Monday, March 12, 2012

Blue Jersey:: The Chris Christie Connection in HBO's 'Game Change' about Sarah Palin's VP adventures

Blue Jersey:: The Chris Christie Connection in HBO's 'Game Change' about Sarah Palin's VP adventures:


The Chris Christie Connection in HBO's 'Game Change' about Sarah Palin's VP adventures

Maria Comella
Maria Comella
There's a New Jersey connection in the hotly-anticipated HBO movie Game Change. In the 2 hour account of Sarah Palin's spectacular deterioration from instant celebrity to bewildering laughing stock, it's but a brief moment - you might miss it -  but it's important. And what happened may be the reason Sarah Palin - arguably the most famous Republican in the country when Chris Christie began his run for governor - was never asked to come help out in Jersey (despite our best efforts) though gosh darn it, she did come for the Tea Party.More below the fold ...

Game Change, made by HBO and debuting over the weekend, stars Julianne Moore as Sarah Palin. It's a pitch-perfect performance by Moore, who captures both Palin's natural star-quality and her stupendous ignorance of even basic American history and civics, ironically always wearing a flag pin of a country whose fundamentals she doesn't understand (and doesn't want to try to). Palin proudly sends her son off to the War in Iraq, but is