Palin aide upset that he did not have final approval over "Game Change" script. Update!

Courtesy of the Hollywood Reporter:

Game Change screenwriter Danny Strong reneged on a promise to check the accuracy of his script against the recollection of one of Sarah Palin’s key aides, the aide said Wednesday. 

Jason Recher, the senior adviser and trip director for the McCain-Palin campaign four years ago, said that early on in the writing process Strong asked him if the book Game Change, written by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin, was accurate. 

“I told him absolutely, unequivocally, it was not,” Recher told reporters on Wednesday.

Strong, Recher told the reporters, “Offered to share with me the script at any time if I read something in the media which made me uncomfortable with the direction of the movie." 

He said that after watching the second trailer he contacted Strong to take him up on his offer, but Strong emailed him on Feb. 3 to inform him that HBO wouldn’t allow him to share the script. HBO also didn't supply Recher and other Palin allies a DVD screener of the film.

Jason Recher

Now WHY would the screenwriter bother to give a person, paid by Palin to help support HER version of the truth, final say over the accuracy of his screenplay, when he knows full well this person would find fault with EVERYTHING that did not protect the Grizzled Mama's image?

The answer is that he wouldn't.

Strong, who also co-executive produced Game Change, told The Hollywood Reporter in an email that Recher is mistaken. 

"It is true that I interviewed Jason Recher to get his side of the story. He was one of 25 people involved with the McCain-Palin campaign that were interviewed for the movie," Strong said. "I did not offer to show him the script. I did not offer to show him the film. HBO offered to show Gov. Palin the film several weeks ahead of its debut and she declined the offer."

So this guy is essentially lying through his ass. Which, by the way, is nothing less than we would expect from a Palin-bot. And if Strong interviewed 25 people involved with the McCain/Palin campaign, who all told him very similar versions of events, and this Recher guy told him the exact opposite, who would YOU trust?

By the way if Palin herself was offered the opportunity to  preview this movie several weeks before its release, and refused to do so, that just proves that she KNOWS it is going to tell a truth about her that she does not want to have to face, or to have others see.

Which is why she is freaking out right now and trying to spin this as an attack on her before March 10th, when everybody has the chance to reach their own conclusions.

You know this is yet another indication of how the Palin camp works.

Palin keeps certain family members, acquaintances, and employees on a short leash, refusing to let them cooperate with ANY project which she fears will not support her personal mythology, or show her in the best possible light, and then has these same people complain bitterly that the documentary, film, book, article, or blog post is inaccurate, because they "didn't talk to people who really know Sarah Palin."

(How often have we seen that occur right here in the comments section?)

When Joe McGinniss was up here he used to complain bitterly that people would agree to speak with him, he would set up an appointment to interview them, and then as soon as the Palin's got wind of it they would suddenly stop answering their phones, stop responding to e-mails, or even seem to completely disappear from the damn state. And I have often had those same difficulties myself.

Of course if somebody promises to polish the Palin name, and only tell the most homogenized version of the "facts," well THAT is a different story.

The proof of that is this upcoming book on Sarah Heath's "amazing" sports career with the Wasilla Warriors, called "Sarah Palin and the Wasilla Warriors: The True Story of the Improbable 1982 Alaska State Basketball Championship." (Oh yeah, that certainly sounds like a fair and balanced reporting of the actual events, doesn't it?)

Here is a brief synopsis, from the Palin-bots themselves.

First of all, this report details the fortitude and gutsiness of 17- and 18-year-old Sarah Heath as she played through a severely swollen ankle, and with her teammates, came back from tough losses, including a 40-point blowout, to dig in, play hard, fight tough, and ultimately, win the state championship against all odds. The notion that this woman who, at such a young age could withstand physical and emotional stress, keep it together, and achieve victory would suffer a nervous breakdown during the 2008 campaign is ludicrous. Shropshire also depicts in detail just how rough daily life can be in Alaska even in the 21st century; Alaskans are truly a tough breed, especially those who choose to stay. Such as Sarah Heath Palin. 

Second, the book is full of anecdotes from named coaches, principals, and family members who were eager to talk about Sarah Heath and the girls team of 1982 – in contrast to the complete lack of on-the-record sources to back up HBO’s SuperPAC of lies film. 

At this point I think I will rest my case.

Like I have said before, if the Grizzled Mama is THIS upset about the HBO film, then it is CERTAINLY "must see TV."

Update: According to Politico, it looks like Babyface Recher has some "splainin' to do!"