, who never flew a single combat mission in WWII, but came home and ran for office on the basis of his “heroic” war record.
“But will it also show the Miller character being used by the administration to get uncritical news stories published about Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction? Will it show her helping sell a war?”
No way. The administration is too powerful for that to happen.
I see Ahmed Chalabi is back on the scene. Maybe he can get a cameo appearence in the movie feeding her false intel.
Jed
Tom Harkin is another big phoney.He is one of yours!
How about a movie showing Sandy Burget sticking top-secret documents in his pants and socks to cover up Clinton mistakes?
He put them in his pants pockets.
And it would be a funny way to cover up mistakes as the documents he allegedly stole were COPIES.
I wish I were a reich-wing lie, for then I too could be IMMORTAL.
Immortal?
In the end, there can be only one…
How about a movie that features Bush’s continued binge-drinking, Laura’s penchant for Xanax and plastic surgery, Dick Cheney dropping Valeria Plame’s identity to Robert Novak, and Karl Rove getting buggered in the White House basement by Jeff Gannon?
Pauline - are you claiming that Harkin did not serve? Back it up!
Posted by: CF2K | October 29, 2007 at 02:09 PM
Starring Robert Downey Jr as George W, Barbara Billingsly as Laura, and Lindsey Lohan playing both of the Bush twins. With a guest appearance by Buddy Ebsen as Cousin Jed.
Ben,
Ask and you shall receive:
http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110005496
“”Coward”? Such a comment would take chutzpah coming from anyone. But Senator Harkin is a proven fabricator when it comes to his own Vietnam-era record, as shown during his own failed 1992 Presidential bid. Consider this excerpt from a Wall Street Journal news story by James M. Perry from December 26, 1991:
“In 1979, Mr. Harkin, then a congressman, participated in a round-table discussion arranged by the Congressional Vietnam Veterans’ Caucus. ‘I spent five years as a Navy pilot, starting in November of 1962,’ Mr. Harkin said at that meeting, in words that were later quoted in a book, Changing of the Guard, by Washington Post political writer David Broder. ‘One year was in Vietnam. I was flying F-4s and F-8s on combat air patrols and photo-reconnaissance support missions. I did no bombing.’
“That clearly is not an accurate picture of his Navy service. . . . Mr. Harkin’s Navy record shows his only decoration is the National Defense Service Medal, awarded to everyone on active service during those years. He did not receive either the Vietnam Service medal or the Vietnam Campaign medal, the decorations given to everyone who served in the Southeast Asia theater.”
It turned out Mr. Harkin had not seen combat and was stationed in Japan. What’s more, Mr. Cheney isn’t the first Vice President to fall victim to Mr. Harkin’s acid tongue. In an editorial in 1988, we quoted “Senator Tom Harkin who served in Vietnam” (we thought at the time) saying of his Senate colleague Dan Quayle, who did not serve in Vietnam: “It’s so ironic; they get in Congress or the government and become big hawks. Don’t they have any shame at all?”
Mr. Quayle, to refresh memories, spent late August of 1988 taking flak–as George W. Bush also since has–for having served in the National Guard, which was deemed by Harkin Democrats as somehow less courageous than either service in Vietnam or outright draft avoidance. One would think that the post-1991 Tom Harkin would know better by now than to assail anyone else’s Vietnam record.”
Why cut “copies” up into little pieces, unless those copies contained notes or highlights the originals did not contain?
“When initially questioned by reporters, Berger claimed it was accidental that he put the top-secret copies in his attache-case and handwritten notes in his jacket and pants pockets. He later, in a guilty plea, admitted to deliberately removing the copies and cutting three up with scissors. Archive staff stated they witnessed Berger, on more than one occasion, stuffing into his pants and into his jacket papers he was illegally removing. One witness saw Berger stuffing into his socks papers from the archives. [14] Two of the copies were recovered by DOJ investigators and returned to the archives.”http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandy_Berger
Well Paulie, you quote a nice hit piece. It acknowledged that Harkin was an overseas veteran; unlike your heroes. It provides no proof that he did not fly over Nam.
Ben
Read it again.
Harkin has no Vietnam Service ribbon.
Mandatory for anyone who even flew OVER Vietnam.
Harkin lied.
Paul - I put as much cerdence in an unsigned WSJ editorial as you put in Dem Underground.
BenI suggest you type:
Harkin Vietnam
Into YOUR browser.
Harkin now admits he was never in Vietnam!
http://www.instapundit.com/archives/017246.php
Harkin is a “Vietnam “ERA” Veteran”
EXACTLY the same designation as George W. Bush!
Point given paulie - but at least he entered active service instead of staying stateside. Active service members were infinitely more likely to serve in combat that the NG back then. I know; several people I knew attempted to get into the NG for precisely that reason.
At least Harkin went to Vietnam during the war, and his efforts got some political prisoners freed. More than bush can say.”Tom first came to Washington, D.C. in 1969 to join the staff of Iowa Congressman Neal Smith. As a staff member accompanying a congressional delegation to South Vietnam, he revealed to the world the infamous “tiger cages” inside a South Vietnamese prison camp at Con Son Island. Withstanding tremendous pressure to withhold the sensitive information, Tom’s photographs and detailed account of the tiger cages were published in Life Magazine, exposing a cover-up and unearthing the shocking, inhuman conditions political prisoners were forced to endure. As a result, hundreds of tortured political prisoners were released.”
Phantom
HUH?The man lied about his past.
He was never in Vietnam while in uniform, ever.
Harkin lied.