Bull. Shit.

Right-wing movie-bloggers - along with politicians of questionable-priorities - spent all eight years of the Bush-era "War on Terror" excoriating "liberal Hollywood" for not churning out the kind of citizen-rallying, Pentagon-collaborative war-themed projects that folks like Capra and Ford produced during WWII. Now they're so eager to prevent the killing of Osama Bin Laden by SEAL Team 6 from aiding President Obama's election any further than it already has that they're desperately trying to damage Katherine Bigelow's film on the subject (which was in-production BEFORE reality wrote a surprise happy ending for it) by pretending that there's some kind of "controversy" over Bigelow's production team having access to the real-life participants in the mission. Never mind the fact that these same bloggers were more than happy to slobber all over "Act of Valor" (which I liked, for the record) which was made with much more filmmaker/SEAL interaction that Bigelow's people ever had.
I get why they're pissed off, don't get me wrong. Republicans have spent DECADES propping up the ideal of stern, square-jawed, conservative caucasian men, preferably with an air of rural machismo - the Cowboy Ideal... reborn!!! - as the only human beings capable of protecting the world from evil via bold political/military leadership; so it's just killing them that no matter what history will record that it was a black liberal "intellectual" from Chicago who got to give the "take him out" order on Osama Bin Laden. So yeah, I understand. Poor things.

But guys... y'really have to let this one go. Some stuff you just can't work around - Osama ate it on Obama's watch, he got to make the call, he got to give the speech, there's nothing you can do to make this NOT reflect well on him, and trying only makes you look foolish and diverts precious resources desperately needed over in your "Make Mitt Romney Seem Less Like Pod-Person" division. Focus!

The fact is, the movie was already in-production for over a year before the operation took place; so the idea that this was hastily put together as an "election movie" is asinine - unless, of course, people who are deluded enough to believe that Bin Laden's killing was "stage managed" and the film is part of the conspiracy... but to buy that, you'd have to be dumb enough to believe that the President was born in Kenya, that there are socialist sleeper-agents in the U.S. government in 2012, that Soviet-style communism is still ANY kind of real threat, that Global Warming doesn't exist, that evolution doesn't exist, that... oh, right. Nevermind.