Paul Jackson said in his last column (last Tuesday) that George Lucas is full of it. Which is true. But I guess he didn’t count on getting zapped by intergalactic nerd rays from across planet Liberal-Left Goofnard.
I don’t even know what that means.
Here’s a snippet from Paul’s latest column (find it in our Columnist section):
Excuse me, but it was Lucas himself, now an arch-foe of the democratically elected government of U.S. President George W. Bush, who decided to mix politics with entertainment.
That’s when, at the official opening of the latest Star Wars movie, he said it contained a “wake-up” call to Americans to rise up against the Bush administration which, he insisted, was insidiously trying to take away their individual freedoms.
And, he said, when he conceived the first Star Wars movie that appeared in 1976, it was actually an attack against the alleged dictatorial aims of President Richard Nixon and his involvement in the Vietnam War.
So, the entire Star Wars series has not been solely about entertaining audiences—they have contained subtle political messages to back Democratic or lib-left candidates and oust the Republicans from power at every opportunity.
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