Y’know somehow I don’t think its funny that right-wingers think its somehow satirical to pretend that it was the right-wing that freed the slaves or that Lincoln, just because he was a Republican, that he would have been a member of the modern right-wing incarnation of the Republican party. The reality remains that while the Democrats were the social right-wingers in the days before and following the American Civil War, the right-wing segregationists started leaving the party in the 1960′s after LBJ, a Democrat, signed the Civil Rights Act. The most prominent segregationist, Strom Thurmond, who filibustered the Civil Rights Act for 24 hours, left the party soon afterwards to join the open arms of the Republican party.

Then let’s not forget Republican Richard Nixon who, in the 1970′s, tried to get two segregationists on the Supreme Court bench. Then there was the Reagan administration which actively supported the Apartheid state in South Africa and acted to keep Congress and the UN from imposing sanctions on that country while simultaneously declaring Nelson Mandela as a terrorist.

To me, those who actively try to deny or intentionally lie about their own philosophy’s brutal and inhumane past is really no better than the Neo-Nazis who actively try to pretend that the Holocaust never happened.

Calling this movie a satire is like calling Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed a satire. It doesn’t expose the folly of others. It just concocts its own.

And when he gets upset, say, “Oh, I was just doing that bit from your movie. Man, I thought you had a sense of humor when I saw that…”

*sigh* I’m just going to assume he’s mainly doing it out of his friendship to Zucker, but c’mon man, it’s really starting to hurt his legacy.

I suppose it’s good for Robert Davi’s career to get some face-time, but I’m never going to be quite as gleeful when his character appears on Stargate Atlantis anymore.

“I have a really interesting political point of view, and it’s not always something I say too loud at dinner tables here, but you can’t go from a $2,000-a-night suite at La Mirage to a penitentiary and really understand it and come out a liberal. You can’t. I wouldn’t wish that experience on anyone else, but it was very, very, very educational for me and has informed my proclivities and politics every since.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/20/movies/20carr.html?_r=3&pagewanted=2&8dpc&oref=slogin&oref=slogin

*insert joke about anti-sodomy laws*

Kelsey Grammer is perfect to play the insane Patton.

So, there was Expelled, and now American Carol. We really need some more kneejerk liberal movies. More so than “An Inconvenient Truth”. Do Michael Moore’s movies count? “Sicko” seems to take care of the universal-health-care-is awesome angle. Something about The Great Melting Pot. Um. A romcom about two gay men trying to get married? I’m coming up blank. Suggestions?

Fun fact: Chris Farley’s brother is only in this movie because Larry The Cable Guy had scheduling conflicts.

Ooh, I just googled around and found Hi-Caliber, the conservative white rapper.

“I’m sick of these phony baloney / left-wing radicals like Nancy Pelosi / they’re all just empty suits / they support socialism / I support the troops… crazy big shout-out to Don Imus!”

I don’t see him blowing up, honestly.

–d

And another reason that Robert Downey Jr was perfect to play Iron Man gets added.