Michael Barone is correct, Obama really
needs to stop taking advice from wealthy, limousine liberals.
If you were looking for advice on how tell a story that would impact
millions upon millions of people, would you go to a director whose last
four films were "War Horse," "The Adventures of Tintin," Indiana Jones
4," and "Munich?"
Nope.
But Team Obama did, and what they got in return was a continuation of
the ongoing Spielberg flop-streak:
At
DreamWorks Studios, Steven Spielberg spent three hours explaining how
to capture an audience’s attention and offered a number of ideas that
will be rolled out before Election Day. An early example of Spielberg’s
influence is RomneyEconomics.com, a website designed by the Obama team
to tell the story—a horror story, by their reckoning—of Mitt Romney’s
career at Bain Capital. Afterward, Spielberg insisted that Messina sit
down with the DreamWorks marketing team. Hollywood movie studios are
expert, as presidential campaigns also must be, at spending huge sums
over a few weeks to reach and motivate millions of Americans.
What I find especially funny is that the film
business,
including, obviously, the failing venture that is DreamWorks, has been
a quivering tower of risky financing, corporate welfare, and shady
investment for decades now.
Spielberg's indignation of over Bain Capital is like water's
indignation over wet.
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