HBO's OK City Bombing Documentary: Don't Bother

There are more than enough stories and events to go into, so that making a great documentary should be easy. However, that's not what happened here.

For some reason, the documentary takes subtle and outright direct swipes at white people who love guns. There were many moments watching it when I couldn't help but feel the film was more about attacking anyone who is a conservative Christian and Second Amendment believer. Is it a documentary about Timothy McVeigh or how white gun owners are always on the brink? It's hard to tell at times.

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To make the documentary even dumber, there are attempts to tie what Timothy McVeigh did - the worst domestic terror attack in American history - to January 6th. No matter your thoughts on J6, the idea it was comparable to a terrorist attack that left 168 people dead is insane.

Ed Morrissey

I suspected that the film would be a political didactic. I'd be interested in seeing what a conservative filmmaker with a sense of just how extreme McVeigh and his crowd were/are could do with the actual history of the bombing and its aftermath. But who would fund it?

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