Saturday, November 01, 2008

No one will investigate if he wins

Now we now how he was able to beat the Clinton machine, don't we? Look out Democrats. You're next.
    "On the grubby little racket of his online credit card fraud, Senator Obama merely has to run out the clock now. If it's not exposed before Tuesday, no one is going to have any appetite for investigating it once he's won."
Worse than we thought. Well, it does make us look pretty silly for exporting democracy, doesn't it?
    Two-thirds of the record-breaking haul Obama raised for the final stretch of the campaign comes from a racket set up to facilitate fake names, phony addresses and untraceable cards.
With Obama, the end justifies the means. It always does for marxists.

Watching the movie Face in the Crowd tonight. Very instructive.
    . . .Lonesome Rhodes, small time hick crook, becomes the national TV spokesman for Vitajex, an innocuous dietary supplement. A frenetic montage of Rhodes's hyperbolic ads for Vitajex is one of the film's most memorable sequences, highlighting the presumed gullibility of the American public to a persuasive con-artist. In the tradition of classical tragedy, Rhodes is undone by his thirst for power and by Marcia Jeffries who, despite building his stardom, becomes so fed up that she allows him to expose his contempt for his fans on the air.

    As a "Cracker Barrel" broadcast ends, Rhodes is shown, with sound off and an announcer doing a voiceover, smiling and waving to the camera as he speaks contemptuously of his audience. In the control room, Marcia and the technical staff hear him continue to mock his viewers as "idiots," "morons," "guinea pigs." Fed up with Rhodes's betrayal, aware she helped create the monster, Jeffries pushes slide switches that throw Rhodes's comments on the air. In minutes, furious, betrayed fans who heard the remarks are calling the network. In a symbolic moment, an unaware Rhodes's popularity is shown plummeting as he rides an elevator down following the show. The film ends with a meltdown. . . On the street, Marcia falters when she hears Lonesome screaming for her, but Mel bolsters her by stating that although they were all taken in by Lonesome's allure, their strength lies in the fact that they can now discern fantasy from reality.

2 comments:

Joubert said...

I'm going to put that movie on my Netflix queue.

Norma said...

In the context of the political campaign and the gullibility of the public, this film is a stunning reminder that whether the huckster is a hayseed, a long legged mac daddy, or a slickster from Chicago, we all have a part in creating the monster and giving him our power.