Feb. 11, 2013 - PPM - Lincoln b(Logs)

This week's PET PEEVE MONDAY (PPM) is the movie "Lincoln."

I'm won't comment on the acting, the directing, or the production. I won't even get into the myths around Lincoln and the 13th Amendment abolishing slavery.

My PEEVE is about the CRITICS of the authenticity or factual basis of the movie.

IT'S A MOVIE!!!

The problem escalated when Rep. Joe Courtney (D-NJ) had watched the Oscar-nominated "Lincoln."

Courtney was shocked that the film, about President Abraham Lincoln's political struggle to abolish slavery, includes a scene in which two Connecticut congressmen vote against the 13th amendment.

He had "suspicions" that the movie, directed by Steven Spielberg, was historically inaccurate, so he asked the Congressional Research Service to investigate.

HE SPENT OUR TAX DOLLARS TO INVESTIGATE IF A MOVIE WAS ACCURATE.

Health care, job creation, home values. CRICKETS. But let's spend TIME AND MONEY to research a movie.

Some errors were found, so Courtney asked that the Lincoln movie be corrected before its release on DVD.

My own 10 year old daughter knew that "Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter" was fiction. It didn't take a congressional investigative panel to prove it. Everyone knows that Lincoln would have never killed Vampires as it would have offended the important 18-24 Twilight voting demographic that was so important to his 1864 reelection.


Bottom Line: When will there be a "Brain Checker" that will eliminate certain "Intellectually Challenged" people from serving in Congress? Courtney, Jackson, Reid, Pelosi, ....

CRICKETS.


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