Unreal Realities

THE NEW FILM SEAL Team Six: The Raid on Osama bin Laden appeared on the National Geographic Channel on November 4 and on Netflix the following day. On the day after that, I’m told there was some sort of election scheduled. And although it’s true that the thrilling tale of SEAL Team Six had been re-edited to give a larger role in this military operation to the commander in chief, we have it on no less an authority than the New York Times that the added tribute to the heroism of our wartime leader had nothing to do with politics. The film, write Michael Cieply and Brian Stelter, “is being backed by Harvey Weinstein, a longtime Democratic contributor and one of the Obama campaign’s most vigorous backers,” but what of that?

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