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JonLP24

(29,322 posts)
Fri Apr 21, 2017, 06:54 PM Apr 2017

Hoosiers Creators Call Technical Foul On Highflying Superfan Mike Pence

Vice President and former Indiana Gov. Mike Pence really, really loves Hoosiers, the 1986 underdog classic about the state’s 1954 high school basketball champs. He even had the poster in his old congressional office. But the film’s director and writer are wondering today if the Veep, his boss and the rest of Washington might be missing the point.

According to White House pool reports, Pence brought along his own personal DVD copy of the film to screen for fellow passengers on Air Force Two today, en route to Sydney. “About an hour into our journey,” wrote Politico pool reporter Hadas Gold, Pence’s press secretary Marc Lotter announced that “at the Vice President’s request – we would all be required to watch ‘the greatest sports movie ever made.'”

After MSNBC’s Steve Kornacki weighed in on the claim — tweeting that “Pence is absolutely right here” — he got an email from Hoosiers director David Anspaugh and writer Angelo Pizzo. Kornacki shared it with his Twitter followers (see it below).

“We would hope,” they wrote in the not entirely grammatical note, “that the Vice President talks to his boss about the most important thematic through line in the movie, in that nothing can be accomplished without working together for the same goal, pulling in the same direction, ‘five pistons firing at the same time.’ If the Huskers were made up of today’s Republicans and Democrats, Hickory’s record would have been 0-20, which is unfortunately how most people Washington [sic] now.”

http://deadline.com/2017/04/hoosiers-mike-pence-david-anspaugh-steve-kornacki-1202073966/

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Hoosiers Creators Call Technical Foul On Highflying Superfan Mike Pence (Original Post) JonLP24 Apr 2017 OP
I'm always curious when rightwingers enjoy populist entertainment. LisaM Apr 2017 #1
What I love even more is what when the creators of said content... Initech Apr 2017 #4
It makes me want to PUKE MY GUTS out that this disgusting Eliot Rosewater Apr 2017 #2
Pence blueinredohio Apr 2017 #3

LisaM

(27,806 posts)
1. I'm always curious when rightwingers enjoy populist entertainment.
Fri Apr 21, 2017, 07:07 PM
Apr 2017

In what bizarre world can Chris Christie be a huge fan of Bruce Springsteen, yet approach government (in Springsteen's home state, no less) in a way that contrasts almost directly with Springsteen's lyrics and message?

Initech

(100,068 posts)
4. What I love even more is what when the creators of said content...
Fri Apr 21, 2017, 08:52 PM
Apr 2017

Call them out on their bullshit. I love it.

Eliot Rosewater

(31,109 posts)
2. It makes me want to PUKE MY GUTS out that this disgusting
Fri Apr 21, 2017, 07:13 PM
Apr 2017

prick is flying in my airplane.

That someone so fucking dumb that they call their wife "mother" and they want to torture gay people and they think the earth is fucking 6,000 yrs old should never get anywhere near any government anywhere.

Sick.

blueinredohio

(6,797 posts)
3. Pence
Fri Apr 21, 2017, 08:47 PM
Apr 2017

Good for David Anspaugh, although Pence wont get it. Only thinks about himself and the "party". Oh and did I mention he's a dick?

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