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October 05, 2008

An American Carol

I had not heard anything about the movie "An American Carol" before I went to see it this weekend. Apparently, Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity have been urging people to go see it, but I don't listen to them, so I was unaware of that. I also did not know it had Bill O'Reilly in it. I knew it made fun of Michael Moore, but because it was one of those David Zucker spoof films, I thought it would be funny, and everyone ought to be lampooned now and then just to keep them humble.

I don't think I have ever been so disgusted at having wasted money on a movie in my life. I wouldn't have minded the right-wing bias if it had been funny. But after the first five minutes, it wasn't funny at all. It was, in fact, painfully not funny. Nor was it at all clever. It was brain-dead right-wing bull crap, mindlessly dismissive of the other side at a kindergarden level, and the crap just kept getting shoveled deeper and deeper until I thought I was going to suffocate in it.

One would expect any intelligent right-winger to be thoroughly insulted by this garbage, but apparently there are scant few intelligent right-wingers out there. A quick skimming of the conservative blogs this morning confirmed my worst fears about these people - they are raving about this movie (see an Oregon example here). If ever there was proof that the wing nuts are zombies and nearly entirely devoid of a funny bone, this movie is it. It is so bad you have to wonder if the people who made it were trying to make Republicans look utterly stoopid, except the actors in the movie are known to be Republicans!

The only reason I sat through it to the end was because I was absolutely too dumbfounded to move. On the maddeningly idiotic scale, it topped Bill O'Reilly's collection of trite garbage in his book "Culture Warrior" by a mile.

I didn't think that was possible, either, but trust me, it is.

Though I still don't feel I've gotten my profound frustration off my chest, I think I have sufficiently set the stage for the sad conclusion to which I have been drawn: it is now clear to me that the Right Wing is the most narrow-minded, non-thinking, unsophisticated bunch of human robots ever to walk the face of the earth.

Posted by Becky at October 5, 2008 06:15 PM