Vying for “Racist Douschebag of the Year”
Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, I give you Lou Dobbs. Click HERE for his insightful piece, “Democratic Hacks Embrace the Lunacy of Amnesty.”This is what CNN gets when they try to outFox Fox News. “We’ll sell whatever the yokels seem to be buying.” As catchy slogans go, it doesn’t trip easily off the tongue, but apparently it’s good for ratings.
Somewhere, David Duke is baring his fangs in a feral grin.
posted by Fang Bastardson at 9:05 AM
7 Comments:
Can I nominate the dude (or dudes) who created 300, which is the Birth of a Nation of our day?
9:10 PM
Well, I suppose you could, but you'd be wildly off the mark. The movie was made as an homage to a 20-year-old expressionistic graphic novel based on a 1962 Hollywood Swords & Sandals epic based loooosely on actual historical events.
The dude or dudes who made "300" are comic book geeks without any known prior political agenda, whose next film is slated to be another '80s-era comic book adaptation, and whose previous film was "Dawn of the Dead." Were they promoting a pro-zombie agenda with that one, or were they just trying to make a kick-ass popcorn movie?
Your interpretation says more about what you've brought to the endeavor than what the filmmakers did. Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
9:37 PM
I try really hard to turn off my brain when I go to the cinema, or at least give free reign to the part that appreciates a good story well told. But, having read your earlier post, I knew when I saw it this weekend that it was supposed to be just a sandal flick -- like Troy but with (unbelievably) fewer women and more violence -- based on an action comic.
So I tried, but the text of the film -- not even the subtext -- is that Asia is degenerate, based on false religious beliefs, and bent on world domination. While pan-European civilization is virtuous (albeit corruptible) and worth defending to the death against outsiders who without a doubt want to rape our women, enslave our children, and murder us as we go about our daily business. (I'm more or less quoting the eight-foot tall drag queen . . . er, king . . . Xerces from the movie here.)
So, just because it's a remaking of a comic book doesn't mean that we must give it a pass on its content. People choose to bring stories to prominence or let them go more or less unnoticed.
(I think that if the real-life Greeks hadn't been such xenophobic, self-righteous assholes, the Persians wouldn't have gotten such a bad rap in the past or present. Despite being very good at analytical and creative thinking, they weren't so good at appreciating other people's humanity or learning other languages or cultures.)
I did like the visuals, though.
7:58 AM
I give you props for seeing it before criticizing it. Huzzah!
However, we'll just have to agree to disagree on this one.
8:07 AM
Wait, I'm still stuck on "Live from Mississippi prison .."
Um, what's that all about? Will you watch so we won't have to, Fang?
4:07 PM
How cool is John McCain for going to Baghdad to shop for rugs accompanied by 100 soldiers and four or five helicopters overhead? In body armor?
Talk about ballsy!
And, um, please tell me his campaign is going to pay the bill, and not me....
7:56 AM
Oh, John McCain is a huge disappointment. He’s so sold out.
I just don’t get it. He hates Dumbleyou, and he’s got to be savvy enough to see that his Iraq support and far-right sucking-up is killing him in the polls. I have no idea what his political calculation is, but it’s a loser, and it’s really made a run-of-the-mill political hack out of him.
Did I say “hack?” I meant has-been.
11:59 AM
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