'Game Change': Sarah Palin Dismisses HBO Film As Unimportant

Sarah Palin dismissed the HBO film "Game Change" -- airing publicly for the first time on Saturday night -- as unimportant.

In an email to ABC News, Palin said her "family has the right priorities and knows what really matters," according to the Chicago Tribune. As she brushed off the film, she also took a swipe at President Barack Obama for having supporters in the entertainment industry.

"For instance, our son called from Afghanistan yesterday and he sounded good and that's what matters," Palin said. "Being in the good graces of Hollywood's 'Team Obama' isn't top of my list."

Both Palin and Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) have said they won't watch the made-for-tv movie that takes a look inside the behind-the-scenes drama of the 2008 campaign. McCain said "it'll be a cold day in Gila Bend, Arizona" when he views the film.

"Game Change" director Jay Roach said the film humanizes the GOP duo. In a recent interview with CNN, Roach said he wished the two would watch the movie.

"I wish they'd see the film because it has a very evenhanded tone to it, in trying to get the story right and allow anybody with any prejudices against the main characters to go past the media iconography and see them as human beings," Roach said. "They are human beings who are trying to do what they think is right. They have strengths and they have weaknesses."

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Comments

[UC Bearcats31]

03:51 PM on 04/17/2012

Palin is a total joke. This just proves how stupid the Right is.

[jennylynn]

10:28 AM on 03/21/2012

Hollywood still can't find an actress that is as attractive as Palin. She's just Gorgeous!

[Siebenstein]

05:03 PM on 04/14/2012

Pha, ROFLMAO

[jennylynn]

10:26 AM on 03/21/2012

They still can't find a star as pretty as palin to play her role.

[floridagal2]

04:20 PM on 03/29/2012

Beauty is quite in the eye of the beholder. What are you expecting to gain with your two vapid posts?

[notadumbblonde]

05:03 PM on 03/30/2012

Yikes, who's being vapid?

If you don't like Palin, stay out of her posts; I love you guys who claim to be uninterested in Palin, claim she's unimportant, yet you all flock to her posts, by virtue of the number of posters in any Palin post. You can't stay away from her, either.

I admit I read a lot about Palin, and not just to bash...I read about a lot of people, comment on a lot of things. The most common post in HP is bashers who hate Palin. She indeed is polarizing.

[chilango4]

12:22 PM on 03/15/2012

Wow
This film really shows the power of the DNC machine, after watching the 17 min short film off President Obama and now this, the GOP is up against a very powerful force. This will be the future of politics, be warned the GOP will learn as well on how to run a campaign in the future.

[Libgirl746]

08:51 PM on 03/12/2012

''I so don't want to go back to Alaska...''.Sarah Palin

Ok, Sarah. You lost. You can go back now,

[notadumbblonde]

05:04 PM on 03/30/2012

Actually that was a line in the movie. We don't know if it was uttered or not.

Having said that, I don't care what she does, but I don't want her as my president, and I don't give a lot of credence to her opinions.

[FYI2012]

06:33 PM on 03/12/2012

I think the real Steve Schmidt says it all.............. take a look. Enough said!

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/12/game-change-sarah-palin-steve-schmidt_n_1339038.html

[BWToppel]

05:54 PM on 03/12/2012

I detest Sarah Palin and her "poor me" rhetoric, but must say, she is correct. The movie is unimportant, because she is unimportant. It's time to let her fade, gracefully or not, into obscurity.

[tfloveslife]

11:42 PM on 03/22/2012

Oh really. How many films are talking about you.. You are unimportant too. Chrunchy.

[notadumbblonde]

05:04 PM on 03/30/2012

Then start the trend and stay out of Palin posts!!!

[flilguy]

06:20 PM on 04/01/2012

Yes you are correct, any trend regarding Palin, would include limiting freedom of speech!

[birdrail]

05:20 PM on 03/12/2012

please someone from high above come down here and put a fork in her

[CainStain]

04:40 PM on 03/12/2012

Hey Sarah,

Did Steve get back to you on that AK poll yet?

[Tuan Do]

06:48 PM on 03/12/2012

haha i laughed real hard at this one.

[valgonza08]

04:05 PM on 03/12/2012

Sarah is like that stray cat that wonders into your yard.......someone fed her ego now she won't go away.

Sorry PETA no actual strays were hurt during this comment.

[tfloveslife]

11:44 PM on 03/22/2012

Your like a fart. You blame the smell on your animal. How dare you elevate an animal like that.

[oaklandraiderzz]

02:12 PM on 03/12/2012

Palin is a vapid quitter and a below average intelligence who cracks under pressure, and you Republicans (even though nobody will cop to it now) very nearly put her one 72 year old's heartbeat away from the most powerful position in the world. Shame, shame, shame.

[tfloveslife]

11:47 PM on 03/22/2012

Sure, we all wait for your amazing words of wisdom. I am sure the blamer is great. What are you sucking?

[floridagal2]

04:22 PM on 03/29/2012

And what are you smoking?

[wavesofgreen]

12:52 PM on 03/12/2012

I am surprised McCain isn't watching it for the tenth time by now. After all it potrays him as an honorable man who made a mistake and then - once he understood the depth of that mistake - took responsibility for it and acted with dignity and respect for the country and compassion for Palin - despite her maniacal duplicity. Ed Harris portrays McCain as a philosophical elder statesman with little or none of the emotional instability and the short fuse which too often defines his behavior.

[tfloveslife]

11:49 PM on 03/22/2012

Your blog names says it all.

[wavesofgreen]

12:45 PM on 03/12/2012

The only problem is that the non politician portrayed in the movie - campaign director Steve Schmidt stands by the story as accurate and true.

[Joan Daidone]

11:32 AM on 03/12/2012

Jay Roach stated "Palin wasn't prepared well and she didn't have time really to get properly schooled, if you will." I love the understated "if you will" which I believe shows the compassion with which Roach treated Palin. The exquisitely acted and crafted film exposed how the Republican team inadequately vetted her the candidate yet still selected her to run. That was and is unconscionable - we're not talking about a local PTA election but the most important job (perhaps) in the world. It's not the first time the republicans have done this and they are not excused from their constant and current pandering to the basest instincts of man. It is time for all of us to reach toward a higher calling and move to solve the exigent crises confronting the nation and the planet.

[Sidney Vaught]

10:14 AM on 03/12/2012

I watched "Game Change" last Saturday night and there were actual scenes I felt sorry for Sarah Palin. It didn't last long though.

As far as the real Sarah Palin and her Sarah PAC's comments, how do they know the film is a fictional narrative just off the trailers? It's just like Sarah Palin to dismiss something as fictional without knowing what it's truly about. This attitude is still apparent in Palin's personality just like it was in the real campaign where she wouldn't answer questions in the debate due lack of knowledge but diverted to a totally different topic. Have you noticed more Republican politicians using that same tactic in the 2012 campaign? Sarah Palin should be nicknamed "Pivot Palin".

John McCain won't watch the film because he's still a sore loser.