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To: Sully- who wrote (10442)	5/19/2005 2:01:26 AM
From: Sully-	Respond to of 35834

The Real Sith Posted by Bill INDC Journal While George Lucas is busy misapplying his allegorical vision in moonbat ravings about Vietnam, Iraq and George Bush, the WaPo's Stephen Hunter presents a more appropriate perspective in a generally effusive and interesting review of Revenge of the Sith: <<< He's a director of action and ideas, and in Anakin he gives us a man comprising both. Anakin is the classic man who gives up freedom for security, and ends up with neither. He's all those happy good Germans of 1938 who sold out to a Leader who would protect them from Bolshevism and who served thereafter without remorse or doubt until the world collectively rubbed their noses in it. Or he's the brilliant generation of young radicals who gave it up for Stalin's golden utopia and paid no attention to the messy steps of forced starvation and internecine slaughter of millions on the road to paradise. I suppose he's any man who believes in something so hard that he gives up his soul for it, and to forget the pain of the lost soul, he squeezes the new faith even harder until he's lost in moral space. >>> (Emphasis mine) Thanks, Mr. Hunter, it's so refreshing to see a mainstream pundit of any stripe point out the horrors and apologism of Communism. Perhaps you should send Lucas a copy of the WaPo clipped to a helpful historical reading list. See also, Chrenkoff's enthusiastic leap to the dark side. chrenkoff.blogspot.com UPDATE: Then again, to temper Hunter's postive review: <<< Since Christensen has never come close to that level of gravitas, we're eager to see how Anakin the testy apprentice, the surly, conflicted boy, will emerge, corrupted, from the shell of his innocence. He does and he doesn't. Anakin's journey to the Dark Side is sparked by half a dozen different motivations, none of them entirely convincing. ... All of this is so talky and abstract, however, that Anakin's gathering storm seems hokey from the start, a function of the fact that it's simply time for him to begin getting mad. The trouble with "Revenge of the Sith" is that we're never really shown what we're told about endlessly: Anakin succumbing to the temptations of power. >>> indcjournal.com indcjournal.com washingtonpost.com edition.cnn.com

To: Sully- who wrote (10442)	5/19/2005 4:14:58 PM
From: sea_biscuit	Respond to of 35834

United States and her allies have managed to depose two truly despicable regimes in Afghanistan and Iraq and today are trying to bring the gift of freedom and democracy With considerable help from Pakistani dictator Musharraf and Uzbek dictator Karimov, one might add.

To: Sully- who wrote (10442)	5/20/2005 1:00:27 AM
From: Sully-	Respond to of 35834

MoveOn.org Works the "Star Wars" Angle Little Green Footballs MoveOn.org’s latest advertisement tries to hitch a ride on George Lucas’s new Star Wars flick, just in case you missed the news that the movie contains a not-very-subliminal anti-Bush message: (Hat tip: LGF readers.) MoveOn PAC: Save the Republic moveonpac.org littlegreenfootballs.com cnn.com

To: Sully- who wrote (10442)	5/20/2005 11:16:28 PM
From: Sully-	Respond to of 35834

YEAH, THAT'S MONEY WELL SPENT TKS jim geraghty reporting Try to hold in the laughter on this news: <<< The liberal advocacy group Moveon.org was preparing to spend $150,000 to run advertisements on CNN over the next few days - and to spread leaflets among audiences in line at multiplexes - comparing Senator Bill Frist of Tennessee, the majority leader, to the movie's power-grabbing, evil Chancellor Palpatine, for Dr. Frist's role in the Senate's showdown over the confirmation of federal judges. >>> Are any MoveOn.org donors spitting out their coffee at this moment and saying, "What the hell? I'm sorry, my donation went to that?!? nationalreview.com nytimes.com