KMC Forums - Your inner Comic Book Guy

This thread is for nitpicking movies.

I was thinking about Wag the Dog, the story about a "spin doctor" with way too much power enlisting a film guy to deal with sex allegations of a prospective president. I liked the movie at the time, but the more you think about it..

Brean is the problem. He outright told an anchorman to say something, live, on air, and he said it. He had people killed, and threatened to kill entire families. Why does a "spin doctor" have that kind of power? The CIA and FBI aren't supposed to get away with that shite, so why does Brean?

And since he's so ridiculously powerful, why does he need a film guy? He could just tell the news not to report the sex allegations. Or, force them to make something up. I mean, why not, with everything else he did?

When you introduce a guy like that into a story about clever manipulation of the public, it kind of stretch's suspension of disbelief that all those clever moves are even necessary. After all, it's not like Brean showed restrain in abusing his power.. He used it all the time, for the most petty of reasons.

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