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Game Change movie charts Palin's 2008 election campaign.

4:40 pm - 03/10/2012
The story of how unknown Alaskan governor Sarah Palin became a household name in 2008's US election has been made into a film.

Game Change stars Julianne Moore as the former vice-presidential candidate and "hockey mom".

However, the real Mrs Palin has denounced the movie as "Hollywood lies".

Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-17323606

OP: What is it with Hollywood? Instead of movies about inspirational women like the Suffragettes or Mother Theresa they give us Sarah "I can see Russia and their death panels from here" Palin and Maggie "what the hell do we need a steel / coal / manufacturing industry for?" Thatcher.
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celtic_thistle 10th-Mar-2012 09:06 pm (UTC)
I can't wait; this movie looks so over-the-top.

And OP, Mother Theresa wasn't exactly inspirational. She was pretty fucked-up, actually. :/
stellar_kar 10th-Mar-2012 09:11 pm (UTC)
IA about mother theresa
tigerdreams 10th-Mar-2012 09:47 pm (UTC)
I came here to say the same thing about Mother Theresa.
icanseenow 10th-Mar-2012 10:05 pm (UTC)
Uh, that woman was scary. The only thing scarier is that people actually do act as if she was a saint.
evilgmbethy 10th-Mar-2012 10:45 pm (UTC)
a few months ago I had to tell my mother the truth about Mother Theresa and I think I broke her heart. But still. Hitchens might have been kind of a dick, but he was right about Mother Theresa.
celtic_thistle 10th-Mar-2012 10:53 pm (UTC)
Hitchens bugged the hell out of me for many reasons but he was spot on re: Mother Theresa. It's unfortunate that more people don't realize how creepy she was.
theguindo 11th-Mar-2012 01:23 am (UTC)
This is the first time I've heard anything negative about Mother Theresa D= what did she do?
romp 11th-Mar-2012 01:34 am (UTC)
just to whet your appetite--this doesn't go into her underuse of pain killers because she felt suffering brought the dying closer to Christ
theguindo 11th-Mar-2012 02:00 am (UTC)
omg D= especially the part about the hospices she ran. Wow. That is seriously fucked up.
evilgmbethy 11th-Mar-2012 02:23 am (UTC)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother_Teresa#Criticism

short info there. but basically, her hospices were horribly maintained, the patients dying there received minimal care, including pain relief, because Mother Teresa thought that suffering brought them closer to Christ. She got a little friendly with some dictators. She was vehemently anti-choice AND anti-birth control. She raised money but didn't use it to improve the quality of life in her hospices, instead opened more substandard hospices. Some of the people who went there had treatable conditions, and should not have died, but treatment was rarely given.
4dollabj 11th-Mar-2012 01:28 am (UTC)
Why was she fucked up?
fatpie42 11th-Mar-2012 03:23 pm (UTC)
Her orphanages had charges levelled against them for emotional and physical abuse and gross neglect. Her hospices were under-funded with very few qualified medical professionals, needles being re-used and pain killers denied to patients in preference of redemptive suffering. Mother Theresa also insisted on the baptising of patients regardless of their own religious traditions.

This under-funding was entirely unnecessary since she was receiving huge amounts of funds in charity from westerners, but most of the money went to the Roman Catholic Church and her own religious order rather than towards helping the needy. In fact, there is evidence that figures were massaged in the accounts.

During her life Mother Theresa was actually more well-known for her work in western countries than she was in Calcutta where the work was supposed to have been making all the difference.

In spite of her claims that it was "beautiful" for the poor to accept their lot and share in the passion of Christ, this did not stop her from paying for advanced western medicine for herself on many occasions.
4dollabj 11th-Mar-2012 03:26 pm (UTC)
Wow, I didn't know all that. Thank you.
hinoema 11th-Mar-2012 04:59 am (UTC)
Exactly. Who was the amazing black woman who was in her shadow despite being 1000x fiercer and we should all remember her name? *embarrassed*
mephisto5 11th-Mar-2012 04:32 pm (UTC)
You might be thinking of Florence Nightingale and Mary Seacole instead?
hinoema 11th-Mar-2012 07:05 pm (UTC)
Thank you! That's been bugging me all morning.

Well, I'm sure there are whole host of people who were fiercer and more sincere than Teresa.
mephisto5 11th-Mar-2012 07:09 pm (UTC)
Yeah, to be honest I'm not sure it's fair to compare Teresa to Nightingale, because whilst both had shit patient outcomes, IIRC Nightingale was wracked with guilt about it and spent the rest of her life trying to sort that shit out. I mean, she was crap as a nurse, but as a statistician and more importantly, as someone who could make really good infographics that actually conveyed the scale of the problem, she did end up doing some good.

But yeah, on the front line Mary Seacole was way better, especially given the amount of shit she caught just for being black.
roseofjuly 11th-Mar-2012 09:24 am (UTC)
Was going to say this very thing.
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