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April 01, 2009

True Hollywood Story: The Kerry Campaign

Filmmaker Steve Rosenbaum has been working on a film called "Inside The Bubble," which is supposed to be a behind-the-scenes look at the Kerry presidential campaign, and it's not too flattering.

I hear that John Kerry loyalists are kicking themselves for cooperating last year with filmmaker Steve Rosenbaum on "Inside the Bubble," a potentially devastating behind-the-scenes look at the Massachusetts senator's failed presidential campaign. I'm also told that Hillary Clinton partisans are licking their chops to see the film, which "could end up being the silver bullet that kills Kerry's presidential chances for 2008," says a Lowdown spy.

Kerry spinmeister David Wade - one of the senior staffers who allowed Rosenbaum to film his private moments - tried to dismiss Rosenbaum's effort as "a childish home movie destined to be forgotten."

Wade E-mailed me: "The 20 poor souls subjected to this movie will be reaching for caffeine and begging for old Lamar Alexander tapes on C-Span 2. Michael Moore has nothing to fear. I think the working title was 'The Snore Room.'"

But people who've screened the documentary say it's compelling and revealing.

It features, among other not-ready-for-prime-time moments, Clinton scowling and rolling her eyes over an apparent Kerry gaffe during a presidential debate; Kerry pretending to interview himself and babbling in Italian while waiting for a real interview to begin; Sen. Joe Biden (D-Del.) cursing at reporters during a campaign stop, and Kerry message guru Robert Shrum confidently declaring a few days before the 2004 election: "Zogby [a prominent pollster] just announced who's gonna win. Us!"

So what is the purpose of this film? Obviously not a chronicle of a successful campaign, therefore it is by no means meant to help Senator Kerry. The strange thing about Rosenbaum is he is a self-described lifelong Democrat.

Director Rosenbaum, meanwhile, told me: "I'm a lifelong Democrat and I supported Kerry. I think people will see the film as fair, and maybe searing."

Democrats don't often trash either--even the losers, rather, they usually help them out, propel them, promote them. Case in point, Howard Dean, who became DNC Chairman after a huge campaign collapse. So what it this film about?

This film could end up being one of a few things. Most obviously, it could be an attempt to derail any presidential endeavors by the Massachusetts Senator, with the distinct purpose to help out the presidential ambitions of Hillary Clinton. This may be part of it, but I think it could be meant to do something else.

I suspect the underlying purpose of this film is illustrate the failures of the Kerry Campaign to serve as an excuse for their loss. But why do that? The propaganda campaign of this movie--I suspect-- is to show the American people that it was the ineptitude of the Kerry campaign that lost the election, not that President Bush actually won re-election. But aren't they the same thing? No. To illustrate the Kerry campaign as buffoonery, the 2004 election was not a Bush victory, but a Kerry loss.

John Kerry once said, "I can't believe I'm losing to this idiot." Most democrats and liberals probably concur that in their minds, President Bush is an idiot, so how could he win against the seemingly more intelligent Kerry? Therein lies the impetus of this film, to highlight the mistakes of the Kerry campaign in order to remit the idea that President Bush was a better candidate, thus concluding that not only is President Bush still the idiot they think he is, but also that those of us who voted for President Bush are idiots as well, and weren't convinced by the bungled Kerry campaign. This film will also conclude with video evidence that the Kerry campaign was itself idiotic, or else how could they lose? Kerry will also look like a big loser, but this will be a small price to pay in the short to term for the Democrats in order to proliferate the idea that Bush didn't "really win," and Kerry would have won if they didn't screw up big time.

This will be a fun film to watch.

Posted by Aaron at April 1, 2009 12:00 AM

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Comments

Aaron, the Kerry campaign allowed these guys to film them and these guys cut the film that they best thought portrayed what they captured.

Posted by Tom Shipley [TypeKey Profile Page] at September 26, 2005 06:10 PM