Jesus Christ Supercop

Cult Classic: Wag the Dog

This film came out long before this blog existed, and so there was no entry for it. I was critical of the film for not going far enough, but it is required viewing today. Get it.

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It is, of course, a satire about American propaganda and gullibility when it comes to WAR.

The Right Wingers – short film

Shitlib Films Presents: The Right Wingers starring Glenn Greenwald and Matt Taibbi. pic.twitter.com/19RokXKQAj

— Turncoat Don (@TurncoatD) April 12, 2022

Australia’s Censorship Regime

The Australian Government, bastion of TehFreeSpeech™ and champion of QuietAustralians™, has introduced a new bill to silence critics online – the latest development of the Quiet Australia Policy. pic.twitter.com/Cz9s8r2p2l

— theJuiceMedia (@thejuicemedia) November 28, 2021

Why I Wrote It: Hell of a Deal, A Supernatural Satire

Joe Giambrone, publisher of Political Film Blog

Hell of a Deal was the first book I decided to publish, back in 2009. It is a satire of the “War on Terror” and Hollywood’s incessant propaganda to push empire, domination, torture, and war crimes. Hollywood, quite frankly, sickened me to my core and I had to respond in some way.

This book is more Gulliver than John Wick, more Faust than Charlie’s Angels. At the start, I wanted so badly to crucify the main guy, Executive Producer Al Smith. He was to represent the worst of Hollywood profiteering at the cost of all our souls. After hitting the movie lottery in the late 60s, his career evolved over the decades to promote more extreme degradation and nationalism, especially as we entered the Age of Terror. And that’s where Seaford stepped in.

The story needed a guy to push the envelope, to abandon the self-imposed limitations, which Hollywood had placed on itself, and to see how far these trends could go. So, as the title implied, it was literally about a deal–a movie deal. Only, nothing was what it seemed. The deal was not about money, and profit was the last thing Seaford cared about. It was all about the messaging, the propaganda, the final cut, the access into your brains.

By the time Seaford arrived on the movie scene, Al Smith was already old and on his last legs. He was dying. His time was over, almost. There was one thing that could possibly turn things around for him, and that was medical science. This was what Seaford brought to the table: “Youth.”

These pieces all fit together like a well-oiled machine. Just thinking on it, I knew I had something special here. Firstly, I had something to say. Secondly, I had a Faustian bargain plot like no one had ever seen before. In this Faustian story, things are meant to look one way, fairly normal even in the current normality. But things were far from normal.

As I said, I wanted Al Smith to suffer, but strangely that only brought the story so far. The story itself cried out for some kind of redemption. Could I flip everything and become sympathetic to Smith? What would he need to do?

In the end, perhaps some might think him redeemed. Others not. It’s potentially ambiguous, and with a big Hollywood ending.

Read:

Hell of a Deal

Woke CIA Director’s Cut – Short Film

Who did you exploit today?

"Who did you exploit today?" – absolute legend pic.twitter.com/C0BKG8OaMu

— Gritty is the Way (@Gritty20202) April 12, 2021

This kid should shame the entire fake Astroturf “Left” into shutting the fuck up permanently.

WRECKING BALLS (Yeah an Ad, You Bastards)

WRECKING BALLS

Let’s see your book reviews, if you think it’s so easy.

SNL Does #CancelCulture

I don’t watch the show anymore, can’t stand it. Even when they pretend to satirize something, it’s vanilla and neutered, and lame. The Brits still know how to bring satire; America is kind of the retarded step-cousin.

There is a sequence in the film Bob Roberts that lampoons Saturday Night Live and that explains it all pretty neatly.

This cancel culture segment shows both the good and the awful that the show is. They try to make some points, but they get lost in their repetition and fenced-in playground, where they cannot deviate from the highly edited script. Not one word. Let’s just hammer the baby gimmick over and over and over…

Classic: Television the Drug of the Nation

Debate Rebuttal

Honest Gov’t: Assange