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Politics & Government
"The Great Debaters" Snubbed by the White House?
posted on Jan 14, 2008
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According
to FOX's Roger Friedman, Denzel Washington's "The Great Debaters,"
nominated for a Golden Globe Award and eight NAACP Image Awards, won't
be shown at the White House.
According to Friedman, he saw a memo from
the White House's Paris Dennard that read: "there will not be a
screening here at the White House. I could not get time on President
Bush or Mrs. Bush's calendars." This is oronic because Laura Bush gave
a speech in March 2005 at an Atlanta high school praising urban debate
programs at an event called "Helping America's Youth." "How is debate
helping children in Atlanta?" she said then. "Debaters learn how to
identify a good argument and reject a bad one, so they're better
equipped to deal with the hazards of negative peer pressure." Movies
that recently screened at the White House include "Harry Potter and the
Sorcerer's Stone," "Charlotte's Web" and "Glory Road."
For the complete story: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,322146,00.html
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