Obviously, President Obama doesn't think he can win on his record as president, so he has to call in favors from Hollywood and will get a movie made about Obama's heroics about killing Osama Bin Laden, just in time for the 2012 election.
From Fox News: The chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee is calling for an investigation into the Obama administration's granting of high-level access to filmmakers re-creating the U.S. special operation forces mission that killed Usama bin Laden.
In a letter to the inspectors general of the Defense Department and CIA, U.S. Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., wrote that the administration's first duty in declassifying material is to provide full reporting to Congress and the American people to build public trust through transparency of government.
"In contrast, this alleged collaboration belies a desire of transparency in favor of a cinematographic view of history," King wrote in the Aug. 9 letter.
The movie is the creation of Kathryn Bigelow and Mark Boal, who won an Oscar for their portrayal of an Iraq war bomb squad in "The Hurt Locker." In a New York Times column that appeared Sunday, columnist Maureen Dowd noted that the White House was counting on the "big-screen version of the killing of bin Laden to counter Obama's growing reputation as ineffectual."
Dowd added that the pair had gotten "top-level access" to the mission and the projected October 2012 release date is "perfectly timed to give a home-stretch boost to a campaign that has grown tougher."
"Our upcoming film project about the decade long pursuit of Bin Laden has been in the works for many years and integrates the collective efforts of three administrations," a public relations representative for the film and Mark Boal said in a statement. "This was an American triumph, both heroic, and non-partisan and there is no basis to suggest that our film will represent this enormous victory otherwise."
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/08/10/homeland-security-chair-seeks-probe-into-administration-sanctioned-bin-laden/#ixzz1UhL19Eru
And I am sure the filmmakers will provide accurate information and not glorify Obama's role (which was virtually nil in the scheme of things) in the Bin Laden raid and killing.
And if I am not mistaken, we had to severely restrict the information about the raid and withhold pictures so it would not offend Muslims and followers of Bin Laden and now we are going to make a film about it? WTF??
But as I said before, if you can't win on your record, you lie, cheat and steal.
Of course, if the GOP played it smart, they can make a horror movie about Obama's term as president. They can name it "All the People I Have Screwed" (of course, that would have been Bill Clinton's movie) or "All the President's Men Who Hate America".
And if you any better titles, which will be quite easy, feel free to come up with a name for Obama's movie.
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