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By: WHAT WOULD TOTO WATCH? » This week’s DVD choices This week’s DVD choices — WHAT WOULD TOTO WATCH?

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 18:51:03 +0000

[...] desire to revisit the 2000 Gore/Bush election? You might change your mind after seeing “Recount,” one of several intriguing flicks hitting DVD stores [...]

By: L Boucher

L Boucher — Fri, 30 May 2008 08:24:38 +0000

I watched Recount last night. Boy what a piece of Democratic propaganda. My God Denis Leary looked sick with that two dollar hair dye job and stiff hair!
(Even stiffer than his acting!)

By: politicalreacharound

politicalreacharound — Wed, 28 May 2008 18:31:02 +0000

GM Roper: the results are just in and it looks like all of America (except you)lost. Congratulations on your candidate winning. I am sure he will go down as one of the greats. A uniter, not a nation builder, steward of the land, legacy maker.

By: MarkD

MarkD — Wed, 28 May 2008 13:53:48 +0000

“Ultimately, Recount is a … farce.”
No, ultimately Recount is a lie.

By: RW

RW — Tue, 27 May 2008 15:02:51 +0000

Caught most of it but other than the dramatic impact of a good story found it to be quite obvious in its slant.

It’s contrived to make the Rats look like some noble cause instead of ballot shoppers they really were.

If you were in the military, non-liberal counties, or independent Hispanic voting areas, they didn’t want to have anything to do with you.

They glaringly made the 7-2 vote by the Supreme Court look like some coverup to the latter 5-4 decision.

That distortion being the final touch to the Democrat dream.

At the end of the movie they failed to mention the media consortium, including the NY Times that counted Florida’s ballots ten ways to Sunday and in almost every possible standard, Bush won.

You think that a text saying such would have not been inserted if it had been the other way?

By: BizzyBlog » Election 2000: Media Continue to Downplay Florida’s Military Ballots Controversy

Tue, 27 May 2008 14:09:17 +0000

[...] has not investigated, and that “Recount” appears to addresses barely, if the review by Pajamas Media’s Christian Toto is any [...]

By: Joe B

Joe B — Tue, 27 May 2008 14:05:25 +0000

I would also note the timing of the film’s release. Purely coincindental, I’m sure.

By: George Clarke

George Clarke — Tue, 27 May 2008 03:06:16 +0000

The main problem with Gore’s gerry-mandered recount was that Miami delayed its count precisely long enough not to recount the Spanish neighborhoods which leaned to Bush and, mirabile dictu, the Florida Supremes upheld something that outlandishly illegal, that violated Florida Statute which the Florida Supremes simply ignored. The main basis for the Federal Supremes saying “can’t do” was because this was so patently contrived, self-serving, discriminatory against the descendants of former slaves (by democratic Southern politicians no less) and expressly forbidden by long-standing Florida statute. All the real logic of the U.S. Supreme Court ruling based on these facts, which was eminently correct, was of course missing from the movie, but who cares about truth when the pretend cover story that the Democrats have convinced themselves of is so much more interesting.

By: postaldog

postaldog — Tue, 27 May 2008 03:02:44 +0000

Dog gone,

It wasn’t me, it was Eric Deggans of the Times that said that. This is from his e-mail to me:

“The producers also say that James Baker has supported their script, providing feedback on early drafts and hosting a premiere in houston. They say Baker was precient to see that the recount struggle was a street fight, and stand behind the accuracy of everything they portray.”

I think the film is liberal propaganda, I’m just pointing out that we have two different statements from two different reporters.

Like I said — who’s right?

By: I’d like to see the new HBO movie on the Florida recount. >> liberal.family

Mon, 26 May 2008 17:51:35 +0000

[...] I’d like to see the new HBO movie on the Florida recount. [...]