Hollywood myth-making on Valerie Plame controversy

• WE'RE NOT in the habit of writing movie reviews. But the recently released film "Fair Game" - which covers a poisonous Washington controversy during the war in Iraq - deserves some editorial page comment....
  
  "Fair Game," based on books by Mr. Wilson and his wife, is full of distortions - not to mention outright inventions. To start with the most sensational: The movie portrays Ms. Plame as having cultivated a group of Iraqi scientists and arranged for them to leave the country, and it suggests that once her cover was blown, the operation was aborted and the scientists were abandoned. This is simply false. In reality, as The Post's Walter Pincus and Richard Leiby reported, Ms. Plame did not work directly on the program, and it was not shut down because of her identification.
  
  The movie portrays Mr. Wilson as a whistle-blower who debunked a Bush administration claim that Iraq had tried to purchase uranium from the African country of Niger. In fact, an investigation by the Senate intelligence committee found that Mr. Wilson's reporting did not affect the intelligence community's view on the matter, and an official British investigation found that President George W. Bush's statement in a State of the Union address that Britain believed that Iraq had sought uranium in Niger was well-founded.
  
  "Fair Game" also resells the couple's story that Ms. Plame's exposure was the result of a White House conspiracy. A lengthy and wasteful investigation by a special prosecutor found no such conspiracy - but it did confirm that the prime source of a newspaper column identifying Ms. Plame was a State Department official, not a White House political operative.
  
  Hollywood has a habit of making movies about historical events without regard for the truth; "Fair Game" is just one more example. But the film's reception illustrates a more troubling trend of political debates in Washington in which established facts are willfully ignored....

Wow. When the reliably center to slightly left Washington Post feels the need to publish an editorial blasting a movie as inaccurate and deceitful that really says something.

At least he didn't include a boat full of photographers in the movie.

Or photos of him kissing Natalie Portman...shudder...........

yeah...shuder...

-Natalie Portman

It doesn't surprise me that "Fair Game" is getting a thumbs-down; fairness and accuracy aren't exactly Sean Penn's strong suits. And frankly, his acting skills aren't what they used to be anyway.

WTF?

SEAN PENN'S FACE IS ABOUT TO GET PUNCHED!

I liked him in Thin Red Line. I don't what else he's done.

Robin Wright.