Posted by
Joyanna Adams on Monday, June 02, 2008 11:00:00 PM
Nobody’s Perfect: Kevin Spacey---when I say just his name, I picture Will Robertson stoking up a reefer filled with Manhattan Silver. (That’s white marijuana grown from the seeds of the marijuana flushed down New York Toilets, for those who do not dare care, like me.)
As an actor he has done some very notable work---almost a perfect career. Kevin likes to do movies to express his liberal beliefs. I believe Kevin really cares about America….but he has some major flaws, as does his new HBO movie, Recount.
In Recount, Kevin plays a frustrated lawyer (Ron Klein) who works for Al Gore during the 2000 Florida Presidential recount. Recount is all about the fact that the Democrats believe that Al Gore should have become President.
So why wait eight long years to come out with a movie about it?
Does the fact that the Democratic Party in Florida has purposely, once again, messed up everyone’s vote this year, mean anything? Is there any doubt that Hillary Clinton will use the 2000 mess that happened to Al Gore to support her reasoning for somehow getting into office? Florida---once again, disenfranchised.
And why bring this up now---on Memorial Day weekend? When everyone is stuck at home watching Stooges reruns due to the price of gas? How propitious!
As Kermit the Frog once said, “There are no coincidences.”
Kevin’s flaw is not his acting, or his passion, or his proclivity for going bald. He is very much a progressive liberal, but he still wants a career, so when he was on Charlie Rose last week promoting the movie, he tried to make the case that Recount is really just all about the sad fact that we will never know who really won that election. Al Gore probably did win the election, Kevin admitted. And what a more wonderful world it would be right now if he had.
Poor Kevin…still tortured. Where’s a sixteen-year-old virgin when you need one?
In scene after scene, the rich Republicans lawyers had big expensive suits and big offices. The poor Democrat lawyers were crowded into public government offices, and having to get their own coffee. All I could think of while watching this drama was---don’t they realize that some of us out here in America were actually alive in 2000?
As I remember, the recount was thought by most every American to be a big joke, and the only one from either party that stood by the rule-of-law was Katherine Harris, a woman that drove them all mad. No matter how hard she tried to follow the law, someone was calling her a monster.
And boy, do they vilify her in this movie. They make her out to be some kind of moronic self-loving cowgirl idiot.
Remember how they made fun of her makeup? They still do in the movie. It’s actually quite amazing how Hollywood can take any insignificant fact, and make it look like Armageddon—Katherine Harris’s makeup was bound to end the nation as we know it.
Remember when that video of Tom Cruise jumping with happiness on a couch claiming monogamous love for his wife on Oprah put Hollywood’s gay lobby agenda and the liberal attack on the family unit into absolute horror? Tom almost lost his beloved box office popularity on that sin.
Yes, Hollywood is truly amazing. Recount actually shows that it was the Democrats that caused the problem in the first place. They messed up the ballots, the first recount, the second recount; the third recount…the whole mess was caused by them. And yet, it was still presented that it was only those rich Republicans who were corrupt.
Never underestimate good editing and good background music. Hollywood can sell you anything.
In the final scene at the Supreme Court, amazingly Gore’s lawyer made the point that when a voter made a mistake at the ballot box, it should be counted no matter what. All a voter has to do is show up. Let someone else write in whatever they like. God Bless America! Or is it, the Florida Republic of Zimbabwe?
In the end, they let Baker make a statement that our Founders system of checks and balances really did work, despite the corruption of both parties, and I agree.
So, if John McCain wins the next election…will “spacey” Kevin be recounting? All those brand new electronic voting machines are going to make it so much easier to cheat. No paper trail, just a flick of the old keyboard.
Kevin might not be happy to hear tht the word recount will no longer be an option.
And you thought you'd never long for another hanging chad....