“Remember Gary Cooper in High Noon? (I watched it a few days ago.) His character made a moral choice to stand for what’s right against the wishes of the “world community.” The judge ran away, the pastor washed his hands, the friends stayed home, the pacifist Quaker bride left him, and the saloon was full of corrupt drunks and cowards who cheered for the bandits. And as Gary Cooper stood alone in the deserted street preparing to die for the truth, suppose the saloon crowd would start making jokes about how Cooper talks funny, how uncultured he is, how he’s playing a lone cowboy, how he’s doing things unilaterally, and how war on the bandits is, in fact, illegal.”
AS a metaphor about McCarthyism or Bush’s unnecessary war in Iraq, it fails miserably in the truth department. McCarthy was correct about Communist influence and those poor oppressed blacklisted writers were almost all dedicated Communists. As far as some right wing John Wayne(tough talking, draft dodging celluloid warrior) con using it as a metaphor for the Iraq war, since Saddam was not coming for us because he was no threat, it fails the integrity test too.
So exactly what is so funny?
The People’s Cube is moderately funny, if you are a right wing dimwit who lumps Hillary, Hitler, Obama and Stalin in one indistinguishable mass. Maybe as a Ukranian, he might want to satirize all the wonderful Ukranian nationalists and bigots who created so much mayhem before and after the October Revolution, like the ones who emerged out of the muck to kill the Jews for religious or racial reasons/
