Granted, I’m not in the demographic that they are going for…

Filed in National by on October 7, 2008

…but how did I not know that the unfunny sounding pile of steaming monkey feces was being inflicted on out stupider American brothers and sisters?

An American Carol

Left-wing activist and filmmaker Michael Malone (a parody of Michael Moore) is campaigning to end the celebration of the Fourth of July. Malone truculently argues to the American people that America’s past and present are offensive, and therefore should not be celebrated. Malone’s nephew is a naval officer about to deploy to the Persian Gulf, and Malone treats him with contempt. Malone is then visited by three ghosts, PresidentsGeorge Washington and John F. Kennedy, and General George S. Patton, who try to make him rethink his view of America. They try to show him that sometimes war is necessary for the greater cause. For example, Patton shows him an alternate world where slavery is still in existence because Lincoln chose not to fight the Civil War. He also shows the filmmaker how British Prime Minister Chamberlain appeased Adolf Hitler. Malone is also visited by the spirit of George Washington (played by Jon Voight) who takes him to the very church in New York where he was sworn in as the 1st President. Washington tells him how the dust in the church is the dust from the World Trade Center on 9/11. In the film’s end, Malone is a changed man who loves America and realizes how precious freedom is.

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  1. Unstable Isotope says:
    October 7, 2008 at 4:26 pm

    I read a review of this film. The reviewer said its problem is that the comedy is not anti-establishment since Republicans are part of the establishment. Makes sense to me.

  2. Mike Matthews says:
    October 7, 2008 at 4:41 pm

    I talked about this a bit on air today. It bombed when compared to Bill Maher’s “Religulous.”

  3. Duffy says:
    October 7, 2008 at 4:47 pm

    Before declaring it “unfunny” wouldn’t it be prudent to see it? This reminds me of determining that is sacrilegious before seeing it?

  4. Von Cracker says:
    October 7, 2008 at 4:56 pm

    Is this some kind of sick joke?

  5. anon says:
    October 7, 2008 at 4:56 pm

    …and then the ghost of Eisenhower appears, warning about the military-industrial complex… Patton draws his sidearm and sends Ike back to his grave, muttering “I always hated that smug bastard…”

    Washington’s Farewell Address is worth a re-read. I bet Washington doesn’t say this in the movie:

    As a very important source of strength and security, cherish public credit. One method of preserving it is to use it as sparingly as possible, avoiding occasions of expense by cultivating peace, but remembering also that timely disbursements to prepare for danger frequently prevent much greater disbursements to repel it, avoiding likewise the accumulation of debt, not only by shunning occasions of expense, but by vigorous exertion in time of peace to discharge the debts which unavoidable wars may have occasioned, not ungenerously throwing upon posterity the burden which we ourselves ought to bear.

  6. jason330 says:
    October 7, 2008 at 5:02 pm

    Duffy,

    I said unfunny sounding didn’t I?

    Anon,

    Thanks for that quote. Yes it is a safe bet that John Voigt’s Washington did not dwell on that part.

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