The other day I watched a double feature of Jay Roach's Bombshell, followed by his earlier film Game Change. In contrast to my recent article on political fiction, I'm more interested here in the role that real-life political figures play in these fictionalized dramas. What follows is not a critique of any real person, but of the way that cinema manufactures morality through victimhood while frequently erasing other types of harm (specifically harm to communities of color).