This is Obama-bundler Harvey Weinstein’s made-for-TV film about the Osama bin Laden raid, not to be confused with the much-hyped Kathryn Bigelow movie on the same subject (that one is supposed to come out at the end of the year). Weinstein’s film will air on National Geographic Channel on November 4, which many have pointed out is a pretty coincidental date:
A film dramatizing the death of Osama bin Laden is set to debut next month on the National Geographic Channel, two days before the presidential election.
“Seal Team Six: The Raid on Osama bin Laden,” from The Weinstein Co. and Voltage Pictures, will air Sunday, Nov. 4, the channel said Thursday. President Barack Obama faces Republican challenger Mitt Romney at the polls two days later.
Weinstein co-chairman Harvey Weinstein is a prominent fundraiser for Obama’s re-election campaign, which has touted bin Laden’s death as an example of the president’s leadership.
An attempt to sway the election by reminding the public of Obama’s gutsy call? Doubtful. It’s premiering on National Geographic on a Sunday, so the extent of its influence is probably pretty low. As The Atlantic notes, the National Geographic Channel is owned by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp., which isn’t a company you’d expect to be behind a stealthy Hollywood scheme to boost Obama’s reelection chances. It actually wouldn’t be surprising if the channel floated this “controversy” itself to get more attention for the film, which few people probably heard of before today.
The trailer for the movie is here. While there are a few lines that may make your eyes roll (i.e., “The President of the United States is going to be staking his presidency on this call!”), for the most part it seems to be focused on the SEALs who carried out the raid, which is a good thing.
Importantly when this story broke several months ago it was pointed out that Obama was sharing national security secrets with Bigelow in order to make the movie. So the next time Obama goes after a whistleblower, and there will be a next time, you need to remember that.
I wonder if the scene where Obama straps on a bulletproof vest, and rapels from a helicopter with a knife in his teeth will be shown? n nOr perhaps the scene where he is called off the golf course to give his consent to the action, and is shown pondering the earthshaking implications to the world's future, or at least his reelection prospects, sitting in his golf cart like Rodin's Thinker. n nOr, a scene in the situation room, where when asked for the final 'Go!', he displays his Spine of Steel, and resolutely puts down his coffee mug before giving the order: "If it's OK with Valerie and Hillary and Susan, its A-OK with me!" as everyone else in the situation room back-slaps and congratulates him on his brave decision.
The movie should make clear that Obama actually set back the war on Al Qaeda by loudly announcing the successful raid on Osama’s secret compound. n nIf Obama had keep his big yap shut, it might have taken days or even weeks for the news to get out, and even longer to be confirmed. Meanwhile the armed services could have capitalized on the huge trove of intelligence that the raid yielded, significantly inflicting huge losses on Al Qaeda; and the SEALs could have also had a chance to more thoroughly destroy the downed helicopter left behind. n nInstead the narcissist-in-chief, by bragging about how “he killed Bin Laden,” flushed away almost all of value of the seized intelligence, plus he heightened Osama’s “martyrdom.” By leaking details of the raid, Obama also traitorously betrayed the doctor and perhaps other Pakistanis who helped in the tracking down of Bin Laden, and in so doing severely damaged our ability to enroll in the future people to help us gather intelligence; but why would the narcissist-in-chief care a fig about that? n nI said the movie should make all of this clear, but of course to will do nothing of the sort.
Let's not forget that Harvey Weinsten is the same person who released the viciously anti-Israel movie Miral. n nAs David Greenfield reminded us, "On the same day that a family of five (the Fogel family) were being murdered in their home in Israel, Harvey Weinstein ran a self-congratulatory promotional piece for his company's terrorist propaganda flick, Miral. The photos stand out. The fat smirking face of Harvey Weinstein contrasted with the sleeping baby, the smiling little boys and the earnest couple who were their parents…" n nLittle wonder he is a major support of President Obama.
A malignant fat f*ck, to be sure.