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July 30, 2004
Time to Ban Ads for "The Manchurian Candidate"?
I occasionally visit MovieGuide.org, which reviews movies from a conservative, Christian perspective. Today I was reading the review of the new version of The Manchurian Candidate. While the reviewer understandably complains about the anti-capitalist bias of the film, there's also this little tidbit that apparently is a big strike against it: "questions anti-terror policies and Mideast policies by U.S. government."
Horrors! How could any Christian--or, for that matter, any good, patriotic American--stomach a movie that questions our ever-so-righteous government's foreign policy and war on terror--especially when it's being run by George W. Bush? We must keep our children's minds from being polluted by this anti-American, left-wing bilge! Everyone knows the U.S. government, which conservatives will tell you does a lot of bad things at home, is the epitome of virtue when it acts in other countries and acts to "protect" us.
Let's see if we can ban advertising for this movie like the GOP tried to do for Fahrenheit 9/11. Better yet, let's declare everyone involved an "enemy combatant" and lock them all up in Gitmo.
Posted by Mike Tennant at July 30, 2004 11:50 AM