The episode topic is about the 2018 movie Vice a biopic about the Bush Cheney years

While the movie generally depicts the mood of the country well it plays very fast and loose with historical accuracy

Some scenes that depicted while house conversations that didn't take place

The movie at timeshttps://www.historyvshollywood.com/reelfaces/vice/ tries to raise foreign policy questions but then let's then die in favor of comic relief

Christan Bale is very good as Cheney

Steve Carroll offers a dark take on former secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld 

Cheney and conservatism painted as cartoonishly evil

Liberalism is falsely treated as the solution to what ales the world

Lynne Cheney is falsely depicted as the dutiful wife uninterested in politics

Bush is made to look mostly uninvolved In making his own policies

Decision to ground all Us flights on 9/11 depicted as unilateral and a triumph of the Unitary Executive Theory

Show Notes

https://davidandkevin-oyn2561.slack.com/archives/C04BH4PMERM/p1679871875527859

https://www.historyvshollywood.com/reelfaces/vice/

https://slate.com/culture/2018/12/vice-movie-historical-accuracy-fact-fiction.html