from the left from some of the torture scenes and showing, oh, my god, torture may have led to information where osama bin laden s.that is the most basic common sensical principle, at least to me, that interrogation techniques used by national security teams, by the cia and other intelligence groups caused for the killing of osama bin laden. i don t understand why the blow back, at all. bob, did you see zero dark thirty ? i did, but i think we ought to correct the record a little bit. some of this blowback has come from senator john mccain. if i remember, correctly, didn t you work for senator mccain. but led by senator feinstein. centered around the left. seems to be i wouldn t call it bipartisan. while i did work for senator mccain doesn t mean that i support everything he says now in 2013. the point is maybe we didn t want to get you accused like maybe ben affleck was of not being entirely factual. bob is not the funniest
lots of attention on danica patrick. the nascar driver did not win the daytona 500 but did score the eighth spot. unofficially for now, patrick, becoming the highest finishing woman in the history of the daytona 500. jimmie johnson won the top spot at the daytona 500, nascar s super bowl, if you will. back to the oscars and chatting with our brain trust. want to bring in goldie taylor, bob franken and boris epstein. let s start with you, boris, you mentioned something before the break talking about zero dark thirty, and you were explaining why you thought it should win or what you hoped it would accomplish if it won. i do hope that it wins, and here s why, because it s a great movie. it portrays an extremely most in very recent american history the killing of osama bin laden after years and years of hard work by our armed forces and security teams. it has gotten a lot of blow back
franken in d.c. that s al franken. that s what i always claimed. one became a snofrmt however, we should talk about the movie that wasn t nominated than was the video of mitt romney s 47% speech. you were determined to work that in? if i were al franken, i d be scared for my job. i do want to talk about some of the facts in some of these movies, the political movies, lincoln, argo, sirte. my colleague in burbank filed a report last week, and i want to play a part of what he found. take a listen. reporter: in argo the story of six americans saved by a daring rescue during the iran hostage crisis, there s a tense airport chase scene at the end that never happened. zero dark thirty, stunning procedure about the killing of osama bin laden began with a torture scene even the film-makers say they never confirmed produced useful clues. now, now, now.
its way, and quite frankly i think that there can be a valid criticism that not enough attention was being paid to getting the facts straight. why do you think that wasn t the case, bob? do you think that we wouldn t sit through a movie about canadians? we could make a bunch of canadian jokes here. i will not. i would love, to by the way. nor would i, and i suspect that you would like to, but the simple fact is that we have a much larger market here than than canada does, and i think that it was a valid criticism that there was this kind of distortion that was going on. i think it s a valid criticism that what the mistakes that were made in the movie lincoln. as far as the movie zero dark thirty, i think that that is not as valid. i think it is an open question whether torture in fact contributed to tracking down osama bin laden. and when you had a senate committee basically demanding that the movie producers in
more people vote for american idol than our own presidential elections. i think for me as a former american fighter and a veteran, it s really telling people to pay attention to the politician we see put in office, because afghanistan has turned into quite the mess, in my opinion, and, you know, we really need to start focusing on root causes more than treating the symptoms of terrorism, like what are the situations the social and political environments have produced the osama bin ladens of the world. i think the issue around the veterans, there are veterans coming back doing great things, and these guys don t want or need handouts, but i think just a basic appreciation for the service is enough, and yeah, i was in new york a couple weeks ago, and i love new york, and everyone i met was just