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Conservatives furious over 'Game Change' win after Julianne Moore takes dig at Sarah Palin in Golden Globes speech

Conservatives furious over 'Game Change' win after Julianne Moore takes dig at Sarah Palin in Golden Globes speech

BEVERLY HILLS, CA - JANUARY 13: In this handout photo provided by NBCUniversal, Julianne Moore accepts the best actress award for Mini-Series or TV Movie, "Game Change" on stage during the 70th Annual Golden Globe Awards at the Beverly Hilton Hotel International Ballroom on January 13, 2013 in Beverly Hills, California. (Photo by Paul Drinkwater/NBCUniversal via Getty Images)

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Julianne Moore accepts the best actress award for Mini-Series or TV Movie, 'Game Change.' at the Golden Globes.

Conservatives were liberal with their outrage over the success of “Game Change” at Sunday night’s Golden Globes.

The HBO telepic about the selection of then Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as the GOP’s vice presidential candidate during the 2008 election took home three major awards - including one for best mini-series or motion picture made for television.

Actress Julianne Moore also was feted with a statuette for her portrayal of Palin, a performance that received pans from right-wingers.

Radio host Rush Limbaugh gave a big thumbs down to the Globes for providing liberals with a platform to continue to attack Palin.

“This show [Game Change] won three Golden Globes last night, and you know why?” Limbaugh said on Monday's show. “So that everyone involved could walk up to the stage and once again bash Sarah Palin, knowing full well there wouldn’t be anyone there to defend her. Knowing full well there isn’t going to be anyone today to defend her.”

“Once the left targets anybody for destruction, there’s no standing in their way. So this is the procedure, this is how it happens.”

“It comes as no surprise that the Hollywood Foreign Press recognized another Hollywood group, HBO, for their work of fiction and awarded a prize for best fictional filmmaking," Jason Recher, Palin's former advisor, told CNN Monday morning.

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"The reality was an original American story, not a screenplay by people who only imagined events to fit their fiction."

To add insult to injury, Moore didn’t exactly hide her political leanings during her acceptance speech.

“I would like to give a shout out to two people who made a significant difference in the 2008 election â€" Tina Fey and Katie Couric,” she said, obvious reference to Fey’s lampooning of the self-proclaimed hockey mom on “Saturday Night Live” and Palin’s embarrassing interview with Couric.

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After “Game Change” received its third Golden Globe Sunday night, director Jay Roach told Moore, “Now with you and Tina Fey, we have three of the most incredible impersonations of Sarah Palin...counting Sarah Palin.”

Roach had long claimed that the filmmakers had strived to create a balanced portrayal of the former Alaska governor.

“Any objective viewer would tell you the HBO telefilm "Game Change" was a mess, a poorly orchestrated hit piece on Sarah Palin that bordered on parody while pretending to tell a political cautionary tale,” wrote Christian Toto for Brietbart’s Big Hollywood.

That isn't stopping the entertainment industry from heaping award atop award on the film.

“Hollywood product continues to thumb its nose at half the country, and the people who vote for the industry's biggest awards are only too eager to do the same,” Toto wrote.

It also didn’t escape conservatives’ notice that former president Bill Clinton was invited to present on stage at the Globes.

“Kudos to the Golden Globe audience for not rushing the stage all Belieber-like at Clinton,” tweeted right-wing radio host Dana Loesch. “ Oh, that’s after.”

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