So when two scrappy DC journalists bring down a President, it’s turned into “All the President’s Men,” winning accolades and Oscars. When an unemployed single mother of three takes the fight to an energy giant, it becomes a blockbuster vehicle for Julia Robert’s cleavage. And when a former Vice President exposes man’s inhumanity toward Mother Earth – “An Inconvenient Truth” crowns him the most majestic whistle blower ever.
But when two amateur journalists (in their early twenties, poorly dressed as sex workers, with under two grand in their budget) casually take down a sleazy behomoth that leeches off American taxpayers, you’d think Hollywood and the media would be all over this. I mean, what Hannah Giles and James O’Keefe did to Acorn – leading to the House approving to cut off all their funding – is the whistle blowing film to end ALL whistle blowing films. These two kids did what Michael Moore could never come close to accomplishing: uncovering lurid incompetence, affecting policy, and saving Americans millions of dollars.
So where is Clooney? Soderberg? Moore? Shouldn’t Megan Fox be playing Hannah – with Daniel Radcliffe as O’Keefe? When Red Eye makes an appearance, will I be played by Verne Troyer?
Or am I just engaging in fantasy? I mean, movies and fawning media pieces about whistle blowers only work if the media dislikes the targeted entity. Seriously, if ACORN wasn’t a left-wing outfit – but Fox News, how fast would Oliver Stone be slobbering over the script? Hell, he could just make that change in the script anyway, and still call it “historically accurate.” I’m sure none of the critics would mind.
Finally, check out the latest Washington Post article, detailing the ACORN scandal. In it, they focus a bit on Hannah Giles’s dad. Weird, huh? Do you think they would have done the same thing to Woodward or Bernstein? “Screw this Watergate thing! I bet Carl’s dad is a lib!”
Not likely.
Tonight we’ve got Mike Baker! Ann Coulter! Jill Dobson! Ned Rice!
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