When you hire reporters, perhaps you should make sure that passed American history.
Consider this from television critic Mary McNamara’s review of HBO’s John Adams:
In his portrayal of our second president, Paul Giamatti creates a man perpetually dissatisfied, disgusted by the preening ambition of politics even as he is infected by it. If his relentless crankiness was a bit hard for some of us to take in early episodes, in the second half of the series it makes much more sense. While exhorting angry men to throw off the shackles of tyranny offers many opportunities for rhetorical fabulousness, setting up a new government is a bureaucratic nightmare, with oversized personalities disagreeing over things both petty and fundamental. George Washington (David Morse) so quickly tired of the infighting among his Cabinet and vagaries of public opinion that he stepped down from the presidency after a single term. “I know now what it is like to be disliked,” he says to Adams, his perpetually disliked vice president.
Umm, no Ms. McNamara, I don’t think so.
I’m not sure which is more laughable, that this slipped through the editorial process, or that they still haven’t corrected it.
April 20th, 2008 at 7:35 pm
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