Sunday, May 22, 2005
Cannes Artists; At It Again
The clowns of relativism and mock revolutionary chic were at it again in Cannes – the French resort town that bestows honor upon both filmmakers and political ideology.
There’s no epic “greatest documentary ever made” from Michael Moore this year, so they’ve got to vent their phony lines of leftist indulgence in regard to other enterprises. It appears that the pompous snobs of Euro-filmland (they don’t do “movies” there) are reading a bit of politics into the latest Star Wars saga – with some support from the movie’s director.
George Lucas himself, another Jacobin infected mouthpiece from the Hollywood crowd, marvels at his own earlier abilities (psychic?) to have predicted on screen how “Democracies can turn into dictatorships.” Are Lucas and like-minded cinema demagogues talking about dictators such as Hitler, Stalin, Castro, or the up and coming Hugo Chavez of Venezuela? Are they making analogies to Islamo-fascism, National Socialism (Nazism), or communism? Well, actually, no. The coincidences and analogies to rising tyranny in Lucas’s last segment of the Star Wars epic are being compared to…, you guessed it, George Bush, the power grasping fascist tyrant of our time (perhaps Laura is an accomplice!). Of course, when suggesting that Bush is the modern day manifestation of Hitler, such sales pitches for leftland’s worldview fail to mention those who voted with Bush for a needed Iraq transformation from dictatorship; Tony Blair and the British Parliament, the U.S. Congress (including Hillary Clinton), and a good portion of the world’s democratic leaders. Oh, I forgot, “the world” (France, Germany, China, and Russia) was clearly opposed. They must be the anti-fascists – a lighter side of the force, if you will. And where could such wisdom come from best but from the homes of Robespierre, Hitler, Mao, and Stalin?
George Lucas cautions us in our own present day move “from democracy to dictatorship” (he apparently hasn’t noticed that’s been going on for at least the past 50 years). He now expresses his concern as to how things are going now under the guy he didn’t vote for. Democrats had ruled congress for forty years and the presidency for a good portion of these years as well. They appointed Supreme Court justices and crammed most of their socialist schemes down the constitutions throat. They’ve passed regulations and restrictions and initiated wars but now, we’re headed for a fascist dictatorship because other voters didn’t agree with entertainers from Hollywood.
The show stopping line from Lucas’s new movie where we’re all supposed to say, “Wow, I get it!,” is when Anakin Skywalker (soon to become Darth Vader) utters, “If you’re not with me, then you’re my enemy.” This is supposed to remind us of when President Bush said, “Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists.” George Bush is now Darth Vader as well as Hitler. Now it's all starting to make sense.
Everyone knows that when deciding where to place one’s moral stance, between Islamo-fascism or open and free society, you’re supposed to say;
“Ya know, you both have a point. I think I’m gonna sit this one out. After all, ‘one man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter’ [or ‘minute man,’ as Michael Moore so eloquently put it].” Indeed, it’s hard to take a side when both sides have such reasonable points to make – Nazi Caliphate or medium mocha latte?
So, there you have it -- again -- Islamo-fascists deliberately targeting civilians in their passionate desire to impose a theocratic police state, and collectivist ideologues across the globe still seeking to chain us into those pre-fab boxes in their heads. And…the dark side of the force is a guy with a ranch in Texas who promoted the removal of a fascist dictator. Bush, the amazing paradoxical boogeyman of the left, half village idiot, half evil genius -- and former owner of a baseball team too. We should have seen it all coming.
Ahhh, the wisdom of artiste’s…
Although it’s pronounced the same, Cannes should be spelled Con, so at least everyone knows what to expect.
There’s no epic “greatest documentary ever made” from Michael Moore this year, so they’ve got to vent their phony lines of leftist indulgence in regard to other enterprises. It appears that the pompous snobs of Euro-filmland (they don’t do “movies” there) are reading a bit of politics into the latest Star Wars saga – with some support from the movie’s director.
George Lucas himself, another Jacobin infected mouthpiece from the Hollywood crowd, marvels at his own earlier abilities (psychic?) to have predicted on screen how “Democracies can turn into dictatorships.” Are Lucas and like-minded cinema demagogues talking about dictators such as Hitler, Stalin, Castro, or the up and coming Hugo Chavez of Venezuela? Are they making analogies to Islamo-fascism, National Socialism (Nazism), or communism? Well, actually, no. The coincidences and analogies to rising tyranny in Lucas’s last segment of the Star Wars epic are being compared to…, you guessed it, George Bush, the power grasping fascist tyrant of our time (perhaps Laura is an accomplice!). Of course, when suggesting that Bush is the modern day manifestation of Hitler, such sales pitches for leftland’s worldview fail to mention those who voted with Bush for a needed Iraq transformation from dictatorship; Tony Blair and the British Parliament, the U.S. Congress (including Hillary Clinton), and a good portion of the world’s democratic leaders. Oh, I forgot, “the world” (France, Germany, China, and Russia) was clearly opposed. They must be the anti-fascists – a lighter side of the force, if you will. And where could such wisdom come from best but from the homes of Robespierre, Hitler, Mao, and Stalin?
George Lucas cautions us in our own present day move “from democracy to dictatorship” (he apparently hasn’t noticed that’s been going on for at least the past 50 years). He now expresses his concern as to how things are going now under the guy he didn’t vote for. Democrats had ruled congress for forty years and the presidency for a good portion of these years as well. They appointed Supreme Court justices and crammed most of their socialist schemes down the constitutions throat. They’ve passed regulations and restrictions and initiated wars but now, we’re headed for a fascist dictatorship because other voters didn’t agree with entertainers from Hollywood.
The show stopping line from Lucas’s new movie where we’re all supposed to say, “Wow, I get it!,” is when Anakin Skywalker (soon to become Darth Vader) utters, “If you’re not with me, then you’re my enemy.” This is supposed to remind us of when President Bush said, “Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists.” George Bush is now Darth Vader as well as Hitler. Now it's all starting to make sense.
Everyone knows that when deciding where to place one’s moral stance, between Islamo-fascism or open and free society, you’re supposed to say;
“Ya know, you both have a point. I think I’m gonna sit this one out. After all, ‘one man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter’ [or ‘minute man,’ as Michael Moore so eloquently put it].” Indeed, it’s hard to take a side when both sides have such reasonable points to make – Nazi Caliphate or medium mocha latte?
So, there you have it -- again -- Islamo-fascists deliberately targeting civilians in their passionate desire to impose a theocratic police state, and collectivist ideologues across the globe still seeking to chain us into those pre-fab boxes in their heads. And…the dark side of the force is a guy with a ranch in Texas who promoted the removal of a fascist dictator. Bush, the amazing paradoxical boogeyman of the left, half village idiot, half evil genius -- and former owner of a baseball team too. We should have seen it all coming.
Ahhh, the wisdom of artiste’s…
Although it’s pronounced the same, Cannes should be spelled Con, so at least everyone knows what to expect.
