Former LBJ adviser slams 'Selma' for painting the President in a poor light

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LOS ANGELES — This year's Oscar whisper campaigns got off with more of an angry cry of foul.

We hadn't seen much potshotting at Academy Award-worthy films this year, like in 2012/2013 when Argo came out the winner in an "inaccuracies" slugfest with Zero Dark Thirty and Lincoln, or last season when Neil deGrasse Tyson trolled Gravity for its liberties with zero-G and the crew of Captain Phillips staged a PR mutiny.

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This year's opening shot comes from Joseph A. Califano Jr., a former domestic affairs assistant for President Lyndon B. Johnson. Califano says in a stridently written op-ed for the Washington Post that Selma, considered a strong Oscar contender in several categories including Best Picture, unfairly puts LBJ in a bad light. Read more...

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