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Posted on Apr 9, 2009
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The cycle is complete: Obama, once accused by rival John McCain of being a “celebrity,” is now going to be a movie star, thanks in part to actor/producer Edward Norton.

Quick—someone buy Rush Limbaugh advance tickets: Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions Group (otherwise known as SPWAG) has bought limited rights to the documentary “By the People: The Election of Barack Obama,” produced by Edward Norton’s Class 5 Films. HBO Documentary Films will be releasing the movie in U.S. theaters.

“Washington Whispers” in U.S. News & World Report:

You knew it was coming: A movie of Barack Obama’s historic election as the nation’s first African-American president. Sony Pictures tells Whispers that it has acquired the rights to distribute the HBO documentary By the People: The Election of Barack Obama. In describing the film, the media giants say that the previously untitled flick won’t be just a collage of biographical and campaign video. Added will be interviews with staffers and campaign aides to give us a behind-the-scenes look at life in Obamaland. It ought to be pretty polished: Ed Norton’s Class 5 Films did the work.

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By BlueEagle, April 13, 2009 at 4:46 pm Link to this comment

The Obama film everyone should see is:

The Obama Deception
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAaQNACwaLw

During tax time this would be a good movie to watch too “America: Freedom To Fascism”

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By DMFD, April 13, 2009 at 3:17 pm Link to this comment

The guy has been in office for a little over 100 days and they are doing a movie about him?  WTF has he done besides prove he can read from a teleprompter, spend money like he’s printing it and bow to foreign kings?  Not a damn thing.  Maybe Michael Moore should have made this.

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By Boyless Dogg, April 13, 2009 at 2:03 pm Link to this comment
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I hope I can hear with all that yelling at the screen.

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By skewed vison, April 12, 2009 at 9:02 pm Link to this comment
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Anyone who read the propaganda that the NY Times prints is living in a falsehood.

Lets see how anyone else would run the coutry with thier hands partially tied behind their back (Because the major of the power isn’t in that seat). Not to mention the state of crisis that our country is in. Let me see you do better. Or better yet, lets get another Bush in office. And you are complaining about time frame of when we are pulling out of a war torn area.

And for all you who don’t get it why their should be a documentary for Obama need to take off their colored glass lens that you live behind and open your eyes to the state of our country because things are far from equal as you would like for them to be.

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By Jeff, April 11, 2009 at 11:06 am Link to this comment
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I have lost total respect for Edward Norton, producing a movie about a no talent, telepromter reading, un-qualified to be President, globolist puppet. Edward Norton appeared to be an intellegent man, but based on his actions he knows nothing about the rule of law, the Bill of Rights, The Constitution or the Decleration of Independence.  I trully hope this project is a collasel failure. If you really want to see a movie about what the real Obama is and what the globalist agenda is then watch “The Obama Deception” a movie by Alex Jones.

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By thebeerdoctor, April 11, 2009 at 7:17 am Link to this comment

One of the by-products of this digital information age is that now we can not only be legends in our own minds, but in real time as well.

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By Paracelsus, April 11, 2009 at 2:59 am Link to this comment

I suppose the position of gong farmer is too well supplied, so these people without steady employment had to do a brown tonguing with this documentary. Eat up. Bon appetit!

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By dihey, April 10, 2009 at 1:46 pm Link to this comment

Why is Truthdig publishing this fluff at a time when President Obama has apparently ordered that our troops will not be withdrawn before the June 30 deadline from two Iraq cities in violation of the SOFA agreement.

If the withdrawal is not complete by June 30, Mr. Obama will become known to history as a willful and totally unreliable President who does not honor binding agreements.

And why is this Coward-in-Chief hiding behind the apron strings of General Odierno who made the comment to the Times yesterday?

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By Gilgamesh, April 10, 2009 at 12:49 pm Link to this comment
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just go watch the obama deception.

thats the only movie about him you need to see.

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By Skwid, April 9, 2009 at 7:19 pm Link to this comment
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Really?! We need a documentary about a president getting elected? Seriously?!
Can’t we wait until AFTER the presdidency to see if there is anything remarkable to comment on, much less to make a film about? Or at least wait until he’s gotten a good 6 months in?

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By samosamo, April 9, 2009 at 2:39 pm Link to this comment

I won’t have to see it, I am getting more than the normal adult dose from this guy already(obama).

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