UPDATE (2:15 p.m.): Well, it appears that the video has been pulled from public view. (Can’t say I blame whoever made that decision.) Instead, you’ll just have to settle for the screencap we grabbed of the actor playing Condit putting something in the dumpster.
When news broke that cable channel TLC was working on a Chandra Levy made-for-TV movie, we expressed reservations that it would be given the sloppy treatment one might expect a low-budget cable movie about a case in which a woman was brutally murdered inside a public park might receive. Based on a trailer for the “docu-movie,” though, we set the bar far too high.
The sneak peak includes several clips from the program. Among the highlights: the actor playing former Rep. Gary Condit placing something in a dumpster at night while making shifty eyes, face-to-face interviews which identifying both the interviewees as simply “Washington Post reporter” (I guess the budget was too small to pay for the extra letters to identify them as Scott Higham and Sari Horwitz) and, during one of the dramatizations, Levy’s father informing the soon-to-be intern that “Washington’s…uh, a little different.”
Honestly, we were expecting the lowest of the lowbrow, but this has blown those expectations right out of the water.