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Are you in the mood to watch an HBO movie about the 2000 Florida recount?

Or are you troubled that the movie may be unfair to Democrats?

Warren Christopher, the former secretary of state who served as the public face of the Gore team in the early days of the recount effort, said this week that he believed the film, ?Recount,? was ?pure fiction? in its portrayal of him as a weak strategist unprepared to stand up to the aggressive tactics of James A. Baker III, the former secretary of state who was the chief Republican adviser.

Oh, look at the bright side, Warren. Democrats are just too darned kind-hearted to be evenly matched to those bastard Republicans.

Even Mr. Baker questioned the portrayal of Mr. Christopher. ?I don?t think I was as ruthless as the movie portrays me, and I know he was not as wimpish as it makes him appear,? Mr. Baker said.

*adds "masculinity" tag*

?I think a lot of the strategizing in the script that I saw was somebody?s hindsight rather than what we had to deal with in the immediate aftermath of the election,? [said William M. Daley, Gore?s campaign chairman]. He added: ?The perception that Warren Christopher was some wuss who got hoodwinked by Jim Baker is absolute fantasy in the mind of somebody who is trying to make themselves out to be bigger than they were.?...

?I was stunned by the [screenplay] excerpt,? [Warren Christopher] said in an interview. ?Much of what the author has written about me is pure fiction. It contained events that never occurred, words I never spoke and decisions attributed to me that I never made.?

Oh, enough already. Deal with it. You don't hear James Baker bellyaching that they portrayed him as a big meanie, do you? Don't be such a .... wuss.

Hey, I'm really psyched about this movie. Here, watch the trailer.

Full post as published by Althouse on May 14, 2008 (boomark / email).