Weinstein Co on SEAL Team Six – Prepare for Right Wing Attack

As I was reading this story it occurred to me that the Republicans will try to use ye aulde false equivalency to try to say that the airing of this film, Seal Team Six two days before the election is as bad as a cable company in Ohio showing the propaganda fakumentary, Obama’s America 2016. It isn’t. One is based on a true story. The other is political propaganda. Here is how it’s going down right now on Page One of the NY Times:

In a joint interview on Tuesday Mr. Weinstein; the film’s director, John Stockwell; and others said the changes to the film were not politically motivated but were meant to give the film a stronger sense of realism. Some of the Obama moments were added at the suggestion of Mr. Weinstein, they said, using material gathered by Meghan O’Hara, a producer who worked closely with the documentarian Michael Moore on politically charged projects like “Fahrenheit 9/11” and “Sicko.”

But Mr. Stockwell said he had included Mr. Obama as a character in his film from the beginning, and had actually shrunk his screen time somewhat. And Howard T. Owens, the chief executive of the National Geographic Channel, who joined the call, said his company had insisted on removing a scene that showed Mitt Romney appearing to oppose the raid.

“We wouldn’t air this if it were propaganda,” he said.

The scenes featuring Mr. Obama include an opening with him at the annual White House correspondents’ dinner just a day before the raid (which was added by Ms. O’Hara); another that catches him on a long, lonely walk as he presumably deliberates his weighty decision; and — without getting too deeply into spoilers — another that finds him declaring at the end, “Justice has been done.”

The story of the Marines carrying out the mission to kill Bin Laden will also be dramatized in Zero Dark Thirty which, despite being assaulted by the right continually (and while they weren’t looking, Weinstein slipped this one right on by) has claimed to be non partisan and will debut after the election. Just to recap – one is a true story, one is a “theory,” you know, how creationism is a “theory?”