Emmy Watch: Laura Dern in Recount

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Recount aired over the weekend and it’s possible that will be up for some Emmy love, perhaps for Kevin Spacey for actor, but especially Laura Dern as Katherine Harris, that awful Bush patsy who helped tilt the election in Bush’s favor. Dern is great in the part and never seems to be passing judgment on the woman, which is key when good people play bad people. She avoided caricature (although the above clip makes it look more like an SNL clip). Of course, this film is the democrats’ take, though they do attempt to tell the story from the other side. When the highest court in the land intervenes in an unprecedented move to block the recount, that’s when things get really ugly. We already saw Scalia defend those actions on “Sixty Minutes” so we know there is another truth out there for people who hate democrats.