What can I say? There are certain people we love to hate and among them are Michael Moore, Oliver Stone and Jane Fonda. Well, not hate exactly, more despise. The “H”-word can be resolved for the people they enable, like Hugo Chavez, who was at the Venice Film Festival to attend the debut of Oliver Stone’s documentary about him. Haven’t see it yet, but it seems from Hugo’s reaction it was favorable to the Venezuelan strongman,
who, according to Stone, those of us in the hoi polloi have gotten wrong. But then, that’s good business to Oliver, just as attacking capitalism is good business for Michael Moore, who debuted his own film, Capitalism: A Love Story, at the same festival. [Didn't you write Enemies, A Love Story?-ed. Never mind.]
Meanwhile, Jane Fonda is sticking her nose into another film festival – Toronto. It seems the Canadians had the temerity to pick the films of Tel Aviv, Israel to honor for their festival. The clueless Jane, probably assuming these were pro-Israel propaganda (what a nitwit she is – but more of this on Poliwood) – joined the ever reliable Danny Glover and British filmmaker Ken Loach in calling for a boycott. But please don’t call them anti-Semites.
Don’t miss all this and more on the new POLIWOOD…. first show after our hiatus. We think it’s a good one. But, as they say, YMMV. Let us know. For old Poliwoods go here.
Just reading this morning that Commander of the Revolution Juan Almeida Bosque, a comrade-in-arms of Fidel Castro, has died. It is reported that he helped to overthrow Cuban DICTATOR Fulgencio Batista, replacing him with PRESIDENT Fidel Castro. Oh, I see.
Hanoi Jane really is a fool. Traitor too.
Some of these folks are just stupid. There is no other explanation for the silly things they say and do.
Just watched your Poliwood video – nicely done, not too over-the-top. I read your blog a lot after 9-11 but then I got away from it all, for a variety of reasons. Recently I saw Thomas M. Barnett give a TED talk and was electrified enough to get his book “Great Powers”. You might want to have a look – it makes sense to me. I am glad to see we are getting away from the old right-left distinction (well, some of us are). I keep saying we need to invent a new political party that embraces fiscal conservatism and social liberalism because that’s where a lot of people are right now. I wonder if it would fly?
As I was succumbing to exhaustion last night, I tuned in looking for an episode of Scrubs and instead got a fawning testimonial to Danny Glover — it was the beginning of an infomercial and the end of my night. More Gloverian beclowning, I submit.
3rd party = left wins. The answer, horrifyingly, is the GOP, with the religious aspects relegated to the taxi squad. And some people who can craft an appealing message. “Limited government” is great but it could put a cup of coffee to sleep.