FAIR GAME
4 out of 5 stars

“the responsibility of a country is not in the hands of a privileged few. we are strong, and we are free from tyranny as long as each one of us remembers his or her duty as a citizen. whether it's to report a pothole at the top of your street or lies in a state of the union address, speak out! ask those questions. demand that truth. democracy is not a free ride, man. I'm here to tell you. but, this is where we live. And if we do our job, this is where our children will live. god bless america.”
– joe wilson

what an INTERESTING and well-produced movie about the scandal that rocked the bush administration! sean penn and naomi watts team up again but this time...as former ambassador joe wilson and CIA agent valerie plame. :)

based on true events, CIA agent valerie plame (watts) is essentially betrayed by the u.s. government when lewis “scooter” libby (david andrews from JAG) and f-ing karl rove (ugh...hate that guy!) when her husband writes an op-end piece in the NYT re: the lies behind president bush’s state of the union address. what happens is that valerie recommends her husband as the person to seek out whether yellowcake uranium was sold by niger to sadam’s people as this could potentially be a problem if this transaction did take place. (think nuclear bombs) well, joe wilson (penn) goes on his mission, and reports back that no such transaction happened. joe wilson is an expert when it comes to africa and african relations and pretty much all things africa being that he was the director of african relations during clinton’s presidency. the white house doesn’t like that answer, and libby comes to the CIA to cherry-pick data, so it may look like iraq is building a nuclear weapons problem, thus proving that WMDs do exist in iraq. (which they don’t)

so, basically, one person demands the truth from the govt, and their spouse pays the price. their spouse, whose a covert agent for that same govt... it’s all really screwed up, and i am baffled that the u.s. govt did such a thing... SMH and WTF all come to mind, and it’s a damn shame an innocent person’s career got shattered all in the name of covering up the bush adminstration’s lies... it’s a GREAT story and everyone should def see it so you too know valerie’s story! ;)