Tweety says films fictionalizing history are "character assassination"

[AP]

unless they do it a way that doesn't hurt Republicans. He doesn't think they should do that. He thinks character assassination should be his domain.

[FlashHarry]

1. Actually...

...to be fair, he slammed Oliver Stone's assertion that 'LBJ knew.' But, you're right. I didn't hear him squawk when the very same Viacom broadcast the Bush propaganda piece 'D.C. 9/11.' And, does anyone seriously think we'd hear the same sort of 'outrage' if it had been a Clinton hatchet job?

That being said, I agree that Reagan could've been savaged using his atrocious factual record, without having to resort to utter fabrication. That was a dumb move, IMHO.

[Bob3]

3. CBS was sloppy and lazy...

like they all are - I only wish that their feet could be held to coals from time to time about other things they have done "Gore's a liar" for example, the reporing on Iraq. It's all about entertainment value and nothing else - get eyeballs so they can charge money.

Ah well on to the Kobe trial.

[AP]

5. He said Z was good because it fictionalized history and JFK was bad

because it smeared LBJ.

The truth is that it's all fiction and they can do what they want.

But the whole point of the segment was to criticize the Reagan film, and he was just trying to sound bipartisan by criticizing one "liberal" film and crediting one fictional liberal film.

He was really just trying to support a stupid argument that the Reagan film was bad.

Did he say anything about the Lynch film? Did he complain about when the NEWS tells lies in an effort to character assassinate.

He shouldn't talk about the Reagan film. He should be talking about the way the media reported on Gore in 2000.

[stopbush]

2. H-m-m-m. I wonder what Tweety thinks of the war films

being aired this weekend on, I think, AMC. They're doing a salute to Vets Day. Does he really believe that films like The Longest Day contain no fictionalization?

How about films like 13 Days? Does the Tweetmeister really believe that all of those lines spoken by actors portraying the Kennedy brothers and others are drawn from actual transcripts?

Tweety must go into convulsions watching It Happened One Night or anything starring Audie Murphy.

What a whore.

[Cat Atomic]

4. Personally, I think it's much more damning to have pro-regime

propaganda films like DC 9-11 playing on television when the president being portrayed is still in the White House. For all the talk of "Reagan can't defend himself now", the fact is that the man is out of office.

Making a hero out of a sitting president in a film that's chock full of ridiculous inaccuracies is far worse in my book. It smacks of Riefenstahl-style propaganda.

[UTUSN]

6. But that 9-11 Fairy Tale Was Just History Revealed n/t

[LiviaOlivia]

7. He loves getting Hollywood on his show

only to bash them. Back a couple of weeks ago during the
California recall he had Barry Levinson on. He drooled all over Levinson's
"Wag the Dog" and told him how much he loved that movie.
Many interpretted this film as a slam against Clinton and the
war in the Balkans, etc. But of course Mr. Levinson got 'talked over'
on just about everything pertaining to Hollywood and politics.

Meanwhile Tweety droned on in love with the sound of his
own voice.


I believe he is just a whore and will turn against Bushco when his
producers tell it will improve his ratings.
I don't watch him anymore. He is irrelevant as is MSNBC,CNN and FAUX.

[Donna Zen]

8. Tweety's tune-bag is deep.

He will reach in and pull out a whole new score for "Travelgate_the Untold Story!" And surely he will sing along to "Who Shot Vince Foster" when it hits the small screen.

So CBS wants a few new mergers? Shocked I tell you; just don't wait for Tweety to tell you, because the conversation runs along a fine right line.