Subject: The Contender

BC:

I have to say that I wholly disagree with your analysis of The Contender.
Especially in light of the fact that the Dan Burton character says, at one point, "Let her deny it!"
You know from your own experience with today's whore press that even offering proof has no effect.

Jim, I disagree with your disagreeing with me.
This is different than the 1001 wild accusations against Clinton.
It's not like she had sex with two or three men and the GOP stretched that into 15 men.
She never had sex with anybody at that party.
You're saying it was wrong to deny the charges?

Chris the Screamer would have "experts" on his show talking about how tatoos can be removed
"without a trace," etc., etc. etc.  Any acknowledgment of an issue like this gives it legitimacy,
even if the acknowledgment is a denial.  How many people she had sex with while in college
was never a legitimate issue, as it wouldn't have been were she a man.

True, there's a double standard, and we'll never have test case because even Ricky Martin
couldn't go to a sorority house and have sex with 15-20 women, (assuming he was into women)
so we'll never know. But there's a difference between a wild rumor and pictures of her in the act.
Granted, it wasn't her, but the pictures are seen as proof, so why not deny them?

This, of course, cannot be compared to Smirk who refuses to answer questions about cocaine
while he's responsible for shoving thousands into prisons for drug use.
The candidate for VP here, would not be prosecuting people for group sex.

Jim H.

Granted, nothing can compare the the free ride the whore press is giving Smirk.
The movie was written and produced before the entire Washington press corp was added
to the RNC payroll, so Smirk comparisons, like his election, are illegitimate.

By the way, Gary Oldman is pro-GOP. When he was on Dennis Miller, the two of them had
the grandest time kicking the Democrats around, so I was surprised to see Oldman listed as an
Executive Producer of the film. I've also seen interviews with Oldman where he said he wouldn't
have taken the part if he had to play the GOP fool, which is exactly the part I saw him playing.

Maybe, being an Englishster, he has no damn clue about American politics, but you were right
on the money that he was playing a Dan Burton idiot/buffoon/hypocrite the whole movie.

...and wasn't the Christian Slater character another couldn't-ever-happen?
If the president of your own party calls you to th White House and says "knock it off,"
you better have more than a hunch if you're going to cross him.
 

But, bottom line, you buy her reasoning at the end of the movie?
I say her reasoning was crazy, and nobody in real life would ever do what she did.
The closest real-life example would be Laura the Unloved.

First, she denied the pictures were of her.
Then she said she owned the pictures and owned the rights to halt their publication.
Then she went on O'Reilly and lied "I have no memory of ever being in those positions,"
with "those positions" meaning her legs spread wider than a goalpost.

If real life, nobody shuts up while the universe giggles at the "pictures that prove everything."

Take another example: The nude Jackie Kennedy pictures.
Jackie was right to ignore that controversy, but she wasn't facing a wild-ass madman chairing
her confirmation. Sure, there are times when remaining silent is best, but not the week before
the biggest political engagement of your life.
 

BTW, my mail tells me more people agree with you than me.
That surprised me.