HBO's `Recount' Captures Emotion of 2000 Fla. Election (Katherine Harris Claims Film Mocks Her)

Source: Associated Press

HBO's `Recount' captures emotion of 2000 Fla. election
By BRENDAN FARRINGTON, Associated Press Writer
Thursday, May 22, 2008

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Mitchell Berger, a lawyer on then Vice President Al Gore's team, had a similar reaction. "I was there 35 days and there were moments that were kind of hard to watch again," Berger said immediately after the lights came up at a "Recount" premiere in Jacksonville. (The film will be broadcast 9 p.m. EDT Sunday on HBO.) Still, he had praise for the movie as he stopped to talk to director Jay Roach on the way out of the Florida Theatre, saying: "It's a fabulous synopsis. I think you captured the essence." The audience at the Florida premiere sometimes laughed at dramatic times, not because the scenes were funny, but because they were immediately recognizable.

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"The notion that there was a conspiracy between me and the Bush campaign, that's one of the short cuts they made," Feeney, now a congressman, said more seriously. And while she hasn't seen the movie, Harris took exception with her portrayal as it was described to her. Actress Laura Dern largely portrays her as ditzy and self-centered. In one scene, former Secretary of State James Baker watches Harris' first news conference after the election and says: "This woman is hopeless. We're going to need some help on this." That's when Stipanovich is called to advise her. The film shows Stipanovich and then-Division of Elections Director Clay Roberts telling Harris what she should do. Harris said Stipanovich was never with her when she and her legal team made final decisions, but only helped her write some press statements.

"For the last seven and one-half years, I have done all I can to explain my decisions, which were fair and just while following the letter of the law," Harris wrote in an e-mail. "While it is not pleasant being lied about, mocked, or having this film's comic book caricature presented as who I am, I am at peace — knowing before my God, my friends, and my family that I acted with honor and integrity."

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Watching alongside Waters, lawyer Mark Herron was able to predict one scene. The actor portraying him was on a conference call with Gore running mate Joe Lieberman and telling him military ballots received after the election could be counted if they didn't have a postmark, but not if they weren't dated and didn't have a witness signature proving they were filled out before the election. The voice of Lieberman in the film seemed to understand, and the Gore team appeared relieved. "Then came 'Meet the Press,'" the real Herron said. A split second later, the film cut to Lieberman on the Sunday morning talk show arguing that all military ballots should be counted regardless of how they were filled out, a position that hurt his own campaign. The cursing that followed in "Recount" wasn't just real, it was understated, Herron said. "That little scene with Lieberman? You heard somebody scream out some profanity there? They only captured part of it," Herron said.

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And when you face your God she's going to point out how you lied and cheated to instill your friend into the White House. But enjoy your fantasy until then.

I don't have HBO right now but I almost want to get it just to see the movie. I heard Laura Dern did a great job of show us the real Katherine Harris.

and therefore very slimy and creepy.

(Letterman maybe?) but it was...What do you have against Laura Dern?

:evilgrin:

and FUCK Katherine Harris and her surgically altered face.

i won't watch 'charlie wilson's war' either, for the same reasons...i have no interest in watching the motherfuckers get away with shitting on the constitution and our rights, and dragging the u.s. that much farther down the crapper.

see if the boys need some refreshments or whatever...

you didn't get it, did you...how did your support for your Senate seat work out?

you were a pawn, and once used, they threw your lame ass on the junkpile...

where it belongs..

And Katherine Harris held the door for the Devil.

feeling up fellow congress critters in the public chambers. Who mocking whom?!1

The whole thought of that election still infuriates me to the point of chest pains.

It's still current. I don't need to be reminded of it.

part of me wants to watch it to at least give it support, but i know if i do watch, i'll probably grind my teeth down and punch out the tv screen

Fucking criminals.

I'm so not over it, and never will be. A horrific crime was committed, my country stolen outright by the right wing cabal and nothing will ever change that fact. I'm hoping with more time I might not be so bitter - but it hasn't happened yet. I was in Miami at the time, met with some of the Repugs imported from as far away as Alaska to disrupt the process and ensure the votes didn't get counted. It was and always will be totally disgusting.

...they can't tell me anything I don't know and it will just kill me all over again

VP.

MAYBE I will watch it then.

Right now, the daily drooling here is about as bad as I can ever remember.

We are split right up the middle and bleeding to death in a circular firing squad.

It's all just too much.

Peace, everybody.

RL

i don't need to re-live, in both cases, watching helplessly as the fuckwads destroy my country.

:mad:

I honestly don't know if I can watch this on Sunday; I'm still pretty bitter.....

Remember the make up? Eee gads!

Moxie and Spunk, you know.

:rofl:

Bake

you mock yourself, you nut.

Sometime in the summer or early fall.

Hits too close to home, does it, Ms. Harris?

If not, wouldn't she say, "So what, it's just a movie?"

best thing after being sued. Which I hope someone will be doing.

The year America started its downward spiral.

Just kidding, of course. I hope she makes a big stink and goes on all the talk shows.

Her brand of absurdity is missed.

As a collaborator in the subversion of Democracy and an enabler of the neocon regime that has caused the deaths of over a million innocent people, life in prison is the least you deserve. A little public humiliation for the crimes you have enabled against the people of the U.S. and Iraq is the least you should expect.

Be happy you're not, as yet, on the stand defending yourself against the charge of election fraud, which even the staunchest Republicans now realize you committed, for personal gain.

NOT mock her. It's impossible.