The Lib-Left multimillionaire set that is the Hollywood cabal just doesn’t realize the average American isn’t the least interested in the non-stop slurring of the values for which President George W. Bush and the Republicans stand.
The irrelevancy of the spoiled brats of the entertainment world was shown in the 2004 presidential elections when they did all they could to tarnish Bush’s name and elect wonky Democratic candidate John Kerry to the White House.
No one—except card-carrying Democrats—really gave a damn what the motley lot of Cher, Sean Penn, Alec Baldwin, George Clooney, Martin Sheen, Jessica Lange, Woody Harrelson, Barbra Streisand, Susan Sarandon, Julia Roberts, Ed Asner or the Dixie Chicks had to say.
Director and muckraker Michael Moore may have seen Fahrenheit 9/11 haul in $100 million despite its distortions and factual errors but it surely didn’t sway many uncommitted voters. Actually, in the scheme of things, Fahrenheit 9/11 wasn’t a big success—Mel Gibson’s The Passion of The Christ pulled in $800 million.
I come back to the Hollywood cabal following columns such as “Naive dupes” (Sept. 16, 2003), “Who are the morons?” (Nov. 12, 2003) and “Silly Cher” (Jan. 20, 2004) because of some idiocy proclaimed by Star Wars creator George Lucas. Apparently, Lucas can’t tell fact from fiction and is calling in the Empire to strike out at the democratically elected Republican government.
Yup, he now says the Star Wars movies have a political message: Fight to free Americans from the evermore frightening dictatorial tyranny of the Bush administration.
I saw the first Star Wars movie, which was quite entertaining, though not nearly as so as the Flash Gordon serials of the late 1930s and early 1940s. Saw the second Star Wars movie, found it boring. Haven’t seen one since.
That said, Lucas has a right to make juvenile derring-do movies if he wants, but what caught my attention about the latest Star Wars offering is Lucas reminisced in an interview as to how he thought up the original Star Wars.
Back when the original Star Wars movie came out in 1977, Lucas stated he had been greatly influenced and inspired by actor Buster Crabbe’s Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers cliffhangers—but now, apparently that isn’t the case at all.
Lucas now says he wrote the framework for the first Star Wars in 1971 in reaction to U.S. President Richard Nixon and the events of the Vietnam War. The latest Star Wars movie is a “wake-up call to Americans about the erosion of democratic freedoms” under Bush.
What utter nonsense and banality.
But Lucas says when he conceived the first Star Wars movie the issue was, “how does a democracy turn itself over to a dictatorship? Not how does a dictator take over, but how does a democracy and Senate give it away? The parallels between what we did in Vietnam and what we are doing in Iraq are unbelievable.”
Naturally, Lucas doesn’t mention it was Democratic President John F. Kennedy who got the U.S. into Vietnam in a big way, and Nixon who actually got the U.S. out of Vietnam. Nor that, thanks to Bush, both Iraq and Afghanistan are now free countries, having ridden themselves of a brutal dictatorship and even more brutal theocracy with the evil Taliban.
Maybe Lucas doesn’t know Kennedy got the U.S. into Vietnam after Soviet dictator Nikita Krushchev mocked him and called him a “puppy.” Kennedy wanted to prove to the Soviets he was tough, and disastrously chose Vietnam to do so.
Perhaps Lucas really doesn’t know about the persecution under the Taliban in Afghanistan or Saddam Hussein in Iraq.
Whatever, seeing ghostly parallels between the Nixon era and the Bush presidency and the supposed sacrificing of individual freedom in the U.S., Mr. Pontificator has a hopeful heart that the latest Star Wars movie will inspire Americans to rebel against their supposedly repressive government.
OK, OK—so the Liberal-Left in the U.S. is bitter the Democrats have lost seven of the past 10 presidential elections (and will lose again in 2008) and that Bush won only 51% of the ballot and only 3.5 million more votes than Kerry. They should live in Canada where Paul Martin’s Liberals won with just 37% of the vote, or Britain, where Tony Blair’s Labour party won with 36%.
Yet surely if Lucas is ignorant of historical fact, he should keep his mouth shut, as incidentally, should the rest of the Lib-Left Hollywood rabble.
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