Saturday, August 25, 2012
A provocative
new film spotlighting Democrats and independents who say they voted for
Barack Obama in 2008 but have since turned on the president is set to
debut at the Republican National Convention in Tampa next week.
Titled "The Hope and the Change," the
anti-Obama film was jointly financed by Citizens United and Victory
Film Group -- the production company helmed by conservative filmmaker
Stephen K. Bannon.
This is the first presidential election in
which Citizens United was able to produce a film about a candidate
after the conservative advocacy group’s lawsuit to air a 2008 campaign
movie about Hillary Clinton made it to the Supreme Court in 2010.
The court’s momentous 5-4 decision that year led to the birth of super PACs and the overhaul of the campaign finance system.
“This film, in my opinion, is the
definition of what the Reagan coalition was,” said Citizens United
President David Bossie. “The Reagan coalition was obviously
Republicans, but it was Democrats and independents, too, who wanted
American exceptionalism and wanted to believe and have hope.”
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