[Dean's World] Dean: "Why We Fight"

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Posted by Dean:
"Why We Fight"
http://www.deanesmay.com/posts/1170016873.shtml


   At the urging of a lefty friend I have been forcing myself to sit
   through the agonizingly bad anti-American propaganda film, "Why We
   Fight." Fortunately, I can link it for you since it's now available
   online for free: if you want to watch it, you can [1]just click right
   here.

   At least, the first 30 minutes are agonizingly bad. Noam Chomsky
   hasn't shown up yet, but Gore Vidal has, natch. There's not a single
   thing in here that I haven't heard before. It's the standard left-wing
   boilerplate anti-American stuff that anyone who seriously watches
   politics has heard thousands of times. Some of it's true, some of it's
   arguable, some of it's false, and all of it is outrageously slanted
   and coming from a paranoid mindset.

   I'm not sure I can force myself to watch the remaining 60 minutes or
   so. Yet somehow I know my friend will accuse me of being "closed
   minded" and not able to watch things that I disagree with. When what
   he really needs to know is that you have to be very isolated and
   sheltered from other points of view to just swallow whole a silly film
   like this.

   Can't think of a nice way to tell him. Well maybe I'll go ahead and
   sit through the rest and think about it some more. Anyone else who
   wants to join me in this, let me know if you have any thoughts.

References

   1. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4924034461280278026&q=why+we+fight