RECOUNT: Just another attack on the GOP (and a personal one on Katherine Harris) So what else is new?

Oh well, no one said the entertainment elite was ever fair or even historically correct. People have figured that out by now.

Contrary to what the producers and actors say in the movie, Recount which premiered last night on HBO, and will be repeated today, the only votes not counted in Florida were those in the panhandle which seemed to trend toward George Bush. Until tonight's viewing it was my understanding that the military votes were not counted and they had been dated correctly and certified. I think that is a fact worth rechecking.

Recount is a big production--another election year pro democrat production. This is what Hollywood does every four years or so. You might like it.

Great big characters and self important dialogue complete with Al Gore's I-actually-was-raised- in-a-Washington-hotel-not-in-Tennessee voice, in addition to stereotypes about pragmatic and GD Republican white men, coldblooded like a supersizeme Jim Baker played by Tom Wilkinson and others probably made the veteran producer Sidney Pollock feel he was keeping the piece balanced against his leftie coproducers Jay Roach and Kevin Spacey. It didn't work for me, never does because I've watched these people for too many years. But for those who don't read or follow the facts, the appearance of balance comes off nicely for the most part.

Offhanded profundity after profundity about the American democratic process from staff underlings pepper each scene in the campaign war rooms. Important speeches are delivered by good old fashioned liberal actors like Laura Dern, Kevin Spacey, Ed Begley Jr. Familiar others you'll recognize as this thing slouches to its utter and ignominious end.

Look for the good casting in lookalike characters--Clarence Thomas, Ginsberg, Scalia--on the Supreme Court and in more than a couple of other scenes throughout.

If you're a Dem, you'll appreciate, no, you'll dig the underdog, college days Democrat realpolitik feel of it. You might even feel kind of young again. However, the storyline is annoying if you take it too seriously or from a historical POV, although it has more energy and modernity to it than All the President's Men. For one thing, it's HD. It's typical Spacey, warts and all.

I think the movie fails completely and finally when Dern's portrayal of Katherine Harris becomes gratuitously evil and the writer obviously holds her responsible for Gore's loss. It is here that the entire story falls apart.

Harris was not the problem in Florida. The Dems would love for everyone to believe that. There were hundreds of issues at play in Florida. Regardless, the need for the writer to take this final plot turn removes any chance this script had to redeem itself, although it was on life support up to this point, from becoming 100% pure Democrat propaganda.

I'm not surprised that the writer got away with this and it is kind of funny. However. This was awful, just awful, in its lack of honesty. After the denouement--Katherine did it--we're left with a crestfallen, but philosophical Spacey talking to Al Gore on the phone, about never giving up or some such nonsense.

Other than that, I sort of enjoyed it; except I'm getting tired of being beat up on for being a Republican. I wish these guys would pull back some. Can I help it if the old white guys don't have any imagination and can't put a decent movie together?

If I wanted to and had the money I believe even I, little ole me, could put a little screenplay together, maybe another high falutin script about the exact same shenanigans that are pulled on a daily basis in the very area from which the current candidate of their party comes: the shining south side of the city of Chicago. I'd be very careful if I were these high-talking Democrats.

Yes. So pure. So clean. So high minded. Uh huh. Pretty personal stuff when it comes to Harris, high minded Democrats.

Who the hell do they think they're kidding?

Thanks for the read.