Originally posted by: rockyct
Well, it can't fail harder than that "An American Carol" movie that's about Michael Moore. It's under $6 million over two weekends. I'm sure W. will bring in decent money, but I doubt it will have any political impact.
What a terrible movie that looks like. It appears, from the Wiki info, to be based on just the sort of misguided straw men about the left that the right thrives on.
They think, in the movie and all too often on the right, that the cause of 'banning the 4th of July because America is all bad' is the sort of cause Michael Moore represents.
What they really unwittingly expose is how they are the ones with the problem, unable to be patriots by recognizing problems to fix to improve the nation.
Little is more unpatriotic than blind patriotism, and that's why Jefferson said that dissent is the highest form of patriotism, a lesson lost on the foolish people behind this movie.
Having JFK step out of the screen to slap Moore, for example, shows how little they understand JFK - someone the right often misunderstands and tries to claim.
JFK was the most anti-right president IMO in the last 50 years at least - but a good enough politician not to lose the support of many right-wing voters.
It's not just any president who at the height of the cold war could hold the calls for war around the world (not one bomb was dropped by the US during his presidency), pursue peace with the Soviet Union and call on Americans to recognize our common interests for peace with them, and to complement the military build-up with the first nuclear test limitation treaty, all the while appeasing a cold war public who had no taste for softness with the USSR, just after the McCarthy era while the USSR threatened war often and loudly.
If Obama said he wanted to cut the CIA into a thousand pieces and scatter them to the wind and that all businessmen were sons of bitches, what would the right say?