After suffering through your Hearts and Minds reviews I could only be reminded of the above quote from George Orwell's 1984. Seems certain quaters of society have been so successful in selling the Forrest Gump/John Rambo revisionist history of the Vietnam era (with a nice slice of warm apple pie) to the point where a film actually made at the time and which presents a contrary view cannot be understood as anything but...just mocking America. It is also telling that you have been anticipating the moment when the documentaries you are watching become "Michael Moore like." How about questioning the perceptions of a generation who have never known a Rush Limbaugh-less media. A non-corporate owned media.
Our current President (who routinely refers to world leaders as evil) recently got called the devil at the United Nations and a whole generation of offended and outraged American Gumpbos don't get why the general assembly applauded and laughed at the description.
Yes, it will be easy to sell the next war. I can smell the pie baking. Umm, wholesome and good.
Golly, it's just wrong to mock America and the American way of life. It's like, un-American. And Michael Moore is a hate-America-first librrrul propagandist. I haven't done any research on that; I just know it has to be true because I feel so strongly about it and he got booed at the Oscars. I'm not gullible. A guy I know told me he saw a thing on TV where some guy was saying there were all kinds of lies and inaccuracies in Michael Moore films, but who has time to check facts and counter facts for their veracity. It's so much faster to just dismiss the un-American opinion and trust in the wisdom of the masses. I mean, we didn't see much of that Fahrenheit 9/11 footage on CNN, MSNBC, FOX, CBS, NBC, ABC, or PBS so why should I believe it's real and not CGI! It's not like those media outlets and all of the others are owned by a handful of likeminded corporations with a similar world view or anything. Gosh, that's so conspiracy! Next you'll be telling me that Disney-owned ABC rewrote history in a recent pre-election TV movie to blame Bill Clinton for 9/11 just because Disney is the studio that tried to supress the release of...wait for it...Fahrenheit 9/11! What are you going to tell me next, that John Kerry was a war hero and George Bush was a deserter! That's like the exact opposite of what is true! That's...wait for it...Orwellian!
Here is some more wartime fun!
It is amazing that the absurd dialogue below was paraphrased by our beloved leader and swallowed whole by a populace too busy putting flags on their car antennas and responding to terror alerts to think or question anything...because...that would be un-American.
Excerpt from Full Metal Jacket
COLONEL
Whose side are you on, son?
JOKER
Our side, sir.
COLONEL
Don't you love your country?
JOKER
Yes, sir.
COLONEL
Then how about getting with the program?
Why don't you jump on the team and come
on in for the big win?
JOKER
Yes, sir!
COLONEL
Son, all I've ever asked of my marines is
that they obey my orders as they would the
word of God. We are here to help the
Vietnamese, because inside every gook there
is an American trying to get out. It's a
hardball world, son. We've gotta keep our
heads until this peace craze blows over.
JOKER
Aye-aye, sir.
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Previously, inside the office of the Stars and Stripes:
LOCKHART (reading) "Marines on a search and destroy mission don't like to be interrupted while eating chow." Search and destroy. Uh, we have a new directive from M.A.F. on this. In the future, in place of "search and destroy," substitute the phrase "sweep and clear." Got it?
JOKER
Got it. Very catchy.
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You may now return to fond memories of playing with your Star Wars toys.