Boy, this year's crop of Oscar movies is sure driving the religious right up the wall! I was driving home this afternoon and happen to switch the radio to a religious station that was broadcasting an interview with Michael Medved. He was reviewing all the "left wing" movies that were up for Oscars and explaining the ills of each. Luckily I hadn't eaten lunch yet.... Wish I could find a transcript, but no luck.
He described Good Night and Good Luck as a movie about the "so-called McCarthy era" and said that it was left wing liberal propaganda because it did not describe Stalin's massacres under communism and the very real threat that communism posed in this country and what Senator McCarthy was trying to protect us from. He said George Clooney was guilty of "Goebbels-like revisionism." !
He also said that Cinderella Man was the best movie of the year and speculated that it didn't do well because with a title like Cinderella Man, people probably thought it was another male transvestite movie. The host laughed, but Medved said "no, seriously!"
He also claimed that people in Hollywood don't make more family movies because all they care about is impressing beautiful women and they don't care if their left wing movies don't make money, that family movies don't make them look tough to the ladies. Okay, so that one might not be COMPLETELY wrong.....
He described Munich and other films and how they all fit into the Hollywood Liberal agenda. (hey, how'd he get a copy of my agenda anyway???) Talk about revisionism, these guys are getting SO GOOD at re-writing reality. Fits right into the "War on Christmas" and all the other crap.