Some Are Not Happy That the Obama Administration Shared Info About Bin Laden With Kathryn Bigelow
by Jamie Frevele | 2:06 pm, May 25th
When it was revealed that the Obama administration provided information about the raid on and death of Osama bin Laden to director Kathryn Bigelow for the movie she was making about the event, some people found that a little weird to hear, even after the fact. Because, um, isn’t that information kind of on the extremely classified side? And doesn’t it look bad for a president to appear so “tight” with Hollywood during an election year? (I’ll continue laughing about that second one after writing this post.) Well, conservatives — who don’t believe anything Barack Obama does can ever be good to begin with — are up in arms over this seemingly “oversharey” exchange between the president and a Hollywood type. But make no mistake — they don’t care about Kathryn Bigelow. This is all about Obama. (WARNING: There are some politics in this post. All of you are entitled to your opinions about everything.) ...
However, the complaint being issued against Bigelow by conservatives at Judicial Watch is petty at best ...
Why is it petty? Because besides the fact that they automatically disagree with everything this president does anyway, Judicial Watch is just upset that they still don’t have access to bin Laden’s death photos. This is a big deal among some people, not limited to conservatives — why haven’t the photos been released to the public? And if the administration refuses to release them, then what are they hiding? These are questions for a whole other blog, let alone this particular post. (Let alone me, the girl who writes about things like Stephen Colbert on the Maxim Hot 100 list.) I’m not nearly informed enough on the global effects of bin Laden’s death photos to try to take a stab at why they have not been released, only to say that maybe it would give Al Qaeda and other organizations a martyr and a rallying cry, something to put on posters. That is one opinion by someone who is better at writing about lighter matters, like movie films.
Anyway, what I mean to say is that Judicial Watch thinks that it’s unfair that they asked for death photos, but some “politically-connected” (that means liberal, let’s be honest) filmmakers got other information for their Obama-loving movie. (Which it actually isn’t.) And I have a feeling that they are being the tiniest bit hyperbolic when they say the information Bigelow and Boal received was “extraordinary and secret.” So, they (Judicial Watch) should just stop whining ...
http://www.themarysue.com/conservatives-unhappy-about-bigelow-information/
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