Keep the White House Away from the Oscars

Well, you can’t get more official than that. After asking the movies to lead children to light, the First Lady announced “Argo” as Best Picture from the White House, as close to a benediction as this bizarrely Popeless moment could offer. I like Michelle Obama just fine, but the notion of an officially crowned winner about a C.I.A. rescue operation in Iran makes me just as queasy as the suggestion, in “Zero Dark Thirty,” that torture played a (small) role in the elimination of Osama bin Laden.

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