Those who have seen HBO’s Game Change come away with a more sympathetic view of Sarah Palin, Time magazine’s Mark Halperin, co-author of the book on which HBO based its production set to air Saturday night, contended Wednesday night on CNN. Erin Burnett interviewed Halperin and co-author John Heilemann and Halperin told Burnett:
"We’ve seen a few screenings with people and uniformly – every screening we’ve attended – people who came in, didn’t like Sarah Palin, weren’t fans of Sarah Palin, almost every one of them has said to us afterwards, 'you know what, I now understand what she went through more, I have more sympathy for her, I have more appreciation for what she accomplished.'”
Has anyone who admires Palin gotten into one of these screenings?
Halperin insisted: “It’s factually accurate and I think a lot of people
who watch it who are favorably disposed to Governor Palin are going to
find it to be a pretty favorable portrait, a fair portrait of what she
went through.”
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