El fraude más fulero, según HBO

Un siempre recomendable sitio nos cuenta cómo cuenta HBO la elección estadounidense que más vidas les ha costado a los iraquíes. Estamos haciendo, con este comentario, historia contrafáctica, por supuesto, pero a base de sospechas bien fundadas y no de Goremania tardía. Hacendosos quemadores de DVDs nos harán llegar esta peli más temprano que tarde y hasta podremos contar con el amigo que le paga el paquete premium a los cables de Clarinete, al de Pierri o al de Manzano. Pensándolo bien, nos quedamos con los piratas benefactores... Mientras tanto, podemos leer el comentario sobre el fallido "Recount" en la Florida en 2000, del que aquí se reproduce el primer párrafo.

The ugliest election

From the overly decorous Gore team to the bought-and-paid-for Supreme Court, HBO's enraging docudrama shows the Florida recount like it was.

By Gary Kamiya

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Laura Dern as Katherine Harris in "Recount"

May 23, 2008 | "Recount," director Jay Roach and screenwriter Danny Strong's first-rate docudrama about the disputed 2000 presidential election, is almost too painful to watch. Close to eight years have passed since a divided Supreme Court ended the epic 36-day battle over the votes by halting the recount in Florida, thus handing the election to George W. Bush. The bitterness over that judicial outrage may have subsided, but it never died, and HBO's "Recount" brings it all back. In fact, it's almost more unbearable to revisit this black chapter in American history than it was to experience it at the time. Beyond the manifest injustice of the ruling, after eight years of George W. Bush, we now know exactly what that ruling resulted in. It is impossible to watch "Recount" without experiencing a constant stream of agonized what-ifs.