HBO's "Game Change" nominated for twelve, count them TWELVE, Emmy's!

"You mean I'm STILL not acting insane enough?"

Courtesy of Politico:  

HBO’s “Game Change,” a film based on the 2008 presidential campaign, has been nominated for 12 Emmys, including “Outstanding Miniseries or Movie,” it was announced Thursday. 

Julianne Moore earned a nomination for her portrayal of Sarah Palin, as did Woody Harrelson for his depiction of Republican strategist Steve Schmidt, Ed Harris for his portrayal of Sen. John McCain, and Sarah Paulson for playing Nicolle Wallace. 

Director Jay Roach earned a nomination along with Danny Strong, who wrote the script based on the book by Mark Halperin and John Heilemann. “Game Change” was also nominated for “Outstanding Casting for a Drama,” “Outstanding Cinematography for a Minseries or Movie,” “Outstanding Single-Camera Picture Editing for a Miniseries or a Movie,” “Outstanding Music Composition for a Miniseries, Movie or a Special” and “Outstanding Sound Mixing for a Miniseries or a Movie.” 

The nominations for “Game Change” mark a continued run of success for the two-hour movie, which premiered to an impressive 2.1 million viewers in March, and many more in subsequent repeats, making it one of HBO’s most successful original movies ever. 

The film’s success came despite an aggressive counter campaign from Sarah Palin and her supporters. Palin’s SuperPAC — SarahPAC — put out it’s own video that spoofed what it called the movie’s “false narrative” with a highlight reel of some of the film’s key players praising Palin when her star suddenly emerged at the 2008 Republican National Convention. 

Okay you can't see it right now, but I am grinning ear to ear. I had NO doubt that this film would do very well, and I have to go back and laugh at the Palin supporters who CONSTANTLY claimed, multiple times right here on this blog, that NOBODY was watching this film and that it was full of lies.

Of course for those of us well versed in "Palin-speak" we knew that what they were actually saying was "EVERYBODY is watching this damn movie and it is full of truths that we don't want anybody to see. Make it stop! Make it stop! For God's sake just make it stop!"

There are not many times that I ever REALLY want to be a fly on the wall inside the Palin reeducation center and birthing rooms, but this is one time that I would dearly love to be there as they read off the winners on Emmy night.

"Twelve nominations! Holy shit!"

(Insert your own dented refrigerator joke here.)
 
P.S. Here is the PDF with all of the nominees.